Quinton receiving Eagle Scout Award

Quinton received his Eagle Rank in scouting and his first palm on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. He resisted having a court of honor and just wanted them to hand him the award but finally consented. This is a new friend that recently moved into our ward congratulating him.

Three boys got their Eagles that night. None of them wanted much "hoopla" so we did a joint Eagle Court of honor following a regular boy scout court of honor.

This is Brother Powell who helped Quinton with his Eagle Project. He supervised him in sheetrocking, taping and painting a storage shed that will be used for canning and emergency food distribution. The shed is behind our Stake Center. Brother Powell is a recent convert and was wonderful to work with.
Dee and I with Quinton. Oops. I didn't notice that Dee's eyes were closed when I uploaded this picture.
Quinton, Nick Galloway and Ethan Billin all taking the Eagle Oath. The other two boys finished theirs a week or so before their 18th birthdays. The one on the right is already married.

Halloween at BYU

I figured I would post some pictures of last night. I threw my costume together in about an hour...I guess I was a country girl or something like that. My stake throws the best Halloween party at BYU I am pretty sure. I wish I had taken my camera, but I didn't, so I will just tell you about it. There was a fun house, a maze, tons of games to win whole candy bars, a costume contest, and dancing! It was a lot of fun!

This is me and four of my roommates. Julie, April, Me, Carmen, and Stephanie.
Julie, Me, and Steph.

Concrete floor completed

These pictures are a little out of order. I am still learning how to do this blogging business. After the plumbing was finished, they put on four inches of sand, then a layer of this blue moisture barrier, and then another four inches of sand. Then they compressed it and smoothed it out.

This should be the last picture of this blog. I gave up trying to put them in order. Here the concrete floor is all complete and they are bringing on the steel supports to begin the construction of the steel building.
After the sand work was finished, they put a grid of rebar over the entire floor.

This picture was taken after the sand work was completed and before they did the grid rebar. They did have to repair a few of the plumbing pipes that they hit during the sand instillation process.

Phew! Three blogs in one night and I am still not caught up. I will do a couple of more this weekend, hopefully.

Marching Band - Football Game

Melissa and Celeste came to the RHS Homecoming game with us. (Ryan was hunting with his dad) Our football team is terrible this year but the marching band was performing and Quinton is the Drum Major leading the band so we went to watch him. Lots of people go to the games just to watch the band.

That is Quinton on the platform directing the band.

Quinton and Rex Amend, the other Drum Major, leading the band onto the field.

Happy Halloween from Smart-Start Academy

Halloween is a fun day for children but I am glad that it is over. After seven parties in two days, we are all exhausted. Actually, they went very smoothly though. One of our parents makes some jello worms every year that look so realistic. Most of the kids won't eat them but they are sure fun. The parents plan all of the treats and most of the activities for most of the parties so we just have to deal with keeping the kids calm.

Celeste came as a giraffe for her first Smart-Start Halloween. She had her 6 month old immunizations yesterday and she was a little fussy today, but still a sweetie. I think is was a little too over stimulating for her.

Here is one of seven of our classes. We get some pretty cute costumes.

Snowy Weekend

Riverton got nearly a foot of snow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was 13 degrees this morning. I'm sure the weather will stall construction for a day or two. However, the temp is supposed to be back up to 60 degrees by Thursday.
They finished the underground plumbing but it is difficult to see our "forest" of white pipes due to the white snow. They also backfilled and compacted the dirt around the pipes. I think the next step will be to pour the concrete floor as soon as the ground dries out enough to work it. It will probably be a muddy mess for a couple of days.

Quinton's Tennis Season

These are some shots of Quinton playing tennis that Melissa took . He finished up his tennis season last week at State where he had 3 wins and 2 losses. He tied for fifth in the state at 2nd Singles. He had a winning season and seemed to improve a lot. It was fun to watch him (especially when he was playing well).