Lots of Scout stuff since the school year started!

Climbing merit badge!

Maxwell is serving as Senior Patrol Leader this semester which means he leads all meetings. He’s really so good at it and is a natural up there!

August campout at Scout Mountain – lead by Robert!

Court of Honor where both boys were recognized for the MANY merit badges they earned in the last semester as well as for rank achievements – Spencer earned Tenderfoot and Maxwell earned Life! Maxwell also earned the camping portion of the Outdoor Award.

This past weekend both boys went on the September campout. It was a rafting campout and it was a little touch and go with Hurricane Helene making its way through! But, the campsite was fine and the river was flowing and the boys had a great time. Spencer went up with the group on Friday afternoon and Maxwell joined Saturday morning. Because he’s still 11, Spencer had to kayak the Hiawassee but Maxwell got to raft the Ocoee.

I am so incredibly proud of these boys.

Most of the scouts went out to Stockton Farms in the evening to complete both Horsemanship and Animal Science.

Maxwell did these badges last year and we still laugh about the experience! They learn all about castration among other things and the man himself, Mr. Stockton, is quite a character!

Spencer rocked it all, of course. I’m not going to say he liked it, but he did it!

Some of the info was…less than thrilling.

But it wasn’t all so bad!

By the end of the week they were a bunch of really tired Scouts that were very happy to get to stop at Waffle House on the way home!

These boys accomplished so much during the week and they should be very, very proud of themselves.

I know I am proud of them. Eagle bound!

Both boys spent a week in North Carolina at Camp Daniel Boone for Boy Scout camp in July. I can’t say either of them were super excited but they made the best of it and ended up having a pretty good time I think! We had a large group going this year which was awesome…

and we had lots of dads that stepped up to attend as well. Robert went for the first half and came home on Wednesday. He’s a trooper for sure.

They had a good campsite – Maxwell shared a tent with Hugh and Spencer shared a tent with Henry.

Maxwell served as Senior Patrol Leader for the week and apparently he did an outstanding job. No surprise there. They had a campsite flag ceremony every morning and night, they got 100s on all their campsite inspections, and Maxwell made an effort to make sure everyone was included in all they did. I’m incredibly proud of him.

Days were spent in merit badge classes and the younger scouts spent a day doing Going Great which checked off a lot of rank advancements for 2nd and 1st class. They were busy! Maxwell even caught a fish and cooked it up to complete the fishing merit badge.

I think the food was pretty terrible so there were lots of purchases made at the Snack Hut!

Maxwell did cook up some jambalaya one night that was a hit!

Even better when follow by s’mores!

They had some excitement when there was a mouse inside Maxwell and Hugh’s tent one night! The boys decided to try and set a mouse trap…

ha! There might have also been a mouse that had mice babies inside of Harrison’s shoe but I can’t even talk about that. Proud of these boys…

More to come tomorrow – Stockton Farms!

Catching up on Scouts from the spring and summer…

City Council meeting for the Communications merit badge…

and for Citizenship in the Community…

Volunteering at the library summer carnival and packing lunches for Avondale Outreach for Citizenship in the Community hours…

Lots of important learning going on – Maxwell and some older scouts did CPR at the Fire Station and Spencer and some younger scouts did the First Aid badge! I feel safe.

Cleanup at MBE for conservation service hours…

Getting his name up there – and it’s going to moving on up the board soon!

Really proud of these boys.