EPIC Pinewood Derby 2019

The Pinewood Derby starts long before the race. Here the boys are putting the finishing touches on the car.

 At weigh in your car could only be 141.7g. We were a little heavy so we drilled some weight off.

 We won for the PERFECT weight! Right on the money!

 The day of the race was so exciting. Bowen was really excited and couldn't wait. Here dad and Bowen are adding the graphite to the wheels. We are hoping for a winner!

The line up! Lookin' good!

Let the races begin! Bowen was in the very first heat...

 He took first, the smile says it all!

He continued to race and took 2nd the rest of the Wolf heats.

2nd PLACE

Dad was super proud and Bowen was over the moon!

A Puppy love and is it spring???

This week was sure a busy one. We started out Sunday with Come Follow Me after church and studying as a family. We love the new curriculum. Then mom taught MaKynzee how to iron and sew-patching holes and such to work on personal progress.

 She's beautiful!

This last week was National Puppy Day and so I wanted to throw in just how much I love my puppy dog. Mr Bones is such a delight and truly good therapy for me. I love how upside down it looks like he is smiling.

 We are FINALLY starting to see the lawn. The snow has slowly been melting and Keelee was determined to play in the snow all week. She was getting bummed that her "crystals" were melting and were gone the next day. We had another snow storm roll in Thursday night and snow all day Friday which led Lukas and Keelee to build a snow man.

 Keelee and her "crystal".

 Lukas and Keelee building their snowman. It was the perfect kind of snow for it.

Other news: Lukas started golf with the middle school this week and we are super excited about this opportunity for him. Hopefully he has fun!

Miss MaKynzee's Weekend

Last weekend was all about MaKynzee. We traveled as a family to Sheridan, Wyoming (pretty much Montana) for State Gymnastics. MaKynzee has done really good this year in gymnastics and qualified for state in the one meet she was able to go to. She really should have done like 3 but with moving and death in the family we one got one in. She is really good and getting better all the time.

This is her team, Rock Springs Gymnastics!

MaKynzee did really well. It wasn't her day on the beam. She fell off twice and got really discouraged it was her first event. I was really worried. She did the floor next and she did really well coming back from the beam great! Then she did the vault. I was so very proud of her! We were all so impressed.

Getting ready for the vault...

 MaKynzee's last event was bars. And she nailed it!

Her score...

She ended up placing 2nd in bars! I was speechless and so impressed! She did awesome for her first time ever at state! She also took 9th place on vault and 8th place on floor.

 It was a great weekend with our decorated little lucky lady!

The next day we drove home and it was MaKynzee's birthday. Although it was boring we made the most of it and was able to stop at her favorite Dairy Queen for lunch and she got a blizzard. When we got home we had her favorites and opened presents. She was spoiled rotten and definitely deserved. She had her favorite cheese cake and drumsticks and ranch pasta.