First family race weekend ... pic heavy!

We left on Saturday AM, looking like the Clampetts and came home on Sunday afternoon sticky and dirty.

 First camping experience for the boys and we picked the "rugged" kind of camping. A field between 2 motorcycle tracks in rural PA. No more than 4 porta-potties and nothing else there. We foraged for wood (Ty's favorite thing along with sleeping in the tent) to make a campfire even though we had brought a little cooking stove with us. found some black raspberries to eat, tons of poison ivy to avoid and it turned out that this weekend was also the Great American Backyard Campout ... we didn't choose our camping weekend for that reason. Pete and Owen had their first race weekend together.

Our camp next to the pee-wee track 

View from the truck

Pete ended up not even finishing his first lap because of a mechanical failure but Owen ... wow ... he rode, and practiced and rode and raced. He even finished 4th out of 10 in the 4 to 6 year old 50cc class. He had so much fun!! We are so proud that he went out there and had fun and kept going after falling down. Seeing him glow with his little trophy was just icing on the cake.

"these motos are too loud!!"

getting ready to go practice ... watching the big boys on the adult motocross track

Boys ready to go out riding 

Ty ready ... but terrified 

Fell down and had enough

Ty had a hard time. He tried to ride but the track was too hard for him and after a big crash within the first few minutes he was too scared to try again. Well, he did try again the next day but he was so scared that he didn't want to go very fast ... making the situation even harder and he ended up falling down and not wanting to ride again. Thankfully, he still had fun with the camping portion of the trip.

heating up pasta and tomato sauce

cooking up the rest of our dinner

working on desert

roasting marshmallows

It wouldn't be a complete experience without s'mores of course

Practice day pictures:

ready for the first round of pee-wee track practice

Owen followed by a big kid

standing up before a little bump 

Owen followed by Daddy and a bigger kid

Owen in front

Owen during launch off a bump

Owen and Daddy heading to the adult motocross track for a later practice 

tired and thirsty

ready to go again!!

Pee-wee track with Owen in front

Going fast with Daddy catching up

Race day pictures:

Breakfast at 06:30 before signing up for the race

Fueling up for the race

racing in the grassy fields

Going strong

competitor closing in behind Owen 

On one of the big, steep hills of the adult motocross track

finished, tired and proud

little moto man

4th holding his trophy

cute and happy

holding on tight on the way home

reflecting on the day's events?

And on Friday we finished another little camp. I just wanted to share this cute picture of the boys looking at the raptors at Meadowside Nature Center

I think Owen didn't realize that his brother was holding onto his hand

Ty also loves chocolate ... as if we didn't know it.

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