Arrow of Light

Tonight Dalton earned his Arrow of Light. He is turning 11 later this week and will be going in to Boy Scouts.  CRAZY!  I can't believe he is getting that old.  He is really excited to start going to scouts without his Mom. 

 Sister Brogan his webelos leader awarding him his last activity pins

 Brother Grose explaining to them the markings on their arrows.

 Devon and Dalton, they have been best buds since they were 3.

Take Your Hat Off

Each year the 3rd grade glass at our school performs a program called Take Your Hat Off.  It is a patriotic program were they learn songs about our country and perform them.  Each of the kids also has a speaking part.  Ethan's part was byBenjamin Franklin "If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without God's notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid" The kids learn the preamble to the constituition and lots of other parts to the constitution.  They also learn about the different branches of the goverment and military.It was great to see allof their hard work!

Sleeping Griffin

Griffin is at that stage were he falls asleep in funny positions.  This is him falling asleep watching Cars 2, his new favorite movie.  You will also notice that he has his Cars cars on his belly.

New flooring

This next week we are going to be getting new flooring in our house so yesterday was demo day.  Ethan was our designated photgrapher.

 Alex at work

 Griffin playing in the nasty carpet roll

 Dalton hard at work

 This pictures is kind of blurry but it is a great depiction of what Anika and Fenton did all day

Next week I will post pics of the finished flooring. YEAH!

Walk of Fame

This last week Ethan got to walk in the walk of fame.  He earned 100 AR points.  He has always enjoyed reading but has had a hard time finding books that he enjoys.  Recently he discovered the Percy Jackson series and has read all 5 books in the past 2 months. Good Job Ethan! 

 

 Dalton the Bear. He is in every walk of fame as the bear and has earned 500 AR points.

 

 Ethan

Apparently it was a pretty intense walk because Ethan lost a shoe.

Dalton the Book Worm

Dalton is our little book worm.  It is really funny to see some of the places that he will just sit to read so we have started to take some pictures of him in these weird places.

Skiing

This last Wednesday Alex's work paid for the whole family to go skiing so we took the kids out of school for a half a day and headed up to Pine Creek.  Anika didn't want to come so she stayed in school but the boys were all really excited to give skiing a try. 

 Ethan had a rough start but by the end of the day had gotten the hang of it.

 

 

 Fenton caught on pretty quickly and was going a little faster than I would have liked but he was loving it and knew how to stop so I geuss he can go as fast as he wants.

 

 Dalton only spent about 30 minutes on the bunny hill before he was ready for the bigger stuff.  Turns out he is a better skier than me.  He and Alex kept waiting for me and Alex took him down one of the advanced runs on their second run. (I was to chicken) 

 

 Stop drooling He's Mine!

 

Griffin was his usually happy self, eating snow and hanging out in the lodge.