Court of Honor

We had our last court of honor tonight as our current troop. Since our ward was realigned last week, these boys won't be in the same troop anymore. I am really sad that most of the boys Kenenth's age will be in a different troop now. We are hoping that our new ward has lots of boys his age and that he will continue to have an amazing scout/youth program!

Kenneth earned several merit badges - Citizenship in the World, Music, and Vet Medicine. He only has 3 more merit badges and a project to complete to earn his Eagle!

Mike has been working with the scouts since before Kenneth turned 12. He has had a great time with the boys! This will be his last duty as Scoutmaster. (I think he is kind of relieved.)

Kenneth and his friend, Jordan, messing around on the piano after the program.

Fingerprinting

I was fingerprinted today for the first time - at least that I remember - that's a good thing right? They don't use the ink pads anymore - instead they have these high tech scanners. It was pretty interesting to see how it was done (shows how much I get out :). Mike was not so impressed - guess he has seen it enough at work. The state worker said that both of our backgrounds were clear. Now we just wait for the FBI to review them.

One more step done!

Now we are just waiting for a date for our home visit.

Adoption Process Update

We have most of the paperwork completed now.

We still have the prospective birth parent letter to complete - we have the basic ideas down - just need to put it all together.

We have an appointment tomorrow to get our fingerprints done for the background check.

We continually pray that we will be guided to the right people at the right time.

Conference Sunday

I love general conference - I get to stay home with my family and lounge around in my jammies! (Plus we get to hear amazing messages from our church leaders). The talk about the importance of women was spectacular!

We listened to the first session of conference and then headed to my mom's for lunch.

Melissa (my sister) and her daughter were there too.

We were able to Skype my other sister Michelle to wish her a happy birthday (man she is getting old :)

Then we came home and this is what we did the rest of the afternoon/evening. Yep, it took that long!!!

While we listened to the last bit of conference we started the game. After about 4 hours we had hotels on every property on the board.

I don't think I have ever had such bad luck playing a board game in my entire life. I spent more time in jail than moving around the board during the first 2 hours. I only passed go and collected $200 3 times during that 2 hours.

I finally conceded and gave my 3 remaining properties to Kenneth. We tried to gang up on Mike, but he had much better luck than us. We even tried cheating (which he didn't even notice...hehehe) and that didn't work. We finally gave up and he declared himself the winner.

Man, I sure love these boys!!!!!!

Soccer

Another season of soccer has begun. Well actually practices began in early February. At least there is no snow on the ground now :)

This was Kenneth's second game this year. I missed the first game while in Salt Lake with the young women.

He played goalie for the second half of the game - that is why he is wearing the neon green jersey. He seems to enjoy that position and does really good at it!

This last week, his coach was able to have an experienced player come and work with the three boys that play goalie. Kenneth was excited and said he learned tons.