GS Olympics

Super Excited!!!!! This Saturday is the GS Service Unit #304 GS Olympics from 9am- noon.

I am super excited to announce the girls will eb competing in the following activties: Archery, Canoeing, Tent building, and Fire Building. They will be competing as teams and as individuals.

I have trophies and medals which I will award after the events. Yeahhhhhhhhh I know I will see some awesome girl scout skills at play this weekend.

Hope to see you there,

Mrs. Brandi

Early Bird Glow Party

Girl Scout Troop #3029 had a blast last night as we celebrated our Early Bird Registration with a GLOW Party!!! We registered 22 girls into our troop for 2013-2014. (5 of them transferred from disbanning troops and 2 are totally new to scouting which excites me. I just love introducing girls to the awesome world of girl scouts for the first time.)

Avery and Candance  making SWAPS (new to troop 3029, but not new to girl scouts & we are so excited to have them!!!)

Emma, Sarah Kate, & Natalie. The 3 muskateers. They are having a blast with their new glow in the dark glasses and glow necklaces.

Shelby, Emily, Anna, Peyton, and Abbygayle 

Sorry pictures are so hard to take in the dark. The girls loved glowing in the dark and black lights. They had glow in the dark fingernails, lipgloss, & hair stuff. They also got glow in the dark glasses, necklaces, bracelets, and beach balls that glows in the black light. They made glow in the dark and blacklight picture frames, homemade glitter glow sticks, and duck tape bow SWAPs that glowed in the blacklight.

We drew snack helper jewels and our secret sister names. 

We also voted on the colors of our troop tshirt... Dum Dum Dummmmmmmmm...... it will be..................... lime green and pink

This is our amazing and awesome group!!!! We love to have fun and that... is what we succeed in doing!!!!

Next up Splashkingdom waterpark trip. :)

2013 Community Service

Community Service Fun

(Sorry I lost tons of my gs pictures when my other laptop broke. If my Dad is able to get them off my hard drive I will add more pictures later. P.s. I learned my lesson about not backing up my photos. Believe me Walgreen's is sooooooo happy to see me now. lol)

This past year our troop has focused on doing tons of community service projects to help out our community. 

We helped beautify La and our local zoo... (I bought the girls gardening gloves and tools to take home for their own gardening projects.)

We helped serve supper to survivors at our local Relay 4 Life (this is our 2nd year to help serve supper and our 3rd year to volunteer at this event.) This event is very near and dear to our hearts since I am a survivor. I went through Breast cancer 3 yrs ago and still holding troop meetings while taking a year of chemo and having 8 surgeries. My girls and my gs parents are one of the main reasons I did so good during my treatments and is a survivor today.

(Mrs. Brandi and her daughter Brooke)

We said "Thank You" to our local veterans by singing Christmas Carols at our local VA Home. It really brightened their day and they loved it!!!

We donated supplies and our time at our local humane society. The girls got to learn about the shelter and how the animals cope while waiting to be adopted. We delivered donated food, supplies, and toys to the cute little kitties to us. We also got to play with the kitties and give them some much needed love only a kid can give. :)

We also participated in the following community service projects:

Worked at our local Food Bank (3 times)

Participated in Scouting 4 Food with the boyscouts of America

Donated hair to Locks for Love (Catherine :)

Served Breakfast to breast cancer survivors at our local Susan G Komen Race for the Cure

Helped clean up at our host church

Sent Girl Scout Cookies to a local soldier serving over seas. (9 cases)

Retired local flags for our community in a formal flag retirement ceremony

(We probably did more community service, but due to my photos being gone and my gs attendance binder being packed I can't remember anymore.)

Community Service plans for next year:

Hats off to Cancer

Race for the Cure (3rd annual)

Hats 4 the Homeless

Scouting for Food (7th annual)

Toy Drive

Cookies for St. Judes

Food Bank

War Veteran Home visit (pass out small gifts and chat with the residents)

72 Hr Food Pantry Kits

Relay 4 Life (3rd annual)

Beautify La Project (3rd annual)

We Loveeeeeeeeeee to help people!!!!! My goal is for teach the girls to serve others and hopefully the girls will grow up and help others as adults. That would make me super happy. :)

Keep Busy It's Fun,

Mrs. Brandi

2013 EarlyBird Meeting details

I just loved our photoshoot this past year. I wish everyone had been able to attend it. I plan on having another one next year and maybe all can be there. The girls had a blast posing with their friends and me. Looking forward to scrapbooking these photos at our Mom's Night Out scrapbook meeting. Yeah my troop has meetings for the mom's as well... Why should the girls be the only ones who have fun!!!! LOL. Us Mommies have just as much fun as ya'll at our meetings. :)

Next meeting will be our EARLY BIRD SURPRISE PARTY!!!! It is going to be awesome!!!! I have lots of awesome stuff planned and you all will be so sorry if you miss it. P.s. Wear clothes with white in them or neon colors. That is the only hint I will give. Gonna be the Bomb!!!   June 18 6pm-8pm at the church. P.s. Please bring your checkbook so you can reregister for girl scouts $13 and register for the Mall Lockin $20 (and if you are new to our troop you will need to bring our one time troop due of $20). (supper will be served)