meetings of the past

I was cleaning out my Girl Scout book & found some notes from past meetings before I started blogging, so will put these on too...
We had a HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY at Siemer Trucking 2006.
Katie & Danielle showed the girls the X-mas dance they made up to a Cheetah Girls song, we voted to learn the dance & do it at Pearls for the residents.
we voted on navy t-shirts.
We taught the new girls the Girl Scout Promise, sign, handshake, The Brownie Ring, quiet sign, friendship circle & friendship squeeze.
Read the Juliette Low story & passed out Juliette Low crosswords for the girls.
Melanie had found fun Halloween games on-line, Peggy found every thing we needed for the games, set them up, & ran them for the girls & everyone had lots of fun!!!
We had birthday cake & Halloween Oreos for Juliette Low's birthday (Deb forgot the forks, it got a bit messy!)
Sent home the Girl Scout Promise, Law, & Brownie Smile song for the girls to take home.
Attending: Nicole,Rayne, Katie, Kelsie, Dominique, Morrisa, Cortney, Kayla, Danielle, Breanna, Jazmine, & Lindsay. Special guests were Shelby, a friend Dominique & Morrisa brought (Deb is awful with names & I didn't write it down!), Zac, Megan, & Michelle.
I called Susan with our shirt order.
Everyone attending got work down on Girl Scout Ways & Her Story Try-Its.

NOVEMBER 1st
I turned in registration packet to Susan.

NOVEMBER 15
we had dance practice at our house, worked on Let's Pretend Try-It, started Friendship books. Peggy set up Pearls for us to dance.

NOVEMBER 29
freezing rain. cancelled dance practicel

DECEMBER 4
I had told Nellie the wrong time, so she wasn't there to open the Community Building for our dance practice, so we went to our house. Passed out Santa hats for the girls to wear to dance. Cortney, Lindsay, Kayla, Katie, Morgan, Jazmine, & Breanna were here. Linday, Morgan, Kayla, Katie, Breanna, & Jazmine turned in fundraiser $.

DECEMBER 6
practiced "The Whole Show" complete with singing X-mas songs & the Brownie Smile Song. Cortney absent.
Peggy handed out t-shirts and Xmas party invites, I turned in fall product $ I had.
I screwed up the order, we were missing 1 mom shirt.

DECEMBER 8th
Peggy picked up cookie stuff at Bethany.

DECEMBER 9
All 13 girls to Pearls-Jazmine didn't want to sing or dance-but she cheered for the girls (interesting side note: they weren't ready for our show when we got there, so I posed the girls by the Xmas tree for pictures with my old 35mm camera...none of the pictures turned out. I was bummed.)
They danced to the Cheetah Girls "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", sang "The Brownie Smile Song", "Jingle Bells", & "We Wish You A Merry Christmas."

DECEMBER 13
Brownie Xmas Party 3:30-5:00 Community Building, earned Girl Sports & Playing Around the World Try-Its, played X-mas Simon Says & Musical Reindeer & made X-mas charm bracelets. Each girl brought 2 canned goods that we'll donate to the food pantry in Princeton. Peggy made yummy X-mas treats. The girls worked on their Friendship Books & voted to be penpals with the Canadian Troop Katie's Aunt Lisa found for us.

DECEMBER 20
Katie & I took 26 cans from the Xmas Party to Green Hills Community Action Center in Princeton.

JANUARY 12
cookie sales kick off meeting...sleet. Peg handed out Fall Product Sales prizes. The girls sampled the new Lemonades Cookie. (this cookie beat out Deb's very favorite cookie Thin Mints. Who would've thought?)

FEBRUARY 3
We earned the Senses & Brownie Girl Scouts Through the Years Try-Its.
Rayne, Dominique, & Morrisa were sick, Danielle & Nicole had Tumbling Class, & Kelsie was also absent. (We let these girls make up the activities at a later meeting & they all earned the Try-Its, too.)
Our special guests Zac, Whitney, & Kylie did all the activities right along with us! The girls took turns reading the new & old Brownie stories. Sent in our Troops Juliette Low World Friendship Day contribution.

