Championship Games

Well after a fun and quick season of baseball. Danny and Jacob's team was undefeated and even won the championship. Danny had a chance to show us what he has to offer as a pitcher and he did extremely well. Jake is doing a fantastic job as well. Bless his heart, he is not the natural that his brother is, but he gives it his all. GO DODGERS! This is the last year that many of the players can stay on this league. Next year will be quite interesting since Danny and Jake will be the older boys on the team. We might even switch to another team since we know the other coach. Only time will tell what happens.

Angie's New Haircut

Well, 2 years after I thought it would be cool to grow my hair out to donate it to Locks of Love, I finally was able to cut it off. I cut off about 12 1/2 inches, braided. The stylist went way shorter than I wanted, but I figure it is only hair and it will grow back. I have never had my hair cut this short. So, what do you think?
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Scrapbook Mania

When Danny went off to Scout Camp, I set a goal for the week. Since I had not scrapbooked any of his Cub Scout years (or Jake and Aaron's for that matter), I wanted to get some layouts done. I have been wanting to do this for quite awhile now so I had lots of scout sticker, paper and some fun ideas. I started with developing all the pictures I would need from May 2005 to current. That took a day in itself with all the interruptions! Once developed, I sorted my pictures by month and pack meetings. Since I was doing this for Danny, I figured I might as well make up the same pages for the other 3 boys as well. So instead of just making 3 different layouts to cover the 3 years worth of Pinewood Derbys, I made 12. I did this for all the pack meetings that had a big event at them. I also made pages for all the ranks they can earn in Cub Scouts. I know, some of you must think I am crazy, but it will be so nice to have all this work done and so much easier when the other boys go through these events. When Caleb turns 8 and starts earning his badges, I will only have to develop the pictures and put them on the already made pages.

This past Saturday, July 11th, I took the pages I had already designed and in about 7hours, finished 30 pages!!! I am excited to say that I only have 3 layouts in Danny's Cub Scout years to finish, Jake two layouts,Aaron's is all caught up, Caleb has all of his layouts for his Cub Scout years already made!! I am so excited. I do still have the boys Cub Scout Day Camp's to do, but after accomplishing this huge feat, this will be cake. If I can keep this up, my boys might have finished scrapbooks when they graduate from high school. =)

Boy Scout Camp

Danny had so much fun at Boy Scout Camp. I was nervous that he would be gone for a whole week, but he was ready to go and earn some merit badges. I have to laugh, before he left he had signed up for 6 merit badges to earn while he was at camp. Several leaders approached Matt and I and told us they thought he was taking on too much as a first year. Boy, did he prove them wrong! He not only achieved them, but he ranked at the top or close to the top in the rankings for archery and rifle shooting.


Danny actually had a pretty interesting thing happen on the archery range. He was shooting an arrow at the same time as an older scout. Their arrows crossed paths and Danny's arrow went through the middle of the other scouts arrow and Danny still hit the target!

When Danny returned home, he was so excited to tell us about everything and had a big hug for me and a big Thank You for his dad for all the time spent target practing while we are up North.

I think this was a fun way to see that his dad really does do things with him that will benefit him in the future.

Danny is so excited about next year!

Troop 210 Welcome Gate- They won an award for!

"Rump Bumping"

Wilderness Survival "Hut" built with all the boys trying to earn that Merit Badge

Award Ceremony

Cub Scout Day Camp

Another Cub Scout Day Camp down, four to go.

This year the theme at Day Camp was "Transformers". The boys really loved it. Danny had the awesome opportunity to play "TAPS" at both flag ceremonies. Both of us were ablt to teach again this year. Jake tells me he is excited to be able to help out next year. I can't believe that I will only have Aaron in going to camp next year. We have completed all the years of multiples going to day camp. Aaron and Caleb won't overlap with this particular event.

Anyway, here are some fun pictures to enjoy.

Danny's 12th Birthday Party

We had Danny's birthday party back on June 13th. We had to quickly squeeze it in since our month seemed to be getting crazier every day. With Scout Camp a couple days later and Cub Scout Day camp right after that and then our vacation to follow we knew that we needed to have the party sooner than later.

All I have to say is that having ten boys between 12-13 year olds is CRAZY!! I think most of them had a good time, but Matt and I were glad when it was over. We had told Danny that he would need to plan all the games since our life was pretty busy. He set up some yard games to play and had the boys come ready to get wet for some water games. He decided on pizza, soda and ice cream sandwiches for food.

Okay, the boys he invited over are great boys, but when you put them all together, they spell O-V-E-R-A-C-T-I-V-E!! HELP!

I love the surprise water picture at the end. Matt decided to pull one over on the boys and as you can tell some of them loved it! They all laughed about it anyway.

The New Jake

Well, after having an eye test at school and didn't pass it, we took Jake to the eye doctor on June 11th. We were told what we suspected, Jake needed glasses. Both Matt and I are so glad that the selection of glasses available nowdays are so much better than when we were young. You know what I'm talking about if you wear glasses. The nice looking coke bottle glasses. We are so grateful for the way technology has advanced in this area. Jake found some really nice ones and looks so handsome, if I do say so myself. Jake was really cute on the way home from the eye doctor the next day after we picked them up. He could see details and read signs that he didn't know were there before. I feel so bad that we didn't know about it sooner. Jake is the type of kid that hardly complains. I asked why he didn't say anything sooner, and he just simply said, "I thought it was normal the way I was seeing things." Poor kid. Lesson learned on my part. I will randomly ask the other kids what they can read from a distance.

Jake Before Glasses



Jake After Glasses