has it really been over a month since I last posted?

Apparently it has. You may have noticed I made my blog "open" again. Nobody reads it anyways (fine with me, believe me-not a complaint) and my dad has trouble signing in with his Google account. It is a lot easier this way and I'm ok with that!

So, where to begin? We have been busy as usual. That seems to be a reoccuring theme here. Busy, busy, busy. I'll work my way from the most recent to the oldest. My memory works much better that way. First up, Boy Scouts. Harrison is done with his Bear book and earned his Bear rank last Friday a little ahead of the game. So now we are working on extras for him to earn and the belt loops. He loves receiving belt loops. Did you know that the Boy Scouts came out with a belt loop for video games? Yes it's true and before you groan and remark that that is the last thing they need to learn about, it is actually a great lesson. They have to go over the rating system for the games and explain why they are in place, come up with a schedule for playing them and learn to play a new game with their parent. Of course he has already earned that one!
Charlie is just about done with his Tiger book, they have one more requirement as a den then he will get his Tiger ranking. Here is a photo of my Scouts. I love them. Scouting has been a great experience for both of them. We look forward to next year when I'll have a Webelos I and a Wolf scout. Charlie just told me over the weekend that he is going for Eagle. Whatever you say, son! Go for it.

We were able to go on an awesome field trip with the scouts about a month ago. Charlie's den leader is a sargeant with the LAPD. He arranged for us to go and see the LAPD's Air Support Division in downtown L.A. The whole family went. It was spectacular. We got a tour of their building and got to go out onto the roof to see the helicopters. We even had a couple of helicopters fly by and greet us. I was totally impressed with our Los Angeles county police helicopter pilots and officers. Here are a couple of photos from that day.






We've also had a few conferences of Little People over here. They especially like to gather around the books.

Let's see, we also celebrated Easter! Audrey got some new shoes that she loves. We went to downtown again and ate at the Grand Cafe in the Omni Hotel right next to the Museum of Contemporary Art and down the street from the Disney Concert Hall. We also took Angel's Flight and saw where the scene on the benches from 500 Days of Summer was filmed. See those benches in the Angel's Flight photo? That was the main character's favorite place to sit. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked that movie. It is really cute.




Ok, that's about all I could think of now. That, and if I continue this is going to be the post that never ends. More later. Thanks for sticking with me. :)