I Can't Drive 55

Yesterday was the Cub Scout pinewood derby competition.  Jason is a Webelo I in the Dragon Patrol this year.  He spent considerable more time on the car than in years past.   Thanks to Mikel White for teaching him the use of the band saw, a belt sander, and a drill press.   Jason also learned what is supposed to go into a garage in our 2 trips over to Mikel's house.

At the competition check in, they arbitrarily assign your car a sticker number.  Jason got lucky 55 which made me think of Sammy Haggar.

There were a lot of Webelo cars this year and each car ran 6 heats, one in each lane.   Jason didn't place in the top 3 overall, but he did win 2 of his 6 heats.   Pretty good since most of the cars were made by Dads rather than Cubscouts.   I can say that Jason did most of his car including the critical axle installation.   Nice job Jason!

Jason and Jake at the starting line

Jason and his bud Wyatt who won the overall Webelo competition just chatting after the race

Jason's 2015 Pinewood Derby Car.  Note that he tilted the back wheels at an angle - he saw on a Youtube video that speeds up the car.   The black smears are graphite (aka "speed" of which he liberally applied everywhere).   He thought the black marks made the car look like hard working lightning.

Edge Dance Frozen Spectacular

After our trip to San Francisco where we listened to the soundtrack of Frozen for about 5 hours, Sophie decided she didn't want to listen to any Frozen music any more.   Naturally, then she took the role of Anna in the Edge dance Frozen Spectacular and got to rehearse to the music for about 50 hours!

The Whole Crew

Do you want to build a snowman?

Killer and not yet dead Sophie

One of my favorites even though Sophie is not in focus, she looks like she is just effortlessly floating!

One of 5 roles she danced

Who knew she was getting to play / dance with swords?  Jason should have joined the musical.

The Matrix!

Allison's 1st Ski Run

It's a beautiful blue ski day in Copper Mountain and Allison just completed her first solo ski run down the Kokomo trail.   She'd gotten about 1/2 way down a couple times before, but couldn't control her speed on the bottom part of the trail and that scared her.   This afternoon we warmed up with some jumps on the Lumberjack trail.  Also practice "pizza" on that run before heading back to Kokomo.

As a side note, a couple days ago Allison saw me spin around to ski backwards and kinda freaked out. Today, I was scolded for texting while skiing backwards.

Jason's First Soccer Game

Jason played his first soccer game today.   He decided to play soccer this spring instead of baseball and joined the Stars in RSA.   Jason enjoyed his morning at Breckenridge park.

Daddy Daughter Bowling

Today was a Girl Scout event - Daddy / Daughter bowling and I got to bowl with my two girls.   Allison had not really bowled before and she was really scared and tentative at first.   But as the video below shows, she warmed up to it.

I love my girls!

Ice Surfing

Jason and Allison are learning to use the Boogie board to body surf.
No waves available, just ice.

Camp Constantin

Jason and I got to spend one cold night with pack 1776 at Camp Constantin.

We set up the great tent that the Lipes lent us as close as Jason could arrange to the Ferenczhalmy tent.

The morning started with a hike to the lake and back.

Then Jason got to shoot a bunch of things:

 But his favorite activity was tree climbing.