Saturday, January 24, 2015

Pinewood Derby 2015

Edison had a great time at the Pinewood Derby today!  He had fun building his car with Dad and I helped with the painting part.  His theme this year was "Pinewood Derby Police" but he was the one who should have gotten a ticket!  He flew down the track for each race and had one of the fastest times of the day.  He was proud to take the 1st place trophy for the Webelo Ones!  Grandma and Grandpa Schultz were in town and able to come watch the big race.  They were happy to see Edison win a trophy!  =)

 Designing
 Before...
 Watching the car being cut
 After!
 Sanding

 Painting

 Details
 Finished Pinewood Derby Police Car!


 Pancake Breakfast!
 Waiting for the race to start
 Edison's car is in Lane 3

Video of  the winners

 Grandma and Grandpa Schultz were able to come see the race!

 Webelo Ones!
 First Place!!
Way to go, Edison!

Sledding

I forgot to post these a few weeks ago, but here are some sledding pictures!  Edison had fun starting out at the park behind the house, but the hill wasn't very good.  So we went over to another park that had a slightly bigger hill that he had fun on. =)









Monday, January 5, 2015

It finally snowed!

Edison was so excited to see that it snowed on Sunday!  The first thing he asked to do was shovel the driveway, but I made him at least eat breakfast first.  =)  He had fun shoveling, but got tired about 2/3's of the way.  I helped out at the end, then he decided he wanted to finish up.  =)  It was pretty cold outside, so he didn't want to stay out too long.  We enjoyed some peppermint hot chocolate when we got back inside!  He spent the rest of the day relaxing before his big day back at school Monday!  Yippee!!!!











MORE CHRISTMAS!

The Hahn Family came to town a few days after Christmas, so we gathered at Aunt Kristy and Eric's house to celebrate with them.  Edison got even MORE presents and had fun playing nerf guns with his cousins.  We played a fun family game together and I had to give up the new "Family Game Night" trophy that I won at Thanksgiving to Jeremy.  It wasn't even close though, I knew I couldn't beat them at "Blurt."

The next day we met the Hahn's in Schaumburg and Liz and I took the kids to "FireZone" while Jeremy and Brian went caching at Busse woods.  It was freezing outside, too!  Edison and Emmett got bored pretty quickly at FireZone, but Nathan was having a blast!  After that we decided to head over to Woodfield to hang out.  The kids played in the small kid area, we visited Rainforest Cafe to look around, and had a quick snack before meeting back up with the dads at Champps.  I think everyone was tired after lunch!  It was a nice end to a fun Christmas week!



 Edison and Matt finding money in the fingers of the gloves


 I love how each TMNT picture was photobombed!


 They are just too cute!
 Jeremy gets the trophy!
 Firefighter Nathan to the rescue!

 Driving the fire truck




Trying to get these three to stand for a picture is not easy....=)