Marching Band---1st performance!

My Oldest went off to high school this year and boy is he busy.  Between school, marching band and baseball, we never see him!  This is his 1st marching performance at a High School Football game...Norman North vs. Norman High School (The Crosstown Clash!) 

He looks like he's enjoying himself!

 The Crosstown clash is always held at Memorial Field at the University of Oklahoma..that's Sooner turf!

 Front row, saxophone player

 Here come the football players.

My Youngest enjoying the game.  We had a lot of fun!

My Oldest LOVES marching band, but I think he'll be happy when he doesn't have to be at the school at 6:45 AM every morning.  GO TIMBERWOLVES!

September Birthdays

Labor Day at our house always means birthday party!  Both my Husband and my Youngest were born on Labor Day, but their birthdays are actually 2 days apart, so we always celebrate their birthdays the Sunday before Labor Day.  Actually we usually celebrate my son's birthday, and Dad usually gets a pat on the back and a Happy Birthday and maybe a card or two.  This year my Hubby reached the big 40!  so we made an effort to celebrate his birthday, but in such a way that he didn't know it was coming.  Can I say SUCCESS!

 We lit the candles and wondered if we needed to call the fire dept.  That was a lot of candles on the 2 cakes.

 My son wanted an army party and he wanted camouflage clothes so no one could see him.  He LOVES his new outfit and Dad had fun shopping for all of the accessories you see on his belt.

 We didn't leave Dad out of the presents either.  Black balloons, his own cake (yellow with chocolate frosting that he never gets) and a beer cake from his loving wife, but made by a good friend, who then snuck it in when she came over for the party.

 The adult guests.  We also had 3 teenage boys playing video games in the family room, and my Youngest and his 2 younger cousins playing in his bedroom.  It was crowded, but alot of fun!

                                                             The cakes are all alight!

For his camo/army themed birthday party, I made him a camo cake, inside and tie-dyed on the outside.  It was easier than it looked. 

Well...another round of September birthdays in the books.  Now to start planning for my Oldest, who will be 15 in November.  Happy Birthday Boys!

The Cousins at the Pack Olympics

In August our Cub Scout Pack had their very own Olympics with games and medals and fun!  The Youngest counsins all went and had a blast, and they all came home with cookie medals, even little J!

Last Day of Swim Lessons

My boys have to take swim lessons every summer.  Due to experiences that happened to me when I was younger, swim lessons are non-negotiable in our house.  My Oldest graduated out of them last year though, and he proved it by passing his BSA swimmer at summer camp this year and earning his Swimming Merit badge.  That just leaves my Youngest at the pool this year and he made some great progress and passed Level II.  Congratulations!

And of course, the one thing they all look forward to on the last day...THE SLIDE!

 He gets to take Level III next year.  That's when the real lessons start...they learn the different strokes, and diving and hopefully he won't be terrified of the deep water next year!

My Oldest went sailing

My Oldest went with his Boy Scout Troop out to the Lake, where the SeaScouts took them out on a sailboat.  I'm jealous...it looks like they had so much fun!

 Rules!

 More Rules!

 Getting ready for the boat!

 More rules!

 "Look Mom, I'm sailing!"

 "That was fun!"

Swimming in the lake when they weren't out on the boat!



Day Camp 2012

Ever since the dawn of time...I mean ever since he was little my Youngest has had one thing he's looked forward to more than anything...Cub Scout Day Camp!  This year he attended his first Day Camp and it was a blast!  He had fun, I had fun, his Dad and Brother had fun...it was FUN!

The whole family attended camp on Monday

 My Oldest, with my Youngest and Cousin J, who attended camp too.

 Arts and Crafts were fun.

 Waiting in line at Archery.

 My Oldest was able to staff at Camp for 2 days...he's our goofy Archery staff!

 The cousins at Archery.

 They were making boats out of juice boxes and duct tape.

 Thursday was rainy and thundering so we were unable to get in the pool.  They learned how to rescue each other if one of them fell into the pool...this is Cousin J rescuing my Youngest.

 My Youngest then returned the favor and rescued his cousin.

 Team work games...I found out the cousins do not work so well together!

 Team Races...opposite teams.

 The crab walk portion.

 Racing the juice box boats on the last day.

 And shooting plastic bottle rockets.

 Pool time was a favorite.

 We even got Mom to camp on Friday.

 BB Shooting was my Youngest's favorite sport.  Look at the stance!

 Cousin J had a little more trouble.

They are already looking forward to camp next year.  We had a lot of fun on our journey back through time and the staff at the camp was great.  The weather was decent (except for Friday...which was hot).  We even ate lunch outside in the rain on Thursday.