A very original title, I know. But nothing else really seemed to fit these two random events! At the end of May my baby sister had a beatutiful baby girl, Ayla Noelle. Liv just LOVES Noelle so much and always wants to be holding her. We call them ebony and ivory, and just adore how different they are. Noelle takes after her mom and dad with her beautiful olive skin and dark eyes and hair. Liv takes after her dad with his fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. So different, but both so cute!
Liv is SOOOO happy to be holding Noelle.
I hope Noelle can survive so much "love" from Liv!
It didn't seem that long ago that Liv was my precious newborn.
Ah, the pinewood derby. A right of passage for any Cub Scout. Although we knew about the Derby for quite some time, our busy lives kept Rick and Luke from doing much work on the car until just the night before! Rick was actually out painting a second coat after midnight!
Luke's car was on the end in lane six. Yep, my little cougar went with a blue and white BYU design! Suprisingly, being a BYU fan here in Utah puts you in the minority. I'm so sad that Luke has actually come home from school upset because of what kids say about him liking BYU. Oh well, I just tell him that we are nice no matter what. But I seriously almost got in a fight during the Derby when some Utah fans actually BOOED Luke when he won an award for biggest cougar fan. Really? You are gonig to BOO a 10 year old boy for his pinewood derby car? Really? It just goes to show the CLASS of Utes. Classy, really classy.
They had quite the set up going for the Derby. Everything was computerized and official! All the cars raced in every lane and all the times were automatically entered into a computer so we could have results down to the hundredth of a second!
Here is Luke with his awesome BYU car!
Luke didn't win, but did come in sixth. There were 41 entries, so he was actually very happy with how he placed. He won most of his heats, so he came away feeling very proud of his car.