2014 State Violin Festival

After Reagan's Gymnastics State Meet Saturday morning we headed downtown to the State Violin Festival Saturday afternoon. This was Reagan's 3rd year and Kennedy's 1st year participating in the festival. A big thank you to Grammy who accompanyied both girls on their pieces.

 I LOVE this picture of Kennedy that Grand-Dad took. I really need to hang this beautiful picture of this sweet 5 year old up in our house.

 Both girls received a superior, which was the highest rating

 Kennedy was just a little excited about her superior rating - she couldn't stop hugging her certificate and comments.

Congratulations girls and thank you so much to our violin instructor, Ms. Bethany Watt! :)

Girl Scout Cookie Sales

While we all do personal sales, our Girl Scout Troop has realized that as a homeschool group we have a great opportunity to sell cookies to college kids. We have taken advantage of this the last two years at UK and at Transylvania University. We send a group of girls to both universities (the campuses are both in downtown Lexington) around lunch time and sell between 300-400 boxes in 2-3 hours. It is amazing! College kids rock!!! :)

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Here is our crew (or cookie parade?) heading out to sell cookies with a couple of wagons overflowing with these delicious treats! :)

   Here is the Transy crew - ready and open for business!

Younger siblings get to join in the "fun" cookie sales as well - these two are at least good buddies and in the same Classical Conversations class. :)

 Brothers making better use of the wagon...

 Cookie salesmen or cookie thieves??? Judging by the smiles I'm sure you correctly guessed the latter... :)

Girl Scout Camp 2013 - Day 2

I think this picture of the Daisies ready to canoe has to be one of the cutest pictures ever!!! I LOVE this picture and all these sweet little girls! I couldn't help but start this post with this picture even if it is a bit out of order. :)

Our day actually began with breakfast, prepared by the girls and it was quite the feast including eggs and a new favorite treat called "Dough Boys," among other things. To make a Dough Boy you take premade biscuits and wrap them around the end of your stick (which has tinfoil on it). You then bake it, roll it in butter and cinnamon sugar and you have a wonderfully tasty breakfast treat!

 The Daisies all busy with their Dough Boys

 Reagan and Kennedy with their completed Dough Boys

 Headed to the lake to canoe

 

While we were down at the docks we had the opportunity to see this dragon fly emerge and dry out in the sun

Then we noticed the shells of the dragon flies were everywhere. Here are three who came out at the same time and played piggyback as the came out before flying away.

 Sweet Miss Nina 

 Kennedy walking with the big girls from canoeing back to camp for lunch

 Time for a swim!

 We have several sister groups in our troop and I was able to capture a picture of most of them together in the pool. :)

 



Nina was a little unsure about the pool at first but was having a great time in no time at all! :) 

 Headed back to camp to pack up and get ready to go 

Here is a picture of our crew of Daisies, Brownies, Juniors and Cadets from our troop that were able to participate in our two day camp. They are such a great group of girls!

 Thank you so much to everyone who organized and made this trip possible for all our girls. Thank you also to all of you who purchased Girl Scout cookies in support of our troop. Thru our cookie sales none of the girls had to pay for this experience and we appreciate that so much!

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Thank you also to Ms. McKinley's birthday buddy, Lauren. I don't know what we would have done without her to watch my two little munchkins while Tim was at work and I was with the big girls.

What a great way to kick off a super fun summer! We look forward to many more wonderful camp experiences and memories at Camp Judy Lane! 



Girl Scout Camp 2013 - Day 1

In June our Girl Scout Troop took a two day camping trip to Camp Judy Lane in Eastern Kentucky. It was a fabulous experience. Both the girls have declared it their favorite Girl Scout activity of the year and cannot wait to go back again next year.

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Here are the Daisies (1st row) and Brownies (2nd row) with their wonderful Troop Leader, Jeannette. She has done an incredible job all year and truly outdid herself with this trip for the girls!

 Teamwork was first on the agenda. The girls participated in a number of activities and obstacle courses which challenged them to think and work together. Here are pictures of a few of the activities they did.

 Trying to balance all together for 10 seconds

 Everyone had to go thru a different portion of the "web"

 Everyone had to follow the leader exactly thru this web. If the web was shaken and the bell rang, someone would lose one of their senses/abilities making the course that much more challenging.

 The Brownies making their way across the tire swings

 The girls had some time to play on the tires too 

 

 

 The girls divided up into groups and were responsible for preparing and cleaning up each meal including making fires as needed. This was a bit slow at times but a fabulous learning experience for everyone involved!

 The Daisies enjoying the fruits of their labor

 Sweet Miss Maddie

 After lunch we headed for the rock climbing wall. We have never done this before but Reagan was a natural and was one of only 3 girls to make it to the top. Kennedy did an awesome job as well making it over half way up.

 Missy K all ready to go!

 Reagan and Maddie ready to climb! :)

 Posing for a picture lol :)

 There goes Kennedy! :)

  Reagan at the top of the rock wall

Nina on her way up 

 This mother/daughter duo both made it to the top - way to go Denny girls! :)

 Kennedy's favorite Cadette, Zoe, gave it a good try too

 Next we split up again and the little girls headed to archery. The girls were extremely excited about this opportunity (I'm thinking because of Brave?). The moms tried this out as well and I have to say it's a lot harder than it looks!

 

 Ms. Meg managed to hit an acorn! lol :)

  Kennedy helped her "Big Big Sister, Zoe" make the "Stone Soup" and keep an eye on the food over the fire in general by bringing her sticks to keep the fire going. The girls and I agreed that the "Stone Soup" was super yummy and fun!

 Enjoying supper around the fire

 Kennedy found this large snail which she fell in love with

 The girls put on a couple of impromptu plays at "Thicket Theater" for our evening entertainment. They did a great job and I was pretty impressed with some of their improve!

 What better way to end the day than with a new found treat to cook over the fire - Banana Boats!

As you can see we had a super full and fun first day at camp! No wonder the girls can't wait to go back!!! :)