Bits of Heaven: Boys

Last Thursday we had pack meeting and this is what we came home with...

Dinosaur bones!! The pack has a new cubmaster and this was his first pack meeting. The theme for the month was puzzles (if I remember right). He talked about how you need to look at things in your life in different ways sometimes. He then split all of us there into 3 groups. One group had only the boy scouts. Another group was adults only. The 3rd group was all of the other kids. We were each given a bag of bones and asked to put them together. We weren't told what we were making. That made it very interesting. There were no instructions either. After a few minutes of struggling, he came around with a model that was already done and it helped everyone out tons. All 3 groups got their dinosaur put together and then they did a drawing for the cub scouts to be able to take one of the dinosaurs home. Braydon's name was drawn and so we now have a skeleton in our basement! Cub Scouts is GREAT!

Austin has been going to YM for about 1 month now and he loves it. Last Tuesday I got to go with Justin and Austin to YM's. The youth in the stake were all asked to learn a type of dance to perform for all of the youth in the stake. Our ward was chosen to learn the swing. Bishop and his wife were asked to teach the class and they asked Justin and I to help them out. I was game for it! Any excuse to get out dancing with Justin will do!

So, we helped teach the youth and they all learned rather well. I think we had almost 40-50 youth there that night we practiced. This past Tuesday though was a different story. We only had about 11 youth show up to dance. They all did a great job though. The stake dance was awesome though. It started at 6:30 PM and each ward took turns with their dance they learned. One ward had 'Thriller' for their dance. IT WAS AWESOME!! They were all dressed as dead people (shredded clothes, pale faces, ratted high hair!!) and they all started out dead on the floor as 'Michael Jackson' walked through the dead. They then started to dance! They put lots of effort into it. We also saw the Waltz, Tango, Macarena and a Line dance.

After each ward performed, they had 2 DJ's there to help out with the dance. The kids got to dance until 9:30pm. The DJ's were great at getting the kids to dance. Even on the slow dances. The best part of the whole thing was that I got to witness Austin dancing at his first dance!! It seems so crazy that he could be old enough for that. I told him during the week that he needed to be brave and go ask the cute girls to dance first before they are all taken. I also told him to watch for those that are good at dancing. Justin told him to learn to dance and he'll not have to ask anyone to dance. The girls will all come to him. Austin did a great job. He danced every dance and learned a few line dances. They had fog machines there. Disco balls and lights! Austin had a great time!

Austin before the dance!

Austin is on the far right of this picture. The DJ is on the left and he's got 10 kids doing a scavenger hunt. It was a success! They had to hurry and find the item the DJ asked them to find and hurry back to their seats first. Each time they left to go get an item, a chair was taken away. At one point they were asked to get 1 square piece of toilet paper. Right after that they had to use their piece of toilet paper and get a chewed piece of gum! That's why the kids are pulling faces in this next picture! Austin thought it was pretty gross!

I never did get to dance with Austin though! Justin and I got a few dances in and I even ran into one of my college roomates- Nita!! I couldn't believe it! She lives here in Ucon also. It's a small world!