Fri, 09 Jul 2010
Bryan’s Eagle ProjectThe day after Thomas' birthday, was the day Bryan had planned to work on his Eagle Scout Project. Once again, since my camera broke the day before, I had to take pictures with my video camera. This is the camera that I used most of the vacation also, but Panasonic sent me a replacement camera so I was able to use the new one for the last of vacation. Now that we're home, I've finally got all of the pictures on to the computer.
So, Bryan worked with the city to plan some horseshoe pits for the park near our house. The plans went through many revisions, but finally were ready to be implemented. The wooden boxes were built in our garage on a Saturday, and then dug into their spots the next Wednesday. A fence was also built on Wednesday. It all went mostly smoothly. I provided pizza on Saturday and BBQ hot dogs on Wednesday night. That kept me from having to do much digging.
We left a few days after this for our month long vacation. I checked on the pits this morning and they still look good. The grass has recovered. Now Bryan just needs to do his write-up and I need to straighten out his paperwork. We hope to have this all done before school starts.
Thomas turns Eleven
My camera broke the day before Thomas' birthday, so my blog entries are a little (OK, lots) late. Thomas has his birthday at the end of the school year so it is often a hectic time, but on the positive side, he often gets to have fun times at school on his birthday. This year was the fifth grade Spring Fling. They got to leave school and walk to the Rec-Plex for ice skating, swimming, and other fun. Here is Thomas with his class on that day. I didn't take these pictures, other moms did that for me.
In the evening we celebrated his birthday as a family. We ate his special birthday dinner of stuffed shells and then he opened a pile of presents. We gave him a camera and he was pretty happy with it. Then we sang and ate the ship ice cream cake that he'd wanted. Wow. Thomas is eleven. Happy Birthday to our youngest-but-not-so-young-anymore.
Jan Dill Hall St. Peters, Missouri
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