Boy Scout Camp- still back tracking

These two pictures are of Bradley working on his canoing merit badge. You had to pass the BSA swimmer test to be a blue swimmer to be able to do a lot of the water front activites.. Brad passed, Doug was a level below Bradley.

One of the many fun compatiotions they had at camp.

Fire bowl, these were a big hit
This is either rifle or shotgun shoothing, you'll see Bradley looking at us and Matthew next to him and then Tyler ( you see a pattern with these over achievers)
Bradley doing his fire-starting.
Doug repeling off a 50 ft. building
Bradley repeling off the same building.

They had a great time at camp. Last night at the Court of Honor they had a DVD of camp and we saw our kids in a lot of the scenes, the boys LOVED watching it, they were laughing, and singing camp songs along with the DVD... now tell me camp doesn't have a huge impact on these kids forever. Bradley got his merit badges last night, which included Canoeing, Rifle shooting, shotgun shooting, woodcarving and leather work. He also recieved his Patrol leader patch last night because he's a patrol leader and then he recived his tenderfoot neckkerchief and then his 2nd class scout badge. He went up 2 ranks since the last court of honor. It's amazing how Scouts has really changed his life. He's doing so many things he wouldn't of done otherwise without it, he's so responsible. Some other kids that are in sports instead don't realize how strong this kid is, they think he's wimpy because he doens't want to play football and he's a stick figure. They have no clue what this boy can do. I'm so proud of him!

Ryan is signed up to be a wolf scout. We have yet to hear from the leader. He Doug and Bradley did go on the Family camp out a few weeks ago.. and yes, I was given a hard time by the Scoutmaster that I was not seen there.... THERE WAS NO PLUMBING!!!! Im' not a roughing it person! That was a Cubscout/Boyscout activity. They are trying to incorporate 4 of those types of activity's per year to help build the Boy Scout troop, a strong cub scout troop makes a strong boy scout troop. Bradley wants Eagle Scout so bad he can taste it! Did you know Neil Armstrong left his Eagle Scout patch on the moon? And President Ford was an Eagle Scout.... Brad does.