FEBRUARY 17
Founders Day. Breanna, Jazmine, Kayla & Danielle absent. We finished the Caring & Sharing & Her Story Try-Its. For Something I Care About Show & Tell Lindsay brought her dog Max; Morgan brought seashells; Cortney her big stuffed purple horse from her mom & dad; Katie had her Amazing Allyson & her monkey. The other girls told us about things that were important to them. (& I didn't write them down...)
Everyone who attended earned the World Thinking Day patch.

MARCH 10
we earned Ms. President & Careers Try-Its & wrote penpal letters. Peggy brought Shamrock cupcakes for our snack.
we played Career Charades, Career Dress up & Fashion Show, What I Want To Be When I Grow Up, What My Mom & Dad do for a living---Lindsay was prepared, she had her mom write down descriptions of their jobs for Lindsay to read to us!!!
Kelsie & Morgan were absent.

MARCH 11
Girl Scout Sunday, Katie,Lindsay, Kelsie,Kayla, Danielle, Rayne,Nicole, Dominique, & Morrisa attended church at Mercer Assembly of God. (Deb put their picture in The Mirror.) It was also Kite Sunday at church, so the girls got a free kite to fly afterwards, & Nicole & Rayne won a special kite for bringing the most guests.
in the afternoon we went to the Mercer County Girl Scout Swimming Party at the Stacy Center in Princeton. Katie, Lindsay, Kayla, Nicole, Rayne, Kelsie, & Danielle attended. There was a situation at the Snacks Table, & it'll be hard to convince any of the girls to go again!!! (but they did go back for the next swimming party, & all was well.) The girls donated shoes, socks, or shoelaces to the Shoes for Orphan Souls project, & will each recieve a Girl Scout Week patch.

Monday 19 dance practice, Katie made up a dance to Bratz's "Best Friends" for an upcoming Relay for Life Variety Show.

Tuesday 20 dance practice.

Monday 26th dance practice 100%

Thursday 29th dance practice 100%

Monday APRIL 2
last Best Friends Dance Practice. 100%.
did Scout Codes for Friends Are Fun Try-It. Got all "My Favorite Thing About Brownies" Quotes. Kevin & I counted cookie $. Mailed pen pal letters.

APRIL 3 deposited $3994 cookie $ in account.

APRIL 5
danced in the Variety Show. Most of the girls attended the dinner first, our girls didn't get to dance until about 9 p.m., we have some young girls & some of them were getting very tired, but they did a *G*R*E*A*T* job! Katie had her Grandma Janet, Grandpa Lije & his girl friend, Great Grandma Marie, Aunt Lisa, & Cousins Max & Logan there. There was an Easter Basket Sale in the Commons, & several of the girls selected cool Easter baskets on their way out the door.

APRIL 17
Easter meeting at City Park, we finished the Friends Are Fun Try-It, played Me & My Shadow, had an Easter Egg Hunt & played Easter games. All but Danielle were there.
Set Awards Ceremony for May 6th 6p.m. Community Building. Each mom will bring a dozen cookies, Peg will supply drink.s

APRIL 18
ordered all the badges the girls had earned on my credit card. (was reimbursed by the Troop).

APRIL 24
G.S.M. called to confirm badge order.

MAY 6
Awards Ceremony, all but Morgan attended, most of the girls had their entire families there, plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, & cousins!
We did a Rainbow Candle Ceremony, Girl Scout Promise, Brownie Smile Song, the 2nd grade girls did short speeches about different aspects of Girl Scouts & our activities during the year, presented awards & badges, did the Friendship Circle & squeeze, & sang "Make New Friends But Keep The Old."
then we had snacks. Deb had the Girl Scout Scrapbook on display. Took group pictures.

AUGSUT 23 2007 Best of Both Worlds dance practice 3:30-4:30. 100% participation!

SEPTEMBER 11 2007
all but Rayne & Nicole met at the Mercer Bandstand to earn Listening to the Past Try-It. We played old fashioned games, made handkerchief dolls, had My Favorite Doll Show & Tell, read a Little House story segment about Laura's corncob doll & Mary's rag doll, & had Flavor Burst Ice Cream Cones at Sunny side Diner.