Summer Fun

So we have been trying to enjoy this awesome summer weather by going to the pool as much as possible

So Bennett thought that when he ran to the green sprinkler then the red buckets in the back filled up

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Haley & Bennett had a hard time figuring out when the buckets would actually spill over!!

So Bennett got his first financial "investment" A silver $100 bill....as you can tell he was pretty excited....

Bennett just being Bennett

So this was the beginning of the week...everybody was happy and everybody wasn't suffering from heat exhaustion yet...

So the boys had the hardest time figuring why I made them wear red shirts with big white scorpions....we could spot them at a 100yds out!  It was awesome....Plus the boys looked really good!

Some of the boys had a hard time catching their one fish for the fishing merit badge...the "Master" showed them how it was done.  We spent more time setting up the poles than waiting to catch a fish....I really dont know why it was so hard!  Hook in, Hook out, whola!  Fish!

Found this hiking around Camp Tahuaya.  I thought it was way cool, "Served in the Army of Texas".  Not many states can say that!!!  There is another interesting fact about who this guys was...let me know if you find it...

So its hard to tell but this is thousands if not 10's of thousands of daddy long leg spiders!  It was crazy!  It was kind of like the inside of the cave had fur and the wind was blowing through it...

So pretty proud of one of my Scouts, Chris Olson.  Never shot a gun in his life!  He begged me for 2 months to sign him up for the rifle merit badge.  He did absolutely awesome!  We also won 1st place at the Scoutmaster shootout and won an ice cold watermelon for the Troop!

Found these wagon ruts cut right through solid granite...the only other ones I've seen like this were on the pioneer trails west.

Bro. Woods (my partner in crime) and Adam Hoemke posing next to the sign next to the trail

2nd to last day of Summer Camp...this was the Scoutmaster shootout...one tired pup!  Overall it was a very successful Camp.  The boys earned over 70 merit badges, 15 rank advancements and 10 additional awards and almost all of the Camp Tahuaya Troop contests.  Very proud of them.  Kind of a bitter sweet ending to a great time.  I was released last Sunday as the Scoutmaster in loo of my upcoming deployment.  It is a sigh of relief but defiantly some sadness on not doing it anymore.  On to the next adventure.