What a Beaute

This past Friday and Saturday, Troop 591 participated in the 2010 Klondike Derby at Weber Memorial Park/Causey Reservoir in the Ogden Valley.  Val's scouts did better than I thought they would (oh me of little faith) scoring 108 with the winning troop scoring 116. 

As they were packing up, preparing to come home, a snow ball fight began.  While loading equipment in to the trailer Val took one in the head.  He was taken by surprise, as he wasn't engaged in the white warfare ( I copied this terminology from the troop blog authored by Jared St. Clair ;) ) at this point.  His reaction was to start chasing the offending scout.  The pursuit was long (little scouts are much more nimble and fast compared to Scoutmasters) but Val was within reaching distance of the little guy when his feet were caught up in snow covered sage brush.  Going face first, Val fell flat, right on top of Carson, knocking the air out of the poor little guy.

In retrospect, Val thinks his eye and cheek hit Carson's shoulder, bruising his eye and abrasing his cheekbone.  His main concern was for Carson.  He was worried that he may have broken Carson's collar bone in the fall.  Val was grateful it was snow they fell on, believing it would have been much worse without the softer landing.

Word on the street is Carson has a nice bruise of his own on his back.  My question is........

Do you think Carson's bruise was caused by ...

1. Val's firm chin, or
2. Val's equally firm Chadwick nose

We'll surely never know.  Afterall, it's not worthy of CSI: Weber County. 

However, it sure is fun to speculate every time  I look at the changing color of his eye!

I just love my Scoutmaster!

WOW! What a Summer

This summer, like most summers, has been very busy and somewhat hectic. Based on my previous post about Honey, Laura Michelle and Kellie journeyed down from Alaska and we were able to spend time with them over a three week period! That Kellie girl is so, so cute! And smart! Looks, brains and personality... fun to love and share kisses!

Mr. Bagley has been the Scoutmaster since July. He went to Scout camp, came home for a few days then took another road trip to California for an Eldorado High School Drama Club and Choir Reunion. It spanned, I think, about 10 years of graduating classes. He had a marvelous time reuniting with some of his favorite people from his youth! It was so fun to see him get into the email thing (which has been a bit of a frustrating process for him). Now he's addicted! He checks his email at least once a day and is really good at replying to messages. Now, we need to work on originating messages for future communique'! :)

August was also rather busy. However, we did manage to go to Wyoming twice in August... the first weekend and this past weekend... which included snow! I just LOVE wearing my comfy sweatshirts so I was very pleased with the cooler temperatures. I didn't feel so hot this past weekend so my participation was a bit subdued but I really enjoyed spending time with the Hilles, my Hubby and Honey. I suppose you could call it a Triple H weekend!

Gertie is living in a darling apartment in SLC, in the Sugar House area. It's fun to have her back in our lives on a more regular basis... just wish we had more accommodating schedules. Gertie works evenings while I work the day shift.

Heather made a tough decision and decided to move back up to Davis county to be nearer to family and hopefully more moral support. Paul will continue to live in Provo while he finishes school. Hopefully, after he completes his program, they will be able to move to our area permanently. Selfish of me, I know. It's so nice to have them closer and spend more time with our darling grand-children. I hope we can get in to a regular pattern of visits.

Speaking of grandchildren... Miss Alona started Kindergarten this year! I can't believe she is growing up so fast. Not only is she a school girl now, she also lost her first tooth this weekend! While reading a book with her Mom it just fell out!