Independence Day

The Butner Celebration was on Friday July 2. Leon took the kids.



Joshua and Jeremiah lead the Pledge of Allegiance with their Cub Scout pack.


My handsome scouts.



Jeremiah the Bear:


Joshua the Webelos:

Joshua's Snowman

I completely forgot to post Joshua's snowman. This snowman was just too cute not to post. Joshua took this picture as part if his Photography Beltloop requirements. I love this picture! I think the snowman looks almost sad. Like he's saying, "Help me. Please?"



I'm dating the post for Monday...the day he made it. It just makes me breathe a little easier.

Christmas Parade

Apparently the local clinic had more sense than most.


Our scouts marched in the parade. Jeremiah got to walk behind the mayor and throw toys from out of the back of his trunk.




Here comes the rest of the pack.






This is a pretty float with a very sad story. You can google it if you want to.


My friend Skyla likes parades. She also likes candy.


Here he comes!


Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

March Pack Meeting

There were so many awards given out at this months pack meeting!

Joshua earned 1 gold and 2 silver arrow points for his uniform.



Ishmael earned his Scholar Activity Pin, Citzenship Beltloop, Math Beltloop, Language and Culture Beltloop, and his Chess Beltoop. He has been working hard. That and he has over achievers for parents. lol



Kelsea is making some friends now that some of the other scout sisters are starting to attend pack meetings.

God and Country

The boys earned their Cub Scout awards for the God and Country series last fall. The church that hosted the classes also had a ceremony during their church services as a way to bring the families to church together.

Joshua and Jeremiah took the God and Me class.




Ishmael took the God and Family class. There was one Girl Scout. Brave girl to take a class with all the boys.


This was a great opportunity for the boys and the church was so generous to offer their time and talents to the scouts. The boys enjoyed the classes. It was fun. I think next year though, we'll see about doing it with our own pastor. I think it will be more meaningful to the boys that way.

Blue and Gold 2009

Pack 401



Flag Ceremony:


Look who came to visit!!


These boys earned their Religious Knot:


The Bears receiving their rank:


The Weebelos receiving their rank:

Isley Farm

The Tiger Leader invited the den to her farm for an afternoon of fun activities.

Here they are making hobos.


Ingredients for the hobo: choice of meat (chicken, pork chop, hamburger patty), potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, cabbage, garlic powder, season salt, salt and pepper, and a little butter.


Wrap it up tight. Write your name on it. Notice Ishmael's embelishment.


And cook over the hot ashes for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.



While lunch was cooking we all went fishing.









Good thing we weren't relying on their catch for lunch, we'd have starved.

This is a very delicious campfire meal:



Dessert was a very yummy peach cobbler cooked in a dutch oven on the fire.



After lunch we went on a hike through the woods:



There was so much to see.

This was a lovely find:



Here you can see the tracks from a raccoon and what he had for lunch:



Thanks Jeremiah, I was wanting to wash shoes tonight.

Den Meeting

I had my night cut out for me since both the Tigers and the Bears had big projects planned tonight.

Thank goodness I have Kelsea to help me out! She is a very good Den Mother.







And here they are with their bird houses:


They also made pine cone bird feeders.



The Bear Den:






The coolest part of Cub Scouts is watching the boys work so hard and accomplish big tasks.