Maybe Maturity Starts at 31?

Monday morning: Ryan heads to the hardware store to 'pick up some things.' He comes home with a bunch of supplies to make a giant potato gun and immediately gets to work.

Monday early afternoon: Test run for the potato gun. We all pile out onto the street in front of the house with a can of WD40, a lighter, the potato gun and a bag of potato's/apples and of course the camera. Ryan looks tough but we didn't get exactly the results we were hoping for. Something isn't working, potato's don't seem to be flying out of the gun? After a few tries, a couple of cleanings, BAM out soars a potato and I quickly loose sight of it because of it's tremendous speed.

Monday mid afternoon: After realizing it seems to work better after sitting for a little bit in the sun another attempt is made this time using some of my amazing hairspray. This time Janelie is given the honour of being the person in charge of the starter and steps in with the lighter to assume her position. She screams as fire shoots out the bottom of the gun and the apple flies out with a deafening boom....
Time to make sure the kids take a couple extra steps back.

Monday late afternoon: We plant our new lemon tree in the garden and decide to celebrate by shooting out another potato into the subdivision beside us. Ready, aim, fire! I don't even look for the potato as i'm shot by shrapnel flying at all directions and landing 15 feet behind us. Shocked and frantically looking at my children to make sure they survived with no damages I can hear Ryan "That was AWESOME, WOW, WOAH!"

Lesson learned?! Breaking the toy is far better then creating it.