Saturday

Trying to stay cool...


Hannah and two cousins in the river


Tim, James and Kenny with Hannah behind


Hannah, James and Tim

Hannah

The Court of Honor...

The cake

James getting merit badges from Brother Hanna

James speaking

John speaking

Me playing the piano with my sister in law, Christi

Tim getting the award

The eagle's nest. We had five from our family in the eagle's nest...Tom's brother (Ken), two of our nephews (Carl and Dale) and our boys (John and Tim).

The Eagle's nest

Tim gave the mentor pin to Brother Patterson.

Eagle Cake

When Johnathan had his Eagle Court of Honor I made a special cake for the refreshments. I made the center part of the Eagle badge in color flow icing and the rest in regular buttercream frosting. All that was on a cake made by yours truly. 100% homemade by mom.

Well, this time around Johnathan is coming home on Thursday. Company is coming Thursday and Friday afternoon, our nephew is racing in the Twilight Criterium Saturday, followed by Timothy's Eagle Court of Honor. With all that going on I decided the cake will be a Winco special this time around. Tim chose white cake with chocolate frosting and raspberry filling. The writing will say, "Congratulations, Eagle Scout!"

This is the decoration for the cake...



The entire thing is color flow icing. The kids talked me into letting them help so it's a little rough, but it's the memories that count.

Wild and Crazy

That was today. I spent the entire day printing copies of Tim's eagle project for the board of review tonight.

While they were printing I went out running errands. A few hours later...

I had gone to check out JoAnn's new store and found a sale on scrapbooking paper...5 for $1...over to Archivers to get some page things to store my old negatives...to the library to return stuff and get more stuff and then to Freddies to get a few things. BUT when I got to Freddies I realized that I had lost my shopping list. I could only remember 2 of the 3 things on the list. Oh, well. If it was that important I'll remember by Monday, I'm sure.

Home I go and I'm greeted with, "Mom, I can't print my birthday party invites because we are out of ink." I knew we were close, but I thought we had a little more than that. I still needed to scan 6 pages of Tim's project and print them out, too. So finally I decided a trip to Kinko's was in order.

"D-oh! Now I remember what I forgot at Freddies...giant paper clips!"

So back to Freddies...

I'm in the middle of Freddies and tugging at the neck of my t-shirt again. "Why is this darn thing climbing so much today?" I look. Lo, and behold...I've been wearing my t-shirt backwards ALL DAY!

We got the copies of the project put together and the board of review went smoothly. Now we are just waiting for the award to work it's way through the National office and the Postal Service to our house. Should take about six weeks.

I think I'll pay Kinko's to do all of it when it's James' turn.