My lego creator

Sometimes I forget to blog about the little every day things that my kids do. This is Andrew and One of his best buds, Drake. They both have a love for legos and building things. This is their monkey they created. I just wish there were not legos covering the entire rec room floor all the time:)

Happy Birthday Quinton

I can't believe that my baby has turned 3. We had a pretty low key birthday(again) and I made him a tractor cake. He was giddy with excitement as we worked on this cake together(all of 5 minutes). He is such a blessing to our family and he is always happy with the little things in life. I always seem to load the pictures backwards but you get the idea. He shoved the cake in his face and it ended up going up his nose.

You can see the pure joy in his smile:)

I am glad I didn't have to spend hours decorating a cake. we frosted it, put the tractor on it, poured rock candy and crushed cookies for the dirt. I think I i'll make him a cake like this every year.

First Class Scouter

Andrew is now a First Class scout at the age of 11. We are very proud of all the hard work he put into progressing in scouting. Pack 326

Andrew getting his rank advancement and 4 merit badges:)

Quinton looks up to his big brother so much!

I love my Scouters!!

Brianna's First Date :)

So the day has finally came that Brianna was able to go on her very first date.... Here she is with her two best friends Lakota and Shianne and her date Kyle. A Prom date would not be the same without a trip to Wal-Mart.

She was very excited to have a date to prom.

Brianna getting her makeup done.

camporee

This year the Scout organization put on a Camporee at the fairgrounds. There was a Friday night campout and events all day to keep the boys busy and a nice campfire ceremony to end the day on Saturday. I loaded all the pictures in the wrong order but you get the idea. Notice the fire is in a plastic swimming pool filled with sand. Yes, It did melt the plastic:)

Andrew getting his dinner ready. They gave the boys a plastic bag withtin foil, a hamburger patty, carrot, potato, and onion. Andrew rolled his patty out to flatten it with his carrot and then proceded to eat the carrot that rolled all over the raw meat!

Here are our killer scouts at the tomahawk throw.

Andrew was pretty proud to hit the wood with the tomahawk.

Andrew with his best friend Garrhet with the rockets they made.

Their troop flag.

They cut those wood blocks and then branded them.

The flapjack flip was alot of fun for the whole family.

There was even a donkey Quinton got to pet.

Jenna did pretty good climbing on the rock wall.

The rope climb was pretty fun too.

Andrew branding the spoon he made.

Andrew made that spoon and a pop can stove.

This was their tent that the wind blew over and the water soaked.

The boys had a great time and were worn out by the time we got home.

Ape Caves Rain?

I wanted to do something with the kids this spring break so I thought going to the Ape caves would be a great idea...... well if you don't mind being soaked then I guess it was. We arrived to about 46 degree temperatures. the caves felt about the same. I was a little shocked that the water could make it's way through the lava and drench us about the same as being outside standing in the rain.
We did the 3/4 mile trail which was probably the better choice due to the weather. If you have never been inside a cave than you cannot really prepare yourself for the absolute darkness that encompasses you. You realize how much light the moon and stars actually give when you get past a certain point in the cave where light does not flow in. Andrew and Jenna enjoyed being explorers!

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We finally made it to the top to be greeted by SNOW!!! We had a great time considering we were all wet, tired and cold.

Happy Birthday Jenna

Happy Birthday Jenna!!!