Decorations! Desserts! Dinner! Throw in some popcorn, games, a program and lots of cub scouts and their families and what do you have?!
The annual Blue & Gold Banquet!!
The boys put on a short program about the Four Freedoms that Norman Rockwell painted. The boys did a great job reciting their parts! 
Rockwell's inspiration for the series was the Four Freedoms speech given before Congress by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 16, 1941.
The relevant Four Freedoms portion of the speech is reproduced below.
In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
excerpted from the Annual Message to the Congress,
January 6, 1941~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All of the boys received their ice skating belt loops!
And celebrated with a Golf Cheer! FORE!!
Seth Young earned his Bobcat Badge! Congrats Seth!
Levi Wagner received his Wolf Badge! Way to go Levi! 
Brick Ellis received his Bear Badge! Great job Brick! 
Noah Rohrbough received his Bear Badge! Awesome job Noah!
Nikolas Campbell received his Bobcat Badge too! Excellent work Nikolas!
So it was a big night for achievements! Great job boys for all the hard work!!
Now it’s time to get down to the games! Winner gets a jar of blue & gold M&M’s!!
Everyone played a giant game of Musical Chairs! Each time several chairs would be taken out so the game didn’t go on all night long!
Bishop Dalton got in on the fun of course! 
We had a few squatters trying to make sure they got a seat!
And a few little ones needing some help!
We’re getting closer to the end!!
It finally came down to sisters! Brittney and Emily Wagner! And Emily takes it! 
The last game of the night was a Balloon Sweep! Boys Vs. Girls! It was funny watching the different techniques! the girls used small sweeps like you would to clean the floor! The boys! They were all over the place! whacking it and it flying all over the place! It was very entertaining! 
Everyone gets a balloon!
Sorry about the picture overload! It’s easy to get carried away when there are so many to share! :)
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