The First of Many!

Blue and Gold Banquet

February 24th, 2012

"The Year of the Dragon"

Our whole family had a great time at Clayton's first Blue and Gold Banquet as a Cub Scout!  The theme for the night was to celebrate "The year of the Dragon".  The whole room had Chinese decorations everywhere, chopsticks and fortune cookies to go with dinner, and activities like origami, a dragon pinata, and a craft table to make a Chinese poster.  Everyone enjoyed the menu of Sweet and Sour Chicken, stir-fried vegetables, and egg drop soup.  The dessert for the night was made by the cub scouts and their families.  Each one was challenged to make a cake to go along with the nights theme.  Clay was set in his mind to make a dragon cake so that's what we tried to achieve.  I positioned the cake pieces and Clay helped to apply the icing.  He had alot of fun decorating his dragon and putting the wings and gold coins in place.  Everyone loved it for the night.  Other cakes were: a fortune cookie cake, Chinese checkers board cake, yin and yang made with red velvet, and decorated sheet cakes!  So fun to see all the different varieties!

Clayton was the newest member of Pack #274 and was asked to make a poster about himself.   Things he put on it were: 
Birthday-December 19th                            Is really good at- Legos
Favorite Food- Tacos                                 Favorite thing to do with family - Movie Night
Favorite Color - Blue                                                

Loves to:
-spend time with grandparents in Idaho and Louisiana
-drive go carts
-ride horses
-Collect things like legos, hot wheels, and other boy toys
-spend time with his brothers

Clay was given lots of patches that he has earned since joining his cub scout group.  The big award Clay received for the night was his Bobcat Badge.  He worked hard to finish all the Bobcat trail assignments before the Blue and Gold Banquet and was even able to give me, the Mom Bobcat Pin!!

Ice Sculpture Trip

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

February 4, 2012

 For a Personal Progress goal we (The Young Women Presidency) challenged our girls to fill up a small jar with glass rocks.  Each time they completed a personal progress requirement they were able to put one in and get a small treat for their effort.  The value projects that were completed were allowed five rocks.  The goal was to go see the ice sculptures in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  As you can tell we made it!  I brought Clay along as well and we all enjoyed a fun car ride together, hot cocoa and cookies when we arrived, and ohhhhhh and ahhhhhhed later at all the beautiful pieces of art sculpted out of snow and ice.  Some artist had been at it all night long, and were worrying about all the bright sunshine for the day, but had good attitudes since all the sculptures would have to melt sometime, right!

 Apple with a worm eating his way out,  Captain at the wheel, Pavilion with creature coming out of it, and a bald eagle.

 You were able to vote on all the sculptures on which one was your favorite.  Clay loved the dinosaur sculpture that had a Dino behind a fossil of another T Rex by a pair of snowman archeologist's!!"
Clay said "Too bad that $100 dollar bill is just made of snow!!"   I replied "Even if it wasn't, where could you use a $100 bill that big?"  We both had a good laugh at that!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!!

January 26, 2012

 Justin is such a fun energetic boy!!  He has such a sense of humor, that is silly, adorable, and too advanced for this three year old!!  Justin is one smart boy!  Letters, colors, shapes, numbers, animals sounds he has them down pat!.  He especially loves letters.   He knows his upper case and lower case alphabet, and you would just melt if you heard him sing the ABC song!!  He is often calling out letters on stores and various signs as we  pass them on while driving around town.  Justin loves to play with his two older brothers, Clayton and Hayden.  We have a square leather ottoman in my family room and it quickly becomes the game "King of the Rock" between all three of my boys!  The older two understand that Justin is smaller than them so they are not as rough, but Justin definitely can hold his own in having fun with his brothers!!

Justin is easy going and constantly happy!!  Even on a sick day he still is polite and says thank you after being given some medicine.....Melts my Heart!!  Love our JUSTIN RON!!!  Happy 3rd Birthday!!