Start your engines!

Every year our AWANA group at church does a pine derby race. My kids (yes, all three...Maryna, Garrett and BRAD) all look forward to this event. The first couple of years Garrett was under the impression that if he chose a real car that was fast (i.e. Corvette, Lamborguini, etc) as his car design, that meant the pine derby car would be fast :) It was really cute!

They have since learned that it is about design and the cool tricks that dad can do to the car. For the past several years, the kids have been very competitive. Last year, Garrett really wanted to win so Brad spent a little extra time on his car. And yes, he won!


This year Brad decided he was going to spend equal time on the cars and if they won, that's great. He wasn't going to focus on one car over the other though. So, how do you think it turned out?

Here are the kids getting ready for their first race (against each other)





Maryna carefully placing her car in just the right spot (hers is the orange car and Garrett's is the silver metallic car).
Cars are set, now let's get them racing.
And who do you think won?

Maryna took first place and Garrett took second by 0.002 seconds difference. The top 2 in each class then raced for the grand championship. Here is the winner!

She was so happy to win, but more excited that she barely beat Garrett :) It was alot of fun and the kids had a great time.