An Eagle

Collin had his Eagle Court of Honor on June 25th, 2011.

He is now a full fledged Eagle Scout!

 Here are some photos from the big event:

Receiving his award from his Venture Leader

Pinning on our hard earned pins :)

 Dana helping him with his new neckerchief

with his 11 year-old Scout leader, whom he chose as his Mentor

( a great guy who, as you can see, has a way of making people laugh :)

and with a member of the Acton Board of Selectmen

who presented him with a special recognition certificate and medallion.

 Here is Collin being welcomed into The Eagle's Nest

 and afterwards, with our wonderful Bishop

 and some of his awesome friends who were there to support him

 and best of all...

 Grandma and Grandpa who traveled all the way to Massachusetts 

so they could be there to see him get his Eagle

(THANK YOU!)

 and finally, with his VERY happy parents

who are so proud of him and how hard he has worked to reach this goal

YAHOO!!

Be-Hind

I am seriously behind in posting on this blog

and I would probably give it up

if it weren't for the fact that

I am even worse at writing in my journal,

so I guess whatever small amount of our lives I put on here

it's better than nothing.

I will attempt to catch up one (or two) events at a time...

We traveled to Utah in May for Dana's Grandmother's funeral.

She passed away one month before her 105th birthday!

Here are the last pictures I took of Grandma with some of her great-grandchildren

 and grandchildren

(Dana's brother and sisters - minus Cindy and Ben)

 Collin played the piano at her funeral and this is how he prepared himself:

 with a bit of XBox

while sitting in a very small rocking chair...

(works every time - he did a great job!)

Here's Logan with his good pal and cousin, Cade

Most of Dana's family was there

(if you divide this picture in half, 

the right side is Dana's brothers and sisters and their families,

the left side is everyone else - aunts, uncles and cousins

I think Dana's side wins :)

It was good to see everyone -- some we haven't seen in years.

AND...

Remember this? 

January 2010

Seems like just yesterday...

(plus about 18 months) 

and here we are now

June 2011

Happy Days are here again!