To fully appreciate this blog you may want to review a blog I wrote last year about this time. Click here to see post. After last year's amazing experience at the Wentzville "Hill of Thrills" soap box derby, we again decided to enter both of the boys in the race. Alex won his race this year after his opponent crashed, but Brady lost by a hair. Since last year we won the grand door prize of a Nintendo Wii, we lingered around after the boys were done racing to see if luck would strike again. After awhile and several delays, we finally got sick of waiting and decided to go home. About an hour later the phone rang and race officials informed us that Alex's name had again been drawn for a door prize and this time he won a Playstaion 3! I screamed so loud as I hung up the phone, Brian thought someone was injured. We were all very excited and raced back down to the park to pick up the prize. Alex told me in the car that he had been "wishing really hard" for them to pick his name. I told him to start wishing really hard that we win the lottery and I can buy him all the video games he wants! I feel a little guilty that we won two years in a row, but I think I may have the luckiest kid on Earth. He is also the same kid that won the "guess how many candy canes are in the jar" contest at the library last year. To see that post click here. So in the past year, my son Alex has won a Nintendo Wii, a Playstation 3, and 183 candy canes! I wonder if he can make a living with this some day.
