Chance takes first place

Chance took first place in literature in the 6th-8th grade group in his school's Inspirations contest.  He wrote about snakes and how he wanted to collect several over his lifetime.

Chance's brother's pet snake

This was a surprise to me.  I knew that Chance's brother wanted to have pet snakes but did not realize that the passion had spread to Chance.

Perhaps he was inspired by our recent acquisition of a baby corn snake as a pet. He has been a big hit around the house.  He eats pinkys.....that is little mice.  We buy the frozen ones.

It is funny the reaction people have to snakes.  The art teacher who I think was over the contest,  really does not like snakes.  Really, really, really does not like snakes. I know this because my older son, who took first in the photography section, won with a picture of his new snake and he told me that she was sicked out by the thought of having the snake come to school as the boys talked about.  To her credit, she helped judge the boys winners and did not let her personal bias cloud her professional duties:)

Chance playing in the Red Rocks near Grandma and Grandpa's house

Chance is pretty excited about the win.  We were on vacation and the first morning the boys were to return to school, we got a phone call first thing in the morning from one of the boys' friends telling us that they had both taken first place.

That was a nice bit of information to get as we all tried to get back into the groove of our normal lives after being on a lovely holiday:)