The Eagle has landed

Growing up with mostly girls, scouting wasn't something that we knew very much about at our house. My brother did some but it just wasn't the focus. Mike, on the other hand, comes from a serious family of scouters -- Mike and his 4 brothers all earned their Eagles. So when Christian came along, he had lots of direction from his dad. Mom was a cheerleader on the sidelines, but dad helped him get where he is.

 Back when Christian was 8 or 9, my sister told me, "The minute he turns 11, you sign him up for as many classes as you can at the high school and crank out those harder merit badges." So I did and he flew along, until eventually he was looking for an Eagle project. I suggested a few, he made a few phone calls and then the perfect project practically fell in our laps. Here's Christian's blog telling about his project and asking for donations:

http://christianeagleproject.blogspot.com/

After all of the donations were shipped to Africa, Eyes for Zimbabwe sent us pictures of the scene when they delivered everything that Christmas Eve to people who live at the city dump.  They actually live there.  It was humbling just to see their circumstances.

We made a slideshow for Christian's Eagle Court of Honor showing his whole scouting journey.  Christian arranged the music in Garage Band.  Pardon the poor quality of a lot of the pictures.  I took them off of my blog when I didn't have original files and they didn't transfer well.



His Court of Honor happened last Sunday.  Definitely a parent's payday.  I was so proud of him.

 Sitting in the Eagle's Nest with so many great men.  He's in good company.

Pretty cool to receive congratulations letters from each of our State's Senators and Congressmen, as well as from this famous address ....