Random Stuff

Here are a few random things to mention.  Back in April Seth lost his first tooth, and he was so excited!

The boys had a furlough day from school in April, so we decided to go to Hogle Zoo.  It was so fun!  It was the perfect day for the zoo, and I will never go in the summer again.  It was not crowded and even a bit chilly.  It did not stink, you could go right up to the front of each exhibit, and all of the animals were out and active.  The kids loved it, and I actually thought it was really fun too.  I've probably met my zoo quota for another two or three years though!

The kids all had fun on the carousel but a picture was not happening.

And last but not least, Luke has had fun with his first year of Cub Scouts.  I'm still so clueless about the program.  At the last pack meeting Luke earned his Wolf badge, so I guess he's officially a Bear.

Luke also participated in his first Pinewood Derby.  It's kind of intense—which seems kind of ridiculous.  We borrowed a scale to get his car the right weight but when they weighed it in at the church it was too light on that scale.  They left it anyway, and he raced it the next day.  He did okay in the first few races and then kept losing every time.  We could see he was getting kind of discouraged, and I was seriously feeling bad for him.  At our bishop's suggestion (we have a new bishop who is Jer's good friend and is younger than us!) we decided to glue something to it.  Jer quickly glued a drill bit to it and it still made weight so Luke won his last race.  That was enough to put a smile on his face!  Afterwards the boys raced a bunch of times for fun and his car won a lot.  That few ounces made a huge difference.  All in all it was a good experience and I guess we know now what to do next time.  I'm really trying to get excited about Scouts, heavy on the trying, because we have a lot of it in our future!

I do actually think Scouts is great, and I got to see the program in action at the pack meeting.  It was a canyon clean up in Providence Canyon.  All of the boys were climbing the very steep mountainside that goes up out of the parking lot.  Seth of course followed all of the older boys up there—way to the top.  It is very, very steep.  Well, when they turned around to come back down he was really scared.  Luke and two other cute little Scouts, Jaden and Ben, ended up holding his hands and working together to help him back down every step of the mountain.  So cute!  That does a mom's heart good.