A great Christmas Present

We flew from Las Vegas to Duluth, landed on time, brother Jim picked us up, we stopped for lunch and then headed to Minneapolis. We arrived at the duplex that Carrie, Lonny and Jaime bought to find Carrie the only one home from work. We spent some time with Carrie, then Jaime got home from work and went to pick up Alice. When Alice arrived home, she was very stand-offish, acting shy etc. Anyway, when Lonny got home from work, he said give me a few minutes and I will come and get you guys. He did and Alice had changed cloths, this was the T-shirt she had changed into. It reads "I'm going to be a big sister." What great news! Come to find out, Alice had been coached not to tell us the secret so that is why she was acting shy, shs didn't want to spill the beans. We are very happy for Jaime, Lonny and Alice and of course Auntie Carrie too. The big event is scheduled for early July, so guess where Grandma & Grandpa will be in July.

No Prizes

Well, the purple car made it into the semi-finals but the yellow one did not.

The purple car was beat out in the semi-finals, so no trophy's or ribbons.

But we feel good about it, since these cars were built in one afternoon, but now we know.

MJ went down yesterday to see the show cars and she says some of them were beautiful. I guess it's a guy thing, on somethings, we just never grow up. Some of these guys had to have spent hours working on those cars.

DARN!

Well, one of the cars made it to the semi-finals, the other didn't. But that was it, no big winners except the fact MJ's Boss's had a great time and got to team build with the Engineering staff at the casino. So, it was a win for them and for us, since we did these cars in one Sunday afternoon.

Wait until next year, we are going to kick-butt, because we will spend the 6 weeks building the cars and not waiting for someone else to do them for us.

We had fun.

First Heat Winners

NEWS FLASH!

We still have it!

They didn't race the cars last week because of the short week and too many other things going on, so the first heats were yesterday, Monday, Dec. 1 and guess what?

Both of the cars won thier first heats. The finals are today and/or tomorrow. We are both excited and hope they do well in the finals.

MJ's bosses can't believe they have competative cars to race against the Engineering Department.

We will let you know how we do in the finals.