Jake's First Pinewood Derby

Jake had his Pinewood Derby last week and came in 5th place! This, after quite a night on the night before the race. Brent got a call from our awesome friend Clint at around 8:30 the night before just to see how Brent and Jake were doing with the car. Uh....we forgot! Yep. That's right. We forgot. So I told Jake to quickly take his shower while Brent ran to cut it at his dad's house and then go get paint at the store. I allowed Jake to stay up so that he could sand it and get it painted. The next day, Brent got home at around 3pm to finish it. They ran over to Clint's house to figure out the weights. While he was pouring hot metal into the car, he managed to get the hot metal all over his fingers so again, our awesome friend Clint saved the day and finished the car for us. Clint's wife and my awesome friend Mary ran upstairs and printed off the "Krazy Sub" in vinyl lettering so the car wouldn't be so plain looking. And the pictures I got?Courtesy of Mary. I don't know how we ever got along without the McGraths! Brent's fingers? Pretty disgusting at the moment.

Here's Jake being put on the spot after his car finished first in one of the races. And no, he didn't answer any of the questions asked of him if you were wondering. He stood there and just smiled. You would think they would learn by now that Jake's not going to answer any questions if he's in front of a crowd.