Mike's Bead Ceremony

On June 22, 2013 Mike was awarded his Woodbadge beads! He had actually completed his ticket a few months prior, but waited to be awarded until his dad was in town. Here are the pictures. Thank you, Ryan, for taking pictures of us while I was up at the front! Before the ceremony we ate out at Maddox, which is always a treat. Mike has always said he'd rather just have my dad (the course director of his course) hand him his award and that would be it. I thought Mike put too much time and effort into this award to not be recognized, so we compromised with a small ceremony at my parents house. Thank you mom and dad for letting us use your house and doing Mike's ceremony. It was wonderful!

Here are a few photos before the ceremony.

Presentation and posting of the flags.

My mom talked for a minute about Woodbadge.

My dad then talked about the award Mike was receiving and the pieces that went along with it.

I got called up to assist Mike in putting on all his new things!

Good job Mike!

The flags being taken down.

Mike's leader couldn't make it, but had a present waiting for Mike. Thanks Mattie!

The congratulations cake! It was delicious. When we ate the cake, Isaac reminded us all that we needed to sing happy birthday - there's not cake without a birthday! So we sang!

Joshua the Magic performed a magic show for us, it was great!

Isaac even got a turn to try a trick.

Family photos