Blue and Gold Banquet

This year's B&G Banquet was pretty fun - especially for the boys.  They chose a lego theme, and it seemed like a huge hit.  Garron has been out of cub scouts for a while, so maybe the break helped us as parents to be a little bit more excited about it than normal:)

Can you tell how stoked Mathias is?  He's not just happy about finally joining the land of the living again (he had been sick for 5 days previous to this night).  Nope - he's excited because he knows, with all the confidence an 8 year old can muster, that he's about to win the top prize.  

You might say that there is no such thing as top prize at the Blue and Gold Banquet, but if you're really honest with yourselves, you'll concede to the fact that everyone secretly wants to win the "Best Tasting Cake" award - And you'd be right!  So, our plan was to not go overboard on decorating and instead utilize all of our energy for the insides.  Ultimately such efforts really make this competition unfair.  Why??  Because we have a secret weapon, and his name is Gumpy (a.k.a Lee Watson, a.k.a nicest man on the planet).  Gumpy has demonstrated to us time and time again - with ANY combination of batter and frosting flavor - that he makes the most delicious cakes on earth.  It seemed foolish to even try another recipe...so we chose his traditional vanilla cake recipe combined with a butter/cream cheese frosting...Aaaaaaannnnnnnddd Mathias won!  You should have seen the judges eating his cake - there was a lot of pointing, mmmmmhhhmm-ing, and sheer satisfaction involved:)  

This was one of my favorites - so creative!!

Besides being able to 'build' their own tacos for dinner, the boys also got to bring their lego creations to display.  Mathias and Randy built this ship together over the Christmas break, and since we hadn't taken it down yet, or stuck it in storage, we were able to join in the fun!