Father's Day

This year was Dustin's second fathers day. He happened to squeeze it in by a few weeks last year ;) It was still a very special time! Boys are always so hard to buy for so I decided to go straight the the heart of each man.... food! I decided to get him an Edible Arrangement!! I did a box of strawberry and bananas covered in chocolate!! He loved it and I even got a couple of bites ;) Hailey gave him a gift card to his favorite fish store so that they could go out and pick out the perfect fish together!! "She" also wrote him a poem that he can always keep :) He also got to take a little over a 2 hour afternoon nap, which he LOVED!

We celebrated the day with my dad first for lunch with his family and then headed to Dustin's dads to celebrate with him. But it is funny no matter what the holiday is, there is always one cute little girl that steals the show!! :) haha. She is always such a ham and LOVES to be the center of attention! I dont know WHERE she got that from?!?!?! She loves to entertain and then laugh at herself with you. She is so proud of any activity that she does and makes you laugh at her. She is always checking to make sure that you are watching!

Fathers day 2010

The whole day was special right down to the 45 min daddy and daughter time watching a movie on TV!

Montgomery Race

This past weekend we went to Montomery AL for the ORSCA Race. All three boys were to race, Larry, Adam, and Dustin. Unfortunately Friday night Dustin's race truck broke down and he was put out for the weekend. He was stilled excited to be there and help. Dad had his first real race of the season and did an awesome job! He cut good lights and even ran a perfect 5.00 (0). That's right, the zero's just kept going.. haha. He had a lot of fun and even managed to pull off a 6.00 in Adam's car when testing and tuning. He made it to the third round and got put out by the Champ (literally!) and would have beat him, but reacted just a tad too fast and red lit. We had such a blast and HB even got to participate with her head phones! She even had her own special outfits...

Commerce race

We went to commerce this past weekend for the ORSCA race. Dustin entered in the 7.0 class for the first time and did a great job. The object of a class is to get as close to the time as possible without 'breaking out' (going under). The first time out dustin ran a 6.96 which was a bit too fast. So they worked on the car a bit and then he ran a 7.01! with a .003 reaction which is almost perfect. He was super excited and so were we. He had to do what is called foot braking (no trans break which helps out a lot bc you hold down a button with a trans break and dont have to have both feet on the brake, so you can have the gas foot ready) so he had to have both feet on the brake and then had to switch to gas in a blink of an eye. So to get a .003 reaction time (best is .000) is amazing!! (and maybe lucky) There were 45 people in his class and qualified #19 going into the race! On his first race he came so close to cutting a perfect time that you could not have even blinked your eyes. He ran a 6.994, .006 away from his index time. Unfort, when you 'break out' it doesnt matter how close, you are disqualified. So we didn't get to go on to any other rounds, but had a blast at the race track. It was a great way to go and have some family fun time and blow off some steam.. literally with the burn outs! haha.
We will be back at Commerce in October for another race and thinking about him entering again :)

Racing and becoming a TV Star!

We went to Adam's race at the end of April to Orangeburg, SC. It was the first race of the season (with the first one being rained out) and it was extremely hot!! Saturdays qualification temperatures we around 93!! We pulled our camper and parked with the racing crew at mom and dad's rig. We hadn't done this in a while, so it was fun to get away to the dragstrip. The week before, the doctor had told me to take it easy, so I did a lot of lounging around in the chairs outside :] Dustin had fun getting to be the main cook and cooking a great meal for us and some other racers on Friday night. Everyone enjoyed his "beer chickens" and kept going back for more. One of these days he is going to have to open up a on-the-road BBQ business!
Adam did good on Sat. with his qualifications, but then somehow picked up speed on that hot Sunday and "broke out" and the other guy won the race. So unfort, going fast didn't get him a spot in the finals. We are looking forward to the next race in Commerce the weekend of May 15-17.

While there, we heard that the TV show "Pass Time" was going to be in Commerce the following week and you could bring your car (any car) and try to get on the show. Everyone decided that it would be really cool and you get to test and tune your car, so they headed up there with four cars. Adam took his race car, our friend Mike with his race care, Dad took the S-10 that he loves, and Dustin took dad's blown Chevy II. We were shocked when we got the call from them that ALL four cars had been picked to be on the show!! We got right in the car and drove up to watch the filming of it. Dustin had to call his friend Brandon and let him know that he HAD to take this once in a life time chance, and be a little late to the wedding rehearsal! Well he was a great friend and said sure. So Dustin got to be on tv and we are waiting to hear when it will air. We will def. inform everyone when we know!!

Orangeburg race and Pass Time TV Show

Dustin is racing too!

Dustin has now decided to race on Friday night before the big race for my brother. It is called fast friday at Commerce race track. He has raced one other time before in SC, so this will be an exciting experience. Check him out in the pic, this was the last time he raced the truck!