The Hunt is ON!: March 2009

Monday, March 2, 2009

Nascar Weekend

One of the pre-race events we went to was done by the National Guard. If you did 30 pushups, or 30 sit ups, or 10 pull ups- you got the choice of a t-shirt or hat. Matthew made the pushups look WAY TOO EASY. Everybody gave it a shot. Kary did pushups, Tyler did situps, and I did pushups (I only had to do 15)

There were a lot of cautions during the race. We saw some GREAT wrecks!

The race was the Shelby 427, so they had a lot of cars for show around the track...

The boys really enjoyed the cars!!!

FUN!!

the young men and young women in our ward decided to do something fun for their activity for the end of the summer. All 6 groups had to build a boat, it could be made out of anything you wanted as long as it only cost $35.00. All the boats were made (Kary's group- the teachers- built a 12 foot long, 4 foot high, pirate ship) the whole group headed out to Quail Resevoir to have a race and see who would float. Tyler's group tied a matress to some big foam blocks, and Matthew's group took a large sheet of plywood, cut two holes in the middle, put buckets in to sit in, then put big round pipes under the edges. It was an interesting sight when all the boats got to the water. Matthew helped build his boat, but he had football practice while the activity was going on so- Craig took his place on the boat. To make a long story short, the priests (Matthew's boat) won the race, Deacon's got second, then the girls after them. The pirate ship- it sank. But not before the boys had time to bomb the other ships with water balloons. All of the kids had fun.