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There are three types of people in the world.

People that make things happen.

People that watch things happen.

And people who say, “What just happened?”

McDaddy is 100% the kind of person who makes things happen.

For instance, this week, we are in the midst of some major basement renovations. Or I guess if I’m being honest, I should say, McDaddy is doing most of the work and I am doing most of the picking out and cleaning up. And it is coming along nicely. In fact, if you come back tomorrow, I’ll show you a picture of the walls. Half of the wall is bright red and half of the wall is bright yellow. And might I add, it looks fabulous!

Also this week, McDaddy helped our sweet Stevie put the finishing touches on his pinewood derby car.

Where again, McDaddy made things happen.

The car started out as a block of wood. And if you, like me, knew nothing of the pinewood derby car before now, you should know that the pinewood derby car starts out as a plain block of wood. Period.

Without wheels and without an axle.

I adore McDaddy because instead of taking that block of wood and modifying the crap out of it making a souped up mini-version of the heap (ahem! I mean JEEP) that would plow over and ahead of any competition that stood in its way, therefore all but guaranteeing a trophy for our boy, McDaddy opted to let Stevie do 98% of the work. The picking of the design, the sanding, the cutting, the painting of the car and the little driver, and the helping to knock the nailed wheels into the groove.

My contribution to the derby car was to find Jimmie Johnson stickers.

Which by the way was an impossible task because apparently there are no Jimmie Johnson stickers within a 271 mile radius of the McResidence. That simple fact did not matter to my sweet Stevie because how can you have a Jimmie Johnson car without the Lowe’s racing logo and number “48 thingamajig”.

I then had a decision to make. Break Stevie’s heart because we couldn’t find Jimmie Johnson stickers, OR, be one of those people who make things happen.

This is what we did.

We made a visit to Google Images and searched for Jimmie Johnson’s logo and Lowes Nascar.

Then we cut out the logos and put them through my handy-dandy Xyron sticker maker that my in-laws gave to me for Christmas a few years back which is super simple to use by the way.

And voila’

A Jimme Johnson pinewood derby car.

More on our first pinewood derby race coming soon!

Google and the Xyron Sticker Maker worked for me!

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