Say HELLO to Kaylee!

We have a new Girl Scout, and we are thrilled! Say HELLO to Kaylee. Her parents are Steve and Wendie, so if you see them at any of our activities, extend your hellos to them also.

Last Saturday the girls, Miss Pattie and I worked hard at the Christmas Bazaar and then enjoyed a lovely walk with the other Girl Scouts of our Service Unit in the town's parade. The entire day was wonderful until the last moments when Cora got sick.

Unfortunately I had little time to play photographer as we were all busy taking portraits of other scouts. Alexis' grandma did take some footage that night, and I will try to get a disc from her that I can share here at a later time.

Then Monday we took portraits of one another after welcoming Kaylee. Our girls have become fantastic photographers so please share your cameras often to keep them learning and growing in this artistry. The photos are below. Each girl took photos of one other girl. As you can see they all did wonderfully.

Kaylee:

Alexis:

Cora:

Angelica:

Alex:

Miss Pattie:

Miss Kelly:

Pueblo Trip -- United We Stand Badge and the Zoo!

On Saturday, November 7th two of the girls, Miss Kelly and Miss Pattie, went on a road trip to Pueblo! We went to a badge workshop where we earned the United We Stand badge! (The whole thing!)

As part of it we were asked to write patriotic Haikus. If you don't know what a Haiku is ... it is a Japanese poem which is 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line and 5 syllables in the third line. We would like to share our poems with you.

Alex wrote:

My country is free.

My mom serves it with courage.

She is my hero.

Cora wrote:

The great eagle soars

over our America.

It represents us.

Miss Kelly wrote:

Beloved country,

I served it with love and pride.

Go U.S. Air Force!

Miss Pattie wrote:

My America,

Country that I love dearly.

Be forever free.

ZOO. After working hard to earn the badges we then went to the zoo and had a blast! Here are a couple photos we would like you to see.

Who we are!

Hi my name is Angelica. I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. My favorite thing to say, write and show is "Smile Big". Not small or medium... BIG. Yes, big. The second thing for you to know is that I love to spend time with my Girl Scout troop. Maybe I should tell you a little about my family. My brother, Daniel, and my sister Monica are in college far away from home. My mom is named Urszula. She is a nurse, and works with newborn babies. My dad makes staircases out of wood and metal. His name is Jacek. My parents moved here from Poland. My favorite hobby is to draw. I draw everything around me. I learn more about the world when I draw. I play basketball and shoot a lot of hoops. I also like to dig up clay and make sculptures. In school my favorite subject is math because I am good at it. My favorite food is fresh picked red cherries.

My name is Cora, but you can call me "Math Girl" because it is my favorite subject in school. I have one brother. His name is Owen. He is 13 years old. He wants to be an archeologist. He already has a lot of fossils. My mom is one of the troop leaders. She has Lupus and because of that she has to wear oxygen all the time. My dad is a teacher at the middle school. Both of them were lawyers but don't miss it. I am in choir and YES Club at school. YES Club is Young Environmental Stewards. We learn about nature, and this semester we are studying fire. My favorite singers are The Jonas Brothers. They are really good. I love the color purple and I have a poem I wrote about purple. My favorite animal is a monkey -- I like the Golden Lion Tamarin best. It has the cutest babies.

My name is Alexandria but people call me Alex. I have lots of hobbies. I love to ride on motorcycles with my family. Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted motorcycle but my parents said I need to learn to ride my bicycle first. I collect bottle caps and stuffed animals. Two of my favorite animals are a giant stuffed Duck and a giant stuffed teddy bear. My other favorite hobby is being crazy. I am as hyper as a hyena or a gorilla without a banana for a month. I was born in Hawaii -- how cool is that?! My friends think I am really funny. My mom is in the Army. She is a Leiutenant Colonel. My dad makes maps, and one night he had to stay up all night making one. He also teaches people how to use computers. I have one brother. He is younger than me by two years. His name is Zachary. He has hair as long as a girl and he plays with it a lot.


My name is Alexis. One of my favorite things to do is to help others. My favorite band is The Newsboys. My favorite class in school is art. I love free drawing time best. I collect rocks and beads and feathers. My favorite rock is purple. My favorite feather is from a falcon. And my favorite bead looks like a rainbow. I live with my grandparents, my mom, my sister and my dog. My mom, Suzanne, is very caring. My sister, Polly, is 6 years older than me. She is very funny. My grandpa is one of the funniest people in my family. He likes to tease me. My grandma helps me make the right choices in life. She works very hard to take care of my family. My dog is named Nicky. She is a loving dog. I have some cousins that live in a different country -- Germany. I have been there to see them!

As a troop we are all funny, crazy and silly. We love to help others and we live by the Girl Scout Law.


On My Honor
I will try
to Serve God and my country,
to help people at all times, and
to live by the Girl Scout Law!

Juliette Low's Birthday & Our Guest!

Our first meeting of Novemeber was a huge hit! Juliette Gordon Low -- the founder of Girl Scouts was born on October 31st, so we celebrated her birth in style. We had a cake, complete with candles, the birthday song, and we preceded it all with a beautiful ceremony where we learned more about Juliette and why she gave us this lovely gift of scouting.

