Family Pinewood Derby

On Friday our ward had a family pinewood derby activity. It was a crazy busy week, but I did my best to make a derby car for the family. It didn't win any races but Nate thought it was cool - so in the end it was all good. I roped Dan into doing some work on the tires/axles - we learned some lessons hopefully ones that we can use to make a better car next year when Nate gets to compete in his first cub scout pinewood derby. Not bad for our first derby car & it was (mostly) made by a girl...

PS.Notice Nate's lack of bottom teeth - he had 2 pulled this week - there's a rather large gaping hole in his mouth right now.

The process in pictures:












I am grateful for good family fun - we had a great time!

Asparagus - It's green, it's yummy, it's hard to swallow

Ok so when my kids are babies they are awesome eaters they've all eaten just about anything (especially their veggies) then for some reason I just don't understand they get picky. Nate & Abbie both loved all the baby veggies plus several we would steam (broccoli & cauliflower just to name a couple) and now their veggie in-take is just this side of non-existent - it makes me a little crazy. So anyway, on Easter Sunday as part of dinner we steamed some Asparagus, Kassie was very interested so we let her have a piece to play with/try. She loved it. We grabbed the camera to get proof that a) I feed my kids veggies and b) at some point in their lives they really liked them (ammo for future reference). She was so cute, and then......


She did go on and eat some more, so she wasn't traumatized over the experience - whew.

Monday was picture day for school & Abbie wore her Easter dress - so here's a couple pictures of the girls in their matching dresses, just not together (Abbie on picture day & Kassie on Easter trying to get some chocolate) oh well maybe another time.



Today I am grateful that Kassie (more or less) slept through the night. Baby steps - we'll get there!