Homecoming II

Here are some photos from Rachel's second Homecoming date for the year. With our stake crossing the boundaries of four high schools, there is a lot more opportunity for cross-school dating than when I was in high school. Or else Rachel's just way more popular...

Monkey Bridge

For the past couple of months I've been teaching the Pioneering merit badge to our 11-year-old Scouts. For the final activity, they built a monkey bridge in our back yard. They did a pretty good job.

It was pitch dark by the time it was done, so I didn't get very good photos.

Here is the group that built it.



We couldn't come up with any long poles -- it would have been fun to use 10- or 12-foot poles and get it farther off the ground, but the best we could find was 8-foot poles. That put the ends of the bridge about four feet off the ground. Still, that wasn't bad for kids this size.



Here are a few shots of our kids goofing around on it after the Scouts were done.





It was a lot of fun! Daniel most have gone across it 30 times. He wanted to leave it up permanently. :)

Homecoming photos

Okay, finally, here are some photos of Rachel in her Homecoming dress.

From the back... yes, it took Yumiko and Lisa quite a while to lace it up.

The guy that took her was way taller.

The photos were taken in Ted Johnson's back yard.

Fancy earrings.

The whole group.

The girls in the group. Rachel is just a bit shorter than average...

Being goofy.

Rachel is the center of attention.

My favorite shot of the bunch.