Pinewood Derby Time

This year for the Pinewood Derby, Coltin decided to carve his car out in the shape of a bug. It came together really well, shiny gold paint and googly eyes. His first race went pretty good, taking 2nd place qualifying  to go on. Then he got beat out. But he won the "Best Vehicle Not a Car" Award.  It was a fun event.

January & February Accomplishments

Coltin earned the November Student of the Month Award for his 3rd grade class, Miss Fitzgibbons wrote real nice comments on the certificate. He also made the honor roll (straight A's) during 2nd quarter. He loves school and is making us proud.

Everitt got great grades also and was awarded a awesome speller certificate. In January he got to build and erupt a volcano. The 1st graders just love this. I tried to video it but my camera jammed. We had a great time working on this and he had some good ideas.

Coltin completed all the requirements to earn his Wolf badge in Cub Scouts along with 1 gold arrow point and 4 silver arrow points (this is 10 extra achievements per point.) Lots of work. Now he's a Bear!

In Feb. we had a few good snow storms and these two spent an afternoon building a wonderful snowman!

Great team work Corbin and Alayna. 

Christmas Time Fun

All dressed up for church. They actually wanted to cooperate.  I forgot that Corbin's hair cut wasn't fixed yet! Oh well last year a black eye, this year a funny bald spot. He's a such a cute and happy kid, just sometimes too busy for his age (and me.)

 Christmas Eve - Hot Cocoa and Story of Christ's Birth

 Christmas Morning



Our First Basketball Season

Coltin and Everitt played on their first basketball team for the last 7 weeks (in November and December.) Because of their ages we were able to put them on the same team. That was nice, less running! Well they learned a lot and really played well. This is the younger league so there was no score keeping but Everitt did. It turned out our team won 5 of their 7 games. Both boys usually got in a few shots and scored points for the team. Coltin was good at those 3 point shots and rebounds. Everitt was a great defense man and scored quite a few times. I am glad the running is over but the games were fun to see.

Thats Coltin's shot.



Self Hair-Cut

Yes, Corbin got a hold of the scissors and it wasn't pretty. At least a bald spot on a boy is easier to fix! Stinker!