The Blanding Bugle

Volume 16 Issue 5

May 2007

Skating done now skiing...

When you have six very active kids it is better to put that motion into productive things than let them tear your house apart.  As Doreen says, "Kids are structive, you either put the con or de in front of it."

So in order to be CONstructive, we spent the last four month taking ice skating lessons and now we will spend the next four months back on the carpet at Mini Mountain honing our skiing and boarding skills.  Our hope is to be back at Big White come January 2008.

If you want to see pictures click here, and believe me you do.

Demolition!

We started with a bang, literally! We have started the tear out process of our kitchen remodel. We had a bunch of teens over for a party and for the service part they were to help us destroy some of our kitchen. Of course I got the first swing and it felt good!  Look for pictures to come when we are all done. Hopefully in four weeks, but we know how these things go--so count on it being July's Bugle.

Pinewood Derbies!

One of our favorite times of the scouting year--Pinewood Derby!  This year Steve went all out and even bough a drill press, just so the wheels will be lined up. See, we moved into a ward that takes their derbies seriously! With all the new stuff and information Steve has gathered over the past decade or so of running pinewood derbies, he has mastered the sport. Of course he passes that right along to his children and they have super fast cars. In fact they are so fast, the Matt consistently beat Steve's nubercar (don't ask). You can read Steve' account on his blog , just scroll down. He also has pictures and video.

Steve also ran derbies for quite a few other packs. It is always fun to go see other packs and enjoy the competition and spirit of cub scouts!

Visit with Nadine

Doreen desperately felt the need to go visit Nadine at least one more time so she talked Steve into flying down to Utah with her.  To make things even more fun they decided it would be great if they could take Doreen's mom to visit with Nadine.

Everything went smoothly, until they showed up at Nadine's home. Mark, Nadine's husband, hadn't checked his email and the girls hadn't passed on the telephone message.  So even though they weren't expected, it was a great visit.

The spirit inside their home is one of a fun and loving family.  We will miss Nadine when she is gone, but know that the earthly and eternal ties in that family are tied very tight.

My Five Scouts!

Matt getting first place and Chris getting second!
Way to go boys!