Pinewood Derby

Dallin had a lot of supporters at the big race. I was at Micheal's and saw these foam fingers. I thought it would be so fun for the kids seeing me cheer from the stands with one of these. The other side says GO ELIZA. Dallin and Taige both made it to Districts. Or pack race was interesting. There was a lot of illegal cars, which had me and some other parents kind of upset. Luckily Dallin still won first place in his den, which qualified him to go race in Districts. In the overall race he got bumped out about half way through racing against one of the illegal cars.

Dallin and one of his really good friends Taige both made it to districts. It was a very fun, intense, and nerve racking day for the both of them, and there Mother's.

Let the competition begin. Dallin and Steve take this Pinewood Derby thing very seriously. About a month before the race Dallin drew up a picture of what he wanted his car to look like. Along with how fast he wanted it to go, 3 mph. Then he and his Dad drafted it on the computer and printed out the pattern to copy when they cut the cars shape. Dallin did all the sanding and painting himself. Steve drilled the weights in and together they did the finishing touches. It is very serious business.

The smile after a big win.

Dallin ended up taking 2nd place in the first heat which moved him onto the finals. He came in 5th place overall. I could tell he was fighting back the tears when he lost. It's so hard to watch your kids loose. Especially when he put his whole heart and sole into making this car. I am embarrassed to say I was trying not to cry right along with him. It's tough being a Mom. His buddy Taige ended up in 4th place and we had to go through the same emotions all over again. Here is the conversation we had after he lost. I told him how proud I was of him and that he should be proud to. Out of about 100 cars he has the 5th fastest and that is amazing. Then I said, "How about I take you guys out for ice cream to celebrate?" Dallin's response was, "No, but do you know what would make me feel a lot better? If you took me to Target to get Bakugan battle gear." He is trying to play me for a fool. We ended up going out for pizza with friends. He is one smart boy.

Dallin with his car, he painted it like one of his favorite bakugan Eliza got to make a car with her Dad to. The funny thing is, half the amount of time went into her car and she beat Dallin's and Taige's car.

Spencer has started sucking his thumb lately and I am so torn about it. I think he looks so cute when he does it, however it's a hard habit to break. I will probably try and put an end to it pretty soon.

Day 6, last day of Spring Break

First things first, I forgot about some exciting family news, it happened about a week ago. We finally bought a family car and I love love love it. Thanks Steve.

Steve had work off today so we jumped in the car early and headed off to Phoenix, where the weather was warm 80. We spend a fun day wondering around the zoo. The kids favorite part, petting the sting ray, and riding the camel.

Eliza still cares about seeing the animals.

Dallin kind of cares, however, he cares more about his using his phone and texting Uncle Matt.

and Spencer only cares about eating, sleeping, and grabbing at things. Every time we took the snow cone away he cried. He's getting kind if vocal about stuff like that.

Overall, a great day in the warm weather.

DAY 5; worse than the sick day, Pictures!

I wanted to go back up to westfork and get pictures of the kids. Unfortunately the kids didn't want to take pictures.(except Eliza) They just wanted to play in Narnia. We did our best and got a few almost good pictures.

Spencer seemed to be feeling pretty good this morning however once we got up there he was not a happy camper, unless I was carrying him around in the backpack.

Normally I don't let my kids chew on sticks but every time I took it away from him he cried and I wanted a picture.

After the torturous pictures I made them take we had fun hiking around.Below is Oak Creek Canyon. You have the pines on one side(toward Flagstaff) on the other side you have the red rock(towards Sedona) This is my favorite place to hike around right now.

DAY 4:

Day 4 of spring break was supposed to be spent skiing, however, we spent it taking Spencer to the doctors office. They say he has hand, foot and mouth, but as of now it's only in his mouth. He got a fever of 102 on Tuesday night. Then yesterday he started really getting fussy and drooling excessively. Also crying every time we tried to feed him. So today when I took him in and they told me he had sores all down his throat and in his mouth around his gums I was not surprised. I feel so bad for the poor little guy, in 2 nights he has not slept for more than 40 minutes at a time. Whats so sweet about Spencer is even in all his misery if you smile at him he will smile right back, such a little charmer. I hope he feels better soon and I get to sleep again soon. Also we have some fun stuff planned for the rest of our vacation and Eliza is so mad that we have this brother who is ruining our spring break!!!!

Spring Break Fun

DAY 1 of Spring Break: First we went to Beaver Creek and had a picnic. Then we went to Montezuma Castle. It is a 5 story 20 room castle built by the Sinagua Indians in 1125. The kids and I sat in on one of the tours, they got to crush Yucca leaves and make rope out of them, just like the Indians did. They thought that was pretty fun.

After that we headed into Sedona and went to an Art Gallery. You can walk the grounds, it is full of the coolest windmills I have ever seen. Along with different kinds of sculptures and water fountains. It was beautiful.

On the way out the kids were abducted.

After that we jumped back in the car and headed up Oak Creek Canyon, we stopped off at Westfork for a hike and adventure.

Along the hike we found, what looked to be, a house that had burnt down to the ground. Left over was a fire place, along with a side wall.

I think this was part of the backyard. We decided it was our Narnia. Here the kids are going into our new world. We played back there for a while by the river.

This is how Spencer hikes. After the hike we jumped back in the car and headed home it was a long but very fun day.

DAY 2: We skied. We spent the day over on the Anasazi and Sunset side. The kids went to the very top of the mountain on Tuesday. They are getting really good and keep pushing themselves. They skied a couple of blacks and we spent a lot of time in the snowboard park. Dallin was doing jumps and rails. Eliza did her first jumps. She didn't land the first one but to my surprise she jumped right up and did another one,which she landed. I was really proud of her, she was really proud of herself.

DAY 3: We took it kind of easy today. First we cleaned house, then we made quicksand. We made a jungle seen in the cake pan and watched all of the little jungle animals sink.

We then went on a long walk with the dogs. Then we walked up to Bear Paw and played miniature golf.

This is how Spencer golfs and hangs out with us.To finish off the night we jumped in the hot tub.

We were supposed to ski tomorrow however, I am kind of bored of Snowbowl. Also I am very sunburned, but only on my neck. I put sunblock every where else so I look really funny, only my neck is beat red. We will just have to see what tomorrow has in store for us???

They work hard for their $$$

Our neighbors across the street do not live here year round so the snow has been piling up in there drive way all winter. They called me about 3 weeks ago asking if I knew of anyone who could dig out there driveway before they came up on Friday. I asked Dallin and Eliza if they wanted to earn some money along with the Moore boys. They all said yes. While they where busy working on Saturday they Tom Sawyered 2 friends into helping for fun. It took all 6 of us about 2 1/2 hours to dig out all the ice and snow. I had to break up all the ice because the boys where just not strong enough. That night after they had finished we were leaving to go run an errand and Dallin looked over at the driveway and said, "I feel really proud of us for digging out that whole driveway." Nothing better than a hard days work. It ended up snowing another 5 inches before they came up so Dallin, Eliza and I got to dig it out again Thursday morning before school.

End of Season

I'm glad to have a few Saturdays back. Not for long, baseball starts in about a month. However, I don't know how that is going to work since the fields are still covered in snow. Back to basketball. The kids boths had a great, fun season. This was there first year playing and they loved it.