Scout Camp Here We Come

This has been a long awaited day around here. (not for me, but for them) I have seriously heard EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past 6 months, how excited they are and how awesome this day will be.
They headed out bright and early this morning. They went to sleep in their clothes last night so they would be ready to jump in the truck this morning. I am so glad that they are excited about scouts. I am going to miss these boys. Life will very dull and VERY quiet around here. Joseph and Parker won't be back for 2 weeks. After scout camp they will be headed to the Appalachian Trail for a 6 day, 65 mile hike. In bear country. Nothing like hearing those words to put fear in a mother's heart. Those same exact words ellicit cheers and excitement from teenagers who have no sense.

Boy's Trip

Every year, Joe, his dad, uncles, brothers, nephews, cousins, and sons go on their annual "Float Trip". This year, only Joseph and Caden were able to go with all the uncles and grandpa. I dropped them off yesterday morning at the Duck river. They have been talking and packing for weeks about this trip. What could be more fun for a teenager than to float down the river and fish for 4 days? I was afraid that they were not going to fit in their boats because they had SO much stuff. I was also afraid that they were not going to have enough food. I think that I packed enough for 5 grown men and still I was worried. I asked Joseph if he thought that they had enough or should I run to the store. He gave me this look as if to say, "Are you insane mom?" He informed me that they probably have more food than all the grown men. I told him it was a mothers job to worry.

This is Caden with his cousin Lee and grandpa heading off down the river. I had to run back up to the van to get the camera because he wanted a picture of them heading down the river.

Joseph and his cousin Lani headed out in their canoe while everyone else was still packing up their boats. They thought that they would try fishing along the bank. About 10 minutes later Joseph hollers at me to take a picture of the first catch of the day. He caught a big cat. I had to run down the trail to get this picture.

This is Joseph and his cousin heading out.

Caden and grandpa heading out. Notice the cooler in the innertube floating behind them. Genius!

I am so glad that my boys have this opportunity to be with their dad, uncles and grandpa. They are such good men. They are wonderful examples to them. I know that they will always look back on these summers and remember them fondly. Hopefully one day (A long time from now!) they will have the chance to take their boys on the annual float trip.

Teenagers think they know Everything

Today as we were in the car coming home from school, the boys were commenting on everybody at school and where they had been durning last Friday's tornado. Had we been at our house, we would have had a grand view. We have a view of the whole valley that the tornado passed right thru. The boys were saying, "Oh, we would have been on the porch taking pictures". I was telling them, "No way, you would have been down in the laundry room with everybody else". Parker said, "Well, I would have just used a long stethoscope and looked around the corner". We were all dying laughing at him and Joseph said, "It's not a stethoscope, it called a horoscope". At that we about fell over laughing.

I am pretty sure it is called a periscope boys.