Josh's Fight

My little Joshy got in a fight on the bus the other day. Poor kid has the meanest black eye! Sadly it took us until we sat down to dinner for Danny to point it out. (In my defense they were sent directly to their rooms to clean their bedroom so I never noticed it.) The story is: he got some silly bands for his birthday from primary. Apperantly some of them were glow in the dark ones. So, Nate told him to put them under the seat of the bus were it's dark and look at it. Josh followed his brothers advice. Well, when he was coming back up to his seat he must have hit his eye on a metal part of the seat and the end result was this nice shiner. So, it was just a fight with the bus seat and not an actual fight with another kid. But it sounds like a better story. It's been a few days now and his eye is now going to that ugly green color. It really looks so much worse in person. I can only imagine how that must have hurt like the dickens. I would have been crying or swearing when it happened. As I look at these pictures, I realize I need to make my kids an appointment to get their hair done.

This is the next morning. There is still alot of puffiness left.

If it was eye shadow, it would be a great shade of purple.

Nate's 1st Pinewood Derby

March 24th our pack did it's annual pinewood derby. This was Nate's first official race as a cubscout. As a bonus, Josh and Colton were also able to race a car. At the end of the pack's brackets were all finished they opened it up to anyone else to race. Danny had made one for them to participate in. Nate chose a snake for his car and J & C's was a patriotic truck.

Nate's snake car that he painted all himself. Daddy may have help cut it.

This was made for the whole family but we let Josh and Colton take claim of it.

Our 2 cars side by side

Nate getting ready for his first race.

I think this is part of any open race with everyone. And he'd been slaughtering everyone. But this time he put his car up against another brother's car and started talking smack. And because of the smack talk he lost! Silly boy!

Coming down the track, Nate's in the lead.

Waiting for it to finish

And we have a clear winner.

Unfortunately, we think something happened to their car. It ended up with a 50/50 winning streak.

Looks like they are winning this one

A picture of my pretty girl

She kept laying all over Joshy. He'd kept moving away and she'd follow.

And the winner is: Nate. Danny handed out all the awards.

He really is a happy camper!

Danny is helping the boys hold their award. Everyone or rather every kid recieved some type of award.

They boys were more thrilled that it was over and that they got their truck back than about getting an award.