Since our church building is out of commission for awhile due to extensive flooding, we had the pinewood derby pack meeting at our house. It wasn't bad except that having a brand new very expensive pinewood derby track in my house made me very nervous that the little boys who live here would find a way to break it. They kept racing old cars on it while waiting for everyone to show up for the pack meeting and at one point the starting line was having some problems. I almost had a heart attack after Arthur told me how much it cost. But being married to an engineer has it's perks, and Arthur fixed it. Anyway, here's the brand new high-tech track that tells you which car came in first, and by how much.
Working on the car with Dad.
The finished product: Dallin's "Jimmer Mobile."
There were a lot of great cars this year. It's a good thing we had such a high-tech track because many of the races were so close, you couldn't tell which car came in first if it weren't for the electronic finish line.
Here are the boys checking out their standings. Dallin was 4th going in the finals.
Dallin & Charles placing their cars for to determine 1st & 2nd place.
And to our amazement, Dallin won first place. (It was VERY close!) He told me he couldn't believe that he actually won. (Good thing, since we put "You Got Jimmered" on the side of his car. )
Dallin's report on the pinewood derby:
So first off it was the pine wood derby. So I made a pine wood derby car. It was a Jimmer Fredette car. My dad (Arthur ) said it was the Jimmer mobile. I guess he has a point. Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I won
the race by..............................
1 THOUSANTH! 1 THOUSANTH OF A SECOND!
And then we ate cake!
4 comments:
Way-to-go Dallin on coming in FIRST PLACE!! Uncle Eric really liked your car (as did I). Oh and Sharee did you make that cake? Its way fun.
Oh no, I did not make the awesome cake. That was Charles' mom. I just cleaned my house and moved furniture. :)
Congrats Dallin! I must say, your Jimmer mobile was quite good lookin'! Most of those derby cars don't even look like cars...or maybe that was just Reed's...
Great job Dallin! Your car looks AWESOME!! And that cake looks scrumptious :) If you keep taking the Derby we might have to start calling you "Derby Dallin" or maybe "The Derbster" - We love you Dallin and are so proud of you :)
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