Quenton Elected into Order of the Arrow!

This weekend Ed and Quenton were elected into Order of the Arrow and completed their Ordeal. The Order of the Arrow is the national honary camping and service organiztion for the Boy Scouts of America. They spent the entire weekend at Camp Hansen and survived the severe weather that dumped 6 inches of rain on the camp!

Quenton was also elected as assistant lodge chief of the Tomahawk District! After Order of the Arrow weekend was completed, Ed spent time in training for the pre-course Wood Badge where he will be an instructor. Quenton spent the afternoon with the Camp Ranger's son hanging out and playing video games. Needless to say, we were very tired after the long weekend with little sleep due to the severe weather.

Pow Wow

Last weekend Ed took 4 boys to the 2nd Annual Colby Merit Badge Pow Wow. This is an event where the Boy Scouts campout overnight and the following day work on Merit Badges to help them advance in scouting. The boys got up at 6:15 am to start breakfast. They cooked pancakes and sausage. You can tell from the photo that they are a little tired. I do not know if it was because of two of the boys talking most of the night or the 5 hours of rain overnight!

Quenton (the one on the right), who is the Sr. Patrol Leader, ended up earning Vetrinary Medicine, Astronomy and Weather. In the afternoon Ed taught Geocaching to 25 scouts plus leaders. The boys also had the opportunity to take part in Elk Calling, Flint knapping and swimming. In the evening they got to watch a movie and then had a campfire and a boy scout troop performed Indian dances in full regalia. Notice the new tents the boys got! They received 6 of them through donations!

We are home!

Bev here. Between the Wade Fair and a trip to the Midwest Catholic Family Conference we have been gone more than here for the past three weeks! It sure feels good to be home!

The Wade Fair was soooooo much fun! Patty Keenan and her crew always put on a excellent weekend. If you haven't ever made it to the PA Wadefest - you have go next year.

We got home on Tuesday. That's right, we left PA at 3:00 Sunday afternoon (BIG thank you to Casey and his mom for helping us pack or it would have been 4:00). Anyway, we left at 3:00, drove til 11:00. Found a motel and caught a few hours of sleep. Got back up and were on the road by 7:30. Drove until 5:00pm. Stopped to visit my parents for the night. Then drove the rest of the way home the next morning. Ed was at work by 3:00.

Then we turned around on Friday and left again. If you are Catholic, you have to attend a Catholic Family Conference. The Midwest one was amazing. They had programs for our three older children to participate. So, Ed and I were able to go and listen to the most amazing speakers with only Elyssa. Who, BTW, was an angel this weekend. I was able to here and participate in everything I wanted to. I wish that I had remembered to pack the camera.

Well, that is the bare bones of it. We are still trying to catch up on all the emails that we received during this time and Ed has so much to do at his day job, it isn't even funny. I'd better get cracking!