On Friday night we went to pack meeting for the pinewood derby. As I recall, this is Hubby's 8th or 9th pinewood derby that he has had to build over the last few years with two boys in cub scouts. I guess you could say he's learned a thing or two as his first couple of cars were lucky to cross the finish line. J and Hubby affectionately call this car The Blur. (What show is that from?) Afterwards the Elders raced their cars as well. As Hubby worked a lot of overtime this week, and didn't have a chance to build his own car, he raced J's car for the Elder's competition. Hubby was quite happy as he smoked his competition in that one too.
FIRST RACE
J is in the blue hooded jacket talking to the scout leader at the beginning of the race and his car is the one that was always in front. He was a really good sport though, and kept telling the boys that they were all doing a really good job! He even gave up his 1st place trip to the district race at the mall to the 2nd place winner. (I do not enjoy the race at the mall. It's too big and not fun at all for anybody! I was happy to pass the experience on to some other naive family.)
WEBELOS FINAL RACE
This is our last Pinewood Derby race for about 7 more years until H is old enough to be in scouts. It was a fun night but we are happy to have a break from making cars! (Have you seen the movie "Down and Derby"? Funny! Slightly exaggerated but not by much! Seriously, do they really expect that the boys are building those cars? It's all about the Dad's.)
THE "BLUR"
By the look on J's face, you can't tell that he is excited with his car, can you?! Good job boys!
4 comments:
Another thing I am glad I am done with!! Save you cars for H!
When I worked with the scouts, I loved the derbys. They were always a lot of fun.
I didn't like having to help Vance with his cars, though. Chad was usually deployed when they had the derby. I hated that! I won't have to worry about that again for 3 more years.
Looks fun! :)
Our Elders Quorum did a race for the dads one year. Hubby built a car in the shape of a Y (for BYU - he's their BIGGEST fan!) and tried to make it be the slowest car ever. Unfortunately he was beat out by another guy trying to do the same. Ah well.
Way to be a supportive mom, anyway! (I'm not too thrilled about the prospect of Scouts in a few years. But Hubby swears by it! And won't settle for less from our Baby Boy.)
Our Pinewood Derby is in March. I'm the Wolf Leader. My boys are excited. Can I just admit that I hate the Pinewood Derby? Our ward goes overboard with it though, so that's probably part of it. I have two months to muster up my enthusiasm!
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