Troop 3354 - Through the years

For a while I've wanted to do a post of my favorite group pictures of all times.  Many times, I use the best of the best for the main picture but then they are not part of the post.  Through the 6 years we have been a troop, we have had 23 different girls participate.  Our troop has ranged from 11-18 girls while in Elementary school and 6 girls in Middle school.  We currently have 3 girls who have been with us since 1st grade and 1 close behind having started in 2nd.  Our other 2 girls joined us in 5th grade after moving to Sam Davey.  They both were part of another troop prior to joining us.  I hope you enjoy a look at our troop through the years.  :)

First Grade - Roller Skating
Alex, Hannah, Emily, Alyssa, Sydney, Katelyn, Amber, Brandi, Taylor
Maddy, Rebecca and Ana

2nd Grade - Beaver Creek Reserve
Top/back row - Emily, Maddy, Amber, Ana
Top/front - Madison, Katelyn, Ingrid
Top/front row - Brandi, Alyssa, Alex, Taylor and Allie

3rd Grade - Valleyfair
Maddy, Amber, Ally, Katelyn, Alex, Alyssa, Allie, Emily, Brandi, Taylor and Ana

 

4th grade - Talent show
Back - Faith, Amber, Rebecca, Ingrid, Allie, Rachael, Maria, Jennifer
Front - Katelyn, Taylor, Selena, Ana, Ally, Abby, Alex, Maddy, Hannah, Brianna, Alyssa

4th grade - Lake Wissota
Hannah, Amber, Taylor, Faith, Allie, Emily, Selena, Paige, Ingrid
Alex, Ana, Alyssa, Maddy
Rebecca, Katelyn, Brianna

5th grade - beginning of the year
Alyssa, Alex, Jenny, Ana, Ingrid, Hannah, Abby, Ally, Taylor, Brianna, Allie, Taylor, Rebecca, Amber and Katelyn

 

5th grade - Bronze Award winners at Fanny Hill
Alex, Rebecca, Emily, Taylor, Allie, Amber, Taylor, Alyssa and Abby

 

5th grade - Bridging to Cadettes
Back - Allie, Amber, Ally, Hannah, Taylor, Emily, Alex
Front - Rebecca, Jenny, Taylor, Brianna, Abby, Ana, Alyssa

 

5th Grade - Bronze award marketing photo
Back - Ally, Hannah, Abby, Allie, Alex
Middle - Ingrid, Ana, Taylor, Jenny, Emily, Taylor
Front - Amber, Brianna, Katelyn, Rebecca, Alyssa

 

5th grade - Washington DC
Taylor, Amber, Abby, Jenny, Katelyn, Allie and Alex

5th grade - Minneapolis
Ally, Ingrid, Taylor, Alyssa, Emily, Rebecca, Ana and Hannah

6th grade - Camp Nawakawa
Alex, Alyssa, Jenny, Allie, Taylor and Taylor

Camp Nawakawa

Saturday, November 10th, we planned an over night at the Chalet at Camp Nawakawa.  We were hoping to combine some aMaze work with the Eating for Beauty badge.  That part was a success.  Great conversations regarding peer pressure, stereotypes and bullies as well as a fun pampering session with mud masks and hand/foot spa treatments. EX-CEL-ENT!!!!  The girls opted to be one of two groups for meals.  Breakfast - Alex, Jenny and Alyssa or Dinner - Allie, Taylor and Taylor.  Dinner consisted of Madagascar Mac and Cheese, Dino Chicken Nuggets, peppers, pineapple, tomatoes and pears.  Breakfast included pancakes with chocolate chips, strawberries, whipped cream, hot chocolate, apple cider along with finishing up the pears and pineapple.  Yummy!!  Sleeping was a different story.  Multiple critters kept half of the girls awake until at least 3.  One animal was in the roof of the building and sounded like it was playing with an acorn.  And, with those noises, we heard every little creak and clang all night.  At one point, Maria and I even went to bang on the wall to try to scare it off.  Didn't even phase the creature.  Overall a fabulous trip that we all enjoyed very much!!  When asked to describe the weekend in one word, here is what everyone said:
Maria - Interesting!

Alyssa - Creepy

Jenny - Talkative

Taylor H - Fun

Jennifer - Sleepless

Alex - Interesting

Taylor K - Interesting

Allie - Rats

I think that sums it up pretty well!!  Here are some pictures of our adventure!

Taylor and Allie

 Alyssa

 Alex

Taylor

 Jenny

Until next time........

DC Journal

Here are a few pictures from the DC Journal I created......

Breast Cancer Walk

Alyssa and Alex staying warm by dancing.

This year's group of walkers

Girl Scouts get corny

As part of the aMaze Journey we are working on, we ventured out to the corn maze today.  The aMaze Journey works on several challenges kids face daily including bullies, cliques, stereotypes, friendship, and many more.  One of today's activities focused on trust.  The girls were partnered up and one was blind folded.  They were only allowed to use their voices to give directions to find their way out of the maze.  Periodically, Maria and I would throw them a curve ball as would happen in the maze of their life.
We had a great time and it was nice to be able to do something outside of the classroom.  I'm very much looking forward to the other outings we have planned this year.  Here's a few pictures of our time in the corn maze.

Meeting October 4th

I'm told at some point they will settle down a little.... not sure when that will be but I'll keep you posted.
We started this year with some planning an it looks like we will be doing some camping in November, a corn maze in two weeks, the breast cancer walk and Wisconsin Dells just to start. Should be a busy year full of lots of laughs and good conversations.

National Aquarium

"Just keep swimming"