Our Last Cub Scout Graduation

Adam turned 11 in December and has been attending the 11-year-old scouts since then.  But last night was the official graduation from Cub Scouts.  He received his Arrow of Light and crossed over the bridge to Boy Scouts.  There were 6 boys crossing last night so it was a big group.

The Pack Leader makes these cool arrows and plaques when the boys get their Arrow of Light.  She wraps the arrow with different colors to represent all that they have achieved.  It is very cool.

Adam also received a special achievement award because he earned 28 activity pins in Webelos.  This is amazing because in the new program there are only 14 and in the old program there were 20.  The program changed in the middle of his Webelos year so he had a bunch from the old program and then earned a bunch in the new program.  GOOD JOB ADAM!!!

For those of you who are familiar with Boy Scouts, you may be wondering why Adam has already reached the Life Scout Rank and has a Camp Hi-Sierra Patch from 2005.  It's because he was born in Boy Scouts and grew up at Camp Hi-Sierra.   Hahahahaha.  Just Kidding.  It is Joshua's shirt since we don't have one for Adam yet.... and he loves it because it is all worn and soft and comfortable.  :-)

More Skiing

It's been a bit warm the past week or so and the snow is melting fast... even up in the mountains.  But, we managed to get in some more skiing and are hoping for a good snow storm so we can keep skiing for another month or so.

We went a week ago Saturday and David went with us.  We met some friends (the Grames) up there and skied with them for a while too.  On our very first run down, David's friend, Keith, kind of ran into David.  Rachel happened to be filming so we got some good video of it and a few pictures that capture it as well.  Luckily nobody was hurt and we had a great rest of the day skiing.

The kids had a short day on Tuesday so we headed up again and had a great day without many people.  David was the responsible adult and went to work.  We sure love him for making it all possible.

 David is the one on skis and Keith is just plowing into him

 Rebecca

 Gaylene

 Rebecca, Keith, David, Rachel, Gaylene, Adam

This is Rachel smiling.   She smiles like this the whole time she is skiing because she loves it so much.

Here is a picture that shows the difference in crowds between a Saturday and a Tuesday.  Now you understand why we cut school so much and go during the week.  Hahaha