For the boys birthday party this year we combined them and held our own pinewood derby. Great fun was had by all. We had so much fun and thanks to everyone for coming out and making it a great success and helping to celebrate birthday's with us.
Setting up.....
Zach wouldn't let me get a shot and after I took this one I told him that I was posting it to the blog since it had him in it. He told me I had to delete it.....I think I might have posted it instead. Purely by accident of course.
Grandma and Grandpa getting their wheels graphited (is that a word?) for the race.
Our car slots are starting to fill up. This is where they went after they had been weighed and checked in.
The track.
More cars.
Starting our first race. Everyones car got to race 6 times 1 time in each lane the person who had the car in slot 1 got to count down and push the button to start the race.
If you notice the board in the back it had the name of the racer and the lane their car should be in for current race. Down below in smaller print had the same info for the next race. Everything was done on the computer so after each race the announced the top three and how fast they were going the same info was on the board for everyone in the race.
We awarded trophy's after the first round (6 races per person) Jacob (our Jacob) took 1st, Merrick was 2nd, and Jacob took third. Jacob was actually only 1/2 of a second faster overall then Merrick. It was a close race.
We also allowed everyone to vote for their favorite looking car the only rule was they couldn't vote for their own. The three winners all had 4 votes each so we randomly drew to place them. Abram was 1st, Gavan was 2nd and Jayson was 3rd.
I took this picture of Jacob because he had graphite around his mouth looking like a mustache and tiny beard it didn't show up so well in the picture but you can still kind of see it.
Thanks again for everyone who came and helped us celebrate we hope that you had as much fun as we did.
For those in our immediate families save the date for the second Saturday in November for our annual family derby. Scout rules again and we will award a trophy for the first place winner that we will pass around each year to the winner.
