Nate Cub Scout Day Camp

Here is Nate at Cub Scout Day Camp.
Nate and his buddy Johnathan eating lunch.
Nate shooting BB Guns

Cliff at Cub Scout Day Camp

The first Saturday in June was spent at Cub Scout Day Camp at Lake Maloney South of North Platte. Here is Cliff with his buddy Nathan.
Cliff shooting Archery. This was a little frustrating for him after shooting Compound Bows at 4-H, but he did finally catch on.
BB gun shooting.

They also had a scavenger hunt where they walked around the camp and tried to find something from nature starting with every letter of the alphabet. Z anyone? We don't have Zebras in Nebraska. They had a really great day!

Archery

Nate and Cliff are participating in Archery 4-H this year. I haven't actually gotten pictures of Nate at 4-H yet, but here he is at scout camp getting ready to shoot.

Cliff pulling his arrows out at 4-H
Cliff shooting under Pat's watchful eye

Ryan's First Hair Cut

Josh and I both got off work early today and decided that today was the day for Ryan to get his first hair cut. His beautiful curls have been getting pretty long and have started getting pretty tangled, so now he looks like a big boy! Thanks Doug!!

Squeaky in a bucket!

Ryan in the mop bucket. Silly little boy, likes to climb in everything. I let him have the bucket because it has a hole in it.

Give me a ride please!

Ryan's brothers are often putting him in laundry baskets or boxes so that they can push him around the house. This spring before we moved he got a ride in a Tonka truck. He thought it was great!

Boys in a tree

Before we moved Nate and Cliff were spending lots of time out in the windbreak making forts. Here are some pictures that my mom snapped of them hanging out in the trees.

Oh No!

This happened quite a while ago, but it was pretty funny at the time. The boys had been out riding their bikes when Cliff came running inside and wanted me to come out side immediately because Nate got his pants caught in his bike chain. I was worried that he was hurt, but he was fine. We tried to pull his pants out, but they wouldn't budge, so we tried to pry the chain up, and that didn't work either. Finally we had to pull Nate out of his jeans and push the pedal the rest of the way around until his pants were free. Thank goodness we were still living in the country or he would have been mortified! We did have to stop the rescue mission briefly when a tractor was driving by on the road and Nate didn't want to be in his underwear in the front yard where the tractor driver could see him. Below is the pants without Nate in them stuck in the chain.


Nate peeking out of the door without his pants.

Nate safely back in his pants after the rescue.

And then there were TWO!

Saturday Cliff bought these two pop bottles plus a third one. The Dr. Pepper ones are very old. While carrying them into the house one of the Dr. Pepper bottles slid out of his arms and landed on the driveway. It exploded and then there were TWO...........

and FOUR stitches is what it took to close up the cuts. He is kind of particular about keeping the band aids on, but there is one stitch under the band aid on his heel and 3 under the band aid on hid ankle. Wow can he scream loud! He informed Josh that he was not as funny as he thought when we got home from the ER. (That naughty daddy was laughing while poor Cliff was screaming his head off in pain!) Another Daddy first for Josh!

Horsey Time

The boys got to spend some time with the Taylor side of the family on Sunday afternoon riding. It was a first for them and they were pretty excited. We didn't know that riding was going to be a part of their day when they got dressed for church though, so they had to ride in their shorts and flip flops. Thank you to Jason and Jake for helping them and providing the horses. Thank you to Stephanie for providing the pictures.

Nate, Jason, and Cliff

Nate and Jake

Cliff, my boy who would love to be cowboy all of the time.

Nate and Socks

Cliff again

The two together

Memorial Day

I will spare you the pictures of us moving, actually I didn't have time to take pictures of that, but Nate and Cliff got to go spend some time with Derek and his little buddy Nate M. They spent some time at Cody Park and playing in the water. They had a great time! Thanks Derek!