It’s really hot. and I miss these people…
and did I mention it’s hot?
hot
Scouts 2025 – 2026
Ending of 2025 and start of 2026 in scouts!
Lots of recruitng efforts put forth the past few years – I was proud of this packet I put together this year with tons of info!
Some Order of the Arrow recepients!
MBE clean up!
Spencer leading as Chaplain’s Aide…
Maxwell talking about his scout experience before sitting for his Eagle Scoutmaster Conference…
With baseball in the spring and Maxwell working on Eagle, they didn’t go on any spring campouts. But there was plenty going on behind the scenes with recruiting a great new group of scouts, leading merit badges, completing merit badges, and keeping the troop going.
Court of Honor in May…
Meeting to lead a few easy merit badges for the summer…
and now summer! Maxwell will complete his Eagle project this summer and Spencer is right on track to get to Eagle before 16. So proud of my scouts!
Scouts 2025
Scouts started strong in August 2025 with Robert leading a campout to Montgomery Whitewater! The boys got to white water raft and do the zip line! fun…and hot!!
Spencer was working hard to fulfill cooking merit badge requirements!
September Court of Honor!
In September I also lead the swimming merit badge and it was funny to see how many of the boys couldn’t float!
September river rafting campout…
Spencer’s dutch oven pizza!
Cooking and camping is exhausting! ha!
In October Spencer went on the backpacking campout and hiked the Walls of Jericho. It was hard, it was rainy, it was not fun but I am so proud of him! He completed his backpacking cooking and hiked all of the elevation changes he needed for the camping merit badge.
November service hours helping out at Lancers on the Lawn…
and that’s enough for today! Proud of all the hard work these boys have put in!
Scouts
As Maxwell heads off on a big scout adventure for the next 10 days, I thought it was a good time to catch up on scouts. Apparently I haven’t done that since October of 2024! Oops! That is hard to believe because I do feel like scouts has been such a big part of the boys’ lives the past two years. I am so proud of how both of them have ranked up – Maxwell is now Life working and working on his Eagle project and Spencer is now Star well on his way to Eagle.
Throwing it back to 2025….
Maxwell went on the troop ski trip over MLK weekend and it was an adventure filled two days that got cut short because of massive snowfall and the dads thought they were going to get stuck. Fun nonetheless!
Court of Honor from January 2025…
Something in February 2025 – I’m not even sure what this was for but it’s a cute pic!
Camporee in February 2025!
Judge Borden speaking to the troop…
Leading the Citizenship in the Nation badge at Vulcan…
A new class of scouts that Casey and I worked hard to recruit! She took the lead on this group as James was joining that year.
Spencer cooking and cleaning the gargae for various merit badges!
Our scouts are famous!
In May 2025, Maxwell and others went down to Coosa Lodge for the Order of the Arrow initiation known as “the ordeal”. The weather was terrible and they had to work in silence all day and sleep outside with no tent. No pleasant, but they did it.
With their hard earned sashes!
and that is 2025 scouts in one feel swoop! Of course this whole time I was Troop Committee Chairman working behind the scenes to keep the troop running along with the Scoutmasters. Hard but rewarding work for all!
summer baseball
Spencer decided to play SBC summer baseball. While he really wanted to pitch and play centerfield, he ended up having to catch all summer because they didn’t have a catcher. Definitely not what he wanted to do in the 90 degree heat but he was a good sport about it and played fantastic at catcher. He also got to play some short stop and third base. He’s definitely a player you can put anywhere and know he’ll make the play! Unfortunately I think he only got to pitch 2 or 3 games but we did get a few pics of it…
The team lost more than they won and we spent a lot of time on the road driving to Bowers Park in Tuscaloosa. But, he got to hang with Chapel, Reed, and Mahlon and that made it all pretty fun!
I’m really proud of Spencer for his hard work and good attitude. He’s a great teammate.
Go Spartans and Go Spencer!