Easter Egg Derby

This year for Easter (or actually the day after Easter) we had a collective family night with a couple friend's families and had an Easter Egg Derby!  This is a tournament where we roll hard boiled Easter eggs into each other (only one egg will crack when they collide) in an attempt to find the ultimate Easter egg!  It was a lot of fun.  We went over to a friend's house, had dinner with them and another family.  All our kids are about the same ages so they all had fun.  Here are our competitors before the derby.  Everyone got two eggs (the babies got three and the unborn babies got one) and we had a few extras.

 

Here is our tournament bracket!

We each named our Easter eggs.  Matthew's eggs were named "Matthew" and "Angry Matthew."  Anna called hers "Anna" and "Rose."  Grant got three eggs.  His were called "Blondie," "Baldy" and "Hungry."  One of mine was called "Eggloo."  The kids helped name them.  :)

Here I am getting ready to roll one of the eggs (Eggloo I think).

I think he lost.

The kids had so much fun, partly because they got to play with their friends and partly the egg rolling.  Matthew was more excited when his egg cracked then when it won.  So there were no tears about broken eggs which was good.  Here is Matthew with his egg of the same name.

Here Matthew rolls against one of the other kids.

Here we are towards the end of the tournament.  Most of our eggs had been cracked by then (losers on the left) and Grant's eggs "Baldy" and "Blondie" (on the right) were still in it.  Go Grant!

Andrew (my friend's son who is Matthew's "best friend" these days and about Matthew's age) won the whole tournament and got to put his egg in the coveted Easter Egg Derby cup.  His winning egg was named "Egg Fleam" which he named himself and we're still trying to figure out what it means.  Way to go Andrew!  The Easter Egg Derby was so fun.  I think it's a tradition we will try to continue!