McKay Architecture Merit Badge

McKay has been working so hard on merit badges.  He had worked on a lot of them but had one bigger thing left. We were able to do a lot of those big things over Fall Break.  We went to visit a lady in our ward named Karen Mangum who is an architect.  She was so great with McKay and went over a lot of the aspects of architecture with him. I love that this stuff isn't boring to him.  It seems not matter what we are learning about, McKay is interested in it. 

Showing McKay the Auto Cad program they use to design buildings.

Showing him the materials they have to choose from when they design buildings.

These are things an architect would use to show a client what the building is going to look like.

Design samples.

Once again, such a fascinating experience! We are learning so much about so many things!

 

McKay Journalism Merit Badge

McKay has been working on the Journalism Merit Badge and since it's Fall Break, we had time to go and tour a news paper office.  We went to the offices of The Times and Forsyth County News (they share a printing press).  It was so cool!

Shannon Cases gave us a tour and answered all of our questions.

This huge thing is the printing press.  It's so high and long.  We couldn't believe how big it was.

These were huge rolls of paper.  Each one is 7 miles long.

Drums of ink.

We learned so much and had such a great time!

 

McKay Dentistry Merit Badge

McKay wanted to do the dentistry merit badge.  We have a great dentist in our ward that put together a whole presentation for him.  We had his family over for dinner.  Lincoln and Hunter were interested in it too and stayed for the whole thing.  

They were all so great and interested in the presentation.  I love what good sports that my boys are.  

Dr. Yates was so funny and great, the boys thought he was great. 

The next day McKay went to Dr. Yates' office and finished up his merit badge.  He learned so many awesome things!

 

Hunter got to shadow Dr. Yates at work.  He watched a cavity being filled and wisdom teeth being pulled. I thought he'd be traumatized, but he thought it was pretty cool.  

McKay Sports Merit Badge

For one of McKay's requirements for the Sports Merit badge in Scouts, he had to be part of a game. It suggested as a ref. McKay and Dad headed to Midway to see if he could be a line ref and they said yes! McKay was pretty thrilled to get to do this (and to finish up the badge...)

 

Maggie

This dog is so cute!

 

Favorite Teacher

Hunter had Mrs. Welch at Vickery Creek Middle School and McKay has her at Hendricks and she is one of both of their favorite teachers. Hunter got to see her at one of McKay's football games.