Blue & Gold Banquet

Each year the Cub Scouts have their annual Blue & Gold Banquet to hand out awards, ranks, achievements, and recognize the boys' work over the year. Here are the pictures from this year's event!

Blue and Gold Banquet 2015

Hike to Pagat Cave

Pagat Cave

We finally got out to do a hike. The weather has been cooler than usual. And by cooler than usual I mean only in the low 80's instead of 90's. This is our winter, this is as good as it gets so it was now or never if we were going to hike without melting. We hiked through the jungle and down in elevation using some ropes until we came to the cave. The cave opening was not much and was a bit ominous to head down in to in the dark. Once inside the cave you came to a shallow pool of water, on the back side of that lagoon there was a tiny passageway (And I do mean tiny, it was a tight squeeze!) that led to a larger pool room area where we swam and ate. The water was fresh and freezing, but after the hot hike it felt good once the initial shock wore off. We all survived and made it out the cave alive and then continued on the trail to the cliffs at the shoreline. Beautiful views from the cliffs were an awesome sight!

Family Picture Time

It's that time again...As always I go in hoping for ONE decent family shot and anything else is a bonus. That makes this a success! Caleb was not impressed one bit and only smiled when we set him down for individual photos and there was a chance he could play in the sand. Anytime one of us was holding him he was a complete grump. Only smiling picture is him alone after he got a handful of sand and was feeling mighty proud of himself.

Family Pics Feb 2015

Wordless Wednesday

Fish Eye Park

For our friend Mason's 9th birthday we went to the Fish Eye park and dinner show. They have an underwater observatory near a reef with awesome views. We even saw a black tip reef shark swimming around! After we went under water we surfaced for some food and a cultural dinner show. The boys loved all the fire and machetes.

Colin's face says it all here. All the guests of honor and a few extra were invited up to get a lesson from the show dancers and learn some moves. This was when the boys were starting to realize that everyone was getting a turn to go up and theirs was coming soon! LOL 

The costumes were amazing!

This guy ate fire!

Colin won't appreciate this until later!

Classic family photo we paid way too much for! 

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Living the beach life

We've been to the beach a lot lately. I'm sure you can see why!

After the sand beach we hiked over to the tide pools to explore.

The boys found a little lagoon in a cave.

This beach has star shaped sand. Look closely, you ca see some grains of sand are really shaped like stars!

Happy First Birthday Caleb!

Little man is growing up fast and I can't believe it's been a year already! He woke up at midnight on his birthday with a fever and then had diarrhea the whole day. Poor kiddo. I did manage to take some good photos of him. Later that day Colin had a dentist appointment, but when we got there their power was out so we had to leave. I had planned to take the kids to an inflatable bounce play place, since Colin went for the very first time on his first birthday too, but with Caleb being sick we had to skip that plan. Instead I took the kids to the USDA building on base to see the snake pit. It is where they have some of those infamous brown tree snakes (which by the way this is the first live brown tree snake I've ever seen) and a monitor lizard. It was a fun little stop, Colin and Caleb both liked checking out the critters.

His actual birthday was a fun day, but the next day was party and presents day. We just had our friends The Worley's come over to celebrate with us. Caleb had a ball opening presents and smashing cake everywhere. He wasn't too hungry after his dinner, so he didn't eat much...but he was insistent on getting all the sprinkles off that cake. 

Here are the pictures...

Caleb's First Birthday

And of course we had video!

Happy Birthday handsome boy!

Little Gardener

We did some yard work today and Caleb was very happy to get to play in the dirt and grass.