Pinewood Derby Time

This last Tuesday was our ward and the 11th wards Pinewood Derby. Last year Sam's car did great, coming in 1st place. Shane warned him that this year he probably not do as well this year, cuz he did not have as much time to spend with him working on it. So they spent Saturday afternoon, designing it, cutting, sanding, painting and detailing. The detailing was my job (thank you Cricut). So Tuesday night they did the races in a great way.

Instead of narrowing it down to the winners, each kid's car got to race seven times, placed in random order and sequenced randomly. Then at the end the average time was taken of each car and placed in order. Sam's car had done well, and I figured he would end up in second or third place. They had a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for each ward. The 11th wards winners were named, with their times. Then came our ward. When the 3rd place was announced I was disappointed because it was a kid that I thought had beaten Sam's car. Drama. Then 2nd. Then they announced the 1st place, saying that there was only a .5 sec difference in average speed between the 1st place in 11th ward and our ward. Then Congratulations Sam Gillett! He took first place. Yay! Shane and I were so excited and proud! Our son however is a very humble winner and a great example to us. What did he have to say about winning? "It's pretty cool. Next year, when Zac gets to race dad can help him build the best car, I want him to win too." The kid makes me proud. So congratulations buddy! I love you!

Spare Time

So I have had a lot of spare time lately.

Time I didn't quite know what I was going to do with.
And then my sweet sis-in-law Laurie, a most crafty girl, reintroduced me to crocheting. I had done it before making blankets mostly and found that over the years I just didn't want to put the time into one that was required. But Laurie introduced me to small projects.
What? There's such a thing as a small project?
Why yes, yes there is! So I have been crocheting. I have made a dragon, a horse (almost done), slippers, and a tote bag.


Then finding that I couldn't just crochet all the time, I took up a hobby that I have been doing on an off for a while now, but now I had lots of time to devote to it.
Jewerly making.
I have really enjoyed making it. Problem, though. I don't always like to wear jewelry. Hmmm!
And finally, thanks to my friend Ruthanne, I have made some LOVE blocks.
Truthfully all I did was modgepodge she did all the other work towards making them cute and fun.
But aren't they cute? I love them.
So between all of these projects I still have managed to apply for MANY jobs, and got a few interviews, but no job so far.
So spare time has been nice, so far, but I am running out of project ideas.
Any ideas???

Turning 5!

Jojo turned 5 years old in January. He is such an amazing kid, and I cannot imagine our life without him.

Jojo at 5:

He has a great sense of humor, he likes to make people laugh.

He likes to play video games....a lot.
He likes preschool, and his preschool buddies.
He likes to tell his mom that her loves her as much as sugar is sweet.
He enjoys working in his preschool workbook.
His favorite color is orange.
His favorite food is big crackers.
He loves the Backyardigans, and watches them over and over again on netflix.
He's a take charge kind of child, except when it comes to his brother Zac, it makes him happy.
Josephs quote is "My lifes good!"
Happy Birthday Buddy!