Cub Scouting - Troop 76

So, Mike and i have been in the scouting program for about 5 months now. This month with the boys we have been making go-carts. They have had so much fun making them and i even think one of our boys even got over the fear of an electric screwdriver. He's very timid.

Here are a couple shots of us racing the carts tonight. Just so everyone knows, i won Mike on our race!! :o)

I don't know who had more fun, us or the boys??

Friday night at the camp fire.

Ok, so we decided to go up the mountain and have hot dogs and make smores with the "Other Maloys", Mark, Angela and Jacklyn. We also took the computer and watched a movie. While making smores Angela was walking back to sit down to roast a marshmallow and let out a scream. We got the flashlight and there was this tarantula. It was so large it could have eaten us whole. I mean like 10 feet big. Ok really, the body was like 3 inches from butt to head and then when you factor the legs in, it would have been about 6 or 7 inches, the largest i have EVER seen even in museums. So here is a photo of the creature and i hope you can see it as clear as we did.

Mike and I decided to spend the night, so we set up camp in the back of the truck, blew up the mattress and by 2:00am we were on our way back home again. The mattress kept deflating on us. So we got about 4 hrs sleep. Rather deflated and depressing.

Park City

This past weekend we (9 sisters and I) went to Park City for a "Sisters weekend". We had so much fun together. We have done this (sisters weekend) for 3 years now and trying to make a tridition of it. We go to a different location each year.

We went up the mountain on the ski lift and from this view was the top. Lila and i decided to walk down the mountain. Instead of following the trail Lila wanted to go down the face of it. Ya know, shorter distance straight down@@@@, it will be fast ( i guess if you roll down). It was fun, but i know now i'm out of shape.

Here is a photo of the ten of us and of Park City in the fall with the leaves just starting to change. Ellen took the photo's.

Fun in Mesquite!!!

So Laurel wanted to take the boys somewhere for the weekend and take them swimming. They invited us to tag along with them and they decided to go to Mesquite, NV. We had a ton of fun. Went swimming A LOT and rode on the go-carts. Luke was just a little too short so he could not go on the go-carts. On Saturday evening there was a storm and a flash flood, the power was out so it was challanging to find somewhere to eat, BUT the slots never lost power.. hmmmm

Here are a couple photo's of our fun weekend.