You're About to be Redirected to the New Home of Ground Control to Major Mom: Fall 2011 Cub Scout Family Camp

This past weekend our family headed to the Spanish Trail Scout Reservation near Defuniak Springs and had a weekend campout.

The scout council here calls it "Cub Scout Family Camp" and it's a great weekend. Three weekends in October were made available expressly for Cub Scout-friendly activities. Any Cub Scout families could register for any of the weekends they wanted, but our pack in Navarre elected to go as a group to the Columbus Day weekend event.

Last spring I had to leave the camping one evening early so I could run that half marathon, but this time I got to enjoy the Saturday night bonfire and skit show. What fun!!!

I made a cherry-dark chocolate dump cake (similar to this recipe that I did back in June, but with "dark chocolate" cake mix) on Friday night and was a hit with the families in Jacob's den.

Jacob took a fall from the stack of palettes sitting behind our campsite (you'll see them pictured below). A group of boys was playing and too many boys ended up on the palettes and Jacob fell into our camp chairs. There are suspicions that he was pushed, but no one saw for sure so there's little we can do about that. He got bruised up, but we had the doctor check him out earlier this week just for good measure. All is well.

The members of our pack who came on the Saturday morning group hike. Jacob's on the far left, Timmy's in orange.

There's a "monkey bridge" across a creek. Miss Chris (one of the den leaders) is in the water playing spotter.

I'm so glad neither boy fell into the water...although Timmy dunked his shoes into the water later on after crossing the bridge. He had some closed-toe Keen sandals that he wore the rest of the weekend.

At the BB Gun range.

Dave helping Timmy.

Timmy was able to earn his BB Gun belt loop this past weekend (and Archery too!)

Timmy with some other Tiger Scouts (and a soon-to-be Tiger).

Dave making dinner. We're glad we brought the shelter, it did sprinkle on us some Saturday night. Note the palettes stacked behind us (they're for Boy Scout summer camp). Note the kid standing on them on the left right. Note the Dad with the laptop -- listening to the Virginia Tech game (it was a SQUEAKER!)

Getting ready for the evening skit.

Nice photobomb, Timmy!

Fried potatoes and onions -- can't go wrong there!

I made tacos for Saturday evening dinner. I never thought to do it on a campout before, but it's amazingly easy -- all you have to cook is the ground beef!