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My Boys and the Pinewood Derby

Last week (in march this is a little old, but such is my life) we had a really fun ward activity. It was a pinewood derby/chili cookoff. We had quite a few people show up (I'd say about 70, which is a lot for our little ward) and 28 cars register. Totally fun, but to back up a bit, a few months ago I was talking to Sam about getting the cub scouts excited about being cub scouts, he remimded me of a fun activity we'd had in our last area, a Pinewood derby for the whole ward. I thought it would be so much fun and we decided to combine it with an already scheduled Elders Quoram activity. Then came the realization that we did not have a track. I asked Sam if it was at all possible for him to make one, he said he'd look into it. A few weeks later we decided to just make one mostly because we have 9 years of cub scouts ahead of us. Can you believe that! 9 pinewood derby's with our boys in a row starting 2011! YIKES! From all that Sam read it seemed pretty easy so he went and got all the supplies... which cost a little more than we thought, but it all worked out and it was great!

Here are some great pictures.