Easter Egg Derby

We held our annual Easter Egg Derby the day after Easter.  Scott is no longer doing the work of two people at the office so he is able to come home at more reasonable times each night.  He was able to join us in plenty of time for our egg derby.  Hooray!! We got our tournament bracket ready and the kids named all their Easter eggs.  Here are Matthew and Anna ready to go.

Emma was a good participant this year.  She's pretty good with eye-hand coordination tasks so she rolled the eggs pretty well for a two year old.  Way to go Emma!!

Grant and Matthew having a show down.

We roll the hard boiled eggs at each other and when they collide only one of them will crack.  The cracked egg is out and the winner advances to the next round of the tournament.  We started with 32 eggs this year.  I think all of mine were out in the first round.  :)  But we had a lot of fun.

Here we are just before the championship egg roll.

Rolling for the title:  Grant's egg:  Hulk Smash vs. John's egg:  Blueberry

Grant has won two years in a row...will it be a three-peat??

Rolling for the title!!

And the winner this year is........

John!!!!!!!!   Here he is with his winning egg, Blueberry (named by him) and his giant chocolate bunny prize.  The egg derby is always an exercise in good sportsmanship and every year the kids have trouble when their eggs lose.  The tournament thing is hard because all the eggs lose except one.  There were some tears at the end of the derby as there always are.  Scott and I are hoping somewhere in all this the kids will learn something about sportsmanship.  You win some, you lose some.

Grant was sad that he didn't three-peat but he felt a lot better after John shared his chocolate bunny prize.

Way to go John!

Egg Derby winners of years past

2017 - John (Blueberry), Runner Up: Grant (Hulk Smash)

2016 - Grant (Magma Cube), Runner Up: John (Gumball)

2015 - Grant (Clapper Shooter), Runner Up: Scott (Seattle)

2014 - Anna (Raspberry Rabbit), Runner Up: Can't Remember

2013 - Emily (Tim Gunn), Runner Up: Emily (Rainbow Butterfly)

2012 - *Andrew (Egg Fleam), Runner Up: Can't Remember

*We egg derby-ed with another family that year and one of their kids won