The fun surprise of nature.

Spring is the time for growing.  Since the Cisco Kid has off from school today we started watering our potted plants.  As we were watering the potted plants in front of the house next to our front door, I noticed that the dirt was mounded high under the big leaf of the plant.  This plant has survived the winter and at first I thought it was the lizards digging through the dirt.  I had the Cisco Kid get a stick and pick up the large leaves so I could see what was under them.  To our surprise it was a bird’s nest with four little white and pink eggs. The Cisco Kid was so happy that we might have little baby birds soon. 

Class Field Trip

This is the third field trip this year with the school.  This time we all went to the Zoo.  Every chaperone had their own group of children.  My group of boys loved the interactive moments with the animals.  Feeding the giraffe and the birds are the best.   

Shabby Chic Inspiration Antique Booth

It has been quite some time now since I have posted about my Antique Booth.  The booth is unrecognizable since the last time I posted about it.  So many things have come and gone.

I am doing some revamping in my house and one of my treasures had to go in the booth.  As you can see in the picture there is a big wood and black display piece.  I found the bottom antique wooden chest and decided to put a back on it with some shelves, turning it into this great display wall unit.

 From treasured past.

  

Cake Auction for American Cancer Society.

Every year the Cub Scouts Raises money for a charity. This year we had a cake Auction for the American Cancer Society. We had a professional auctioneer that did a great job auctioning off our fifty cakes.

We made a Mario Brothers cake and a Candy Land Cake.

The Mario Brothers cake was a vanilla cake with chocolate icing layers. All the figurines are made out of molding chocolate.

It was very funny watching the auction. Each scout went up and described their cake. They stayed up there with the auctioneer. She started every bid at $10.00. The boys were so excited to see how much their cakes would sell for. At the beginning of every cake auction one or two paddles would raise committing to the auctioneers price. When it came time for The Cisco Kids Mario cake, the auctioneer started out with the normal $10.00 bid, and then the fun began. There were at least twenty paddles that quickly raised. The auctioneer had a look of shock on her face and she immediately started to increase the cake by $10.00. The Auctioned ended and it sold for $80.00. 

 
The Cisco Kid loves to play Mario on WII so I decided to make a cake that I loved to play as a child.  I loved Candy Land.   The Cake is vanilla with a colorfull layer of icing in the center. The Candy Land Cake auctioned off for $50.00.

 We raised a total of 1,300.00 for the American Cancer Society. 

Boys and their Planes

Last night at our Cub Scout Den meeting the boys made a glider plane out of foam board, scures, and ornament hooks.  They cut the wings and poked the scures through the canter of the wings.  Then they added two hooks to them so they can be hooked on the metal line I put up.  They all loved it so much they wanted the whole pack to do it and have a grand plane off. 

 

Blue & Gold

Once a year there is an advancement ceremony for Cub Scouts called Blue & Gold. This is where all the boys get recognition for all their hard work and receive their advancement badges. The Cisco Kid and his Den received their Wolf badge.

The Agricultural center was kind enough to donate their space to us for our Banquet. The Committee and I were at the venue by 11:00 a.m. to decorate. Of course the decorations were all in Blue & Gold but we had a theme on stage representing camping.  I made sure all the kids had something to do while the ceremony was going on, so I got coloring & game placemat's  I also added clay post that I painted gold on the tables filled with crayons. 

We had it catered by Bono's BBQ and they served pork, turkey, and beef with green bean, baked beans and mac n cheese. They also provided drinks and their banana pudding for desert. We also had cookies there that were donated by Publix. For a fun drink for the kids we had a slushy company come in and have self serve slushy’s.