There's More...

There's more fun... We had the big yearly banquet for Scouts, this time around I'm an official leader, it only took me three years to get sucked into it, but its a great organization and I'm happy to help where I can. Anyway, that's why I've got the scout shirt on (which really, the shirt, its one of the reasons it took me so long to become an official member, I just really DID NOT want to wear it, pride or something).

This year's banquet marked a milestone of only one year left before Archer graduates to Boy Scouts. That means that this is a year of lasts for him, and us - last Pinewood Derby, last year at Family Camp with this group of people, last last last. I really shouldn't get ahead of myself, but its hard not to consider that all of this that we've grown to love (the fun events, the people, the memories we're making as a family) is coming to an end.

On to the fun part, here are some pictures from the banquet.

Sassy Shelly? Just smile for the camera, pretty please??

Also, I just want to put this in writing, so we don't forget all our hard work years from now, we have been having SO MUCH FUN at our weekly meetings. David has helped the other leader and I come up with some great projects for the kids to make. Most of them Shelly gets to make too.

There's the pencil box with the secret compartment in the bottom. (Shhh don't tell anyone that I told you about the secret compartment!)

There's the marshmallow shooters, even E got to make one of those. Except he took his apart and just started throwing the PVC pipes at me one day.

There's the Belt Loop Displays, a nice way to display all those belt loops that they won't be wearing much longer, since they won't be wearing their Cub Scout belts when they graduate.

We made vibrobots with toothbrushes, we're going to make checkerboards this week, I can't even remember the other stuff, its already too long ago to keep track of. We'll just summarize by saying we're keeping the boys busy making tons of fun boy projects - I hope they remember Scouting as something that was fun, and maybe one day they'll even think, "Oh, I remember when I used that tool, learned about that saw, built something myself at scouts!"