Blue and Gold Banquet

This was such a fun night, planned and carried out mostly by my friend - Christie.  The theme was Space.  We had a game, Meteor Shower.  We did alien face paint, antennae and took our pictures in the astronaut photo area.  We hit the spaceship piñata and gathered candy.  We finished the night off with a build your own sundae ice cream bar.  It was my favorite Blue and Gold Banquet to date.

In Other News (January/February Style)

Despite the blistering cold and steady snow, January and February kept us a great mix of busy and relaxed by the fire.  We brought in the New Year with a relaxing evening at home, played more Innebandy - Swedish floor hockey - the next day, built and raced Pinewood Derby cars.  Wyatt did awesome and will be going to Districts.  We did a ritualistic sock burning.  Don't even ask.  Basically Kody had a hard time parting with his favorite but well worn, many holes socks.  We had a celebration, set them on fire and said goodbye.  I went with my friend to a Brantley Gilbert-country music- concert.  As a Cub Scout Pack we toured the local news station.  Just weeks after the roof collapsed in on part of the building because of too much snow.  Glad we weren't there then.  I got to babysit my friend's baby.  It was sweet having a baby in the house after so many years without one.  We participated in the kid's Valentine's Day parties after our own breakfast of heart pancakes.    We also learned at said party that Kody's New Year's resolution is to save more money. That's my kid - proud Mama moment.  And we tried to channel our inner spring by making a fruit pizza.  If the news report is anything to go by it didn't work.  Never a dull moment around here. 

 

 

 

I'm Still Learning

What I've learned in the past two weeks:

eating 2 dozen faschnauts in 4 days will impress/disgust everyone around you

eating 3 faschnauts before bed will give you a tummy ache

giving up naughty words for lent is really hard and expensive - think words such as dumb, stupid, etc...

thinking about hard things is sometimes harder than the actual thing itself

watching your parents cry is a very difficult thing for a child to observe

you really learn about your friends when something big happens

building a school yearbook on a less than stellar website totally stinks

when a parent says their child didn't receive a paper, when they clearly did, means that their life is crazy busy so be sympathetic

there is something freeing about making large decisions for future years when you know you won't be in charge anymore

a blue and gold banquets is just a party for cub scouts with a predetermined color scheme

i love flowers, bring on the wasteful spending

ward variety shows are a good time to be silly under the guise of sharing talents

having a near run in with the law is very scary

knowing that your child was gone for fifteen minutes and you didn't even realize it is scarier

having neighbors that recognize your wandering children is a big relief