Saturday, August 4, 2012

Bristol Day 2

If you want to read about our Day one you can click here


 Wednesday morning we woke bright and early, but for no reason really.  It was a CRAZY *thunderstorm* in Thunder Valley!  No seriously it was awful.  Woke us up well except for Jackson and he ALWAYS wakes up during storms.  Thankfully he rested really well cause he would need it!  


Since we had plenty of time to kill we headed to tech.  This was tech inspection for Thursday and Fridays race.  Its the big one where they literally check EVERYTHING and you HAVE to take the body off the car.  They check helmet, shoes, suit, license and of course the car!

The guy that teched us was from GA!  He worked the Southern Nationals and remembered seeing Jackson going down the line for his expedition run!  Neat!

They had to dry the track so we hung out at the pits .  Then they called us!  We teched for this "fun" race in the pits.

Jackson signing his tech card!

There were over 200 kids in the 8-12 year old group!



Jackson amazed at all the people and Stephen already over the whole racing vacation crap!!


You have to keep this kid entertained with snacks during the waiting time!  

Jackson did really good and kept lots of water in him and a fan on him!!


This is where the cars get cranked!

Getting in the burn out box!

Getting his tires wet!

Burn out!

Getting staged!

I can't remember if he got a good light or not, but it was green!!!

Time trials starting.  All 8-9 yr olds to the lanes!

Stephen probably bugging his brother!!

He thinks he is helping!

I love love love Thunder Valley!

1st round was great!  We won!!!

Jackson left to get his ticket and Bart was calling Papa!

Still happy from winning!!

Jackson telling Papa he won!!  I didn't take any more pictures racing.  Its to hard keeping my sanity , watching Stephen, getting the starter and checking the temp and stuff.  So I put the camera down, but we did make it down to 15 cars!!

The next few pictures are of a sweet girls new car!  It says W8 2 TXT.  Wait to text!

The car is gorgeous and I am pretty sure its my new favorite car!!





After we got out and Nate was out I took the kids up to where they were having water slides!!

The kids seriously LOVE the water slides!!

Its one of their favorite days!

But look at that water!  Ugh!!


Stephen was a little wild man!!  He could just fly right down them!

We stayed at the water slides till Bart called.  Our team Atlanta ordered pizza that night and we all ate as a group!  I have NO pictures of that.  Should have, but oh well!!

Eastern Conference Finals 2012 - Bristol Day 1

Tuesday July 24th we left mid morning and headed to Bristol, TN for the NHRA JR Dragster Eastern Conference Finals 2012!

Its always a beautiful drive!  You get cramped in the truck after 5 hours of driving so sometimes you gotta prop your feet up and try to relax!!

The hills are SOOOO high and pulling our Toy Hauler can be rough on the ole truck.  The one biggest hill we rolled the windows down and turned the AC off and let the truck have at it!  Stephen LOVES his window down and he would try to pop his head out and let me see him through the mirror.  He saw the camera and wouldn't do it :(

Unfortunately this is about the average we saw.  Pulling the hills it was more in the 4s :(


Bart and Stephens favorite song is from the Smokey and the Bandit movie.  as Stephen sings it, "He hit dem brakes and him have no air"  Bart would tease us each time and say the truck had no brakes and we would have to take the ramp!  Thank God that did not happen!


Coming down the hills was much different, but I highly doubt we *really* got 98.8 MPG.  But seriously wouldn't that be awesome.  Who would need a Hybrid car when you could have a hybrid Truck getting 98.8 MPG!!

Trying to get a picture of Jackson!

My husband and my oldest loves me so much!!

He told me he would give me a sweet picture if I only took one and put the camera away!!!

All Stephen would say was 123 holla!!


After the 5 hourish drive we made it to BRISTOL baby!!!!!!

Of course all the kids wanted to do was play.

So thats what we did!


Jackson LOVED this thing!!!

Nate and Jackson had a ball on it!!

At the back of it was the thing where you stood in the back, the ran as fast as you could and then it jerk you back!

He got tired of it real quick and just wanted to dance!!

Still loves the slide!


To many kids up there for my liking!

Thank God Jackson is a sweet big bro and wanted to make sure Stephen didn't get hurt.

Nate and Jackson cleared the big kids out so little ole Stephen could take his turn!

Brothers fighting it out!
 Well thats Tuesday night!  Wednesday is the greatest!!!