I made this sign.  Those are cupcakes in the shape of the olympic rings. To the right you see our "torch". It had a fan and light in it,  so the Eagle scout could "light" it. 

Blue and Gold

Team Lime getting ready to start a relay.

Our big annual cub scout dinner was this week. We did an Olympic theme and we went all out on decorations and activities. Each family was a "team" and they competed in different events.  Jared named our team "The Lime" (we are not sure why) and we had a flag an everything. We got the gold medal in the tricycle race.   I was in charge of the rubber band gun shoot, and also all the Olympic music that we played loudly throughout the evening.  It turned out really cute. I've blogged more about it on my craft/scout blog. 

Rehearsals

Ruth has started rehearsals for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Kaitlin had another dance clinic for Footloose. Kaitlin was less sore after this one, so her endurance is increasing.

Happy Valentines

Valentines is one bright light in an otherwise dull, long winter.  Jared made this cool valentines box, and came home with a box full of candy.  Chuck and I went out to dinner and then to a community theater show. The girls reported uneventful holidays, other than reporting frustration with all the smoochy couples at school.

Relatively Speaking

Kaitlin and I both spoke in church today.  Kaitlin spoke about conversion and I spoke about spiritual spinach.   While we spoke, Ruth and Jared drew pictures of us.  This is the picture Jared drew.  I guess he was sitting behind a tall man.


Ruth is a Hipster 

Yeah.

Singing and Dancing

Kaitlin's Choir

Kaitlin has been busy this week singing and dancing.  Kaitlin's choir put on a fundraiser concert, and she had another dance rehearsal for Footloose.  The Dance rehearsal has left her stiff and slow moving today, but she had a great time.

Ruth put in a lot of practice this week for her audition for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.  Unfortunately, she didn't get a lead part, but she is still excited to start rehearsals on Tuesday.

Forever Lazy

We found a good deal on some Forever Lazy's and bought one for each member of the family. Kaitlin and Jared have worn them every day since.  Ruth, so far, refuses to wear hers.




 

Discovering Harry

Can you see the numbers on his hand?

This week I noticed numbers written across the back of Jared's hand.  When I asked him about it, he explained that he was reading Harry Potter at school, and then he would write the page number on his hand so he could keep reading when he got home.  I'm a bit jealous watching him discover the wonderful world of Harry Potter for the first time.


All the World's a Stage

The girls and I drove to see my nephew, Benjamin, perform in the Shakespearean play As You Like It.  The production was very good and we had a good time.  I love that my girls are learning to enjoy Shakespeare as much as I do.

I didn't take any pictures so that will have to do.

Three Dates

I mentioned a few posts back that Kaitlin has had her ups and downs with dating. A few months ago, after some frustrating experiences, Kaitlin swore off dating.  She even passed on a couple of girls choice dances, declaring them not worth the work. So imagine my surprise when Kaitlin came home last week to report that she had been asked out three times in one day, and then a couple of days later she was asked a fourth time.  So this weekend she went on 3 dates, one on Friday and two on Saturday.  She reported to me later that going on three dates in 30 hours was fun, but she never wanted to do it again because it was exhausting. 


End of the Road

On Monday we went with Ruth to the regional Reflections, but Ruth didn't win. It's the end of the road for all our Reflections this year.


Thawing

After six weeks in below freezing temperatures we enjoyed our first day in the forties.  The sun came out and the snow started to melt.  All day I could hear the water trickling down the roof, and the house cracking; it was as if the whole house was sighing and stretching from a long sleep.


Scout Shirts

I started working on some scout shirts a couple months ago, but because of our never ending freezing temperatures I couldn't make any more.  So when it got warmer this week I started making shirts again.  I blogged about my process here.

I made this logo for my Webelos. Cool, hu?