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Brownies Take Action - Our Hometown Heroes

Here are some of our Brownies on their deliveries for their Take Action Project! 

More to come!!!

Baking with Brownies and Juniors

This weekend our Brownies and Juniors came together to do a little holiday baking! Brownies were participating in their Take Action Project by baking cookies and then delivering them to some local Hometown Heroes. 

Leaders were on hand to supervise and our Junior girls assisted the Brownies in prepping and baking. Juniors showed great leadership and Brownies showed amazing teamwork.

While the cookies were baking, the girls also made Thank You cards to be delivered along with the delicious cookies. 

Once the cookies were fresh out of the oven, the girls packaged them in boxes. Finally they took "action" by delivering them to a local Hometown Hero. Heroes included doctors, nurses, police, firefighters, and military. 

We want to give a HUGE thank you to Ms. Kristina for hosting our event!!! 

To see more baking pictures, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

Investiture

On Friday, November 9th, our girls celebrated their Investiture Ceremony with their Girl Scout sisters and close family and friends. Most of our girls were rededicated but we also welcomed some wonderful girls new to Girl Scouts and our troop by giving them their pin.

Our ceremony was prepared and led by Cadettes and Juniors. Daisies and Brownies also preformed a couple of songs. Our leaders were extremely proud of ALL the girls as they pledge to continue to help their world a better place by following all aspect of the Girl Scout Law! 

To see more picture from our Investiture Ceremony, please visit out Shutterfly Photo Gallery. 

***** I am having some trouble uploading the pictures to Shutterfly. I will continue to work on it to them them uploaded. *****

11/2 Meeting

This was our last meeting before our girls go on Thanksgiving break. We did a few "housekeeping" items and did a run through for our Investiture Ceremony, including making invitations. 

We all turned in our Nut/Candy Sale money and decided (as a troop) to use the money for a sleep over trip to the Austin Children's Museum in January. Ms. Josie also announce our top Nut/Candy Sale earners.

Congratulations to our Top Seller, Arissa!

Our other top sellers were Alyssa and Kaliegh (picture coming soon!). 

The girls then broke off into their troops to work on last minute preparations for our Investiture Ceremony. At the end of the meeting, our Cadetts brought the girls together to run them through the ceremony. We are really proud of our Cadetts as they planned out our program and showed great leadership! 

The girls will not have a meeting next week. Instead the girls will be working on community service hours at home by creating placemats for the Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner. 

To see pictures from our meeting, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery. 

South Texas Maize - 11/2

On a beautiful fall evening, some of our girls got together for Family Night at The South Texas Maize. Other troops were out as well with their families enjoying all the fun at the maze. We even got to show off our new troop shirts for the first time! 

The girl had fun answering Girl Scout questions to find their way through the maze. Luckily, we all made it out! They also got to ride a train that was pulled by a tractor and went on a night hay ride. During that hay ride the girl got to hear some interesting facts about the family that runs the maze and how it all got started.

To see more pictures from Family Night at The South Texas Maize, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery. 

Trunk or Treat - 10/27

Our first ever Troop #502 "Trunk or Treat" was a HUGE success!! We had some amazing trunks decorated, awesome parent participation and not to mention some really fantastic costumes! The girls got to play some games that were led by our super Juniors and Cadetts while parents set up and decorated their trunks for trick or treating. Ms. Yolanda even led the girls in some line dances! This was a family event as Girl Scouts and their siblings got to participate. All ended well with buckets LOADED with treats (not tricks!). Girls that participated did earn a patch and left with some great memories. 

To see more pictures from our Trunk or Treat, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

Monster and Me Dance - 10/26

The boys and ghouls were out tonight! Some girls from Troop #502 participated in the father/daughter "Monster and Me Dance" at Cody Elementary. The girls and their "date" enjoyed a fine dinner of spaghetti, took ghoulish pictures and danced the Monster Mash all night long! It was a beautiful evening with some frightening costumes and some freaky dance moves. 

Here are just a few of our Monster Dads:

To see more picture of the girls and their "Monsters", please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery. 

Daisy Chuck E. Cheese Fun Day - 10/14

Daisy girls know how to have fun!! The girls met up at Chuck E. Cheese to come together as a troop and get to know each other by having a BLAST playing games, eating pizza and putting on a Daisy Show! Ms. Yolanda led the way, showing the girls how they can let loose and make amazing friendships.

To see more pictures of Ms. Yolanda, Chuck, and the rest of the Daisies having fun, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

Brownie Adventure Time - 10/13

Our Brownie girls went on an adventure! The girls got to travel as a troop to Sally Cheever Girl Scout Leadership Center to learn about themselves, their Girl Scout sisters and girls from other troop. They made puzzles that reflected themselves, created a healthy family recipe book and even learned to write a poem! All the girls who participated left ready to take action to help make the world a better place. They also created new and exciting friendships. 

To see more pictures of our "Brownie Adventure Time", please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

10/12 Meeting

BOO! Halloween is upon us! And that means our "Monster and Me" father/daughter dance is creeping up. To get ready, Troop #502 showed off their creative skills and made some "spook-tacular" centerpieces during our meeting. Daisies, Brownies, Juniors and Cadetts all got in on the fun to represent our amazing troop. 

