Easter Egg Hunt

It was a blustery day at Mercer City Park when 5 brave little Brownies & 1 brave brother gathered for the annual Easter Egg Hunt. Lindsay, Jazmine, Breanna, Kelsie, Katie, & Zack did the Bunny Hop, played Duck, Duck, Goose & did the Hokey Pokey. We read the journals from our Stacies that visited Pennsylvania, & took pictures with the visiting Stacie from Washington. She kept trying to blow away! We drew #s to win bags with gifts sent from the PA troop---Swedish flag swaps, Dala horse crafts, & a patch from their Winter Cookie Dance. Everyone got 2!
We took turns reading Beanie Baby Facts, we giggled through the 5 versions of
Beans Beans the Musical Fruit that Deb found on-line. We named 12 kinds of beans: Kidney, Green, Black, Pinto, Chili, Jelly, Jumping, hot dog beans (Beenie Weenies), Navy, Beanie Babies, Beanie Pugs, & Beanie Bears.
We drew #s to win a chocolate bunny---Jazmine was the lucky winner.
We played 'hot potato' chicken.
The girls decided they wanted to walk on the "balance beam" around the park.
We tried to have carrot car races & jelly bean races while Shelley & Tracy hid eggs.
Jazmine was the 1st to figure out how to blow up the ballloons on the cars, Lindsay soon caught on, Zack blew his up too big & it exploded! The wind made racing a bit tricky, too, but the kids kept right on trying.
There was some drama, Deb's boxes of stuff kept blowing off across the park.
We think we found all the eggs! If not, the next batch of kids playing at the park will have a nice surprise!
We were going to make Mexican Bean Bracelets to go with our Human Bean Theme, but it was just way too windy. Same for snacks, divided up the Rainbow Twizzlers among the kids & we called it a day.
Will plan our Mom & Me Tea as an inside activity, so we can do the Mexican Bean Bracelets then.

& the money is turned in.

Katie & I turned in the correct amount of cookie money to Terri Henley today....
a BIG THANK YOU to EVERYONE! You are AWESOME!

cookie $

is all collected, & the numbers all add up! Good Job, Troop 8044!

troop news

we're hosting a Flat Stacie from California.
Rayne, Nicole, Morrisa, Dominique, Danielle,& Lindsay have turned in their cookie $. THANK YOU!

cookie $ is due very soon....

Nicole, Rayne, Dominique, & Morrisa have turned in their cookie $. THANK YOU!!!!!

Stacies Everywhere!

have sent Stacies to California, Illinois, & Kansas. We should be receiving visitors from them soon!

Flat Stacies on the road

sent 2 to South Carolina today!
received an email that one of the Stacies we'd sent to Pennsylvania was lost at their Thinking Day Celebration...then she was found by another Girl Scout so will be back home soon!

Girl Scout Week 2008

Saturday we had a Girl Scout Pajama Party, Jazmine, Breanna, Dominique, Morrisa, Mackenzie, Katie, Morgan, & Katie's guest Moriah played Simon Says, Who's That Famous Person, had a high heeled race & a cookie eating contest (Breanna & Moriah won), had a pj fashion show, took a Girl Scout History Quiz, decorated a window at Ragan's Grocery, & earned our Manners Try-It by talking about respect for others, practicing our telephone & table manners, introductions, learning about manners in other countries, & making plans for a Mom & Me Tea. The girls voted to dress up for the party, & to have little sandwiches, Caramel Delites & other cookies, tea & lemonade for our party. The girls decided that Toot-Toots & Golden Corral were really fancy places to eat that would require their best manners.
from the Girl Scout History Quiz we learned that Juliette Low sold her pearls to raise money to start the first troop, the first Girl Scout was her niece, Daisy Gordon, to play basketball outdoors Girl Scouts had to draw curtains around the court so the public could not see their bloomers, & one requirement to earn the Girl Scout War Service Award in 1918 was to knit 2 pounds of wool for the Red Cross.
Sticking to tradition, we also told a circle story. Here goes:
deb: Once upon a time, it was Girl Scout Week.
Morrisa: It was cold outside when they went to the Girl Scout meeting.
Moriah: We were playing lots of games and having fun.
Katie: But then they heard something
Breanna: And it was haunted & there was a green witch that shot out red lava snot
Jazmine: And there was green snot on the grass & it hit Katie.
Dominique: And then there was a cheetah outside.
Mackenzie: Then there was a tree and it busted thru the window because it was alive.
Morgan: & then Hannah Montana came & she said, "Good golly, Miss Dolly."
Mackenzie: Then Katie's eye popped out.
Moriah: The witch's pet cheetah started to attack the Girl Scouts.
Katie: & then Breanna turned into a dragon & Mackenzie turned into an alligator.
Breanna: Since I was a dragon, I was going to poop on her.
Jazmine: There is a ghost who was trying to chase Breanna & eat her up.
Dominique: & then there was a vampire who sucked his blood.
Morgan: It was turning night time & Hannah Montana was wearing golden shoes & she was kidnapped by the witch!
Morrisa: And the Girl Scouts lived happily ever after.
THANK YOU to Nellie for letting us into the Community Building, & cleaning up afterwards!

On Sunday Katie, Kelsie, Kayla, Lindsay, Danielle, Rayne, & Nicole went to the Mercer Methodist Church for Girl Scout Sunday. They had fun singing on stage with Tristen West, Bob & Cathy Speck, & Boyd Miller!
Kelsie, Kayla, & Danielle went home with Katie for lunch, then Katie, Kayla, Kelsie, Lindsay, Nicole, Rayne, Mackenzie, Danielle, & Katie's guest Moriah went to the Stacy Center to join the Princeton Girl Scouts for a swimming party. The Stacy Center gave each girl a glow bracelet, some of the girls also received balloons!

All the cookies have been picked up from deb's house (THANK YOU!). Our next meeting will be the annual Easter Egg Hunt, hopefully in the next few weeks the mud will dry up...

cookie pick up

a big THANK YOU to Mackenzie's dad for picking up her cookies yesterday!

girl scout cookies, they're everywhere!

we went to Bethany tonite & ate supper at Toot-Toot's (one of my fave places to eat...) & I ate smorgasboard as usual. Kate went to help me pick out a dessert, & they had GIRL SCOUT COOKIES with the desserts! Lemonades & Thin Mints on a fancy glass serving platter. How awesome is that!

I talked to Nina Ragan today, she said of course we could decorate one of her store windows for Girl Scout Week next week, maybe we'll have time during our meeting Saturday.
Dominique, Morrisa, Morgan, Cortney, Kelsie, Kayla, Danielle, Jazmine, Breanna, & Lindsay's moms have picked up their cookies.

Bronx Flat Stacies

They started on their trip home today, courtesy of the US Postal Service. Our flats are staying in New York for their troop's Thinking Day.

and the cookies are here...

Kevin & I picked them up at Hal England Center, he somehow got them all wedged into the truck. We came home, KJ helped me carry them, Katie stacked them in groups, then helped Kevin & I divide them up, we were doing great until the end, I had too many leftovers....it was the last 2 orders I'd messed up. Katie worked herself into a frazzle! Made a few calls, but it was getting late, will try to leave everyone else messages tomorrow. Katie had her 1st Lemonade of the season, we think it is our new favorite cookie!

Cookies are Coming.

Cookies will arrive in Princeton Monday. They have to be out of the Hal England Center by 6p.m. Deb will call everyone after we get the cookies sorted so they can be picked up & delivered.