Pinewood Derby Champion!

This past weekend, our ward had an Elder's Quorum Pinewood Derby! It was a really fun activity, and I think Erik enjoyed making his first pinewood derby car.

The making of the car was a family event. Ben did the body work on the car. . . with his drill and pocket knife! I'll admit I was a little nervous that we were going to end up with all fingers still intact, but Ben did a good job. Erik was the artist and painted the logging truck all by himself! (Well, other than the "E".) My job was to disguise the weights (ie three rolls of quarters) as logs. And for all you hard-core Pinewood Derby-ers out there--this was a no rules race. Anything goes as long as it doesn't involve fire/combustion. :-) Hence the quarters. . . .Here are a few pictures from the races.Between races, Erik was happy to help himself to a few cookies. . . . And the championship race. . . . Yeah!! Erik's car won first place!! Congrats to Ben and Erik. :-)

Yay for Elizabeth!

This past week has been an exciting one for Elizabeth!  Although she had been scooting around for several months, she is now officially crawling.  She is already fast and is having a great time exploring and getting into everything.  

This afternoon I was trying to get some good pictures of her crawling.  I enlisted Erik's help hoping that she would crawl to him while I got some pictures.  Elizabeth wasn't very cooperative, but she sure thought we were playing a great game.  :-)  We did finally get a few pictures though.  After I loaded them on the computer I noticed she was sticking her tongue out in most of them.  Silly girl!