PHOTO DUMP OF THE WEEK

Warning photo loaded post ahead.

I haven't uploaded photos in awhile.

Perfect time to do a photo dump. I wanted to call it Friday Photo Dump but it is Saturday and it just didn't sound the same. ha

My sister's tree at Christmas. Her home was beautiful and she should have done a post on her blog. hint hint

 Girl Scout Christmas party gift exchange. The girls did a homemade gift and we played White Elephant . Lots of fun and creativity

Coco kept asking to open a gift so I let her open her "gag gift". Her job is dishes

and she was not impressed with her dish washing gift. ha ha

Somebody will learn not to play with the camera!!!

 Coco and I had a impromtu Girl Scout meeting at IHOP recently. I had eggs benedict and she had the strawberry pancakes and couldn't help herself with the whipped cream!!

 Today we attended a birthday party for our neighbor Joann. She was a young 77 today.

Pretty girl in purple

 Couldn't help myself. This Lady Liberty was on the street today with a sign for some income tax company.

Coco strives to get a job dressing up in costumes and waving at cars for Halloween Express so she loved this !!!

We were going through a box of photos tonight and I really want to know where this girl went because I want her back!!!!

Scott is on his way home with Chili's and I am in trouble because I forgot to call it in. When he got there he had to order and then wait for it!!!

So glad I have such a patient man! The Good Lord knew what I needed

Blessings,

Pam

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I really have nothing to blog about. I have been working late everyday, going into the office on the weekends or bringing it home with me. Which leaves very little time for anything else.

Thank God I have the most amazing husband who picks up the slack and doesn't complain. He has taken over the dinner making and helping keep up the housework. I am hoping it is starting to level out so that I don't have to put in so many hours.

We are in the throes of Girl Scout Cookie sales, Thinking Day activities and this is the 100th year birthday of Girl Scouts. Lots of projects to plan and do. I have spent tonight researching the country of Denmark for Thinking Day. We will have a booth about Denmark for Thinking Day. Our service unit has joined with another city to have the event together. We will have 37 countries represented and expect to have an estimated 400 girls that evening. Each troop that signs up for a country has a booth with info on Girl Scouts from that country, a craft or food to hand out to all 400 girls plus a Girl Scout Swap to give. I have contacted a few bloggers I found from Denmark to help us get information. I found a recipe for a cookie that sounds really good called Pepper nuts that I hope to make a batch of this weekend to see if it will be cost effective to make 400 of. I will be having the girls do this the week before the event. I have also been trying to find 400 Lego pieces to make the SWAPS since Lego's originated from Denmark.
If you have any you want to get rid of I will gladly take them. If you have any information about Denmark please share!!

I did get to spend Saturday with my sister, Mom and Aunt. We met at my Aunt Donna's and I wish I had taken photos. She just bought a new home and it was my first time to see it. It was gorgeous. She made us a delicious lunch of chicken salad, fruit and Poppy seed dressing. The dressing was just as good as our local tea room. She even sent us home with some.... Love to drizzle it on the tropical mix canned fruit.

I am headed to bed to try to catch up on some rest. I was up and down all night last night, spent today exhausted and yawning .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Juliette Gordon Low was born on October 31, 1860.

The founder of Girl Scouts

She was known as "Daisy" by friends and family

She started the first troop here in the states in 1912

She was very athletic

Girl Scouts touches the lives of many girls each and every year.

In honor of her birthday

"DO A GOOD TURN TODAY"

Girl Scout Halloween Party

I have survived the GS Halloween party. I was starting to get a migraine earlier today, thank goodness my medicine worked.

We had 2 robin hoods, 80's girl, Cyndi Lauper, a Nerd, cheerleader, sorceror, and a dead person.

They did great with their costumes.

Group Shot

I tried to do a few gross foods.
Pumpkin puking the dip

Cockroaches around the food.

Those grapes look weird, I think it was the condensation on them

after I washed them.

