The Utah Layton’s

On Tuesday, Brenden attended his first Cub Scout Day Camp at Camp Jerimiah Johnson.  It was a fun time for him as he got to shoot BB guns, wrist rockets, tie knots, build a little wooden jet, and build a little air rocket.  He had a great time.

In our last Pack Meeting, Brenden earned his Wolf award.  As you can tell, he was pretty excited.

For Family Night last Monday we put up our Christmas tree.  It was extra fun this year because the kids did most of the work on it.  They were responsible for putting all the colored lights on and putting all the ornaments on.

The boys attended the big wrestling tournament last night.  They each wrestled 3 matches and each won one.  They both got third place in their division.  They have really improved over last year and are both having lots of fun wrestling.

Well, we finally got the bunk beds moved into the boy’s room down in the basement yesterday.  They have been sleeping on their mattresses the past couple of days down there.  It looks great.  I’ll try to post a picture of it later.

It’s nice to have a bigger room now.  With the bunk beds and the desks, there is still plenty of room for the boy’s to have space in their room.  It’s really nice.

The next project is to paint the boy’s old room and move the girls into it.  It’s larger than the one the girls are in now.  We will keep you updated on our progress. 

When Papa and Grandma Layton came up for Brenden baptism, they gave the kids a puzzle that was said to be the hardest puzzle to solve.  It consists of 9 pieces that interconnect and must fit together in a 3 X 3 fashion.  Papa and Grandma Layton worked on it, Emily and I worked on it and it seemed like everybody took a turn trying to figure it out.  Well, Sunday afternoon I came home for lunch before church started and Emily told me that the boys had figured it out.  Here is the proof.

Here are the two seriously smart kids who figured this out.

The adults couldn’t make sense of this puzzle, but it didn’t take too long for these two to figure it out! 

Well, after months of slowly working away at the desks, they are finally done.  The boys and I completed the re-finishing of the desks a week ago and last Saturday (11th) we installed them.  Here are some pictures that show our progress.

The "before" picture.

 The parts of the desks.

The desks are attached to the wall.

 Brenden performaing the strength test after the desktop was attached.

 Brenden and Bryce posing with their new desks.

Brenden beginning to stock the shelves.

Here’s the "after" picture.  Bryce’s desk is on the left and Brenden’s is on the right.

One last close-up of Brenden’s desk.  He took this picture of the picture he got when he was baptized and the Angel Moroni that he bought.