As Kyle was working on putting the lights on the house, Ethan climbed up to help him.
Category: Ethan
Once I was a Beehive
We went to the theater to see the movie “Once I Was A Beehive”. After the showing, the actor that played the Bishop in the movie came into the theater to tell us a little bit about the making of, and to answer questions about the movie from the audience.
- The bear was real. It was a trained bear named Tank. They gave him some sort of whipped cream treat every time he did what they wanted, and he also liked applause.
- The older lady was not really a motorcycle rider and the first time they came down the hill to meet up with the group she crashed right into the arc. They had to re-shoot that shot later with a stunt actor.
- The red van in the movie belongs to the family of the man that played the bishop. He has 8 kids and that is their family car. “There is nothing between a minivan and a 12 passenger van, if you have more kids than will fit in a minivan you’re a circus and so the 12 passenger is your next option.”
Tyra had to ask him how old his kids are and tell him that we also have eight kids.
Ethan spoke to him as well and asked him what it was like to be in a movie. He seemed stunned that he had actually spoken to an actor.
Fire Station Open house
Ethan started working on the Fire Safety merit badge at a merit badge pow wow last month, and we have been working on finishing up the requirements so we could get it signed off. The only problem is that there were two counselors that taught the class, one each week, and neither one of them signed off on a blue card the things that they worked on with Ethan at the pow wow. So we made contact with the first counselor to make an appointment for him to sign off the things he did with Ethan. He happens to be a firefighter that works at the Spanish Fork fire station and he asked Ethan to meet him at an open house that the fire station was putting on.
We decided to take the whole family to the open house. While Ethan talked to the counselor, we took the kids to follow another firefighter around so all the other kids could see the different fire trucks.
I’m sure every little boy dreams of driving a big fire truck. Adam was SO excited.
Here Adam is trying to tell us the sound that the fire truck was making, with his hands…
Dinah in the driver’s seat:
Kyle put Adam on this little shelf on the outside of the firetruck. Adam thought it was pretty funny.
When Ethan met back up with us, he announced that the counselor signed off on the merit badge for him! 🙂
Court of honor
Ethan received five merit badges at the the court of honor tonight! Archery, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the World, Animation, and Radio.
Also, he is going to be doing the Moviemaking merit badge at the next BYU pow wow, so he video taped tonight’s court of honor to work on that badge. 🙂
I had to use my phone to get a picture of him, since he was using my camera. 😉
Court of Honor
Ethan received three more merit badges at the court of honor tonight. He received Reading, Wilderness Survival, and Cooking. I was expecting him to be getting three, but I was not expecting cooking. He was supposed to get Archery because he finished it at scout camp. Turns out he finished Cooking at scout camp as well, but they forgot he was supposed to get Archery, so he’ll get it next time. :/
The mayor of Eagle Mountain came to speak to the boys at the court of honor. He talked about all the service that Boy Scouts provide to our community and how awesome that is, then he let us take a group picture of him with all the boys including any cubs that were there.
We left a space for the Archery badge, since that was where we were planning on putting it before we found out about the Cooking badge.