Rockets and Wolfe Badges

Cody with his rocket, ready to launch!

Sadie finishing up her rocket so she can launch it too.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . . BLAST OFF

Cody on his first launch

Sadie on her first launch. Do you see how tall she is getting?

So, Sadie and Cody attended a 4-H rocket day camp. They had a great time learning how rockets are powered, how to make them and how to launch them. They got to launch them twice and get to enter their rockets in the fair.

Cody just received his Wolf badge for cub scouts last night. He refused to hug me back when I tried to hug him. What a stinker!

The boys spreading out one of the flags to cut into smaller pieces. You can see the man in the background who played the bagpipe while they cut the flags.
Cody asking permission to retire the flag.
After putting it on the fire.

After the advancement ceremony where Cody got his badge, the scouts retired several American Flags. They cut them up and then asked the VFW representative if they had permission to retire the flag, he would salute them and say, "permission granted" then they would walk the flag pieces to the fire and put it on. I was touching to witness.

Hope you all are keeping busy like we are! Keep in touch!

OH Summer time!

This first slide show is of the Hawkins Family Reunion that we had at my folk's place in Stayton, OR back in June. I traveled over with the kids for an extended stay and my folks and Brett surprised me by flying Brett over for the reunion. It was a great surprise and a great day. We did family photos - it is the first time our entire family has been together in probably 6 years! So that was cool. We had a lot of fun catching up with everyone. I really do love my family!


Last week we took another summer trip south and went to Downata Hot springs for an entire day, camped there overnight and then went to Lagoon (an amusement park in Utah) for 2 whole days. We had so much fun. At Downata we enjoyed the pool and the multiple slides, I forgot to get out my camera until almost closing time so there aren't any photos of the big slides. Brett and I both swam a 1/2 mile just to see if we could. Brett is doing a sprint distance triathlon in August and the swimming part is the part he was most concerned about, but after this trip I think he feels more confident!


So we spent 2 entire days at Lagoon. It was a bit much, considering we did the same thing last year but we still had fun. I seemed to discover my inner dare devil. I rode almost every ride in the park, including the ones that I had sworn that no one could pay me to go on (Yes, I rode "Rocket" and "Wicked"). It was really fun. On the first roller coaster that we went on (Jet Star)the seats are configured so that you have 2 in a seat, one in back and one in front kinda between the other's legs. So Greg was with me and I had my arms over the side holding onto a bar. This coaster goes supper fast and kinda whips you around a lot. I ended up banging my arm against a bolt or something and got a HUGE bruise on the inside of my left bicep. Battle wound I guess :).

Overall - our summer has been all it needed to be so far. It has been relaxing yet busy and we still have several things planned for the next month. I will try to do better at posting more regularly, at least until school starts back up! Hope all of you are enjoying your summer as much as we are.