Benjamin earned his Arrow of Light award, the highest award given in Cub Scouting.
Benjamin’s Arrow of Light
Category: Benjamin
Yard work & mud
Face tattoos?
Ben: Can I have a Mountain Dew?
Julles: Can I draw on your face?
Welcome the new arrival
Gilbert AZ Temple
Fathers and Sons Campout
Halloween
L-R James is “Seth” from Fablehaven, Anthony is a ninja, Benjamin is an army dude (of course), Samuel ninja, and Jacob is Thomas the Tank Engine (of course!) Jacob was really starting to get the hang of it, though he only lasted for about 1 hour. The others were out for 2 hours!
Oh, the other thing about James that you can’t see is that James wanted his hair to be dirty blonde so he got it highlighted. And since he has natural highlights of RED from his Dad’s side, guess what the highlighting did for his hair! Made it a beautiful light red! (and he was too impatient to let the hair stylist dry the hair and make sure it was the color he wanted.) So we’ll have a red head for a few months!
Benjamin – Tiger Cub
Running Cousins
Running cousins this morning for Spanish Fork Fiesta Days celebration. After Benjamin not doing so well in the Tour de Donut on the bike, I wanted him to experience something I knew his was good at – running. So Benjamin and Samuel did the 1 mile fun run with Matt. Benjamin’s time was 8:27 and Samuel’s time was 14:05. I started running with Benjamin, but he took off when Samuel and I were slowing him down. Benjamin also decided that he wanted to run barefoot, but did opt to run in socks since that would be slightly more comfortable. This was because he wanted a pair like my Vibram 5 fingers shoes, but they are too expensive for growing feet!
The older cousins ran the 10k. Brandon with his good friend Matt, Jared, Alyssa and Holly. In fact, I think after Brandon finished his 10k, Matt’s 1 mile fun run started and LaMont wasn’t ready to run with Matt, so Brandon jumped in the race to run with Matt. What a fantastic big brother!
Benjamin the Bobcat
Benjamin is an official Tiger Cub Scout. When he turned 7, he constantly reminded me that I needed to get him signed up for Tiger cubs. So I called our local Boy Scouts of America office and found a Pack in Springville that has Tiger Cubs. Dave has been taking him every Tuesday night (same night as James’ Boy Scouts here in SF). They have been having so much fun together.
Tonight Benjamin got his Bobcat award. He was absolutely thrilled. Kept saying, “now I’m Bobcat scout! You need to get me the Bobcat hat, shirt, and, and….”
Well, not quite Ben. Had to explain that every Cub Scout has to get their Bobcat (even a Webelos) before they can earn their rank advancement (Tiger, Wolf, Bear, Webelos).
But we had lots of fun tonight!