Pinewood Derby

It was Pinewood Derby time and the boys were pumped for this years race. Of course we procrastinated on the making of the cars. The sunday before, joe and the boys started carving and sanding out the cars they had picked out. Doug wanted a skateboard and Ken wanted a cop car. Our friend Darron helped out Sunday and gave some great advice. Then next few nights were spent painting, sanding, painting, sanding, and so on. Joe actually got advice from a few dad's who recently had their pack races, so he had a ton of knowledge. Long story short, Doug's car broke when joe was putting the wheel on and ken's car had some minor damage minutes before we were going to leave for the race. I spent the afternoon fixing doug's car and we had to hot glue ken's car. we were truly hoping the boys would just win 1 race so they wouldn't be disappointed. the girl's and i were late and to my surprise our boys had luck on their side. They both had wins under their belts. They won race after race. Doug was finally beat by Ken then his friend Trevor. The other scouts kept wondering who had the skateboard and cop car. So it was time for the results and for some reason they put Ken with the webelos, the 11 yr olds,(Ken isn't an official scout yet, the leader let him participate because he's close to scout age). So Ken got 1st and Doug got 3rd, Doug's friend Trevor Ball was 2nd, it was a Hall-Ball sandwich:) After the scouts raced the Elder's Quorum had their own derby race. Joe decided he would enter in Ken's car since he did some(alot) of the work and with luck on his side he got 2nd. So he did some trash talking and next year we will be trying to defend ourselves against the Ball's again:) I'm glad we have some laid back dad's in the ward! I heard races can get a little ugly at times.