Seth's Sunday

Last Sunday was Seth's Sunday!! After church we drove to Excelsior Springs to attend Seth's scout ceremony where he was promoted from Webelo to Boy Scout. The ceremony was held in Excelsior Springs High School and kicked off with the District 'Scout Guy' addressing the group.

Little Miss Sunshine sitting next to Papa.

After the cub scouts were promoted to Wolves and various other animals it was time for the Webelos to take the stage. I love the 'guy' body language in this shot.

Seth's troup is pretty large - and ten (give or take) were promoted. The gentleman behind Seth is one of his scout leaders, Mr. Parnacott. Mrs. Parnacott (sp) is one of the others.

Obviously the boys thought a lot of their scout leaders. Here Mr. Parnacott is getting a spontanious group hug.

The boys are waiting to walk across 'the bridge'. You'll notice their scarves are not fastened. The tradition is once you walk across the bridge your Webelo scarf is removed at the same time your new scarf is put on. This signifies there will be 'no break' in your scout path.

Here Seth has just crossed the bridge.

His new scout leader and one of the senior scouts are putting Seth's new scarf on. His old one was just removed. Afterwards he will go down the steps and join the new troup and receive his new shoulder decorations.

Here Mrs. P is having everyone with January & February birthdays stand up so we could sing Happy Birthday. It was also the Boy Scouts 100th birthday (shy of one day). Steph & Seth both had to stand!

You can get a better picture of the bridge here. Each diamond indicates a step along the way to this ceremony. Seth was very proud of himself and rightly so. He worked very hard for this.

This is Seth's new scarf - pretty cool!

Afterwards everyone went to the commons area for cake & ice cream. There were TVs showing a DVD of all of the boy's activities in the last year.

Guess which cake wizard made this one?? I'm so glad she is a member of our family - saves everyone from my crummy Wal-Mart cakes. I just cook so my family doesn't die!


I swear Steph was not the only one serving cake but it sure looks like that here.

The guys!! I LOVE this picture.

Seth watching some of his activities on one of the TVs. In between running around like a wild man and eating cake of course.

Proud Mom & Dad,


and proud Papa & Nana!

When thing started winding down at the school we headed back to Steph & Jeff's for Seth's birthday party (remember - it was HIS day). It was snowing but not too heavy at that time. Poor Seth had to share his birthday with the Super Bowl - kind of like the day he was born. All birthday activity stopped when commercials came on!

He received a subscription for kid's National Geographic from Grandpa and Grandma Wells. He was pretty excited about that! Here is an inflatable globe he got with the subscription.

And then the Wii accessories started. Don't you love the pure lust in Noah's eyes and the body block from Seth?? Some things just never change.

Shame he is not excited isn't it?

The card worked great with the Star Wars theme.

I have to point out the obvious - you would never, ever see a girl howling in excitment over a video game! Shoes, maybe, but never a video game!

Here Seth is blowing out his candles with the help of a new bioncle.

Pretty neat kid with a pretty neat cake!

Where other super bowl parties may have required lots of recycling for cans this one just needed a flat space to assemble gifts.

And then the drive home . . . . . spring can come at any time!!

Happy Birthday Seth & Congratulations!! We are all very proud of you - keep up the good work!