Peel Fam: October 2012

10/16/2012

Liam gets his "Arrow of Light"

So, Liam had a birthday aaaand received his "Arrow of Light" in cub scouts. Our little boy is now movin' on to bigtime "boy scouts". I'm excited about it since I am his scout leader in 11 year old scouts. So here's a wrap up of the night:

Here is our good friend and dedicated scout leader Kathy Linford. Along with Maryanne Nybo, the 2 of these gals have been making and awarding these Arrows of Light for years....like 15 I want to say. This headband thing is new. Liam received the name of "Skyhawk" and got this cool leather headband with it written on it.

Kathy puts so much thought and effort into these-it's so cool.

Next, our cubmaster challenged "Skyhawk" to throw this spear through a moving hoop to show his dead-on skills. Here's how it went after getting the rundown of how it's supposed to happen:

Nailed it! Way to go Liam!

Next he receives the actual award and parent pin. Heather's a little miffed because our Cubmaster said: "you can pin it on "your Mom or your Dad"-well, ...you see what happened.

Congrats Liam!!!

10/09/2012

Brigham City Temple open house....Liam's birthday continues

The night before Liam's birthday Heather's sister Amy called and said she had extra tickets to the Brigham City Temple open house. To our surprise Liam was really excited to get up early to do this. All I can really say is it was incredibly beautiful.

I know you could really say that about any temple but this one is different. It had a really cool feel to it with the original art throughout and all of the attention to detail we saw...definitely worth going through when you're in the neighborhood.

I love this shot that Amy took of Liam and I. Liam couldn't stop talking about how cool it was to go there.

A parent loves to hear things like that...

10/03/2012

Liam's bday and other stuff...

Liam looks forward to his birthday the day after his birthday happens. This year was no exception. He really wanted to go to the cabin one last time before school started, and with school starting a week later than usual, we made it happen.

First stop, see Grandma Parker in Blackfoot, Idaho:

Heather was pretty sad after this picture was taken. She said "this may be the last picture I have with my Grandma since she's 93."

She's livin in comfort with these gems though

Oh yes, and every cabin trip we force Eli to drive a bit, even though he's very hesitant to do so

We love to go down to the creek to have a picnic, float boats and just play around.

We brought Casey and Sam Cheney with us this time too.

I love this shot of all the kids walking down the stream

Eli was quite proud of the boat he created

Even Harley needed a minute to cool off

Painting rocks and other things is a must at the cabin

Grandpa said: "Hey, we're going to have a Hunger Games party tonight!" He brought a flat screen and the movie and we sat out in the forest one night to watch it...so much fun.

There's a quaint little restraunt called "Boondocks" where we love to eat each year.

This was some yard art in the front that Eli just had to hold.

Just me and the girls

Liam loves the grilled cheese sandwich

We usually have a talent show of some kind too. Here's what Chloe and Kate threw together:

Kate was a little miffed that she couldn't make everyone's lunch as you can see on her face.

She decided to make a triple decker tuna

Here we are taking it easy and playing a competitive game of Phase 10. Kate won...

We decided to play "Survivor" too. This is a cabin favorite.

Here you see everyone trying to shoot the tin cans off the rock with the slingshot...

Everyone always looks forward to the firebuilding contest. The teams try and build their fires big enough to burn through the rope that's been strung across two chairs. Enjoy this video clip:

Had to capture Eli's face after blowing on the fire for 10 minutes