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.

Homecoming Court

Here are some photos of the CHS Homecoming Court presentation last week.

All of the Homecoming King and Queen finalists (minus a couple of guys who are on the football team, and were thus busy getting ready for the big game, and one girl who hadn't arrived yet):




The Homecoming Queen candidates:



Walking out onto the field:



During the announcements:



Rachel being introduced, giving the "princess wave":



Rachel with Chris Hall, the Homecoming King (and the guy who took her to Homecoming last year):

Shooting

Some photos from a shooting expedition last week...
































And here are a few photos of the damage. .22 slugs aren't enough to do too much damage to a propane tank. And the vegetables were relatively unaffected by shotgun blasts, either.






Finally, a first -- if you look closely at this (you may need to click on the photo to get a higher-resolution version), you can see silvery streaks in front of the pumpkin. Those are the shot about to strike the target. For the first time, I caught projectiles in the air!