Derby time

This morning was Isaiah's official first pinewood derby.  He has been working on his car for a little while now and was very excited to get to the races.  Isaiah's cub scout troop worked very hard to put on a cute derby experience for the kids.  They had car revving sounds happening right before the cars dropped.  They even had smoke happening at the end of the race.  The cub masters had camera gear set up on a projector so that everyone could see the race from where they were sitting. Isaiah's car was unbeatable.  He won every heat!  Way to go big guy.  Now we get to go compete in district in a few weeks. 

Isaiah's car in a blue and yellow blur at the finish line.  He finished this way every time.  But he also had both hands with fingers crossed which we are thinking  is what helped to push him over the edge above his compitition. 

The official standing on the winner of the Bears.

This was as good as Isaiah would smile.

My favorite picture of the derby.  He sure loves his brother.

Holding the winning car.

There is "Blue Lighting"

The winning boys. 

Weekend fun!

Last weekend we decided to have a non-electronic weekend.  This is what happened.  We had a home camping experience.  Braxton pretty much put the tent up in the backyard by himself.  Isaiah helped set up camp by putting up the chairs and being the errand boy.  Brandon racked up the leaves and pine needles away from fire pit.  I spray painted tires (project will be posted at a later time).  It was well worth it and we really enjoyed each others company.  We hiked behind our house and got some ideas for a way to make a trail for the boys to explore the woods easier. 

Here are the boys sitting at the fire getting ready for hotdogs.  By this time the weather was starting to be cooler.  It was going to be 35 degrees that night.  Yikes!  We only had 2 mummy bags.  So two of us were going to be getting cold.  After dinner we got ready for bed and played uno.  When we woke up Brandon made breakfast and took us to the beach.  No pictures sorry.  It was pretty cold, but the boys managed to still get wet and be content. 

This is what Sally did while we worked.  She made a nest out of the newly piled needles and leaves.  By Monday she did have a tick.  Yay.  The bugs are back.