Blue and Gold Dinner

Nelson Pinning the mother's bear pin on me.


Nelson receiving his bear award. Woohoo! Good Job Nelson.


Tonight was the scout Blue and Gold Dinner. The boy scouts are celebrating 100 years. And in honor of that they requested that the boys and a parent make and decorate a cake. So here is the cake that Ken and Nelson made. They came up with the idea of making it in the shape of a boy scout hat. And In my opinion they did a fabulous job. Yes the whole thing may be eaten. Nelson was very excited to win the best scout themed cake award.
Along with the cake this was a big night for Nelson because he received his bear award along with all the achievement beads that go with it. In earning his award I also received one as well. In boy scouts The mother gets honored as well for helping her son to get to where he is. And the scout gets to pin the award on his mother. So I walked away with a pin of my own as well.He has worked really hard to earn this award. I am so proud of him.

The Scout Cake

On Friday night Ken and Nelson stayed up until way past Nelson's bed time to make this cake for the boy scout blue and gold dinner. Nelson was so excited to be able to this with cake with his daddy.
As it can be seen it looks like a cub scout Bear hat. Nelson's actual hat was used as a model.
Three layers of chocolate cake and lots of frosting later. They had quite the little masterpiece.

cookies

There are so many things I love about spring. The flowers and weather are just two examples.

However there is a part of spring that stresses me out some what. Yup it's girl scout cookie time.
While I enjoy the cookies themselves and I don't even mind helping my girls figure out who to sell them to. Its the keeping track of how many cookies have been sold and being responsible for all the money that goes with them that isn't always so much fun. Not to mention the time that goes along with it. For the next month I will be booked pretty much every weekend which of course is a bummer in trying to plan anything else.

However I must really love my girls or must enjoy the punishment because I keep doing it every year. And it really is a good fundraiser for my troop. So here is what sits in my garage again this year. So time to put on a smile and get out there and get some cookies sold.
Let This year's cookie fun begin

I must be doing something right!!

I had to share one of my favorite valentine's I received this year. It is from McKenzie. She obviously made it but what she said made me so happy. I must be doing something right or better yet Ken and I must be doing something right to get this kind of praise from our 12 year old.

Here is what she said, " Happy Valentine's Day! I Love U guys UR the best parents in the world. love Mckenzie."

My Fall

Yup this is as painful as it looks.
This morning I decided to make some great use of the sun shining and go do some running. I have really been enjoying do the running thing for a while now. I have been loving the weight it has been helping me get rid of and the energy it gives me but I especially love being outside so being stuck on the treadmill has been driving a little crazy. All though I have had some trouble with it honestly all in all I can't complain about it, that is until today.
So I got just under a mile and half in on a route that I have run before without difficulties when i found a rough part in the side walk ( stupid side walk). Boy did I go down hard.Knocked the wind out of me, scratched me up pretty good and i was fighting tears immediately. Needless to say My running was brought to an abrupt halt.
I happened to fall right in front of a little girl who was playing in her yard she in turn went and got her mother. The mother was so sweet she went and got a chair for me to sit on for a little bit and seeing the blood running down my leg she also got me some Kleenex and a band aid to but over the heavy bleeding section. After a few minutes when I got my breath back I thanked her , wished her A Merry Christmas and limped away. As I limped down the street a truckful of people noticed me limping and pulled over to ask if I was ok. I of course said I was but thanks for the concern. If Nothing else this let me know that there are some friendly people around my neighborhood.
Before I left I told Ken I was going to go for a run and he in turn said don't get hurt. SO of course I texted him that he jinxed me. HAHA. Well it'sa good thing I don't actually believe in that sort of thing. So I guess I am taking a small hiadus from running for a couple of days but then yes I will be right back at it again.

Christmas parade

Me and My two favorite girl scouts.
Me and troop 1246
Here comes Santa Clause

Wow the first weekend of December was crazy for this family. On the 5th we missed our wards Christmas party because I had signed my girl scouts up for the parade without realizing that they were same night and same time. I was a little bummed about missing the party but the girls had a ton of fun being in the parade.
this years theme was A Whoville Christmas. Everyone had so much fun doing crazy things with their hair and I even had a fun head band in.

Ken's work Party

All the employees of Blast.

I look forward to December for so many reason's. One of which I enjoy meeting with Ken's office for their annual Christmas dinner. One reason for this is while Ken and I enjoy going out for an occasional date this is a guaranteed thing. I also enjoy getting to meet anyone new in the office and their significant others and being able to talk with those I already know. Ken works with some pretty great people. They are all very nice and what is better they all work really well together.
The past few years we have gone to Fats in Roseville. LOve that Chinese food place. However this year we were able to try something very last minute. On December 4th we went to an Italian restruant at the Galleria mall called II Fornaio. It was very good food. I ordered the chicken Tuscana. I really enjoyed it. I couldn't eat it all but I liked it. We sat out on the patio that was completely enclosed and had a wonderful fireplace with the fire going. It made for a wonderfully cozy and relaxing evening with great company.