Pine Wood Derby 2009

Back in January, our Cub Scout Pack held a Pine Wood Derby Race.
It was fun as always!

Dallin's car is the sleek silver one and Will's is the red one

with the racing stripes.

All of the Derby cars lined up and ready to race!

Dallin hugging Josh because his car just took 1st in the first heat.

That's Dallin on the far right with his hands up in the air. He just took 1st again.

He made it to the finals.

Will was able to race his car at the end, and he was pretty happy with the results.

My kids the Rockstars!

I was making dinner the other night, listening to some 80's music.

(Gotta love the 80's!)

The kids decided to be rock stars!

They were rocking out to some great hits like Whip It by Divo and such.

Dallin was the lead singer.
Camryn was on guitar and a back up singer.

Shawna' was the drummer and a back up singer as well.

It was so fun to watch them get so into it.

My wonderful children!

So I would just like to say that I have some of the most wonderful kids ever. I've not been feeling very well (a cold or something) for the last few days. I've not felt well enough to do much, so Josh has been playing Mr. Mom, fixing dinner, running kids here and there, helping with homework and such. As I was getting ready for the morning, to my surprise my 4 youngest kids had made me breakfast. Breakfast was scrambled eggs, toast with butter, and a glass of milk.

That totally made my morning. Thanks guys, you are the best and I love you so much!

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05/22/2007

Dallin's 1st grade class took a field trip to the Hogle Zoo. I chaperoned. It was a fun time. I have always enjoyed taking the kids to the zoo, or going with them on their class field trips. They always seem to enjoy it as well.

Now I have to tag some more people for this fun little deal. So...I tag:

(Abby, I'm using some of the same people!)
1. Mellanee

2. Chris

3. Jenny
4. Elly

5. Martha

6. Bethany

And here are the rules:

1. Go to your documents/pictures.
2. Go to your 6th file.
3. Go to your 6th picture.

4. Blog about it.

5. Tag 6 people to do the same.

6. So here we go...

The Girls are DONE!

The girls are officially done selling Girl Scout Cookies! Now we wait for them to come in. Shawna' sold 425 boxes and Camryn sold 325 boxes. Way to go girls, you did a great job! come March I will post a picture of all 750 boxes of cookies that will be housed in our garage for delivery. Thanks to everyone who ordered from the girls, we appreciate your support!

Girl Scout Cookies anyone? Get em' while you can!

OK all, it is Girl Scout Cookie time at our house. The girls, Shawna' and Camryn have been busy selling cookies for almost one week now, with one week left to go. They both usually sell quite a bit, so come March when we take delivery of said cookies, our garage becomes full of yummy cookies.

So, I thought that I would share some fun cookie facts with you all.

Courtesy of Little Brownie Bakers.

Cookie Fun Facts:
We make our own caramel for Samoas®. It‘s cooked the old fashion way in copper kettles to 234 degrees.

Do-si-dos® and Tagalongs® take 230,000 lbs. of peanut butter per week.

Peanut butter crème is deposited onto Do-si-do® cookies at the rate of 2800 per minute.

After exiting the oven, Thin Mints travel 300 feet on a conveyor belt to cool before being coated in the chocolate.

A rotary die shapes Trefoils. There are 300 identical Trefoil shapes engraved in one rotary die. The die rotates 17 times a minute equaling 5100 cookies a minute.

Samoas® go through a cooling tunnel at 40-50 degrees before chocolate is applied.

Do-si-dos® crème goes onto the cookies at 2800 per minute and are wrapped at 64 packages per minute!

WEEKLY INGREDIENTS (during peak production):
Flour: 21 truckloads, 1,050,000 lbs.

Shortening: 7 truckloads, 300,000 lbs.

Cocoa: 50,000 lbs.

Chocolate coating: 500,000 lbs.

Sugar: 14.5 truckloads, 650,000 lbs.

Peanut butter: 230,000 lbs.

Toasted coconut: 75,000 lbs.

MIXING INSTRUCTIONS:
Mixers are machine operated. Ingredients are weighed and released with the push of a button.
Each batch is 1200-1500 lbs... It takes 10 minutes to mix the dough, which lasts 20-30 minutes and takes 5-7 minutes to bake.

There are 7 ovens approximately 100’-280’ long.

BAKING INFORMATION:
Each oven approximately 100-280 feet long and has 4 baking zones with very specific jobs…

1st: prepares the cookies to be baked by softening them.

2nd: bakes cookies from the bottom up

3rd: brings the cookies to a flat shape

4th: gives the cookies their color

Just in case anyone was wondering!

P.S. I have a confession to make.... I still have a box of Do-si-Dos in my freezer from last year!

How Josh found Will a few nights ago

Winter items are on sale now, so Josh picked up a few items for the kids. Here is Will sporting his "Burglar Mask"
Will also has a fascination with boxes. I think that he would collect them if he could. He is constantly asking to keep boxes, even the boxes that the milk comes in when you buy it from Costco. Anyways, we happened to have a bigger box and Will immediately took it over. As we were coming to bed, Josh found Will sleeping in his box. It was full of toys, blankets, and trinkets.

He is still carting that box everywhere with him through out the house. He had it loaded to the brim tonight.
Sweet dreams little man!