Can you say "Competative?"

Last night was our Ward's Family PineWood Derby! It was a lot of fun, and two of our cars made it into the final four...this was not quite what Paul was hoping for, but I think it was great! Paul spent the 3 days prior to the PineWood derby making sure our family had a good showing in the race! We took on making four cars - One for Paul, one for Me, one for Carson and one for Kelsi and Jaedyn to share.
We started out by defining our car's shape, then painting the cars. We also got to name our cars: Pauls car was named "Blue", my car was name "Its a girl thing", Carson of course had to paint his car orange and name it "Lightning" and Kelsi & Jaedyn named their car "Jadie Bug-ie"- it was decorated like a lady bug with anntena and all. It was so funny how each of our personalities came out in our cars!

After we got the cars painted, then Paul's competative side came out! He spent hours polishing the axels for the wheels...using three different grits of sandpaper and three different polishing chemicals. Paul then precisely weighted the cars using some bullets and even had to buy a scale to make sure he was under 5 ounces. He was so determined to beat out the competition, he even came home during his lunch hour the day of the race to make sure the cars were ready to go. He had heard from one of his co-workers that the more miles you put on your car before the race, the better it will do - so he rigged up a system to have the cars race on the treadmill to put some miles on them.

This was a really fun family project - we will have to start thinking ahead to next year because we know Shari Ott will be ready for us!