Girls Pinewood Derby

For Shaylee's activity days the leaders thought it would be fun for them to do a pinewood derby.  Pete was super happy about it because he really loooooves the pinewood derby.  This was supposed to be his one year off after doing it for five years straight and for two of those years he made two cars, then he was going to have one year off before he had to make a car for three more years.   Brandon had a campout that night that Pete was going on and Pete was also wrapping up coaching baseball, so he never got a chance to make Shaylee's car.  I took over and helped her sand it, paint it, and put the weights on.  Pete put on the wheels and we were ready to go.  We did the very least to this car than we did for any of the boys' cars and it did so well!  She won 4 out of 6 races and the two races that she lost she was within centimeters of the other car.  It was kinda funny.  Pete said I get to build the cars from now on since I did most of this car and it did so well.  But, the important thing is that she had tons of fun.  It was supposed to be a daddy/daughter event, but it was a mommy/daughter one for us since Pete went on Brandon's campout.

Shaylee watching her car get ready to race

Racing

One of Shaylee's races

Shaylee and her BFF, Natalie

Shaylee's award- "The Most Creative Paint"

"On your mark..."

"Get Set..."

"GO!!!!"