The Brown Brick Road

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More scouts

Other Scout stuff over the past few months…

We had Court of Honor in January and Maxwell was awarded several merit badges and rank advancement up to Star.

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Pic from a meeting in February I happened to be there for…

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March campout – unfortunately Spencer had a baseball tournament in Tuscaloosa so wasn’t able to attend but Maxwell was able to get there a little late after his baseball game. Spring sports and scouts don’t mix!

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Finally, I led the Snow Sports merit badge for these boys that are going skiing on spring break. Good times!

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Scouting is fun!

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I’ve been a busy Troop Committee Chair up at Troop 63 these past few months…but it’s all paying off! I worked really hard to recruit some great new scouts into the Troop for Spencer’s grade. I hosted a “mom’s night” at the house back in the fall…

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and then we had a “Fire, Fun and Football” event at the scout hut in January…

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and it was all worth it when we had 18 new scouts for the meeting in March! WOW!

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Proud of these boys and excited to see them be Scouts together!

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Be prepared!

new ride

I got a new car!! I had problems with my Atlas from just about day one so I’m thrilled to be cruising around in the new Lexus TX!

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I think even Robert can admit it was a good decision! ha! Have a great weekend!

Pinewood Derby

We raced in our final pinewood derby with Spencer’s car, “Magic”! It was Spencer’s car but Maxwell had a very heavy hand in the decoration. A team effort we’ll say!

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cub

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magic

The car had some good speed but, when in the outlaw division, it just couldn’t compete with the weight that Bobby’s car had…which had a literal dumbbell on it! ha! I personally think Spencer was robbed in the “paint job” category but that’s ok.

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magic

It was a pretty afternoon and a fun end to cub scouts!

Naples

Samantha felt well enough on Friday to hop on a plane and fly down to Florida for the long weekend. The kids had an Eday on Friday and no school Monday so we were glad to be able to visit GJ for a few days. We flew into Tampa because it was easier and had a good lunch at Nordstrom before fighting the traffic back to Naples. Saturday was a perfect beach day and we were thankful for the pretty weather!

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Sunday was not a perfect beach day. Lots of rain but that was fine with us. We finished Eday work, saw a movie, played Uno, dominos and Bananagrams and just hung out. We like to just hang out! We headed back Monday out of Tampa…

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naples

and made it back in time for an orthodontist appointment. Hooray!

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Samantha is definitely still in recovery mode but I’m glad we were able to get away for the weekend!