Even better than Juliette and her birthday cake, however, was the fact that we had a fabulous guest speaker. Her name is Miss Jamie and she is a good friend to Miss Pattie and Miss Kelly. We invited her to come talk to the girls and teach them a bit about Girl Scouts from her childhood as well as some of the things she does for scouting today. The girls asked good questions and seemed to learn a great deal from Miss Jamie. Thanks to her we also finished a complete badge : Girl Scouting in the USA.

Miss Jamie allowed me to ask her for a short bio related to Girl Scouts, and this is what she sent me. I hope you love meeting her as much as Pattie and I love being friends with her.

"I started in Brownies in Second Grade and became an Intermediate Girl Scout when I was in Forth Grade. I stayed in Girl Scouts all the way through high school and earned the Curved Bar, which was the highest girl award at that time. As a freshman in college I had health problems and had to spend the second semester at home, so I became an assistant leader. Years later I found out from one of the 'real' leaders how much my help had been appreciated.

I totally forgot about Girl Scouting until my oldest daughter needed a leader. When we moved to Germany I became involved in the government of Girl Scouting and was the Regional Commissioner for North Bavaria. That position gave me a position on the Board of Directors for North Atlantic Girl Scouts.

By that time I was really hooked. My work by then was mostly with adults as a director and a trainer.

The fun thing is that I spent my girl years in one council and as an adult I have served in six different councils. I was honored to serve a two year term on the Board of Directors of the Wagon Wheel Council."

As you can see by this very short bio ... we are lucky to have Miss Jamie on our side and in our community as a Girl Scout!

Make a Difference Day - October 24, 2009

On Saturday our troop participated in a wonderful service project called Make a Difference Day. We aided several hundred people (mostly linked to the military in one way or another) to clean up Turkey Creek Ranch on Ft. Carson. It was a wonderful opportunity for our girls to thank our soldiers, and to learn how great it feels to serve others with our hard work. Alex' mom, Miss Beth told us about the opportunity and got us signed up to work. We owe her a big thanks for serving our country, for sharing Alex with us, and for finding us our first service project.

The day started off cold, and gloomy with winds that were causing the girls to shiver, but soon we were shedding layers of clothing and enjoying a beautiful Colorado blue-sky day. We raked the morning away, filling bag after bag with leaves. The girls were hard workers, and at the end we took a little time to play before bagging up the final piles of leaves.

Hopefully we will have many more opportunities to serve!

Budding Photographers!

Our girls are learning about photos as we said in an earlier blog. Here is a sampling of some amazing photos the girls took. The composition, lighting and angles are all great. Enjoy!

Cemetary Scavenger Hunt and Bonfires - October 2009/

On Saturday, October 17th our troop participated in a great service unit activity. First we visited our tiny local cemetery where we located headstones of interest. In the process we learned about our veterans, our local history and the way we commemorate those we love after they are gone from the earth. The funniest one was that we learned about a local fugitive who died when he was trying to a blocade. They think Jim Hood was buried with his motorcycle!

We missed Angelica when we visited M Lazy C Ranch, where Cora, Alexis and Alex enjoyed a hayride, which was followed by burgers, baked beans, corn and chips. Yum! Afterwards we made S'mores and enjoyed the bonfire.

Earning Photography and Computer Badges.

Troop 2089 has the four best girls! Yesterday's meeting flew by and we only accomplished a portion of what Miss Pattie and I hoped to do. The weather was fantastic so we took to the outdoors and learned more about photography. We took photos of trees and flowers and objects and each other. We learned about avoiding shadows and how to get the best angles. These girls are well on their way to earning our first two badges, Camera Shots and Cyber Girl! By Christmas we should have both.

Our next meeting is in 13 days. The founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low was born on October 31, 1860. We will celebrate her and the history of Girl Scouting at that meeting. We hope to have a guest here who can tell us more about Girl Scouting 40-50 years ago. We should learn a lot and have a great time! Juliette saw how great scouting was for boys and felt it was important that girls had a similar opportunity to gather together, socialize, and learn. We are here today as a troop because of Juliette. As we learn about Juliette and from older Girl Scouts like Miss Pattie and I, we will also be earning a third badge, Girl Scouting in the USA.

I will post some photos from our outing to the local cemetary and to the M Lazy C ranch in my next post.

Making Spirit Bracelets!

Our first two meetings we made really cool Spirit bracelets. Miss Pattie is jewelry maker and she created a pattern. Now we have bracelets to wear to school spirit days and sporting events!

The same day we started taking photos of each other (we will all get discs of all pictures taken at the end of the year), learning photography and and more about computers. You will see many of the pictures we take of one another right here on our awesome blog! :)

Getting pinned, part 2.

Miss Pattie pinned Alex,

and, Miss Kelly pinned Alexis,

and, Miss Pattie pinned Angelica,

and, Miss Kelly pinned Cora!

Its official, we are pinned!

Our first meeting we were pinned. Miss Kelly and Miss Pattie put the pins on upside down and we weren't allowed to flip them until we each did a good deed.

Miss Pattie, Miss Kelly, Alex, Alexis, Angelica and Cora

This is us -- the BEST troop of Juniors, ever!

Our Famous Troop 2089 Blog

Are you interested in seeing some fun, silly and interesting things about Troop 2089? Good, because you are in the right place! We are going to share pictures, videos, stories, thoughts, games, advice, and fictional stories about our extraordinary troop. We want you with us every step of the way, and with this blog you can be. We will drag you into our world of fun!!!