Pine Wood Derby Project Weekend

In early January my husband & son received a car kit for the Pine Wood Derby.

This will be the second race that our son entered.The first year was fun, he did not win a race but he had the best painted car in the race (Thanks to his uncle Tommy, and the paint booth in his body shop).

This year is going to be a bit different... Let's just say my husband does not have the same passion for motor vehicles of any sort working or not. This is just something that I think is in my family's blood. For my husband not so much. This does not make us love him any less, it just means when it comes to projects like this he seems to struggles a bit more...

He will tell you different, but this gift "I CAN DO ALL WITH KNOW WRONG" must have came from his father...(JUST JOKING, IT IS JUST A GUY THING) !



So my fabulous husband was feeling the pressure...
He polled some colleagues together at work, and some others and gathered ideas for how to build a fast car out of a block of wood.

My son added pressure by saying, "Nathan, can we really do this?"






They started Friday night and worked off and on into this evening. They sanded. And sanded. And sanded. Cut a little here and cut to much their. I heard a voice from the garage "Umm time to go buy a second block just in case". They primed. And primed and primed. And primed. They weighed, drilled more holes, sanded and primed again and again. Two of the three post office locations will be used to weigh the car-in-progress... I just pray that the scales are not off even by one to three-tenths of an ounce.





You see, this is BIG and the rules are out of control!
You have better odds in becoming the next President of the United States.


Race day is January 30Th, 2010, I'm not sure if they can do this...

They will be buffing and buffing the axles with jeweler's rouge until they shine like new money.

They will help set up the race track the night before the race; they will try out the car. I will pray it will be fast, Really fast!

By the 29Th the wheels will be off one last time and buffed again. This time they will be sprayed the axles with silicon and then applied graphite.


As for tonight, they have placed the dremal and the drill on the charges and turned off the body shops lights. My husband said to our son it was time to rest so we can have a fresh look tomorrow.

The next thing I knew ...




Enough said.

I will update you on the progress. I'm sure with all this effort something good will come from it.

Appearance

I was reading an article the other day on a of Reality TV star that spent $30,000 on way to much plastic surgery(my option of course).

It got me thinking in so many different directions. We will go with just one of them thoughts today...

I don't like evening about my appearance but I can change that very easy.... All I have to do is jump on the tread mill a few more times and that will take care of them issues in know time...So in lieu of going out and changing my appearance, I decided that I would go ahead and take advantage of a FREE face lift.

ON MY BLOG THAT IS ....

What do you think ?
Be HONEST I can handle it.

I am still working on it, I will fine tune as I learn more.

Have a great rest of your weekend.

Extraordinary Woman

To an Extraordinary mother, person, wife and a friend.
Today we celebrate her birthday
Which is number fifty-nine.

Hard to believe the years fly by,
This life we dig and delve.
She is so extraordinary...

She is a fabulous wife (right Ralph?)
and raised two great kids.
She even opened her heart an added a few more.
She manages so much more,
She's incredible, no doubt.

She keeps us all together.
Remarkable, in retrospect,
Our thanks? We've said a few.

Now that the kids are grown
with kids all of our own,
We really appreciate with clarity
All the wonders mom has sown.

Some how we all get along,
In fact, we do just fine.

It seems as if the whole thing
Came down to faith in the Lord.

Since "I" have known her
she has always believed !

She is always right here, supporting each if us,
In every way she can.

Her time, her heart, her courage.
Inspiration? She's a thrill.

She taught us how to cook some and knit too,
And function - always strong.
She counseled on the good life,
and taught us right from wrong.

She all about so many things,
Like unconditional love.

On your birthday, mom,
Our love we do avow.
You're just the best in every way,
Forever, then and now.



Love,
Your Family

SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY!

Back to work and school today but yesterday....


It was about 1:00 befor all the kids hit the slopes.
It was time to take our Midwest farm town home and transform it, to look like a very over populated ski resort, like they have back home. The difference is, at this place it is all FREE.
To be quite honest I think it was allot more fun too.

Come on in and enjoy the fun with us.
This snap shot was taken whiles the transformation was under way.



This next shot was one of the tourist trying to pack the snow down. So the jump would go faster and longer.













Needless to say this did not work out so much.
We see this quite often around these parts.
These tourists come on in and think they know it all...
We just say another one bits the snow !




