Pinewood Derby and Our Garden

So for our faithful from the beginning blog readers you will remember that our ward does a "ward pinewood derby". It is the best activity I go to each year. The only bad part is when your husband somehow runs out of time to actually make the car and I end up having to start making it about 3 hours before the activity. Last year jared made a skateboard with a gorilla on top. We actually won a few races and won the award for most creative. This year was a total bust. We lost every race we were in by a long shot and we didn't win anything for the car itself. I thought it was pretty creative making a "Simpson's" car. I did the entire thing with a dremmel. Everyone that heard that laughed pretty hard but I am not sure what else I really could have used. I printed the characters and then ran them through my laminator so they would look like they were sitting up. My brother dustin should really appreciate this car since he is a huge "Simpson's" fan. My kids came up to me during the races and informed me that our car sucked because it kept losing. Besides that we all had a good time. They had an auction of baked goods and babysitting from the young women to raise money for camp. My dad has deeper pockets than I do and won a few things that we decided to enjoy right then. Homemade Tres Leches cake and popcorn balls. The cake was delicious and was completely gone in about 10 mins. I think we will start working on the car a little sooner for next year.

The kids just hoping we might win at least one.
Ethan and his "friend" Hannah
My parents and the kids. Landon is actually looking at the camera and kind of smiling.

We decided this year to plant from tomatoes, zucchini, and strawberries. The kids are very excited about this. Hopefully they will leave the plants alone so that they can actually produce some food. We under estimated the size that the zucchini plants would get. We are going to have to split them up. We were all very excited when we found some strawberries on the plant the other day.