it's over!

Sara stopped by our house today to pick up the fundraiser money owed council, & we put the money we earned in the bank! now just have to do the final badge order & schedule a 'planning' meeting for the girls to decide what they want at the awards ceremony...then set a date for awards & have a couple of fun summer meetings!

all $ turned in....

called Sara & made arrangements to turn in our council deposit...$808.00.

our troop made $245.00!!!

we have super sales girls (& parent helpers!)in our troop, & I appreciate all the parents always getting the $ turned in on time...and the right amounts...although I manage to stress myself out nonetheless...

going to set up a award ceremony planning meeting & send out letters...

the fundraiser money is coming in...

Moriah turned hers in with her orders...very much appreciated, Moriah!
Katie, Breanna, Jazmine, Lindsay, & Mackenzie have turned their money in.
thanks parents & Girl Scouts!

all the candy is picked up!

Moriah picked up her candy & the prizes she earned today.

A Trip to The Post Office

today Katie & I mailed Hawkeye the Bear back to Sioux City, IA; & sent pen pal packages to Frost, TX; & Rochester, NY!

Nuts/Candy

all nuts/candy has been picked up but Moriah's, & she has already turned in her $!
Deb has to have the money to Sara by the 30th.
Katie has delivered all her orders.

Teddy Bear Tea Party/ Easter Egg Hunt

Jazmine, Cortney, Morrisa, Morgan, Mackenzie, Katie, Kayla, Lindsay, Breanna, Dominique, & Cheyanne met at the Dailey House, where they dressed up in their "finest", disguised their stuffed friends as Bunnies, & were treated to Peach & Raspberry Teas, Petit Fours, Sugar Cookies, Honey Fruit Salad, & Cucumber & Peanut Butter Jelly Tea Sandwiches.
The Nut & Candy Sale prizes were handed out.
We wrote pen pal letters to Rochester NY.
Cortney will take Carly Cardinal home.
Mackenzie got the Friendship Book.
Carly Cardinal, Hawkeye The Bear, & Flat Troop Leader Diane were all our guests.
We are excited that Cheyanne wants to join our troop!
We went to the City Park where KJ hid Easter Eggs for us, Ms. Deb tried something new & had 2 personalized eggs for each girl with badges in them. Kelsie joined us after the Easter Egg Hunt, some of the girls gave her some of their goodies.
Ms. Deb forgot all about our craft, Eggimals (making Easter Eggs into loveable animals...guess we'll do it next time!)
All girls attending will receive the Girl Scout Teddy Bear Tea Party patch & an Easter Fun patch.
May looks pretty booked for everyone with vacations, graduations, dance contests, & bowling tournaments. Might have to postpone Awards Ceremony until June.

the candy is here!

Kevin, Deb, & Katie picked up our candy/nut sales stuff at Sara's house, I got the prizes divvied up, will get the merchandise sorted for pick up, too...

A Girl Scout Meeting

March 28, 2009 Katie, Jazmine, Cortney, Morgan, Breanna, & Lindsay had a Girl Scout meeting...it was sleeting & snowing. Morgan brought a Flat Stanley her cousin from Orion, IL had sent to visit her. The girls had fun playing with Katie's new miniature daschund Sasha Rose. Our New York pen pals sent us their flattened troop leader Diane. We drew names & she went home to visit Morgan. She has been staying at Katie's house.

The Brownies earned Building Art & Citizen Near & Far.
The Juniors earned It's Important To Me & Women's Stories.

We made scrapbooks for Girl Scout month. We also made more Flat Stacies, Breanna decided to send hers to visit her pen pal Milanne in New York. The rest of the girls opted to take theirs home. Deb made a couple of Flats to send to NY & TX, & sent each troop a Girl Scout Scrapbook, as well.

We learned about Hannah's Socks, a service project started when Hannah was 4 years old that has helped 3500 people in Ohio & Kay McLeroy, a woman in Mississippi who started a sanctuary for abused & mistreated big cats. She has 300 animals, spends $4200 a month on food for the cats, & $3,500 average a month on the vet bill.

We decided our perfect Girl Scout meeting place would have a rocket ship, museum, statues of Juliette Lowe & Jazmine & Breanna's mom, the Statue of Liberty, a club house, animal shelter, petting zoo, tree, farm, a plaque with the Girl Scout Promise & Law, limo, hot tub, pool, giant American flag, giant paper, a picture of all the Girl Scouts in the world, our own bedrooms, & a mall.
we tried a taking turns story about values....
Lindsay: money grows on trees
Jazmine: money everybody loves
Cortney: being a sister to every Girl Scout
Breanna: flying pugs that don't have motors or waste gas
Morgan: a witches eyes fall out
Cortney: hairy nose
Katie: I don't know.
Morgan: dogs clean eyeballs.

Our neighborhood would be better with a hotel, jail, mall.
Breanna thinks we need an amusement park.
Lindsay says a hospital.
Katie thinks an animal shelter.
Morgan says a jail.
Jazmine thinks a skyscraper.
Cortney says more bikes.

What is moxie? Moxie means energy, pep, courage, determination, know-how, and expertise-sometimes all rolled into one. A person full of moxie is one who has a lot of spirit mixed with skillfulness. (Another word for moxie might be 'guts').
we each thought of a superhero & her 'moxie':
Jazmine~Supergirl~water power
Morgan~Cat Girl~makes cats fall out of the sky like rain to save peoples lives
Lindsay~Elastigirl~stretch power
Cortney~Purple Girl~makes Morgan turn purple.
Katie~Ice Girl~freezes people, throw ice, make ice storms
Breanna~Pug Woman~she can be anywhere anytime of day; she can go back in time; she can see into the future