New High

Jena and Gary headed to the bowling alley after school today.  Jena scored a brand new high of 136.  Big smiles all around!!!!

More on graduation

Scott and Chantel dropped by on Thursday night just as I was getting ready to wrap up their graduation gifts.  Now Gary thought I should just give them without wrapping them (save the papers, etc.)  But you know how it is.  The wrapping and unwrapping is part of the plan so I hurried them to the kitchen and made them wait while I got things ready.  Here is the final product which they unwrapped 30 secnds later.

Silly I know, but moms hae plans  (at least some of the times--the rest we are just winging it.)

Here is the picture for their children to see!
They made their goal!!!

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April Pack Meeting

One of the fun things I get to do in my calling is to be involved with Pack Meeting each month.  Cub Scouts can be fun and we have great leaders to make it fun.  We had a conflict with a school program involving our Webelos so we had an unconventional Pack Meeting this month.  Instead of our regular time and day, we held it on Tuesday during our regular Scout time.  Families were invited but we focused our activities mainly for our Scouts.  Our theme this month was on "Health and Fitness" so Chantel came and gave a PowerPoint presentation on good health for kids.  Then she had them all do warm-ups what she would do for track.

We played a clothespin tag game and then headed out for a cub scout jog/walk to our house.  We held a closing ceremony in our front yard where more parents joined us for awards and a retrieval of the flag ceremony from our flag pole.  It worked great  and the boys had fun.  Success!



Gathering activity--the bunny hop

Retrieving the Flag by the Webelos.


                                                     On an additional Scouting note:
                        After graduation, Gary headed out to Antelope Island with the Webelos
                        to join up with the 11 yrs. old for an evening with them at a campout.
                        A buffalo walked between their location and the next campsite....about 30 ft. away.
                                                      A little too close for my comfort!



Graduation Day times 2

Friday was the big day for Scott and Chantel to "walk" after all of their hard work (and easy work), bood sweat and tears of college.  Scott graduated in "Long-term Admin." and Chantel in "Human Performance".  They were in different graduation exercises, but they wanted to graduation together so Chantel joined in Scott's college services.  (She said as she shook hands with the professors, she was saying, "I am from a different college that's way you don't know me.)  They had made a plan (unknown to us) to continuing walking out after getting their diplomas.  However an usher stood in their way of a clean breakaway.  About 300 diplomas later, Scott tapped Gary on the shoulder.  They had slipped away from their seats and were in the lobby with Chantel's parents.  (We hadn't noticed.)We headed out and got pictures taken just before the masses let out.

Scenes from the day:

Waiting in the tunnel before Graduation.
They have different tassels due to their majors, 'although Scott was
given the wrong color.  Hs should have been salmon colored.
Of course, he thinks it is silly to go to the effort of having it changed.
Who in the world would really care and say--
I need to see your tassel!

Back to their seats after receiving ther diploma (covers)

After graduaton--Chantel's grandmom, her parents, the graduates and us.

There is something about graduations and parents.  It was fun to watch the picture taking occuring as we headed into the graduation service.  Proud parents, spouses, and even children were there with big smiles.  It is a payoff moment in parenting.