AHG Highlights

AHG has been very busy this month.  Belle and the explorers learned sewing with Mrs. Gina from church.  Belle also went with all the older girls to earn her "Climbing" merit badge at High Point.  I got to lead the tenderhearts for one more meeting and we learned about the 6 days of creation.  The girls made a great diorama of the 6 days and shared what they learned with the pathfinders (Ruby's group).  For both the Pathfinders and the Tenderhearts, we made key chains with my new leatherworking kit...I just wish I had a picture of my face as they slammed the hammer towards my fingers...a couple of the girls really scared me.  And the last event captured below was when Anabelle and Ruby helped lead the flag ceremony for "Pray United" at the charter church.  They did an excellent job, and represented their troop well.  

 

Davis becomes a teenager

One teenager has not been to bad, but now we have two...And he now has a Nintendo Switch...wait, let me go check his room...yep, headphones on playing with friends right now.  That's ok, that boy spread like 60 bales of pinestraw today, and worked hard the whole time.  He is still often a little dramatic, and probably more like his mom than me, he for some reason will not wear glasses (magan) even tho he CAN'T SEE!  But he is a funny guy that I love to hear laugh with me listening to Jim Gaffigan, a big laugh that comes bursting out with a big smile and squinty eyes (magan).  Ms. Lisa brought him the St. Paddy's day stuff and decorated for him as he got off the bus.  

 

Magan had a little lamb

So, yes, Magan had a little lamb...and I think they called it Pearl.  I basically try to stay out of all the crazy farm animals in your house things that go on, but Davis helped Magan a lot with "Pearl".  And Magan has some crazy good pictures of the girls that I am sure probably decorate some part of our home at the time of this reading.  I am pretty sure there were diapers in this story, and Davis getting pooped on...but again, I tried to stay away.  Ruby is standing beside me right now, and she said she wanted to remember that "we got to play wis him, that's all".

 

Youth Group Bowling

I notice that my youth group bowling pictures have lots of non-youth in the pictures.  Well, we decided to invite the youth mentors, and many of them were able to come.  Our youth group is slowly getting bigger and we are trying to have some more activities like this every two months or so.  It was a fun get together, and we all sang happy birthday to Davis. 

 

I was holding the #1 as I had the highest score at like 110...while Denise had a 109.  Best Youth Scores...#1 Xander with a 77, #2 Davis with a 74, #3 Davis with a 72.  Best Mentor Score...#1 Denise Vinsant with a 103, Kelly Baker with a 99, and Pam Britt with a 93.  Best Overall Mentor/Mentee Combined Score...Denise/Kylen with a 164 (This team will receive bonus points during the end of year games)



 

Mercedes Marathon

Wow, what a fun day with my littlest friend.  I really miss running, and couldn't wait to get on the road with Ruby for the kids Mercedes Marathon.  She was the cutest runner ever, and I was so happy that she wanted to run with me.  Even though she told me that next year she wanted to run by herself.  I have one year to talk her out of that. 

 

We began our fun daddy ruby day by parking at the McWane center, and playing in the Itty Bitty magic city.  They were having a big machine day also on that day, and closed 19th street so the kids could play on the large work trucks.  Ruby didn't care much for that, but she did love all the fun stuff in the magic city area, although we both got kind of sad reading that she was almost too old for that area. 

 

As we waited for the race, she was almost bouncing and smiling.  But that wore off when we were the LAST ones to run.  Kids that bring their parents are in the back of the line, and maybe that is why she did not want to bring me.  But as we finally entered the corral and did some jumping jacks to get ready, she was pumped and ready to go.  And that little red faced girl did not stop.  Her little legs just kept going and she ran that mile in 11:38, which I thought was really good.  She only took one rest on the back stretch, but kept an eye on me often.  She made sure dad was keeping up with her. 

 

After the race, she got her medal, and powerade, and then we went to see the Oak Mountain eagle, and played some games supporting the B'ham World Games in 2021.  She won me a sumo wrestler.  She was so proud of that medal, but even more protective of the piece of paper that had her time on it.  When she finally got ready to wear the medal to school the next week, she made sure that I safety pinned the paper with her "score" onto her shirt.  That little piece of paper is actually right her in front of my computer still.  And after we spending a little more time at the McWane center, we drove home with a final special surprise lunch at JimNNicks.  Then the last picture below shows what we both needed after this full day...a nap.