Camporee Packing List

This is going to be such a fun and exciting adventure for all of us! As we are preparing, there are a few things we need to keep in mind. Girls will need to be able to carry their own stuff during a semi-lengthy walk up a mild incline. By this I am saying, pack light. Take only what you absolutely need to get through the camp-out. But make sure you have everything you will need because we will not have the ability to go back and get it. That being said, the packing list is below:

• Sleeping bag rated to 20 degrees or less
• Extra blankets/ fleece liner
• Pillow
• Flashlight
• Personal hygiene and sanitary supplies
• Appropriate clothing
• Closed toed/closed heeled shoes (2 pair)
• Extra socks
• Warm pajamas
• Jacket or parka
• Towel and washcloth
• Poncho/rain gear
• Sun Hat
• Knit hat for sleeping in
• Water bottle
• Bandana
• Sunscreen
• Insect repellent
• Back/Daypack
• Disposable Camera (optional, please no "real" cameras)
• Money/Activity credits for trading post
• A snack to share (this will be given to the leaders to keep with the rest of the food)
• One special stuffed animal or doll to snuggle and night and to participate in a tea party
• ONE PENNY FOR EACH GIRL
• If you have any old uniforms, bring or
  wear them to our opening campfire
  and All Camp activity.
• Dance costume from your favorite
  decade (optional)
• Tapestry cloth (We will be weaving a 100th anniversary Tapestry during Camporee. Have your girls bring a strip of cloth that symbolizes them to be woven into our tapestry. They can pin small items (swaps or decorations) onto their cloth strip after weaving into the tapestry if they would like.
• $10 per girl to help with gas for transportation

Once at camp, we will not be able to call parents unless it is an emergency. Hopefully that means that you will not be hearing from your girl until we get back. This is a good thing! :) All the girls did GREAT at he sleepover and I am not expecting there to be any problems or homesickness while at camp. I think we have a great bunch of girls who care about each other very much and they all work to make sure taht everyone feels included and happy.

I would like to stress a couple of rules and would ask that you talk to your daughter about these as well. #1 Absolutely NO electronics of any kind are allowed at camp. This is really important. I would hate to have a super sad little gal because her ipod went missing. Let's just leave them home for a few days. :) #2 Please remember that Flip Flops, Thongs, Sandels od any kind are not allowed at camp. Please do not bring them. Make sure that all shoes are close toed and close heeled. #3 The Buddy System. Please talk to your girl about how important this is. Make sure that they are aware that they need to have a buddy with them anytime they are going to be out of sight for any reason.

Everyone will need to bring their belongings to Mrs. S' house by Wednesday night. We will meet again at Mrs. S' house at 10:15am on Thursday morning. We have to check in at Noon. Therefore, we will be leaving no later than 10:30am. Parents will be responsible for transportaton to camp for any girl who is not at Mrs. S' house by 10:30am. We will be at Camp Trefoil in Provo Canyon. We are one of the first troops to check in, therefore we will be onbe of the last to check out. If everyone can please plan to meet back at Mrs. S' house at 5pm, we will be there shortly afterwards. Please do not be late to pick up your girl. We have alot of cleaning up and putting away to do after the girls leave.

Camporee is going to be a very fun experience for all our girls. They are going to have pleanty of time to form even tighter bonds with each other and make new friends as well. We are looking forward to having a great time with the girls!

End of Year Extravanganza

What amazing fun we had last night as we played together as Girl Scout Sisters! We started the night off at Fat Cats and enjoyed a fun game of bowling while we munched on pizza and soda. Then we took to the golf course, miniature golf course that is, to try our hand at golfing... in the dark... with a black light. Let's just say, I stopped counting my shots. I don't like counting that high! Following miniature golf, the girls headed off for a round, and another round, and another round, and another round (you get the picture) of bumper cars. We zoomed, bumped and spun all over that bumper car arena. A couple of our cuties ganged up on me and squished me against the wall! Little sillies! After we had all had enough bumping and spinning, everyone got 20 tokens and were sent off to see how many tickets they could win. Picking out their prizes was a highlight of the evening. We brought back some pretty awesome stuff from a real metal Slinkie and a UFO light to an inflatable monkey! everyone found a prize just for them.

Having sufficiently played our hearts out at Fat Cats, we thanked them, gathered our stuff and bid them farewell before embarking on the walk to The Hampton Inn across the street. Everyone pitched in to make sure that all the stuff got carried and every one's load was just a little lighter. We have a great group of Girl Scout Friends! When we arrived at the hotel, we dropped our stuff, put on our swimming suits and found our way to the over sized hot tub. We splashed and played before heading back to the room to get some work done! We gathered in the sitting room of our Executive suite and got down to the business of creating our S.W.A.P.'S (something withe a pin). We are going to need alot of them for camp! Each and every girl pitched in to make autograph books, flowers and silly creatures and us grown-ups glued pins on each and every one. As the night wore on and the gluing got more demanding, Mrs. K. and Mrs. S. both burnt themselves (although Mrs. K's was due to her arm being closed in a drawer!). I thought I had gotten away without injury... how wrong I was. This afternoon, I noticed a blister on my finger! I guess I was too tired to notice that I had been burned! Good grief!

