Cub Scout to Boy Scout

Last night Sean made received his Arrow of Light Award and made the cross-over from Cub Scout to being a BOY Scout.
Can you believe that he's old enough to be a Boy Scout already?!!?
(click on the pictures to make them bigger, some didnt turn out so well)

Dennis prepping the boys for their ceremony.

Ryan and the Wolves Den - about 3 seconds after this picture they all went wild. Sitting and waiting isnt possible for boys this age.

Games began:
Here is Ryan holding up his "TWO" sign - a sign to signal everyone to be quiet and listen.

Sean listening to the rules of the game.

The "Cheer" box, when he opens the box, everyone cheers.

Wolves singing - I Know a Song That Will Annoy You

Wolves about to receive their much deserved Wolf Badge

Ryan was up there making funny faces the entire time... that boy cracks me up!!
(you will have to click this one to make it larger and see)

Painting their faces with red for the Wolf Badge.

Webelos2 about to receive their Arrow of Light

Lighting Candles to represent character traits they have learned

(sorry this is hard to see, the lights were out)
Sean crossing the bridge from Cub to Boy Scout.
What you cant see, is behind the curtains there are the Boy Scouts there to receive him. They changed out his Blue epaulets for Green ones. :)

Dennis gave each of the boys a Boy Scout gift for all their hard work!

At the end, it was discovered that there was a Webelos cap left forgotten on a table. Sean was the owner of such cap.... as "punishment" he had to dance infront of everyone on stage (with support of a fellow WEB).

A great end to a great scouting year!
They boys worked really hard this year.
We are proud of them!!

Birthday and Scouting

It's quickly approaching the busy time of the year. First school starts, then Sean's birthday, and time rockets by until about February where time seems to come to a screeching halt with boredom. LOL

Anyway, so I should have lots of pictures to and stuff to update here in the next couple of months.

First of all, Cub Scouts has started up again. This year Ryan is a Wolf and Sean is one of two boys in the Pack that are Webelos II's. I cant believe next year Sean is going to be a Boy Scout!! Here the boys are sporting their new uniforms. Sean still has a bit more growing to do so he can fill his out a bit more. ; )

Quickly trying to shovel dinner down before the first Pack meeting of the year. Mom messed up and thought it was at 7:00, not 6:00. Oops!

Meeting up with their Dens:

Posting the colors.
Sean carrying the colors for the first time. He did a great job!

Having a good time singing songs!

The Wolf pack had prepared a song.
They did a good job!

Webelos huddling up.

Ryan catching me sneaking pictures of him haha!

Wolf pack getting up on stage to receive their awards.

Ryan receiving his award.

Elizabeth liked joining in when they banged on the tables instead of clapping.

She loves the camera, can you tell?

Webelos receiving their awards

Finally some individual recognitions. Sean got called up to assist the Cub Master.

After everyone received their award. He gave Sean a little special coin for his help.

Now on to Sean's Birthday!!!!

We let Sean invite a friend over for a sleepover to celebrate his birthday.

Blowing out the candles!
Ryan's face is perfect... I think he was trying to help.

Sean's birthday was actually the weekend prior to this, so most of his presents were opened then.
His friend brought over a present and we saved one of his presents from us so that Sean could have a little something for this sleepover too.

Last but not least.... the love of my life!!!
HAHAH!!!

Pictures, pictures and more pictures

I finally uploaded all the pictures I've had sitting on my camera for the past few weeks so I'm going to inundate you all with them now :) Be prepared for lots of loading. haha!

Over Labor Day weekend, we were very busy and didn't get to do all that much. One of the things we DID get to do was attend a fest that was being held in our town market square. We're not entirely sure what the fest was about (hahaha!) but there was lots of food and some neat military parades and bands playing. All kinds of different uniforms! It was fun! These military "groups" all had tents set up outside the town walls (the old town here still has the surrounding walls in tact). It kind of reminded me a lot of our civil war reenactments in the states.

Ryan being sill while we get settled to have lunch.


Sean bundling up! It was a bit chilly. Fall is coming in with a vengeance here!!

Elizabeth, just finishing her mashed up lunch. I had to keep a blanket over her stroller to keep out the wind.


This was one of the parades that came in while we were eating.

Each one of these military groups had a woman with them carrying a cask of... my only guess would be beer. HAHA! I thought that was funny.

They marched in and got in formation right in front of us. Then one of them came by and told us we should move because it was going to be loud. They loaded their guns and shot them off into the sky.

Cub scouts has started up again. Ryan is now a Tiger cub! and Sean a Webelos. I can't believe Sean is already in Webelos!! I remember thinking how big those boys looked when he was only just a Tiger cub.

And the, oh so necessary, silly pose.

Not the same day as above, but we attended a Webelos science fair. So the boys could earn some science awards.

They did science experiments at each table and got to learn and have fun!!

Well, I know, Sean doesn't look like he's having fun... but really, he is! HAHA!

What Elizabeth did during the science fair.

Changing gears again, here's a quick snapshot of the boys working on their home school work. :)

Elizabeth's new past-time is to scoot around on her bottom. She's not crawling yet but knows how to get around. Mobile baby!!!

I hope you enjoyed the menagerie of pictures!!