Christmas day orange toss

we had beautiful weather on Christmas day. the sun was out and it was not raining (yey!). jesse and i were standing in the backyard soaking up the rays and enjoying a few of grandpas home grown oranges, when i noticed the kids were all inside playing their new video games. i commented that it seems like we were never inside when we were at grandma and grandpa's house. the cousins were always out on the back lawn playing octopus, british bulldog, hide and seek or just playing around. i have many fun memories there. all that to say that we wanted to get them out in the sunshine. so, jesse-the inventive one, came up with the orange toss. so they tossed (and hurled) oranges for at least an hour. it was a good time.

the older kids did very well, tossing gently back and forth. clark and eli, not so much...

each of the older groups won a round, but there was a bit of animosity between the two, can you tell?

and this had nothing to do with the orange toss, just a cute shot of the boys and their guns.