Spring is Here!

I always love this time of the year. The weather starts to warm up a little, trees and flowers are starting to bloom. For the past couple of days I have been able to have the windows open for the greater part of the day, which I love! Peach and pear trees have started blooming. You can see the buds coming out on so many other trees. Ahhh, spring!


I get so excited about seeing my flowers growing and starting to bloom. I started seeing the daffodils blooming in the end of January (in the Great Smoky Mountains by the Sugarland Visitor Center). In the next couple of weeks the dogwood trees in our area will be in full bloom. This is even more exciting now that we will be living on the Dogwood Trail. I am eager to see what kinds of dogwoods we will have. I am a little partial to the pink dogwoods, although I like both the pink and white.

Spring this year will also be very special since we will be having another little blessing in the form of our daughter. I know that I am very excited about her coming and last night we even heard about how her older brother, Butch, is also eagerly anticipating her arrival. In art class at school they are focusing on spring and he said that on his project this week he put "spring with my sister." How sweet is that!

4th Annual Pinewood Derby

The race today went very well. We had sixteen Cub Scouts enter cars and thirteen cars enter the open class (leaders, siblings, parents). In the scout race there are weight and size limitations. I was the person who was in charge of checking the weight as they registered. The race began and as I was unable to watch to see how the races ended (I was also helping with getting the cars in line for each race) I was not sure how Bubba and Butch faired. After the race of the open class we learned the results of the speed and design of our scouts. I am happy to say that both boys placed in the top five for speed as well as Butch winning a spot in the top five for design. This is another opportunity for both boys to go to district to race. Last year Bubba placed third in the district, so we are eager to see how they do this year.

Ready For The Pinewood Derby?

Tomorrow is our Pack's fourth annual Pinewood Derby! Tonight we set up and prepared for the race. It is funny how you take all this time setting up when the race itself will not even take as long as they worked tonight to get it ready. I guess when you think about it from a boy's perspective it makes it worth the time and effort. They all get so excited about the race and seeing the different car designs. I look forward to seeing the cars and the boys excitement. I will be posting the results hopefully sometime tomorrow evening.

The Songs Kids Know

Today was a field trip for Bubba to a local planetarium, which had a combination of fourth and fifth graders. After they watched the movie about black holes and learned about constellations there was a laser show. It was set to music that was a combination of music from the 50's to current day music. I was hoping that they would not be playing any Backstreet Boys, Brittany Spears, etc and I was glad to not hear any of that. There was one song that I was quite amazed to hear three of the fourth grade boys behind me sing along with. It is so surprising that I still have to laugh at the thought of the three of them singing the song and I mean they knew every word! You might ask, What was the song? It was Shania Twain's I Feel Like A Woman!