Violet's Awana Grand Prix race car

Dave and Violet worked on creating a car that she wanted for "race night" at Awana's Grand Prix pinewood derby night.  She's seen a couple races in the past (only 1 per year) and couldn't wait for the chance to build her own car, but she knew she had to be in Sparks to do that.  With Dave's broken casted hand, he was able to do most of the work (I helped here and there) with Violet to cut/paint/design her car.  She drew out the shape of the car she wanted, chose purple for the color (of course), and really, really wanted the number 90,000 on the car.  She said, "I want 90 thousand! Is that even a number!?" and when we said yes, she confirmed yes, definitely, that was the number she wanted on it.  They spent a couple days and going to a store to get some supplies for construction and speed...and this was the result.

At the races on Sunday night the 19th, her car won the first race, but got second on the second race.  She won third place for design among those in her Sparks group and got to go up at the end of the races to accept her third place trophy in front, and made her night!  Her friend Ivy created the cutest high heeled shoe designed race car and took first place.  All the cars were super cute, very creative, and seeing the cars was half the fun of the night.