Well, after filling a pretty large tub with S.W.A.P.'s, the girls all grabbed a snack and snuggled down in their blankets to watch every one's favorite little blue critters in The Smurf Movie. By 2am, only one gal was still awake and the movie finally over. The TV went off and lights went out. All was quiet until morning.

Morning came a wee bit early for my taste, but when you wake at 7:30 every morning, your body clock tends to wake you at 7:30am even on the weekends. The windows were opened and cartoons turned on while the girls woke up and began dressing for the day. We gathered our stuff, located all lost belongings and went down to check out the breakfast. The breakfast menu consisted of cereal, danishes, oatmeal, fruit, sausage, eggs, french toast sticks and the undeniable favorite (I know this because I ended up at the cooking station) was the waffle station and the hot cocoa!

I was pleasantly surprised at how amazingly well the girls all took turns, shared, looked out for one another and acted like properly mannered young ladies throughout the entire activity. We have an amazing group of Girl Scout Girls and I am honored to have the opportunity to take this journey alongside them. We had a fun and exciting end of year activity and we are now looking forward to Camporee in a few weeks and will miss all our wonderful girls until we meet again in the Fall!

May 10th, 2012 Shhhhh! It's a Secret!

There's a very special day coming up for the #1 most important person in our Girl Scout lives and we are going to be busy little Brownies making sure that we can make her smile on her special day! We can't say what we are doing but a warning we'll impart, make sure the clothes you come in can handle a little paint!

April 26th, 2012 Talent Show Prep

It's time to start planning, practicing and prepping for our Talent show on May 24th when our AMAZING Girl Scouts will awe and inspire us all with all their unique and impressive talents. I have had the opportunity to teach with these girls, learn with these girls and play with these girls for the past 7 months, and I know how unbelievably talented they are. I can't wait to show them off!

Tonight we will be planning and practicing for our show. So come prepared with your best talent. Here are a few of the rules:

• Talent must be 5 minutes or shorter
• Talent must not include anything dangerous such as fire and/or knives
• Talent must be age-appropriate. Lets avoid our little girls being sexy and knowing it!
  

We'll talk about things like, what equipment will be needed, what costumes will they be wearing, what talent will they be performing and what we can all do to help.

Cookie Success!

Our cookie sales this year were phenomanal! We could not have done it with out our AMAZING Cookie Mom, Marie Grogan, all of our wonderful parents and of course, our AMAZING Girl Scouts! We all spent a long hours, selling and delivering cookies and collecting and depositing money and of course, who can forget the cookie booth. We realize what a job it is and we recognize that each and every person has other things to do, but puts them aside for the good of our troop and I just want to day a BIG THANK-YOU! ou all were awesome and we couldn't have done it without you! And for such a young group of Girl Scouts, we did pretty darned well! We sold a ton of cookies and earned enough money to make our end of year activity something to remember!

Thank you again for all your hard work!

April 12th, 2012 First Aid

Hey Girl Scouts! Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 12th. Same time, same place, but always something new to discover! This week we will be earning our FIRST AID badge! This is an important badge for every girls scout to have.

Some of the activities we have planned are:

• Learning to treat a basic wound with a bandage (wait until you see the awesome rainbow bandages we got, just for the girls!)
• Meet a real life FIREFIGHTER and listen as he talks to you about CPR, Heimlich and wound care. (You might want to look up what CPR and Heimlich means before you come, and see if you can impress our special guest and all your Girl Scout friends!)
• Learn basic safety and First Aid techniques that every Girl Scout should know.
  

This will be an exciting meeting with some awesome real life skills to be learned. Don't be late!

Introducing Girl Scout Brownie Troop 102

Welcome everyone! I am pleased to introduce our AMAZING GIRL SCOUT BROWNIE TROOP 102!

We have an amazing group of girls and we have had so much fun so far this year. We are looking ahead to lots of fun meeting and exciting activities!

I have created this blog to help keep parents apprised of the activities that are going on in our troop and throughout our service unit as well as to share all the fun we are having as Girl Scouts!

For the sake of Internet Safety, I will not be disclosing any information on locations we are at and I will Never, Ever use your daughter's name, anywhere on this blog! Each girl will have a "code name" by which she will be referred in this blog. If you or your daughter would like her code name changed, please let me know what her preference is. I would love to call her anything she would like!

I really want this to be a tool to help keep Parents up-to-date with their Daughter's Girl Scout experience and a fun place for girls to visit to share their memories and excitement with their family.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know!