Basketball Season, Caleb's Presidential Fair, and Gabe's Cub Scout Blue and Gold

This last week was probably the busiest week we've had in a while! We had two big things - the Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet and then we had Caleb's Presidential Cookie Fair the next night. Then just today, it was the boys' very last basketball games of the season.

Caleb's team did consistently well the whole season. I really don't know that they lost even one game. (But they don't have a scoreboard so therefore I never knew the exact score.) Gabe's team on the other hand… they had a pretty rough start. I think about 4 out of the 7 boys on the team had never even touched a basketball in any sort of game before. But they improved a lot over the season and actually won today AND last week, against two teams that had both previously beat them earlier in the season. So they were all pretty excited about that!

For Caleb's Presidential project, he was assigned Teddy Roosevelt. He had a lot of fun learning about how the teddy bear got it's name and other fun stories about him. (He once got shot during a campaign speech in Milwaukee and continued to give his speech while he was bleeding through his shirt!) Then he also did some square dancing at the presentation day, which was entertaining to watch! ;) I also had to make the president's favorite cookie, which were these shortbread cookies. I made them first as a test about a week before. They were genuinely disgusting. I refused to ever make them again. So I may have altered the recipe a bit and told Caleb that I still followed it, they just turned out better the night of the Presidential cookie fair. (Lies we tell our children….) But we came home with an empty plate so I didn't feel bad about it one bit. ;)

For the Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet, we chose to do a Lego theme. So all of the decorations were based on Legos. It was a pretty fun night! They had a lego building contest, a Lego toss game, had sloppy joes for dinner, and got these cute little lego heads with skittles in them that I made by painting baby food jars yellow and drawing on faces with a black sharpie. Gabe earned his "Bear" Badge, so it was also a big day for him!

Glad this week is over! I need some sleep. (Oh, I also got a new iPhone so me and Avery were testing out our different "selfie" faces for the camera…) And Josh went snow mobiling with his boyfriends…

Here are some pictures!