Pinewood Derby....done!! (And a little birthday fun too)

   So this weeks first big event would have to be the Pinewood Derby which was Isaac's first.  Now I'm not going to lie, Greg spent the most time putting this car together, but Isaac did help some and was quite excited for the whole event.  Now I'm not going to go into details because I don't have that kind of time but the winning car was bought on line so even though it won all the races we know in our heart that the official ranking should have been our neighbor, Mason, as number 1 and Isaac and another boy as 2 and 3.  The ranking at the derby was the "illegal" car first, Mason as number 2 and Isaac and the other boy tied for 3rd.  Now the majority of the boys were happy regardless but you can imagine the discussions that went on amongst the adults during and after the race.  The rules clearly stated you had to build your car from the kit that was provided to the boys by the ward and that wasn't adhered to by everyone but how do you tell a young boy his car can't race?!  You can't!!  Anyway, here's a few photos from the big day.

Isaac waiting with the other boys for the races to start.

One of the twenty races that were run.

Isaac with his awesome car!

Isaac and the other boy with their third place ranking!

In motion!

   So that was fun and on to the second big event of the week, we had a birthday boy. Carter turned 7 on Thursday and even though we were super busy that night we managed to show him a little love first thing that morning and later today we'll be having a birthday celebration with our extended family for both Carter and Mark.  Mark's birthday is Monday and he'll be turning the big 1-2.  He's currently on a scout trip to Moab after getting special permission from the Bishop to be able to go without his dad even though he's not officially a scout yet.  I hope he'll be home in time for the birthday celebration.  Here's a few photos of Carter's big day.

Our cute birthday boy with one of his two gifts.

And again with the second gift.

And the gifts have been revealed!  He was pretty happy.

Of course he had to test drive his car before heading to school.

   So that's about it.  Of course there was lots more that went on, baseball games, yard work, house work, etc., etc. but these were definitely the highlights of our week.