Cool bunch of girlies

Cyndi doing Just Dance "Girls just wanna have fun"

They kept score and I am proud to say that I came in 4th on this song

Yeah Pam

I had cobwebs everywhere with little spiders

Joe's mustache lasts forevah!!!

Deep into the dance

I got this cool window cling at Walmart.

It really looked cool from outside

They had a great time and didn't want to leave when their parents came.

That is always a good sign that they were enjoying themselves

Now to take down all the webs and ghoulish decor.

Tomorrow is packing up for a week of work travel.

I haven't flown since 2001 and will be flying for the next 2 weeks.

Pray that it all goes smoothly for me.

GIRL SCOUT SILVER CEREMONY

Warning photo overload.

We held our awards ceremony for Girl Scouts today.

We bridged from Juniors to Cadettes

Our local Price Cutter made this cake for us.

It turned out so cute

For their badges and patches I hot glued them onto a piece of ribbon. Some of the girls do not get the vest or sash and this way they can hang it in their room or whatever

We started with the Pledge, Promise and Law

They all know them by heart. It has only taken a few years

Girl Scout Promise and Law

I chose the Silver Ceremony where they each lite a candle and read a statement about key to new challenges, character, leadership, etc. They then crossed the bridge to get their key and pins.

This is Coco reading her statement

New Cadette Troop (missing 4 girls)

My co-leaders Erica and Tia

I made them each a bag with a few goodies and a bouquet of flowers.

I couldn't do it without them

I planned some games after the cake portion.

Egg on a spoon was way to easy, the eggs weren't even breaking on the grass

Egg toss

This was fun and luckily only 1 girl broke it in her hand and they were really far apart

This one they were trying to pass a orange to each other under the chin.
maggie kept getting to tickled to make it work.

They kinda thought this one was to weird. They weren't comfortable getting so close.

Girls being girls

We now begin learning as Cadettes and the many opportunities available.

Lots of fun adventures to be had.

I love being a Girl Scout Leader

TO MUCH TECHNOLOGY

You are probably wondering what in the world these 3 photos have to do with anything!

I do have a point to make.

Tonight we were invited to a Girl Scout Cookie Celebration Dinner.

One of things we did was play Pictionary. It was the Mom's against the Girls.

My daughter got the object answering machine as her word to draw.

She tried drawing the 8 ball toy that you ask questions and roll it and it shows an answer in a little window.

I laughed so hard because she didn't know what a actual answering machine is. Of course it is not her fault because we don't have one anymore since it comes on the telephone now. (I wish we still had the machine, it was much easier to push a button instead of dialing our number and putting in a code).

I was just shocked at what the girls knew and didn't know playing this game. Technology is a wonderful thing but so many things I enjoyed as a child are no longer used. one of my favorite memories is singing into a curling iron. My sister and I actually used this garden stake that my Daddy had made for staking tomatoes. We bent that thing like it was a real microphone and sang our hearts out.

Now they have every instrument known available for every gaming system known. There is no reason to use their imaginations anymore.

Makes me kind of sad.

GIRL SCOUT CAMP PART 1

Last weekend I took the troop to Girl Scout Camp.

We had so much fun. The girls thought they had to work to much. They are treated so BAD :(

They had to gather the wood, help cook, and clean up after themselves.

Just horrible!

We had a picnic lunch when we arrived.

Go on a nature hike

Getting the whistle blowing out of their systems. The whistle's are for emergency only.

Too cool for school!

In this photo, Hipper, Skipper, Snoopy, Fred, Bubbles, May May and George.

We all chose camp names. I was named Preacher. Fitting since it always seems I am preaching to the choir when with these girls.

Learning the GS dishwashing technique.

I was so proud of our first fire! I talked to Scott and was bragging that I made my first fire and he made fun of me by asking if we had to rub 2 sticks together. No we used a firestarter (piece of taper candle wrapped in wax paper). The girls were whining the smoke was to much for them. Our little troop might be more accepting of hotels and fireplaces.

Dunk bags with our eating utensils. We learned knots so we could hang our clothesline.

