Home Sweet Home!!!!!

Well I am writing this in my family room watching what else, drag racing!!!! We have been on the road for the past 4 weeks racing up and down the country and as much fun as it is......it is good to be home!!!!

I want to take a minute to say a little about Scott Kalitta as all of our thoughts and prayers are with his family and race teams. It is always a hard time when something like this happens in our drag racing family. But we all know the the consequences when we put on our helmets and accept what will happen. It never makes it easy, but we are all living our dreams.

On to better days. When I last checked in we had just left Milan and had to take care of some business then it was off for some R&R. We spent a week at my sisters house on the lake and man was it wonderful. Andrew played with all of his cousins and Nitro ran free!!!! On Saturday we were scheduled to do our favorite event of the year. The St. Johns High School held its 14th annual car show. Larry Button was Chris's auto shop teacher in High School and was a huge influence in his life and our family owes him so much, it was an honor for us to be a part of the car show this year. We fired the Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster up in the parking lot and lit up the skies at Chris's old high school!!! Larry suprised Chris with a 1/5th scale replica of our Willys. Now give us a little time and you will see us buzzing around the drag strip on our new pit toy!!!

We left Michigan and stopped in to say HI to Al Z. another jet car racer. It is always nice to see Big Al!!! Then on to Kansas City to Skills USA for the rest of the week. We were on display for the second year to help promote Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and careers in Aviation. It was packed this year and we had beautiful weather the entire time. I want to congratulate all of the winners of the competition.

Then it was off to Atlanta Dragway for their Night of Fire. This is always a very fun race and we were ready to have some fun!!!! My crew guy Mike and his daughter Alli came out to help and stayed at the track. Alli was a great help. The Embry-Riddle jet dragster blasted down the quarter mile 3 times and ran awesome!!!! I think it was the largest night of fire ever and it was a great way to end our race tour!!! We headed home for some R&R and get everything ready for our next tour leaving July 16th.

I hope everyone enjoys the 4th of July holiday with friends and family. Chris's birthday is this Saturday July 5th and I have something really fun planned for the day. I will take a lot of pics and let you know how it comes out. Stay safe, see you at the races!!!

luv ya

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