Family

Not that life is ever really "normal"; it is nice to have some routine and pleasantness to your day. Finally, after a string of 'unfortunate events', I think we are finally leveling off to normal days. The last few weeks we have been dealing with colds, sewer backups, broken cell phones, and breaking down vehicles.

It is nice to be finally getting back into our crazy day-to-day activities. Back to camping, scouts, and taxing the kids around. Ah, the simple pleasures.

Time to take a breath, look around, and refocus on the important things in life... Family and friends. In times like these, it is sometimes easy to forget how lucky we really are.

After months of planning, we finally had the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet.  I think it went very well.  It was held in the School’s Gym.  Michelle did a great job with the decorations and the guest list.  We had a great turn out!  Over 180 people! 

Maxwell had invited the Mayor when he met him at the Mayor’s Youth Commission dinner.  To our surprise, the Mayor came.  It was very cool of him, the boys thought it was pretty neat that the Mayor came to their Blue and gold banquet.

There were some awesome skits done by the boys and almost everyone received their advancement awards.  It was a very good banquet.  Now we can focus our attention to the Pinewood Derby!

Back to 24 hours of Scouts at our house! 

It’s that time of year where I work on the yearly photo calendar and take some Christmas pictures of the kids. Certainly makes me NOT miss the days working in a photo studio at Christmas time. Trying to get three kids to all sit still and look towards the camera at the same time is certainly more difficult that giving a litter of cats a bath. (click on the picture to see more)

The Mayor came to Max's school today and presented the Mayor's Youth Commission Award to Max on the morning TV announcements.

Max was only a little nervous. Of course, he was on TV in front of the whole school with the Mayor and the Principle. But He did very well. We are so proud of him.
 

 

 

We were very happy and surprised to receive a letter from the Mayor's office. It seems that Max was nominated and was awarded the Mayor's Youth Commission Award. We had not even known about the nomination. It seems that his 3rd grade teacher (Miss Singer) had sent in a nomination for him.

The committee chose nine (9) winners and he was one of them. We went down to city hall and Max met the Mayor and received his award. He will also be recognized at his school later this week.

Last night we took the Cub Scouts to the library to watch Truly Remarkable Loon. A comedy juggler. The kids really had a great time, except now they want to juggle things.

We had two Bufflehead ducks in our back pond last weekend. They're not from around our parts, so we're guessing that they were just passing through. I took a few pictures, but they were not close enough to get good shots. Here's where I wish I had that 600 mm lens.

I spent last weekend in full scout uniform, singing songs, and playing games. The weird thing was: I was not with my son or any other kids. I was attending Wood Badge. What is Wood Badge? Unless you are an avid adult Scouter, you probably do not know what Wood Badge is.