Pinewood Derby

Another GREAT thing about being eight, is starting cub scouts. Ammon was lucky enough to start cub scouts right before the pinewood derby. I am going to say that is the reason why Colby and Ammon started working on his derby car on Friday night (the derby was on Saturday!) Ammon drew a design of what he wanted his car to look like, helped paint it and put on the decals. Colby was such a trooper~ even though he was already putting in late nights and early mornings at work, he made time early, early Friday to cut out the car and woke up early on Saturday to finish it. It turned out great! It was just the way Ammon wanted it to look- but was it fast?

We arrived at the church to find out. The cultural hall was decked out with pinewood derby decor,

they had popcorn and cookies for hungry spectators,

and a state of the art, electric track for nearly thirty cars to race on.

(this thing was sweet, it actually could tell what car won by a hundreth of a second)

Ammon's car is the green blur finishing in second place.

The boys waited anxiously to see how their cars would fare,

and Ammon's car ended up in the top four!

(it was number four to be exact- but he was thrilled to make it into the grand finals)

When all was said and done, Ammon ended up in third place, with a great trophy and a big smile on his face.

Way to go DRAGO!

Colby has already warned Ammon that he probably won't do as well next year. I guess he's a little unsure of his ability to duplicate a winning car. Way to go boys!