Trent Receives His Class' Citizenship Award

We are so very proud of Trent! For the third year in row he was voted by his classmates to receive the boy's citizenship award. He was recognized this morning during the awards assembly.



Here is a picture of him getting his award from our assistant principal.



I forgot to include these pictures earlier. Tuesday night was Trent's final Cub Scout meeting for the year. He was given his Wolf patch and 3 more beads for his uniform. It was also wonderful to get to walk him across the stage as he became a Bear, the next step in Cub Scouts. We are looking forward to another wonderful year of scouting starting in September!

Trent receives his awards from Paul and Keith, the Wolf leaders.

The newest Bear Cubs...David, Garrison, Trent, and Curtis.

The Harlem Globetrotters

Tonight we had a great time getting to see the Harlem Globetrotters play. And guess what???? They won!! Can you believe that? They must be the winnest team in basketball! I wonder how they do that!?!?! :-)

I had never seen the Globetrotters play until tonight...with the exception of seeing the cartoon version on an episode of "Scooby Doo" back when I was a kid. If you don't remember the episode I'm talking about here's a link to a synopsis and a short trailer of the episode. I couldn't find a link for the original from the 70's, so this link will take you to the remake from a few years ago:

http://whv.warnerbros.com/WHVPORTAL/Portal/product.jsp?OID=25414

This Scooby-Doo episode should've been my sign that this is no ordinary basketball team. After watching them play tonight I will now refer to the Globetrotters as the WWF team of basketball. It reminded me of professional wrestling, except it was basketball. Yes, they are still awesome ball handlers but I never knew how "staged" the game was. It was quite funny and enjoyable and Trent had a wonderful time. Now to share with you a few pictures.

Tonight offered a special opportunity for Cub Scouts. We received discounted tickets and were able to enter early to visit with some of the players. This was a combined outting for both the Cub and Boy Scouts which Trent thought was pretty cool. We also had several sisters join the group! Trent's Cub Scout Master, Jimmy, is standing in the back on Globie's left side (he's the bald one).

I was amazed that it was actually ELLA'S IDEA to take a picture with Globie. She's always been scared to death of these kind of creatures.

Ella waits very patiently to go inside the coliseum.

I'm not sure what this player's name is but Trent was amazed at the spinning ball.

Trent enjoying the beginning of the game...watching the Globetrotters perform a "Magic Circle" to the tune of Sweet Georgia Brown.

During halftime Trent played around with one of the other Wolves from his pack. This is David and he was in my class last year. Like I've said before...every kid in Trent's pack has either had me for a teacher in the past or is in my current class. It's unusual but kind of neat.

Celebrating Scout Sunday

Thank you to my sister-in-law for telling us that this Sunday was Scout Sunday. Trent was very excited about getting to wear his Cub Scout uniform to church. I thought I would post a picture of three of the Cub Scouts from our church.

From L-->R - Conner is a Tiger, Trent is a Wolf, and cousin Dylan is a Bear.

Pops Will Be Proud!

I must say that the day the Boy Scouts Cubmaster comes to lunch is not my favorite...unfortunately, today was that day. Each year, the Cubmaster from the local pack comes and hands out flyers to all the boys in1st-5th grade during the lunches to get the word out about the Sign-Ups and Information Meeting the next week. And each year without fail I must explain to the whining girls in my class why they were not given a colorful flyer and calm my boys who have been wound-up by our exciting visitor. This year was no different...except for one thing...the Cubmaster has gotten Trent hooked on the idea of Boy Scouts. And I'm pretty sure it had something to do with talk of shooting BB Guns - at least, that's what I heard from the boys in my class.

Fortunately, as a former Girl Scout (and a Gold Award recipient at that) I am a supporter of scouting. So it appears that Trent will be joining Cub Scouts next Tuesday. But I know there is one other person who is probably more excited about it than John and me - that would be Pops. So Dad, as a supporter of the Boy Scouts and most importantly as Trent's Pops I only have one question for you...


HOW MANY BOXES OF POPCORN WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY THIS YEAR????? :-)
Popcorn sales begin September 28th!