Davey's Eagle Court of Honor

The reason that we went to Arizona was because our nephew Davey earned his Eagle Scout award, and his Court of Honor was on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Blair, Brian, Hayden, and Les were asked to do the flag ceremony.

This is Davey receiving his Eagle.

Davie and Angie

Davey and Dave

Davey also awarded mentor pins to the boys and Grammy in Memory of Grandpa. It was very special.

Davey and Zak

Davey and Grammy

Davey, Les, Zak, Hayden, and Grammy

For Davey's Eagle project, he had a flag pole donated, with instruction to erect it at the church where his scout group meets. Instead, he got permission to put it at the church owned scout camp that they use because it didn't have a flag pole.

Taking the Eagle Oath

Davey and the boys. I love this shot. Davey is a true example to my boys of what a young man ought to be, and I wouldn't let my boys miss out on this example in their lives. It was well worth the drive.

My boys with Davey

Davey, Blair and Brian.

They are truly goofballs.

Blair and Hayden with Davey

See, I told you he was a great example!

And my boys taught them all the "irresistible man" pose that they learned up at scout camp over the summer!

We were told that the scout camp was fit on the border, and that the other side of the river was Mexico. So we had to do a "border crossing" Although we decided later that the border had to be another mile or so away. (I know, probably not very politically correct, but we had fun!)

THis is wha we thought was the Mexico side....

and this is in the dry river bed.