Great Scouts!

Liam began scouts as soon as he turned eight and has been loving it. I was really not excited for scouts, but I have changed my mind. The leaders here to a great job, and he is learning some important life skills. We look forward to it each week.

Liam was so excited to wear his scout uniform for the first time. When it was finally time for scouts he quickly put his shirt on, tucked it in with a belt, then had me tie on his "neckerchief."  Then he ran out to the edge of the driveway and waved at cars as they went by. 

Liam's first scout meeting turned out to be the pinewood derby! Here is the car he designed all by himself. Each scout had to name their car and Liam came up with "Fireboy."

The scouting program here is pretty good. I don't know if all derby's are done this way, but they had all the bells and whistles.

There was this screen that projected who was racing, the name of the cars and who was next along with other statistics.  

 When it was your car's turn to come down you got to sit at the end and wait.

Liam was so proud of his car. When he tells people about the pinewood derby he tells them that he got 3rd. Haha. He did at one point... he got 3rd out of 4 cars in one of the races he did. Sweet kid.

Hoppy Bird-day!

It was this little chick's birthday. On Easter. Happy times! So I got out an old Halloween costume and snapped this gem. 

Then I made some cakes, because it was my oldest son's birthday too :) River was born 2 1/2 weeks early to land on Liam's birthday. Pretty awesome sibling love going on there.

 

 I don't know how many more birthdays will be on Easter, but I tried to think of something to go along with the fun aspect of easter, and then combine the two cakes into one. These cakes were the best I could do.

 I asked Liam if he wanted to celebrate with River and he was really excited to. So far he's been thrilled at sharing his birthday. I think he'll continue to enjoy his birthday as long as I am sensitive to his feelings about being separate with River or not. He was a little bummed about his birthday landing on Sunday, but I am a stickler about celebrating the birthday on the actual birthday, and we made the best of it.

Riv's Easter/birthday dress 

 The boys thought the bunny was creepy when they saw it for the first time. It is a bit possessed.

Southern Idaho

Herriman State Park, the Henry's Fork

With Nicolden in Idaho now, we've been able to hang out a few times with them. Southern Idaho has some beautiful areas we like to visit- some we still need to see.

Belen and Julian

The Mesa Falls near Ashton Idaho

This is Nicolden's new home. Isn't is beautiful?! We came up for a day to help with some painting. 

You do the best you can when you're 5'4" :)

That's Oily

Dying from thirst, Liam looked around in a panic and grabbed the first thing he could find to quench it. (At least he got 45% of his daily value of Vitamin E along with some Omega 6 and not a spec of cholesterol. You got to try this stuff.)

I can see where the confusion came from. The delicious sweet grapes on the front is pretty deceiving to a kid who can't read. Yuck!