Play Dough Trial

 I had found a recipe on Pinterest (love finding ideas here!) for a play dough using hair conditioner & corn starch.

 so we decided to give the recipe a try one Sunday afternoon.

 It was nice to the skin (sort-of) but it was super messy.

 we could never get the correct consistency--either sticking to the table or too dry.

 Plus, the corn startch has that "chalky" texture (which can give me the shivers!) so I didn't like playing with it that much.

So I let the kids to to play with it the rest of the day, and then we tossed it out.  Sadly, I bought enough corn starch & conditioner to make another 3 or 4 batches.  But on the happy side, now I don't need to buy corn starch or conditioner for a while!

Wedding Flowers

 Tiffany wants Pamela & I to make the flowers for the wedding.  It has turned out to be a bit harder than I first imagined.  The flowers covering Pamela's table.  

 I went to her house March 6th-8th to work on them.  We didn't get them finished, but we did get a lot done.

We had to take some of the flowers apart & make "new" ones.  We didn't have a lot of navy colored flowers (couldn't find them at any of the craft stores).

Tiffany's bouquet so far.  I guess I'm just being quite picky, but I am not happy with it yet.

Plus I will be making some bows & putting them on the flowers.  Less than a month now so I'd better get busy!

Donkey Basketball

 Brienna was asked to be on a team to play donkey basketball. It was a fundraiser for the Rodeo Team that her friend, Josey Grover is a member of (we don't have a rodeo team, so she has to go to West Jefferson--Terreton to compete).

 So Brienna went to Terreton & got on a donkey!  She said she had fun--I didn't go, but Rusty & the 2 older boys went.

 Go Brienna!

 Looks like fun!  I remember watching a donkey basketball game when I was growing up in Lander.

Brienna's team:  Brienna, Lindsay Farr, Selina Hernandez, Mariah Farr, & Amber Christensen.  All seniors except for Mariah.

Emmalee's Little Bobcats--Feb. 2014

 Last month Emmalee finished up with Little Bobcats.  She had such a fun time & learned a lot.

 Here she is dribbling.

 shooting a jump shot

 playing a game (she's in the blue on the right).  Callum is also on the court ("reffing")

 Waiting for the Hoop Shoot (Zane was in charge of her group)

 Nice lay up!

 Shoot!

 Picking a prize--she made 4 out of 10 free-throws!

Love ya, Emma!

February Misc.

 Ben was so excited to be able to eat the bowl that held his soup!  This is our Blue & Gold Banquet.  

 Emmalee chose to eat out of non-edible bowl & shared my bread bowl (she ate the inside).

If she wasn't so cute, she would be in more trouble than she receives!  (she can be quite the stubborn stinker, but we love her!)

 Emmalee's Dubois town building.  Each year, the 3rd graders have to re-create a building from our town & give a report about why it's important to our community & how it contributes to our community.  Emmalee was assigned the LDS church.  She (& her daddy) did a great job!

 The buildings also double as Valentine's boxes.  They have to make sure they make a way for the valentines to go inside (& to also get them out).

 Since most of our snow had melted in mid-February, Ben wanted to ride his bike.

He bundles up to stay warm and on this day--I heard a knock on the door (thought he couldn't get in because of the bulkiness of his gloves) but saw him on the porch.  What a cutie!

Basketball Up-Date

Basketball has come to an end (finally!)  Our boys have played so well this season.  At district play-offs, we won the first game (against Sho-Ban on Tues. Feb. 18th), & went on to play North Gem on Thursday, Feb. 20th (who we lost by only 3 the week before at their gym--and only had 8 players for varsity!).  But needless to say, we lost that game.  So then we were on the "loser" side of the bracket--which just makes it harder to get to the state play-offs in Boise.

We played & won against Calvary Chapel on Saturday (the 22nd) followed by a game on Tuesday, Feb. 25th against Mackay (our rivals).  And we won!  Which meant one more game at districts!  Against North Gem (again since they lost to Rockland the same night we beat Mackay).

The girls at the last district game on Thursday, Feb. 27th against North Gem.  It was an exciting game--and they WON!!

I had to put this in because the cheerleaders have been working hard & were able to lift Kami above their head!  awesome job (Linsday, Mariah, Selina & Kami)

So proud of these boys!  2nd at districts!  They have worked hard all season & it was fun to watch everyone of them play!  The boys then had to play a team from the western side of the state (same division as us) but that game was in Burley & Rusty & I had an overnight date already planned so we missed it.  It sounds like they were really tall & big kids & even though our boys played hard, we lost 35-73.  (it sounds like the first quarter just killed us--we had the ball stolen about a dozen times & were behind 2-22 at the end of the 1st quarter).  

But the team decided to go to Boise anyways & watch the state tournament.  They went in 3 cars & went to 12 or 13 games.  Zane had a lot of fun & saw some great basketball.  I have to say, though--as much as I have enjoyed watching these boys all season, I am glad it is over for now.  (Districts just about wore me out--almost every other day to town!).

Boy Scout Information--Especially for my sister, Sherrie!

 Here is my bookmarks (you might have to click on the picture & then zoom in).  But I have tons of folders under my favorite bookmarks.

 Here is the front of Callum's binder for Boy Scouts.

 The first tab is for Ranks.

 I have dividers with pockets so we can put things he's working on in them.  This is his summary of where he is.  You should be able to ask the Advancement Chairman for a copy of this.  Or ask if they can print one at the scout office if no one in your Troop can do this for you.

 Then I used the website:  http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Merit_Badge_Worksheets to print off the following worksheets for the BSA ranks & Merit Badges.  The picture above is for the Scout rank (which is just pretty much just joining BSA).  It would be followed by Tenderfoot, 2nd & 1st Class and then: 

 This is Callum's current rank.  He has everything completed except for one non-required merit badge.  There is a Merit Badge Pow-Wow this month that he will complete 2 more merit badges at.

 Next I have a section for Required Merit Badges.

 Here is the Emergency Preparedness worksheet.  He actually did this one at a Pow-Wow, so never filled this worksheet out (the Merit Badge Counselor had other stuff for him).

By the way--these worksheets are NOT required.  But they are a big help for the boy, mother, & leader!

 The next section is non-required Merit Badges.

 Callum picked a few he was interested in.  Our Troop has a "library" with the merit badge booklets (which each Scout needs to read before he finishes his merit badge).  

Reading & Scholarship are 2 that are not required, but most kids can complete these just by completing their school work & then just a little bit more.

Sorry the pictures are a bit blurry.  I just took these with my iPod (& not in very good lighting) so I could quickly get them on the computer for my sister.