Easter - outside

Continued...

After the cake, we tackled our somewhat traditional egg drop competition. (See 2013 and 2012) Rather than set components, we followed these rules I found online this year. Here are the contraptions we came up with:

Micah worked on a parachute sort of design, with the egg in a padded bowl. Asher created a cone of foam. Noah went a bit eclectic this year (having done both other types of designs previously with great success) and made some sort of pizza board saucer with streamers sort of thing. Nathan taped garbage bags together for drag and found a big sponge in the garage. And I simply filled a ziplock bag with popcorn. (I did, also, create a little sling out of duct tape to keep the egg roughly in the center of the bag.)

We loaded up our raw eggs. And then Nathan climbed out Asher's window to drop our contraptions from the roof.

(Yeah, the younger two joined him after the first round, despite my objections. No one fell, so I guess all's well, lol.)  

As it turns out, we've all gotten too good at this. Not one of our eggs broke. :) (This was actually a little surprising to all of us.)

Of course, then Asher decided to "drop" his own contraption...except he sort of threw it...which led to our only broken egg. (Thankfully, Noah and I just barely managed to not get hit, as we weren't expecting the contraption to get anywhere near us, lol.)

This led to bringing out the hose. Which led to this:

After the younger two were good and soaked, we bribed Noah with the hose to get a group picture:

And then promptly surprised him with a nice, wet group hug...

Hee hee. ;)

And that was pretty much how our Easter went. We also took some walks and played a round of Smash Up and then proceeded with normal "night before heading back into the school week" stuff like homework and showers and finishing up the week's chores, lol. 

Here's hoping you had a beautiful weekend, as well!