The Blue and Gold Banquet

It was our annual Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet at the beginning of March. Go CUBS! I am currently the Wolf Den Leader so I had a lot to do with the planning and execution this year. Our theme was American ABC's. It was fun and we got a lot of compliments on the food (BBQ pork sandwiches (Kansas), potato chips (Idaho), applesauce(Washington), green salad (California) and Klondike bars (Alaska, of course) for desssert)
The decorations turned out pretty cute too. My co-leader, Meg had a great idea to use old maps for the table cloths. She got a box of them from an old trucker for $4. Then each table had a letter assigned to it. There were crayons scattered on the tables for them to see how many places they could find with their assigned letter. It did keep them busy for a while until we were ready to start.
Each boy made a flag for a state too and those were on the tables as centerpieces. And then at the end we did a little parade with the boys and their flags and had them sing America, the Beautiful in the front. I think the whole evening was a great success.


Unfortunately, after I was done setting up in the morning, I went home to give Jake a nap and he woke up with a fever, so Steve, Tyler and Jake had to stay home. That left Alex, Hayden and Aubrey to eat alone while I was serving..don't they look sad. I was sad not to have Steve there.

Alex did receive his Bear this meeting. CONGRATS Alex!!Here he is digging for the bear claw.

This is Alex and his Bear leader, Sister Bahr. She was also his Wolf leader for part of his Wolf year. She is great!