Cub Scout Day Camp

Day Camp was this week.  We were not able to attend the last 2 Summers, so we, errrr, I mean the boys were excited to see what it was all about.  The first day was no fun.  It started raining just minutes into the start of camp.  The rain was soon followed by thunder and lightening, decreased temps, and wind.  After an hour, I took the 4 Bear Scouts that I brought  back to our house, and we did our own day camp.  Yesterday was beautiful.  The sun was shining, and there was enough wind to keep the mosquitos off, but not so much that we were miserable.  Eric and Jonathan both enjoyed archery and BB gun shooting the most, with fishing coming in a close second.  Megan and I were there for the last half of the camp session.  We left before the campfire program-we were tired and anxious to get home.

pictures

There was apparently an update to blogger....I am noticing that the pictures look a little blurry in the posts.  If you click on them to enlarge them, they look better. 

Girl

Boys

Gymnastics

Megan started gymnastics on Friday.  She was one very excited little girl.  She will go on Friday mornings through July. 

Roosevelt Zoo

The Bismarck Zoo is currently closed due to the flood.  Since we were in Minot Memorial Day weekend, we took advantage of the Roosevelt Zoo.  I didn't know how it would work taking 4 active kids to the zoo with my walking boot and limited mobility, but I thought it was worth a try.  Glad we went when we did, as later in the afternoon the Roosevelt Zoo started feeling some of the pain of the flooding.  After the zoo, we found our favorite playground at Oak Park, and officially kicked off our Playgroundpalooza Adventure of 2011.  The record to beat is 26 playgrounds.  I believe we started our Playground Adventure last Summer at Oak Park as well.

Last Day

Another fun and successful year of school. Eric and I were so excited! Bring on Summer vacation. Jonathan, well....he is not as excited. The poor kid wept quite a bit once we were all safely buckled in the van after school on Thursday. Turns out he thinks school is the best, and will miss his friends and teachers so much. According to him, 2nd grade was the best year of his life.

Eric was awarded a Fitness Award for the year. Jonathan was the top AR (Accelerated Reader) for the class, and 4th overall for the 2nd grade. We wonder what 3rd grade will have in store for us!