This Weekend's Pine Box Derby

This Saturday, my boys and their Boyscout troop participated in the annual Pine box Derby. They were given a small block of wood, everyone got the same wheels, and same axles. They had to cut out a car shape and paint it.

The boys worked hard on it, and they thought THEY were going to win.

Here they are before the race:

Deklyn will forever have goofy smiles on his face... He won't give "nice" smiles... He always has to be funny. But they are SOooo proud of their cars and their paint jobs...

The race started, and we quickly realized that our cars were a little slower then the others (ok, a lot slower)... There were 4 different heats and each one we lost. There were 2 that Austin didn't get last in, but each one Deklyn got last.

Well, in the end, Deklyn got last place (20 out of 20). Austin got 16 out of 20. Deklyn actually got a trophy for being the slowest!

An Austin was a little sad that his car did better then Deklyn's but HE didn't get a trophy.

But, in the end we learned that the way we "weighted" the car was the wrong way, and that we need to do it completely different next year! The boys had fun though, YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF US, PINE BOX DERBY!!!

Pictures

Today- I'm takin it easy... It's my birthday and I can be lazy if I want to! So I am going to post some pictures we took over the weekend...

Because of the OUTRAGEOUS prices of school pictures, I decided to take my own pictures and get the pictures made myself... Here are the pictures we decided on for Deklyn & Austin....

Here's Deklyn:

And here's Austin:

Here is a fun picture of all of my boys and a little of me... They all love being goofy!

Here are Deklyn and Austin with their BRAND NEW Cub Scout apparel:

Something New!

As if we needed anything else added to our scheduals... we can now include Cub Scouts! They signed up for that this week. And Hubby is also going to be a leader!

We will also be hittin' people up and seein' if they want to buy the Cub Scout/Boy Scout Pop Corn! They have pop corn, carmel corn, trail mix, CHOCOLATE covered popcorn, Cheddar cheese popcorn, etc. Anything sound to your liking yet? Seriously- if anyone is intersted in any of these , let me know. We will be sending 2 little boys and a big boy to Scout camp in the next year so, we need all the help we can get!

Anyways, the boys had lots of fun at their first meeting. They made boats. They were so excited becuase the actually floated. I think they are just looking forward to doing a bunch of boy stuff! And I was happy to see that the Boy Scouts/ Cub Scouts still have some roots in Christianity! Always- glad to see any organization that keeps God a part of them!