We went to Sofi's Honors Night dinner on Wednesday. Sofi got an award for having a great GPA and an award for being a student leader. The LEADS award is given to 10 students from each grade who show Leadership, Enthusiasm, Academics, Determination and Success. Sofi reluctantly posed with her certificates after the event.
She was more willing to pose with a cake Joey decorated to look like Sofi. They decorated the cakes at a Young Women's activity after the dinner.
The entire 3rd grade has been working hard on famous person projects. They research the famous person of their choice, write a report, prepare and give a speech, write poems, draw portraits, make displays and end their projects by hosting a Famous Person fair. All the third graders set up their displays in the cafeteria and parents come to see the displays and quiz them about their famous person. Helen chose George Lucas. She knows quite a lot about him now. She dressed up like a Jedi for the fair.
Sofi's piano teacher held her Spring recital on Friday. Sofi played the jazz classic, "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with delightful insouciance.
This is a photo of Gibson celebrating that the recital was over. We heard lots of great music, but it was the end of a long week for Gibson and he was tired of sitting still.
Brandan took Abe to his first Boy Scouts campout, a camporee with several other troops. About 10 boys from our troop went. They camped in a lush meadow.
On Saturday, the troops competed against each other in several events. At this station, the scouts tried to move a log between posts using ropes, pulleys and teamwork.
Abe's troop won first place at the hatchet throw. The scouts threw hatchets at the end of a log painted with a target. Abe contributed 2 ½ points to his team's score. The troop also won 2nd place on the compass course.
Our stake held a formal youth dance on Saturday night. It's an annual event, often called the Mormon Prom. It was our ward's turn to host the dance and Sofi spent several days helping plan the dance, making decorations and decorating for the dance. She also sewed the cute shrug she wore over her dress. Sofi called Becky shortly after she got to the dance to ask Becky to come take photos. They had set up a photo area along one wall, but the camera they planned on using wasn't working. Becky went to the dance and took many poor photos of the cute kids. (In her defense, the gym was very dark, the photo location was on the edge of the dance floor and the backdrop was very large.) In the photo are Josh, Joey, Sofi and Carson-- no pairs here, just the way they got their photo taken.
Here are Sofi and Joey being goofy as we cleaned up after the dance. Joey and friends painted the camel. The theme of the dance was "Arabian Nights."