One of the snow boarding hill were finally complete.
The same tourists that tyred out the sledding hill
stepped right up to test this one out.
With a little assistance from one of our very own instructors.



He was off in now time !



















With blistering temperatures,
we always have a cold smile on!






To finish off our day on the slopes,
We all huddle in the shelagh for a
nice warm cup of Hot Coco.



All in all our made up Ski Resort was a blast !
Your more then welcome to come on out and play with us.


GOOD TIMES! GOOD TIMES !

FIRST SNOW DAY OF 2010

IN NORMAL TODAY - Snow continues to fall as hundreds of school children and parents settle in for a the first SNOW DAY OF 2010.

This is of our back yard this morning at about 5:00 AM



We will be off to test out our new snow board, hockey stick and maybe we can make a few snow angles and build a snowman.

We will see if it warms up enough to go and play.

I HOPE SO !

LET IT SNOW !
LET IT SNOW !
LET IT SNOW !

Good bye to 09

Relishing in the peace and quiet in front of the fire, smelling cinnamon rolls in the oven and fresh brewed coffee... so grateful for my life, God, my fabulous husband-my soulmate-best friend, my 2 beautiful children, my parents, Ralph, Char, My brother, Tiffany & Jason all my family and friends. Thank you for the journey of 2009. GOOD TIMES ! GOOD TIMES !

I look forward to sharing a blessed 2010 with each of you !

Have a very HAPPY & SAFE NEW YEARS !

Christmas far from"Normal"

Christmas was far from Normal this year.

For a month, we had tossed back and forth what we were going to do for the Christmas holiday. We just had a hard time making any sort of decisions for what ever reason.

This year was going to be be very different on so many levels... Our 16 year old and our 9 year old were going back to Denver for the holiday, one set of parents were going to be on a cruse ship on the open sea half way across the world, the other set of parents are over 1000 miles away.

We tossed a few ideas around... Let's go to Florida to see our 85 year old grandmother. Washington DC is to be quite spectacular this time of year...

With our kids safely in Colorado and our parents safely half way across the world.

The question still remains unanswered WHAT THAT HECK ARE WE GOING TO DO?

Christmas Eve morning the conversation went something like this.

ME: Good Morning! Merry Christmas Eve.
My 29 year old: So what are we going to do today?
ME: I have no idea, what do you want to do?
My 29 year old: Well, I guess any out of state travel is out.
ME: Why it is just raining, we have no snow.
My 29 year old: Yeah well there is a blizzard every were else around us.
ME: Well let's go to church tonight.
MY 29 year old: OK... What time is the service?
Me: Well we have a choice 5,6,7 or 10:00.
My 29 year old: OK lets go to the 5:00 and the 7:00 and then go have dinner.
ME: Just looking at him, wounding if he realized it was Christmas EVE.
My29year old: Tomorrow we will go to Chicago to spend the day with Tiffany(DOR)and Jason(Silor). and then come home.
Me: OK, sounds like a plan(YEAH WE HAVE A PLAN)!


We left to go to the 5:00 church service. Great service, with a great celebration for the birth of Jesus and lot of Christmas carols we sang with packed house. It was beginning to feel like Christmas !

We made a quick stop and then my 29 year old really did wanted to go to another service. So we went, it was a candle light service it was very nice. We lit our candles while singing Silent Night. Then I felt a fuzzing next to me... It kind of sounded like OH, AHH SHHII..... I looked over and started laughing hysterically! My 29 year old had HOT dripping wax all over his hand and could not do anything about it other then sit there and look at it.

We got out of there quite quickly. While still laughing running to out vehicle in the rain. I got in and asked him it we are going to make it to the next service. My 29 year old looked at me and said NO, we are going out to dinner.

Again just looking at him, saying you do realize it is Christmas Eve ? He said yep everything will be open ! I gave him the good ol'emm~hmmm.

Well needless to say, NOTHING WAS OPEN....
Then we pulled into a lot with two cars and the sign said ....



I felt like I was living in the movie "The Christmas Story"
I could do nothing but laugh, I guess that we are making this night as far from normal as we can get. LET'S GO !

All in all we had a great time! Just the two of us, as far from what is Normal to us both. We had each other to bring in good cheer and I would not have changed a thing!

If I had to spend Christmas with one person, God new who that one was to be.
Thanks for the the wonderful Christmas Eve memories Nathan !


Merry Christmas Eve !