Grand Champion of the Pinewood Derby

Dewey is a member of a non-denominational scout troop.  He is a Tiger Cub in troop #276.  He was excited to join scouts and I think the Pinewood Derby has been his favorite part so far.

Sean and Dewey worked on his derby "truck" for a couple of weeks.  Dewey picked out the color and helped sand and paint his truck.  Sean took the truck out to his work and had the pipe fitters add stacks to the back.

Here is Dewey placing his car on the track.

These boys were so fun to watch!  They were SO excited!

Here is Dewey's truck in action on the yellow track.  Sean had him race it backwards and they figured out that it went faster that way.

After all the cars had raced, they could choose to race on the circles of death.  Most of the cars would fall, but a few of them made it around.  Dewey's made it around both times.

Here are the boys after the race was over.  Dewey took 1st place out of the tiger cubs and Sayer took 3rd.  Dewey also took 1st place out of all 25 boys that raced that night.  I don't know who was more proud, Sean or Dewey.  We are now looking forward to districts.

Hank and Sari lost interest after the first few races.

Basketball

As usual, Hallie had a lot of fun playing Basketball with her friends.  She played on the Blackfoot Jazz league and then most of her team went out to the Snake River league.  Hallie is #14.

Hallie keeps getting better each year.  It is a lot of fun to watch!

Pine Basin 2014

Once again, we had another fun trip with our cousins to the Pine Basin Lodge.  My family looks forward to this trip every year and we have a lot of fun with the Martin's.

We do A LOT of sledding while we are there.  I think Dewey was pretty much outside all day.  He came in to eat every once in a while and then he was back outside again.

Hank had fun having Sean and I push him half way down the hill in his sled.

Gus(aka spider man) was determined to snowboard and he did pretty good.

I didn't get any pictures of Hallie outside, but I did get a picture of her playing Mexican Train with the men.

We have a lot of fun sitting on the picnic tables and watching the kids sled from the back windows.

The snow was piled up from the parking lot just below the sledding hill and Sean figured out that it was a lot of fun to jump.  We started jumping it on the big tube in groups and it was HILARIOUS to watch!!

Saturday night, all of the women played the game Qwelf.  It isn't the greatest game, but we had fun laughing at each other about the stupid things we had to do.  Dawnette and Marilee had to put socks on their hands and pretend like they were puppets.

My Mom and Alisha had to wrap themselves up and these bags were the best thing that we could find.

Deena and Cassie had to keep their arms and legs straight until it was their turn again.  

Deena also had to hang out under the table.  What I don't have a picture of is me standing like a human X for about 15 minutes.  It was hard!!