next meeting

deb is mailing out postcards tomorrow to announce our next meeting:
Saturday Jan. 10 2-4p.m. deb's house,
back up date is Jan. 17 same time & place.
Brownies will earn Working It Out & My Body.
Juniors will earn The Choice Is Yours & Stress Less.
Will have to look in the book to see what the activities will earn for Moriah.
will do several stress reducing actitivies, lots of circle discussion, & write letters to our penpals.

Food to Food Pantry

Katie & Deb dropped off the canned goods the girls brought to the Christmas party December 23rd at the Mercer County Food Pantry.
Postmistress Donna Beavers told me the other day that she was eating at Dottie & Chub's when the girls were caroling & really enjoyed it!

package from our NY penpals

with christmas cards & swaps.
Hi From Your Pen Pals in Rochester NY

We received your 2nd package of letters and the girls were excited to read them. We read them after helping sort PJS for the Women's shelter on Dec. 1st. 2008. Our troop also just made scarves for Hillside Family Children's Homes for Christmas. They turned out great!
We were all sorry to hear about Kelsie's house catching on fire. It's great to have friends & neighbors to help when it really matters.
Let us know how you like the new Journey books, we haven't decided if we will use them during Jrs. yet.
The girls were wondering if the Zack that a lot of your girls wrote about was all the same boy. They were having lots of fun with that.
We had our Christmas party at the bowling alley this year. It was a great time. We took pictures that we will send with our next letters. Our next meeting isnt' until January 15th, 2009. I hope the girls will have their letters and pictures ready to mail that week. We are sending our hope that all of you stay safe and loved through this Christmas season and the new year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Your Sisters in Scouting Troop 67.
Ms. Diane, Ms. Gina, Ms. Joanne, Amanda, Rebecca, Kelly, Shelly, Katherine, Emma, Mary, Madison, Milanne, Alexa, Samantha, Brianna, Taylor, Kayci.

cookie prizes

Girl Scouts lets the girls earn prizes by the amount of boxes they sell, but everyone works hard, whether they're the top girl or one of the other girls, so my theory is, we won't all earn the cool Girl Scout prizes, but we can all get something!
From our trusty friends at Oriental Trading Company we ordered a dozen bright colored 45" plush snakes as a thank you to each girl.
Each Brownie will receive a Smart Cookie Try-It.
Each Junior will receive a Cookie Biz Badge.
Moriah, our Cadette, will receive a Cookies & Dough Badge.

Top seller Ms. Cortney will receive Cookie the Dog plush.
2nd place seller Ms. Lindsay will receive the Junior Journey's Keepsake Bracelet.
3rd place seller Ms. Mackenzie will receive the Brownie Journey Keepsake Necklace.

will send in orders on Monday via mail.

meanwhile, Katie has been going thru the Junior Badge Book planning future meetings!

so where DID our grandparents come from?

when asked where their grandparents came from, the girls replied...
Cortney: Alabama/North Carolina
Morgan: Florida
Breanna & Jazmine: Florida/Iowa
Dominique & Morrisa: Texas/Iowa
Lindsay: Germany
Mackenzie: Iowa
Moriah: Kansas City/California/Iowa
Katie: Indiana/Virginia

It's a Girl Scout Christmas!

We did the Girl Scout Promise, the Girl Scout Law with motions, started time capsules, made snow dough men & glittery ornaments, played Pass the Present, made family coupons, drew family pictures, learned about hypothermia & frostbite, talked about dressing for winter weather & what we should have in the car in case we're stranded, talked about where our grandparents came from, drew a name to make a Girl Scout Friendship book for (Moriah), & drew a name to take Carly Cardinal home to visit (Lindsay.) Whew! We also caroled around the square at Tiki Hut, Grammy's Grocery, Mercer Pizza Plus, & Dottie & Chub's. Lindsay read the Maine postcard aloud & we passed it around. We signed Xmas cards for our penpals. We read the Brownie Elf story aloud from the Brownie Journey book. Morgan has her book now.
Mackenzie, Jazmine, Cortney, Morgan, Morrisa, & Dominique earned All in the Family. Katie, Lindsay, & Breanna earned Frosty Fun. Moriah earned Family Living.

rec'd holiday swaps today!

got some really awesome ones!

All State Swaps II

rec'd our 2 batches of swaps today~Kate got to pick first since we financed the deal~is that fair? will let the girls divvy them up at the Xmas meeting Friday.

cookie orders turned in

gave them to Sarah at Princeton.


moriah's registration mailed in.

the tallies are in...GOOD JOB, GIRLS!

all cookie sheets are turned in.
deb thinks the paperwork is ready to turn in.

the girls sold a total of 1194 boxes!
(102 cases!)

#1 selling cookie was Thin Mints with 295 boxes
#2 selling cookie was Caramel Delights with 249 boxes
#3 selling cookie was Peanut Butter Patties with 245 boxes

#1 seller was Miss Cortney with 200 boxes!
#2 seller was Miss Lindsay with 168 boxes!
#3 seller was Miss Mackenzie with 154 boxes!

will find cool plushies & patches for everyone, & 3 top prizes.

cookie sheets continued...

Dominique, Morrisa, Kelsie, Cortney, Lindsay, Mackenzie turned in cookie sheets today, leaving Morgan, Kayla, & Moriah.

cookie sales sheets/missing mascot

Sara from Princeton called today to remind me she needs cookie info Friday or Saturday. Tracy brought Breanna & Jazmine's cookie sheets here, & of course I have Katie's. Deb called to say she would drop Cortney's off tomorrow.

emailed Roxanna yesterday about the mascot we were supposed to host this month that never arrived. she was going to check with the co-leader who was supposed to mail it.