Motion, Gravity, Force and SPEED

Hello dear blog. Remember me? Well, I've decided to dust you off and play with you again.

Yesterday was an exciting day for the TripleSmiles. We have been preparing for the Awana Grand Prix..AKA a good ole fashion pine derby car race!

The Awana Grand Prix has been a great opportunity to teach a Science Unit on Force, Motion, Friction, Gravity, Pushes, Pulls, and Motion and SPEED! 

For several weeks their dad has been volunteering his time to help other children as well as the Triple Smiles get their cars ready for race day. This has been an exciting few weeks of planning, cutting, sanding, more sanding, {crying} heating a cold garage to work during the night and finally painting their cars for RACE DAY!

We had an amazing photographer capture some awesome close up shots of our kids watching their cars cross the finish line. 

 Each child got to race their car 4x. Each of my children won at least once in their heat. Which was very very exciting!!!

Then came, THE MOMENT......where all the scores would be averaged, the slowest score thrown out  and the average of the 3 best times, computed...and the FASTEST 3 cars would be awarded......

The 3rd place winner of the Night was.......

Zachariah Donaldson!!!!! 

Oh. My. Word. 

The 2nd Place Winner of the Night was........

AVA DONALDSON!!!!!

and the GRAND PRIZE, FIRST PLACE WINNER WAS......

LEVI DONALDSON!!!!

Oh, my word ya'll. I was dying inside of so many emotions.  The crowd was going wild with excitement for our little family. It was SO. MUCH. FUN. 

This was a moment they will never forget learning about Motion, Force and SPEED. 

Welcome back to the blog, I'm gonna try to stay a while:) Thanks for reading!