Pinewood Derby

A few nights before the Pinewood Derby was a Pack meeting. The boys both received awards. Max earned his Wolf and Gage earned some pins. Max loves to be silly as you can see.







Gage and his friend Jared Hiatt.


Gage had a skateboard shaped derby car this year and Max had an army truck. It even had a machine gun on the top of it which he thought was awesome. Max did such a great job on the camo paint job.



Look at Max all tensed up as he is anxiously waiting for Blake to pull the lever to let his derby car race down the track.


Even Eliza made a car this year. Her's was heart shaped and painted pink and purple of course! Her and Max's cars are getting ready to race each other down the track. The scouts were so sweet to her and even cheered for her over the other boys. She actually had a pretty fast car and won some of her races.


Max even had some race fans!!





Max with Fred Bergman, the cubmaster.


The winner's of the race. Max came in third. It was a bummer for Gage because his car was doing awesome and winning almost every time, but the track they used was not in the best shape and scraped up the cars pretty good and ended up busting the wheels off of some of the boy's cars. Gage's car unfortunately was one of them. I'm positive that he would have placed also had his wheels not broke off. I was super excited however that Max won a trophy. He was soooo excited and on such a high afterwards. It was fun to see him feeling so proud.

Another Snow Day

We had another snow "storm". It is so different here after it snows because it is usually pretty warm so the kids go out in their t-shirts and play in the snow. Max and Lize start with their jackets on, but they usually come off at some point. Blake, Max and Eliza made a super snowman. It was taller than Blake!

Blake hasn't got as much 4-wheeling time here as he had expected so he takes the opportunity on snow days to get the 4-wheeler out. He took Eliza and Breonna for a ride.

4th of July Park in Kernersville, NC

Is this amazing or what?? It is the beginning of February and we are in the warm sunshine playing at a park already! I LOVE it!! I could get used to this. Gage heard from a friend that this park had a skate park so he of course wanted to check it out. It was such a great park! There was a big field for playing sports, a nice playground, tennis courts, a skate park, and a little creek for splashing around in. The kids ran around playing and skateboarding, we had a picnic lunch, and I took in the sunshine while studying. Well attempted to study anyways....the beautiful day was a little too distracting!

Gage and Toby Dieckman












Gage is apparently getting a little too old for picture taking in front of his friends. Plus, Blake and I might have been a little annoying trying to boost his courage to go down the higher ramps ~ only a little of course!

Simply Sassy Day Spa

Eliza was invited to a birthday at Simply Sassy Day Spa for one her best little friends here in NC, Breonna Martin. It is such an adorable place ~ a day spa just for little girlies. Everything is mini just for them, even the chaise lounges. They totally cater to the girls and even give them mini bath robes to wear around the spa. Eliza of course loved this place. She has always loved going with me when I get pedicures so she was really excited about going to this party. She didn't want to put on the robe at first, but eventually agreed to try it and I am so glad she did ~ she looked absolutely cute as can be in it. While there, she got a manicure, pedicure, sipped on sprite in champagne flutes (which she LOVED because she felt FANCY) and ate cupcakes. She had such a great time she's definitely going to want to come back here!

Blake's 1st Scones!

Blake made his very first batch of homemade scones for us for dinner and they were DELICIOUS!! I even made some homemade whipped cream and as if scones weren't unhealthy enough...yep, you guessed it ~ we added the whipped cream to our dessert scones. YUM!!! The kids loved the dessert scones so much they had powdered sugar and "whoop" cream all over their sweet little cheeks and noses. Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure Blake will be making these again sometime soon.










This was also the same night that Eliza painted her own toe nails for the first time. Pretty great job, huh?! She even used two different colors. What a girl!