Derby Car Race

This weekend we had Cody's big derby car race. We cut the cars out of blocks, then painted them and made them look very cool with personal touches. Cody wanted his blue with some red on it. We got him little spider man tattoos for it and put on his army man with the gun. He picked the way it was to look all by himself and I did the cutting of the wood for him. Emily wasn't with us when we cut them so I picked decided how her car would look and did the cutting and sanding for her. When we painted though she had to have pink with lots of beads and a cat driving.
They both came out so cute, however I didn't know about some powder you can put on the wheels that makes them go faster. So they both lost the races. We had to have them weighed in and had to be under 5 oz, that doesn't sound like much till you actually weigh them. I had put penny's and nickles under them to weigh them down but ended up having to add more last min. Emily raced first with the open class and she took 4th in all 4 of her races. Over all she ended up with 23 out of 24 not bad for our first race. Cody and the other boy scouts raced after open was over and he took 4th in three races and 3rd in the last one. Cody ended up 32 out of 33 boys but they wouldn't let me take a pic of the official one for the scouts. Both kids had a blast with the races and I told them that was the main thing. Next year if we do scouts I'm so getting that black powder.