AWANA Grand Prix Night

If you live in my house, and chances are you don't, you know that my least favorite time of the year is the day before and the day of Awana Grand Prix night. Those two days for this year happened to be yesterday and today. I am a self-proclaimed procrastinator! I admit it and am not ashamed because I just so happen to do my best work under pressure. Every year we have to come up w/ some crazy design for a pinewood derby car and I normally have to shape it w/ a knife. Then I take it to Rob and he cleans it up! Some of out past designs include a police car w/ a Christmas tree on top, a celery stick w/ peanut butter and a (real) peanut w/ goggly eyes taking a ride(used this one twice), 2 peanuts riding in a shell, a stick of butter, and a pink pearl eraser (used that one twice also). Well this year was no exception for originality. You would think that the idea bank would run dry, but it hasn't yet. In fact, I already have one in mind for one of next year's car.
This year, Ethan went with a pickle... or cucumber. Depended on how you wanted to see it! I can design... I can't make them roll worth a hoot! Rob actually shaped this one and I sanded and painted it and hot glued the wheels in... that right there might be the problem :). Anyhow, his actually crossed the finish line every race and that is all we're going for!

Poor Briyanna! She has had the worst luck the last 2 years and I can't help but think some of it is my fault. This year she had a stick of dynamite. Now the idea behind this is great because the group that they are in is called TNT for Truth and Training. I was hopin' for brownie points, but no one got it! Sheesh... Anyhow, I should have put one of my gold pom-poms on the end of the fuse to make it appear to be ignited, but I didn't. I actually did run out of time. AND... this is embarrassing, but it only crossed the finish line one time. So all in all... I failed her!

Brenna had a Flower Power car. I paper pieced (scrapbooked) over 150 itty-bitty flowers and then glued them onto that car. It took my 3 hours to do her car. Thankfully no shaping of the car was involved! Just a coat of paint and those stinkin' flowers! Her car was awesome this year! I'm not sure what I did wrong but she came in 2nd in all of her races (definitely not near the fastest tho) AND got a 3rd place trophy for design! I'd like to think that I, er, she really earned it!