Thomas Egg Roll

It's Thomas family tradition to have an Egg Roll before Easter. We were blessed enough to be included in the festivities the Saturday before Easter (even though the original Egg Roll was on Palm Sunday). We didn't mind being included in the encore presentation of the Annual Egg Roll Games.

Here's the scoop: You must create an "egg arena" out of towels. There must be "officials" along every inch of the arena to guard flying eggs from escaping the arena. Each person picks a different colored egg. Then there's the official Egg Roll Bracket created by Shannon. Following the bracket the egg roll begins. After a count to three, the eggs are rolled toward each other. You continue to roll until someone loses shell. Your egg can be cracked but until at shell is lost the game continues. After the winner is crowned, their egg gets pelted by everyone's "loser" egg (that's what I call them now: "Loser Eggs").

Asher cracked his egg before we even started.

We sang The United States National Anthem before we started the games.

My first egg roll against a veteran egg roller - Megan Thomas.

Kyle vacuuming Loser Egg parts (or limbs as the vets call them) from the arena floor.

So proud of my little green egg (that Jonathan so lovingly picked out for me).

Look at me!! I'm the winner!! A rookie wins the Egg Roll!! I won some cute bunny ears and some chocolate bunny truffles (which I am NOT sharing ;) ). That's Jon in the picture as runner-up.
My egg getting pelted by the Loser Eggs. Well, no one actually hit my egg, which had NO cracks, by the way. So, eventually it was stepped on. Asher thought that looked like fun so he stepped on the red egg you see smashed in the picture below. Funny stuff!

Sorry there are no pictures of Jonathan's egg. He didn't make past the first round. ;) He had the camera so I got featured in this post. Plus, I was the winner and that's all you really care about anyway...right?!