Our New Cub Scout Master

In August when we got back from my family reunion, we had several messages from a bishopric member asking us to meet with him. I dreaded being asked to speak in church and Taylor dreaded getting a new calling. He LOVES teaching our primary class. We have the 11/12 year olds and they're just very fun to teach and we get to prepare lessons together. Luckily for me, he was right and we were both being released and given new callings. I'm in the Primary Presidency now so not much of a change, and Taylor is the new Cub Scout Master. Everyone we tell this to groans and expresses their sympathies to him, but he's actually really loving it.
Apparently Taylor was a very over-eager cub scout. His mother tells the story of waking up from a dead sleep and jumping out of bed to see what was wrong and there Taylor would be standing next to her bed with his scout book in one hand and a pen in the other begging for her to sign off something he'd passed off the previous night when he was supposed to be in bed. So Taylor's pretty excited for the calling and the bishopric counselor said his main job is to be silly and get the boys excited. Both of which I think Taylor is an expert at.
Normally for the fall kickoff pack meeting, everyone meets up in the canyons around a campfire. That seemed like a lot of work for Taylor since he's still getting everything and everyone organized, so we opted just to have everyone over to our backyard and since Taylor's parents have a firepit in the middle of our yards, we basically had the campfire with no work- just the flip of a gas switch. Too easy!


The kids ate and then played soccer while everyone arrived. My boys were in heaven. They're not old enough to be a part of scouts, but since Taylor is in charge, they get to tag along at least to some things.
And then everyone roasted mallows and made smores over the fire.

Even the parents got in on the smores action.

For each pack meeting, Taylor has been charged with making sure that each boy earns at least 1 award each month. Apparently there are tons of small badges and that's not too hard. So for this month the den mothers chose to do a "manners" badge which everyone earned in addition to whatever other badges they'd earned during the summer. To make it more fun (and very hilarious) Taylor asked each boy to come up with a cheer that the entire audience would do with them. Some were just silly like the boy who raised his shoulders and said "I don't know" so Taylor had the whole group in unison raise their shoulders and cheer "I don't know".

And others were more sports related like the U of U football jumping huddle cheer. The parents laughed and thought it was funny but you should have seen the boys. They were rolling on the floor. So I think he accomplished his "be silly" assignment too.

He'll be a great leader and those boys will never have a dull pack meeting!