Thursday, November 6, 2008

Really Rotten Rockets!


Tuesday night the boys had Pack Night. Instead of derby cars they did these rockets. The blue one is Carson's and the black one is Reagan's. They spent alot of time on them making them look so COOL and they were really excited to race them. So the whole family went down to the church with all of the scouts to race their rockets. It was obvious when we got there that some of the rockets had issues. Lawrence and I looked at each other and thought at least we are ready and our boys have their rockets ready to race. (stupid of us to think!)
Just before they started racing most of the kids rockets started falling apart as they wound up the propellers. A few were fine and they raced all the way to the end of the gym.

First Reagan brought his rocket up to race they said GO and his rocket.........did not go! He took it off and tried again and again and again same result every time. Carson was watching this so he decided to have Lawrence work on his rocket at the back of the gym to be sure that he would not have any problems. After about 15 kids went Carson was one of the last kids left to race. He hooked his rocket up with a big smile on his face and then they said GO..........it went about 6 inches. The smile turned to tears while a very mad Lawrence was trying not to swear out loud at church. After a few more try's to make them work they finally had enough and we went home. When we got home I told the boys I wanted to take 1 more picture of the rockets. I had to talk them into it because they both wanted to blow them up. That is why the after picture is of only the rockets. The pictures with Carson and Reagan smiling were from before. Just in case you did not already know that!

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gramma ray said...

I can just see them refusing to take a picture with 'those stupid things' Cute paint job tho. lov gramma

Lawrence Is So Proud!

I have to share this story. Last night Carson had a friends birthday party and Lawrence took care of everything and got him to the party. When I got home I asked Lawrence how it went. He started telling me about how proud of Carson he was. When they were getting the present together for his friend, Carson said he wanted to make a card all by himself so Lawrence let him do it. When Carson got done Lawrence read the card. He could not believe how nice it was. When I got home that is the first thing Lawrence told me about and he said some of the things that were on it and how proud he was of Carson for being so sweet. The only thing was that he wished he would have made a copy of it to show me. We sat and talked about how great our kid is and it was a shame I did not get to see the card. While we were talking I noticed a pile of papers on the table. In the pile was a birthday card Carson got from Grandma and Grandpa in July. I opened it and started reading it. I asked Lawrence if this is what Carson's super sweet card to his friend said. He looked at it and we both started laughing. When we finally were able to talk again after laughing so much the first thing I said was "you should know better than that his last name is Lavery!" When Carson came in I said "I heard you made a nice card for your friend." He then replied "yeah I copied it out of my card because I could never spell all of that right by myself!"
We are still laughing about this!
Lesson to us...1st-never think a Lavery can come up with all of that nice stuff by himself.
2nd even if he did he would not share it with anyone.
3rd if the spelling is correct he cheated!