Quinn in the Little Outdoors!

Little, meaning our backyard and a duck pond. He loves to go outside, often leading me by the hand to our back door where he will look out and yell, waiting for me to let him out. If I leave the door open, he'll just crawl right on out whenever it pleases him. I'm fine with it, as long as it's not too hot outside, and I know when he's going out.

We have these wonderful trees who have dropped billions of seeds over the past couple of months. They bunch up and get EVERYWHERE - quite annoying. But Quinn doesn't seem to think so:

We were bored, and poor, and needed to get out of the house. I tried calling around, but the nearest place I could find to feed ducks is the one we went to when we lived in Springville. So we decided to go there and reintroduce Quinn to his duck friends. He liked it a lot. He was really funny though; whenever I'd give him some bread to try and throw, he'd eat it instead. What a goober.

Look at the duckies, Mommy!

After we were out of bread, the ducks started to go away. Quinn wanted them to come back, so he took after them, calling for them to return. It was cute (though he got a little to close to the water, and I had to send Josh after him).

We stayed for a bit, admiring the peacefulness of the stream, looking at the huge fish in the water, watching the ducks swim by. Josh taught Quinn how to dangle his feet in the water. He liked it.

Cub Scouts

Being a girl, I've never gone to scout camp. Obviously. However, Josh and I are now Webelos leaders; and as such, we got to go to scout camp this last Thursday. We took our three cub scouts up to Jeremiah Johnson where we had a lot of fun. I even got in on the action and got to shoot a bow and arrow for the first time in my life (personally, I am much better with a gun). Here is a glimpse of our day:

Our Itinerary

Josh went up the river to reminisce his cubby days, and decided to take a walk

Before long, our boys were following him down the path, wherever he went. I thought it was cute.

Making catapults.

Andrew and Joey

Andrew and Rylie at the archery range

Joey trying to figure it out

Watch out Robin Hood! Nicci's getting the hang of it!

I wish this was my target... but it was Joey's. The arrows were difficult to get to stick in the targets. But he managed it twice!

One of the scariest parts of the day: BB Guns

Andrew and Joey posing for me while they wait for the okay to shoot

What happens when you give a bunch of boys a BB gun, tell them there are limited bb's and to wait for permission to shoot each time? They choose when to shoot and go crazy, not listening to the boys in charge. We couldn't help but laugh and be glad we were behind them. One of the boys (not one of ours) even started to yell in a deep voice, "Ready. Aim. Fire!" pretending he was the leader. The funny part was, the boys listened to him.

All in all, it was a long, but fun experience. Now I know what I missed out back in the day. Good thing I got to go camping with the family, shooting real guns, and without having to wear a uniform :)