25th SRF Anniversary Race Weekend

Over Memorial Day weekend, the New England region hosted their annual Triple Play regional races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In addition to the races, the club also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Spec Racer Ford (the racecar Steve drives) at this event. There was a large showing of SRF cars and drivers - see them all below in the group picture!

Even though it was a regional race, because of the anniversary celebration, a few pro drivers (who started in SRFs) showed up, along with a bunch of national drivers. Steve finished 5th, 6th and 7th in the 3 races. Overall, he was extremely pleased. Only one regional driver beat him. The rest of the spots in front were taken by the 2 pros, and 4 national drivers. And they didn't all blow him away. He was staying with them, giving them a good race. So even though he didn't come home with a podium finish - he was happy!

Additionally, there were a lot of prizes and give-aways - free tires, shock re-builds, body work, car parts, hats, t-shirts, etc. Steve took home a $150 gift certificate for SRF parts and a 25% off coupon for fiberglass repair and a paint job. (Not surprisingly, the gift certificate was spent before we left the track!)

One garage filled with just SRFs! It was pretty cool to see so many lined up together.

A commemorative bottle of wine was made and given to all the SRF drivers. Pretty cool.

As always, the kids had their usual fun at the racetrack. "Grandma Peggy" - one of the SRF wives, loves to spoil the kids. This weekend, she baked cookies and brought all the fixings to decorate them at the track.

Happy girls! They were getting hyped up on the frosting and sprinkles!

Zach ate more then ended up on a cookie.

The finished "masterpieces."

Peggy also brough sidewalk chalk for the kids to play with.

MOPS

Today was our final MOPS meeting of the year. I had such an amazing time with some really great and awesome moms. Here's a few pics of our wonderful Steering Team! From LF to RT - Cindy Locke, Kate Froio, Antoinette Shangraw, me, Michelle Reager. (Not pictured: Carrie Tino)

Our Mentor Mom - Linda Wiegand - the pastor's wife, was also a part of our Steering Team.

What a crazy, fun, amazing, awesome group of women! I'm proud to call them my friends.

For our last meeting of the year, we had a big brunch where everyone brought their favorite foods. And then we did a clothing swap. We all decided to clean out our kids closets, bring all the outgrown clothes together, and let everyone take what they wanted. The amount of clothes we collected was astounding. No one was obligated to donate in order to take clothes - we have a few moms in our group where funds are tight - and they all took home 2-3 huge bags of clothes for their kids to last through the summer, into the fall and even the winter. I think everyone went away with at least a couple bags of clothes, and we hardly made a dent in the pile we collected.

The church has a few families in need, and the pastor is going to let them take what they need from the clothes, then the rest will be offered to the church members on Sunday, and if anything remains after that - they'll be donated to Goodwill and the Salvation Army.

Here's a few pics of everything we collected!

Izzy's Mother's Day Brunch

Today, Little Blessings hosted a Mother's Day Brunch for the mom's of all the kids. We met in their classrooms where they sang us a song and gave us our gifts. Then we were taken to the gym where our "brunch" was waiting for us - garden salad and fruit salad - that the kids had made for us to eat, along with bread and rolls.

Waiting to give out the gifts.

At our brunch table!

With the flowers and pin that were made for me by Izzy.

The moms were not allowed to leave our seats - the children had to serve us our food and get us whatever we needed.

Our good friends (both Izzy and mine), Mason and his mom Kerri.

More good friends - also our carpool buddies - Cindy and Danny.

Danny sure did love that ranch dressing! =)

Our gifts (I don't know why this picture got flipped.) A "cookbook" from all the kids, flowers, pin and the hand-print picture.

The cookbook is PRICELESS! There's a note in the front from our child, another page where they drew our picture, and then this page tells what Izzy thinks about her mom!

The rest of the book is recipies from the kids. They were HILARIOUS! Here's a few to give a sample. All of us moms could not stop laughing! Izzy's recipie: (By the way, I'm sure she meant "ramen" noodles, not "rabbit" noodles, but I guess her teachers couldn't tell the difference and she just went along with it!)

I love this one... "Go to the store, pick out a cake, pay for it..."

Such a boy... "I have no idea..."

And lastly... "lay on the couch."

This is just one more reason why we are BEYOND thrilled with Little Blessings Preschool. I cannot say enough about the school and teachers. Programs like this are priceless. This cookbook will be kept, and maybe shared on a wedding day. =)

Izzy's War Wounds

Yesterday, Izzy took a little fall in the driveway and landed on her knee and face. Sadly, her face took the brunt of the impact. She scraped up her nose, lip and cut her upper lip pretty good. Her knee was pretty bloody as well. She's a trooper, and iced the wounds herself, although for some reason, she freaked out about getting a band-aid on her knee - she wanted nothing to do with that. Today, she informed me in the car - "Mommy, driveways hurt." =)