Jeremy's first and Andrew's last Derby

Here are the boys'

cars this year. Jeremy,

ever into sharks,

decided he wanted a

hammerhead shark.

Andrew went for the

sleek and fast style.

Here is Andrew with his

before the races began.

This was his last year

to participate so he was

hoping to take first place.

He'd done so the year

before and hopes were

high. But mostly he was

just very excited.

Here is Jeremy with his car.

He's so excited for this race

as it's his first year in the

pine wood Derby. He was

a little nervous too because

he had broken off half the

hammerhead in his excitment

to start sanding without dad

around. Luckily dad was able

to fix it. Although he did break

it again after the races were

over.

Jeremy was so very excited

as he made first place out of

everybody. It's kind of dis-

appointing that our ward didn't

get the derby done earlier in

the year because he could

have gone to the Scout Expo

and raced against the other

winners. I'm curious how he

would have done. Andrew

took second. He won the

first race he was in and then

one race against Jeremy.

He was pretty excited too.

Admittedly, Mundy did help

them quite a bit with their cars.

He's not comfortable with handing them a dremal. He knew

of a kid that cut a finger off with one once so he's waiting until

they get older before he will let them attempt that. And we

procrastinated a little bit on getting them started and then

found out a week before when the race was going to be and

the boys' were at their mom's that weekend so Mundy got

nearly everything ready and they helped with the final sanding

and painting the last couple of evenings before the races.

All in all they had fun!