The QuikLiner 350

For those who don't know us to well... I grew up in Racing family, sure there was football and some baseball... NEVER EVER Basketball but what there always was NASCAR and some other race type things.... moto-cross, Jet-skiing, Indy-car, Sprint Races, Formula 1 etc. going on in my house...


(Me at a practice, I never got to race)


(My brother, Brett getting ready to race)


(My sister, who has no fear when it comes to throwing that bad boy where it needs to be!)

I grew up around names like Fitipaldi, Andretti, Earnhart, Petty, Rahal, Unser etc... Jacob grew up in the football, baseball, basketball family but he has always liked cars and racing fits right into that....

We have always liked going to live events, like the BYU vs San Diego State Game or any Angels game but my dream has always been to go to a Nascar event. It's so outragiously expensive to go to any of the races so I think this is as close as I'm ever going to get. Jacob got free tickets to the Nascar Craftsman Truck Races for Saturday and we were so excited to go.
We didn't get there as early as we had planned, Kira was fighting her nap and we were not about to chance her not getting one so we left around 3 and got there about 4. The racers were to be introduced at 6 so we had some time to look around and we got to check out the pit area for a little while.



Around 5 we decided we better go find a seat so after catching our breath from walking up 3 stories of stairs with a stoller because of a broken escalator we found our way to the general admittance seating. We got a pretty good spot, about 30 yards west of the start/finish line.



Kira didn't like the noise, we bought her cans for her ears but she wouldn't wear them. We tried the little ear plugs too but she pulled those right out, so for the first 20 laps or so we sat like this .....


Then she took a little nap with one year against my chest and my hand covering the other...then around lap 100, otherwise known as the 50th caution lap, she woke up. We tried to cover her ears again but she resisted and eventually either got used to the noise or was so distracted by the flirting she was doing with the little boy two rows up for us that she didn't care.. I'm not sure, but Kira did way better than I thought she would and we got to stay for the whole race.
The results if you care to know are that Mike Skinner won the race, followed by Erik Darnell.


Over all we had such a good time and hope that we get to make it again soon!