I was exhausted on Sunday but we had a really fun trip and the girls learned lots of outdoor skills.

There is still more to share so I will do another post soon.

CAMP

Just home from a Girl Scout camping trip.

That should tell you how I am feeling this beautiful Sunday afternoon.

I will put it this way.

First thing I did when I got home after putting our clothes in the washer WAS find the

ICY HOT !!!!

More to come.

This Mama needs a nap

Pam aka PREACHER (new camp name)

THURSDAYS

Every other Thursday we have our Girl Scout meetings. We had a great meeting tonight. It was relatively calm. Some meetings are pure chaos with 12 little 10 year olds. We just finished our cookie sales Thank the Good Lord!!! I am very lucky to have a Mom that takes care of all the cookie stuff. I have done it in the past and it is a big job.

The girls have chosen to spend their cookie earnings on a night at a Residence Inn. Our local hotel is smack dab in the middle of lots of restaurants, movie theatre, book store and shopping. We will get to swim, play tennis, go see a movie and eat out for lunch and dinner. The great thing is I don't have to drive for hours to get them there!!! LIKE THAT we will do some pampering while we are there too.

They are all growing up so fast. It seems like just yesterday they were little kindergarten Daisys in their little blue tunics. Now some are as tall as me and love to talk about boys! Hard to imagine that next year we will be starting our 7th year.

Girl Scouting will be 100 years old in 2012. They are looking for GS alumni. If you were ever a girl scout in any capacity and would be willing to send in some information you can send it to me at creech03 at cox dot net! They are asking for name, address, date of birth, what your position or age level you were in. If I get 6 names Coco gets a new patch! I promise not to send it to anyone but the Girl Scout Council!

If you have a neat story or craft idea that you did in scouting I would love to hear about it.

Blessings,
Pam

WEEKEND RECAP

Another Saturday at the gym watching Coco play basketball.

A special guest this week. My nephew E got to come watch her play. He asked her at lunch why she didn't get that ball in the goal? Innocence is wonderful.

Our girls will FIGHT for it!

Her own little cheering section. Aunt Tammy, Uncle Michael, Mimi, Nana, Papa, Cousins Jake, Kaylee and E.

Saturday night we were with family celebrating 3 birthdays for my Aunt and 2 uncles. These are my Mothers brothers and sisters. Sadly we have lost 2 of her brothers in recent years. I don't see them often so it was good to see everyone. I got a couple of OMG's when I walked in. Maybe I should come around more often.

My first attempt at making a magazine bowl. The inside looks much better than the outside. I have been working on my Girl Scout calendar for the rest of the year and we will be doing a lot of things regarding recycling and reuseing. I have found some great crafts that we will be trying in our meetings. Lots of fun coming up!

Another great weekend has past.

I wish you all a great week ahead.

Be back soon

Blessings

Pam

OUR WEEKEND

We had a real low key weekend. I had to leave work early on Friday after a call from the school nurse. Coco was running a fever, tummy ache and headache. She is much better after some rest and meds.

Saturday we jus tlayed around and watched TV. We rented Karate Kid. I was so surprised at what a good movie this was. Jaden Smith did a wonderful job. I would totally recommend this movie.

We packed our Shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. We have participated in this for several years and I love doing it. I love buying and packing these with a little girl or boy in mind. Coco and I both made up a box and then Scott wanted to do one for a little boy. This is a great project and you still have time to participate. You can find all the info at http://www.operationchristmaschild.com/

Our Girl Scout troop tied fleece blankets at our last meeting for Project Linus. This is an organization that provides blankets for children at shelters, hospitals, etc. I had to finish sewing the labels on all the blankets today.

A very enjoyable weekend.
This week we have a holiday so I get Thursday off and I am taking Friday off too. I am so looking forward to a 4 day weekend and hope to get some preparation done for Christmas decorating. I think Scott might have me doing demo on our bathroom instead. We'll see no matter what I will love having a couple of days off to spend on something I want to do!!!!