The Weekend: Pinewood Derby, Farmers Market and Grilling Out

Our weekend was full of Scout activities and enjoying time outside. Will's Cub Scout pack held its Pinewood Derby on Saturday morning. The start time was pushed back a few hours due to Friday's ice storm. The school was closed for all extracurriculars on Friday, including Pinewood Derby set-up, but the scout leaders managed to get everything ready Saturday morning. It is quite the feat!

Here are Will's two race cars: Fireball, for the regular derby,

and Speedy, for the demolition derby.

Gene and Will took the cars in for registration Friday night. So excited! 

There's Will's car, sandwiched among the others from his pack.

Demolition cars.

Will's first race!

His car raced three times: he came in second twice and third once.  

The demolition derby was actually quite fun.

CRASH!

This Cub Scout had a great time at the Derby and all three of my boys have some ideas for next year's race!

The rest of our Saturday was pretty laid back. There was some bread baking, piano practicing, and lots of game-playing going on. 

Henry was wondering when we'd visit the farmers market again, so we decided to head there for lunch after picking up Will from church class on Sunday. I love the Sunday farmers market because it is so very quiet and calm. They don't have a ton of stands, but I was happy to see more produce stalls and the calm of the market makes it worth visiting. 

We grabbed a bag of lemon popcorn to munch on

and then found lunch from Oddball Eats. I love their tag line -- Mobile Purveyors of Round Food! Everything was meatball-shaped.

Gene got the falafel sandwich, I chose the Vietnamese sandwich, and the boys split and order of pork and macaroni balls. Delicious!

After some downtime at home, we went for a long bike ride. It was beautiful weather -- sunny and 70 degrees out! We came home and the boys got the grill all set up for dinner.  

One of Will's Cub Scout requirements was to plan and help cook an outdoor meal. Will chose hamburgers (we had both buffalo and beef burgers) and he did a great job making the patties and helping man the grill!

According the Gene, the the best part of grilling out is just sitting back and keeping an eye on the fire. Gene grabbed a beer and the boys drank lemon La Croix.

New-to-us beer from local brewery, Karbach -- Mother in Lager! They have the best names and some pretty awesome beer. 

That was our weekend in a nutshell -- full and fun and definitely family-oriented.