Troop #502 is also getting troop shirts! Our girls got to vote on a shirt to represent the beautiful girls of our troop. The orders are in and we can't wait to show them off.

Our leaders also met and planned some GREAT activities for our girls. Here are some upcoming events to get ready for:

• Trunk or Treat
• Monster and Me Dance
• South Texas Corn Maize
• Investiture Ceremony

For more pictures of our girls meeting with their leaders and of them making centerpieces, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

Trunk or Treat

We are planning our Trunk or Treat for the troop. To make this a success for the girls we need your help and support. Please email Josie to vote on a date that best suits you. 

The choices are:

Friday, Oct. 19th

Saturday, Oct. 20th

Saturday, Oct. 27th

(Friday, Oct. 26th is our Monster and Me Dance)

We will let you know what date was picked.

Thank you! 

Girl Expo 2012

Girl Expo was a blast! So many hands-on activities like crafts and scrapbooking and not to mention some pretty AMAZING girls. Some of our Brownie girls, along with a little Daisy, met up and represented Troop 502! They had a great time together playing games and rocking out to Jonni and Brookie. Our girls even had some "dance time" with Rose Gonzalez-Perez, CEO of Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas!! 

If you would like to see more pictures of our girls at the Girl Expo, click on our Shutterfly Photo Gallery page. If you made it out to the expo and we missed you but would like to share some pictures you took, email me and I will be happy to post them!

2012 Girl Expo is Coming!

Girl Expo is THIS Saturday, October 6th at Freeman Coliseum. Come experience everything GREAT about being a GIRL! Bring the whole family and experience hands on activities, entertainment, food and fun ALL DAY LONG! 

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.The fun begins at 10am. 

Can't wait to see all of TROOP 502 there!!

9/28 Meeting

Our girls braved the wet weather for our meeting today. We welcomed new members and had lots to discuss as our Fall Nut/Candy Sale started. Our girls talked about how to use our earned money from our sales with our Cadets leading the way. We also celebrated two birthdays. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tamyra and Morgan!!

Our Daisies talked about ways they can be friendly and helpful at home, school and at Girl Scouts. They then wrote down their ideas on flowers to create a flower bouquet of ways they are friendly and helpful.

Our Brownies earned their first Journey Award by bringing back their star that showed the value of the Girl Scout Law that is the most important to their families. They then began working on their second Journey Award by playing the game "Loop the Hoop" to show teamwork.

Our Juniors began working on their "Power of One" award. The girls discussed influential woman who they feel follow the Girl Scout Law. They drew self portraits to be apart of their Dream Team.

Our Cadetts had new members join our troop. Welcome girls!! In a girl led meeting, the girls worked together to earn the Interact piece to their aMAZE badge by working on their Peacemaker Kits.

To read full meeting summaries please log into our Scoutlander page.

To see more pictures from our meeting, please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery.

"Like" us on Facebook to receive updated and info on our troop.

See you at the Girl Expo this Saturday, October 6th, at Freeman Coliseum! 

Fall Nut/Candy Sale

Our Fall Nut/Candy Sale begins today! The sale is only for a short time so make sure you get your order in because it will be over before you know it! Here are some of the great items you can order from our girls:

• Chocolate Covered Pretzels 
• Peppermint Bark
• Chocolate Covered Almonds and Peanuts
• Mixed Nuts
• Trail Mix
• Honey Roasted Peanuts
• And Much More!

National Public Lands Day

This Saturday we will be taking part in our first volunteer event of the year. The girls will be participating in a Savanna Restoration Planting Day by helping restore an eco-system and planting 5 acres of grassland. Below is the patch the girls will receive for volunteering. See you all there!!

Our First Meeting - 9/14

  

We had our first meeting today. Our Daisies, Brownies, Juniors and Cadetts were all very excited to be back together and even got to meet some new faces. Each troop met with their troop leaders and discussed the journey they will be taking this year. The girls got to know each other and learned just how special they are. They talked about the Girl Scout Law and the Girl Scout Promise. It was a great evening with a promising future!

Please visit our Shutterfly Photo Gallery to see and share more pictures of our evening.

See you next meeting!

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog! Here you can keep up with all that is happening with Girl Scout Troop #502. You will find meeting updates/summaries, special events the girls participate in and pictures. I have provided a link to our Scoutlander page, our Facebook page and our Shutterfly Photo Gallery. Below is a brief description on how each page can benefit you and your family/friends:

• Scoutlander Page: Get information on our troop, download forms and contact our troop.
• Facebook Page: Get reminders on meetings, gathering and special events. "Like" our page and get notifications right into your time line!
• Shutterfly Photo Gallery: See pictures from all of our troop events. You can also download pictures and share with family and friends right to Facebook.

Please find these link under "Troop Links" on the right side. Feel free to share these links with your family and friends so that they too can share in our girl scout experience!

We hope you enjoy keeping up with our girls as they take on this incredible journey and become girls of courage and character so that they may help make the world a better place.