Elders Quorum CO2 Car Races

Orrin is in the Elders Quorum Presidency in our ward and in charge of activities for the quorum. So he was charge of and planned a Co2 car race.  Each elder had to make a car (like a pinewood derby car) and put a Co2 cartridge in the back of it and shoot it off.  It goes super fast. Check out this video  (Brad is right there helping).

It was a fun activity and I think Orrin did a great job. It was funny to see the elders get so into the races and fixing their cars for each race. The kids had a blast running the cars back to the front and the wives had fun talking and eating.

This is the best looking car if you ask me.  It's the car Orrin made. ;)

So I decided to make the trophies which was lots of fun for me, and lots of gold spray paint. We didn't walk away with one of them that night but there was some tough competition there which made for some fun races.

YMCA Basketball

We signed Wesley up for a basketball team with his best friend Matt through the YMCA. It was nice for him to be able to do something with Matt before we both move. Wes is already super sad about leaving his best friends, it was good to be able to play together one last time on a team. They have taken basketball and baseball classes through the parks and rec. together for the last 3 years.

 It was really fun to watch him grow and learn the game of basketball since it was his first time playing on a team.

We had fun watching him from the side lines.We experienced lots of different emotions while we watched his games; excitement when he made his first basket, laughter when he would do his victory dance after his team scored (almost every time), and then we just shook our heads when there were times like this picture. Its a bad picture but this is Wes sitting down during the game. He said he just got bored.