100th BSA Anniversary Norcal Jamboree

Saturday I took the boys and some of the boys from the troop to the Norcal Jamboree and the Alameda County Fairgrounds. It was amazing to see the large amount of Boy Scouts and just as many leaders. I got a lot of information about future activities for the troop. It was nice and warm and we enjoyed ourselves. In the last building we went in to the Oakland Raiders had a table set up to push their 2nd Annual Scout Day. They had pads, jerseys, helmets, gloves and huge cleats for the kids to try on. Of course, my older boys were interested and tried on the gear. Here is the result:

This is Jake gearing up. The helmet was way to small but he put it on anyway.
















Here is Jared striking a pose.

Jake and Jared in a 3 point stance.

Jake striking a pose.

Both boys showing how its done.

Needless to say I had hot, and tired boys in the car when we left. Of course, a car full of boys who have been walking all day the first thing they do is take off their shoes. Really!

Yucky....uuuuuuugh.

The windows had to come down and the stinky offender had to be yelled at to put his shoes back on. After the car was air out. All was back to normal, and the kids fell asleep on the way home.

Shoe Shopping!

Anything to do with shopping and I am usually there. Jake wanted to go shopping and pick up some new DC shoes for school, since his other ones were getting pretty worn out. I agreed to take him to the mall, but the little princess decided she needed to go too. Since we hadn't been shopping for awhile (and I know Jessica loves it), and we were only going to one specific store in the mall I thought it would be okay. Wrong!!!! Jessica is a born shopper, if she sees something that looks cute she tries it on. Jake on the other hand shops like me. He likes to look at several stores and then go back to a few of them before he makes a decision. Well one store turned into a few stores as you can imagine. We went into Tilly's first, they have a small selection of shoes but they have some very cute girl shoes. Jessica tried every one of them on, and they weren't even close to fitting her. Of to the next store, again she is trying on shoes. A few more stores and the same thing. The last store we went into had all these bright colored cute shoes, alot of heels and stiletos on the womens side. That did not stop her. Here are the first two:











Yes I know that they are 2 different shoes, but she didn't care. They were on the clearance (good girl) rack and that is all she saw was these shoes. They were very cute, especially on her.

So a few more minutes in the store looking at shoes, by this time Jake has taken off to some other store, and she comes up with these:

Much more her style I think. None of those drab looking shoes, she wanted the flash and she sure picked it with her shoe choices. I can imagine what my shoe bill will be like when she gets just a little bit older. As long as no one takes her into a Coach store and shows her the bags, we should be good.

Oh yea, towards the end of our little excursion to the mall, I decided to check out the little girl section at Gap kids. Well next door to Gap kids is Crazy 8's. You have to pass Crazy 8's to get to the Gap. Well Jessica pops into Crazy 8's find this cute pink and orange sundress and tells me stay there mom. As she stands right where the dress is hanging and starts to take it off the hanger she says don't look. I realize at this point that she is take this off the hanger to try it on right there in the middle of the store. I of course had to put a stop to that....but I will be back soon to purchase that sundress. It was really cute ;)