Pine Wood Derby

Well, Riley had his second Pine Wood Derby this past week on Tuesday night. He did pretty well and won most of his races (I think he only had one second place finish in the preliminary rounds). Unfortunately he lost in the last race against the three other fast cars that night and ended up in fourth place. But he did win for Outstanding Sportsmanship and Most Aerodynamic Car. He told me when he was drawing out the design that he wanted, that it needed to be very aerodynamic and he even drew arrows over the top of the car to show how the air would flow around his design. We had a good time and Riley had lots of fun racing. It is always fun to have family come to events like this and this time was no different as Grandma Johnson, Aunt Shelly, and Uncle David all came to cheer Riley on. Millie really got into the fun and was cheering for every car. Thank you to Megan for coming over and staying at our house with Brianna so that we didn't have to keep her up past her bed time (rested babies = happy parents). Riley even led the Flag Ceremony at the beginning of Pack Meeting all by his self. I thought that was a pretty big deal as we have two Packs meeting together and he did an outstanding job. He must have wanted to get back to more racing as he also offered to give the closing prayer when the Leader couldn't remember who had been assigned.

Happy New Year

Hope everyone had a Happy New Year. We celebrated "New York Style". That means that a 10 o'clock mountain time we said "It's midnight in New York so kiss me and lets go to sleep". Exciting, I know, but with an almost 4 month old baby we are still trying to get sleep when ever we can.

We did have more fun on New Year's Day however. We meet with most of April's family at the Chinese Gourmet Buffet here in Orem for Lunch at 11:30. We thought we would try to beat the lunch rush but there really wasn't much of one. After eating lots of food and being loud we came back to our house to play games and talk. As usual we ending up just talking and not playing games but we had a good time and it was much less stressful than trying to have a meal at some one's house. I think we may make it in to a tradition as everyone really had a good time. April's parents didn't make it on New Year's Day so they stopped by on Saturday on their way to Tooele and we went to lunch with them at the same restaurant. I do like Chinese food but twice to a buffet in three days was plenty for me.