On you marks!

Our family just experienced our first Pine Wood Derby! We have had the "cars" for about 6 weeks or so, and I'm happy to say that we did not wait until the night before to start. We had 3 boys and 3 cars, and I told Ron that they had to be done before he started basketball! The boys chose to shape their cars in a "non-traditional" fashion, meaning that they weren't cars. As you can see in the pictures:

Kobe's is an icecream sandwich...

Carsen's is a salamander...

and Tyson's is a piece of cheese.

I cannnot brag that they were the fastest cars at the race, but they were the cutest!! The boys ate popcorn, cheered on their friends and had a great time. Logan and Sydni ate popcorn, cheered on their brothers, and had a great time. Logan was the best, every time one of their cars raced he had to find someone to tell "that's my brothers car!" It was a great night.

Cock-a-doodle-do

I have to share the story about our dinner tonight. So, this summer our neighbors's had baby chicks, we went over and Logan and Sydni loved seeing them. But as we all know baby chicks grow up to be big chickens, and some of them become roosters, and roosters eventually learn how to crow in the morning. I really have enjoyed waking up to roosters crowing in my back yard, but apparently not all of our neighbors agree. So, I got this call from our neighbor on Saturday asking me if we would eat a fresh chicken if he brought it over. I said sure, and later that night his wife called and said that he would meet me at the fence. So long story short, our neighbor killed the roosters, plucked and cleaned them (really well by the way!) and handed me one over the fence so we had roast chicken for dinner tonight. It was yummy!