Pinewood Derby

Hunter got to participate in his very first Pinewood Derby race for cub scouts. He was so excited to build his car. Well the night before the race he got REALLY sick! So I kept him home from school the next day. He slept all day and just didn't feel like eating much. He hadn't gotten "sick" in 24 hours and he really wanted to go to the race. I didn't have the heart to tell him he couldn't go so we went. Well being the wise mother that I am I was worried that he hadn't eaten in 24 hours so we stopped for a shake! An Oreo cookie shake! Now I know what your thinking, maybe he "lost" his shake on the floor. Oh no even better! Once the sugar kicked in from that shake he was BOUNCING of the walls! Can you say EXTREME sugar high! He was crazy! (even more than usual)! But hey he had fun! And I am definitely not winner mother of the year AGAIN this year! (For more reasons than this one!!) he he

All the boys after the race.

Scout Auction

Today was our wards Scout Auction. All of the scouts were supposed to make a cake to be auctioned off to help raise money for Friends of Scouting. We had dinner and an auction. It was a lot of fun.

The boys loved frosting the cakes.

Garrett's friends came over to uh... "help".

The finished product. Hunter's was a football.

And Garrett's was a lion.

After dinner and the auction they had a pie eating contest for the boys.

(don't worry they were mini pies!)

Garrett and Hunter eating there pies.

Here is a shot of the group. The boys all loved this!

Garrett took 1st.

Hunter wasn't near as quick as those older boys, but he had fun anyway!

Fishing

Today I took my cub scout group to the Springlake Trout Farm. It was a great place to go with a group of 8 year olds and two female scout leaders who don't know much about fishing! They have a small pond the boys can fish in and they provide the poles and bait and will even help bait your hook and clean the fish when your done! There pond is FULL of all different sizes of trout.

Garrett and his fish

Hunter and his fish

Cayden with his fish

Ezra with his fish

Amber and Trey with his fish

Brandon and his fish

Hunter, Cayden and Ezra were so funny while we

waited for the other boys to catch a fish they

carried there fish around.

Hunter and Cayden were chasing me around trying

to let there fish touch me!

All the scouts with there fish! Don't they look happy.

Gutting the fish.

Hunter wanted to help pull the guts out of his fish!

What was the best part of the day you might ask? Catching the fish, no that was fun but not the best! The best part of the trip the boys thought was watching this dog eat the guts that they pulled out of the fish! Boys, go figure.

Cub Scout Day Camp

I am the Wolf den leader in my ward for cub scouts. Last Friday we went to day camp up Hobble Creek Canyon. It was a lot of fun! We have 12 eight year old boys in our troop, and only 8 of them were able to make it. Hunter is also in my troop for another 2 weeks. Thank goodness we have plenty of mom's willing to go and help us! We did all kinds of different activities including BB gun shooting, rafting, rain gutter regatta, archery, and metal working. It was a day full of fun activities and fun was definitely had by all.