Girl Scout Sleepover

GIRL SCOUT SLEEPOVER!!!

December 12^th, 2014

Come one, come all Girl Scouts to the Mansface church this Friday night at 7pm for the Service Unit Spa Night.

 Girls are welcome to come for whatever time needed. You do not have to sleep the night, but we do hope you will!

Pick up is at 9am!! There is another event at 10 am. Girls need to be picked up promptly, thank you!

This is also an opportunity to serve our community. We are asking for non-perishable donations that we will be giving to the food bank. Any daily need item from deodorant to diapers is welcome!

Thanks for all you do! Jill and Tanya will be the leaders present for the night.  We will be having different stations for spa moments and movies going. Snacks are welcome to share, We will provide breakfast. Please have dinner before arriving.

Don’t forget to bring something to sleep on and any toiletries you may need.

Looking forward to a GREAT NIGHT!

Troop Meeting for December 2nd Canceled

Happy December Girl Scouts and Families! We are sorry to announce with such a busy first week of December we need to cancel this weeks troop meeting. We had too many conflicts for tomorrow to make our meeting happen. We will have our meeting again in two weeks as planned and look forward to seeing you all then. We will keep you posted on any upcoming news for that meeting.

Please do not forget about any fundraiser money you need to turn in. It is due this week. Please contact Jill to turn in money by Wednesday.  She is going out of town Thursday. Thanks!

Also a friendly reminder about our Sleepover on Friday the 12th at 7pm. Pick up girls at 9am @ the Mansface Church. Thanks everyone we hope you all had a very lovely Thanksgiving!

NOVEMBER NEWS

Junior Girl Scout Troop 1256 News

Leader: Jill Schmidt- 307-871-0704  

Co: Leaders:  

 Megan Nielsen -801-837-8690 & 

Tanya Sorrells -307-297-0297

Upcoming Events:

Troop Meetings: 

 December: 2^nd & 16^th,  January 6^th & 20^th

Service Unit Activity:  

Girl Scout Sleepover & Spa Night

December 12^th @ 7pm to 13^th Pickup @ 10 am.   

Held at Mansface Church.

Dinner will not be provided. We ask that each girl bring a snack/munchie to share for 5 to 10 girls.  We will be providing popcorn, drinks, movies, spa experiences and breakfast.  Please bring your own sleeping bag, pad, pillow, PJ’s, and any other toiletries, needs.  We ask that you RSVP to this event to Jill by December 2^nd, so that we can plan accordingly. When you drop your daughter off please plan to sign her in for permission to keep her.  If your daughter does not want to spend the whole night, that is perfectly fine!  We want to make this event as welcoming as possible, feel free to pick her up when needed.  We are looking forward to a fun event together!

We are also making this a charity event with a NON-FOOD DRIVE. The girls are in charge of how involved they personally want to be for this. We are asking the girls to bring any Donated Non-Food items to be shared with the Food Bank the night of the sleepover. This includes: diapers, wipes, toothpaste, deodorant, toilet papers, paper towels, soap, shampoo, conditioner, feminine products, and any other daily need items that are non-perishable.  Every bit helps! Thank for all your support!

A VOTE IS NEEDED

Something to put out there… we have in the past been apart of the Light Parade in Rock Spings.  It is Saturday December 6^th this year.  We do not have the resources yet to do this like we have in the past.  So, we are putting it to a vote.  How many people would like to be in the parade as a troop?  If so, we are in need of help using a truck/trailer to be in the parade. We will then have to plan decorations on our December 2^nd Meeting then meet again before to actually decorate the vehicle.  We have had a lot of fun in the past & had a warm place to decorate (we no longer do), though it has not been our best turn out with the girls. Please talk to your girls, look at your schedules and give Jill a Yes or No by next Monday the 24^th so that we can start planning if needed.  THANK YOU!

We want to thank everyone who helped with the Veterans Day Dinner. We had a great time, Thank You! We appreciate everyone who helped bring something, who helped serve and who used their good manners. You all did a Wonderful Job!  We look forward to this event again next year; we are honored to serve our Veterans!

Fall Fundraiser:

 Our nut/candy delivery should be in ANY day.

We will not get much notice for delivery. 

So please keep that in mind if your girl has orders.

 We will be contacting you sometime this week to pick those up.

 ALL MONEY is DUE to Jill by December 5^th, 2014.   

THANK YOU!!!!

PICTURE UPDATE

 This is our first meeting where we made aprons from used mens shirts.

 Our Investiture at GRHS, we are officially a troop!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIETTE GORDON LOW!  

 We talked about energy and different kids of energy. We then learned about our fearless leader Juliette G. Low the founder of Girl Scouts, who happens to share a birthday with Halloween.

Vetrans Dinner 11/10/14

Reminder we will not be having an actual troop meeting until the 18th. Since we are hosting the Vetrans Dinner. We are asking our girls to help Serve at the Vetrans Dinner on Monday the 10th at the Senior Center here in Green River.

The Cadette troop recorded the ads for the radio and you should be hearing them through the weekend. The dinner is for any vetran and their families. Please spread the word to have them join us for this free dinner from 6pm to 8pm.  Our cute daisy troops even decorated the place mats!

Cadette troop will be in charge of the flag Ceremony. For us Juniors we are in charge of Salad and Ranch dressing to go along with it. If you would like to donate Salad or Dressing that would be much appreciated. Please let us know if you would be willing to bring something.

 As leaders we will be there at 4:30 prepping and ask the girls to arrive at 5:30 to 5:45pm in uniform. Please talk to your girls about etiquette if possible. We will have a quick discussion about etiquette with serving instructions before the dinner starts.

The Green River Girl Scouts are honored to host this event each year for our amazing service men and women. Thank you all for your support and we look forward to seeing everyone on Monday!

1256 Troop Meeting 10/28/14

Hello Junior troop! We are having our meeting at normal time at the Church instead of meeting at the recycling center. So pleasenplan for our normal adventures! We will be working on finishing our paper making and celebrating Juliette G. Lows Birthday.  Will keep you posted on when we will be at the recycling center.

If you have not turned in your nut fall fundraiser to Jill please get those to us at the meeting!   They are due! Thank you for all your hard work. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Aquarium trip for our 2013-2014 Troop

Hello! We are meeting at Megans house at 8am tomorrow 10/11/14 for our Aquarium trip to Utah. Parents will need to sign the yellow permission cards before leaving. We will text when we are heading home to plan accordingly for pick up. If your daughter can't attend please let me or Tanya know! Any questions please ask! We are looking forward to our day together!

Junior Troop 1256 October News

Junior Troop 1256 News

Leader: Jill Schmidt   #307-871-0704

Co-Leader: Tanya Sorrells  #307-871-6023

Co-Leader: Megan Nielsen   #801-837-8690

Troop Meeting Dates: October 14^th & 28^th, November 11^th & 18^th

Fall Fundraiser Starts October 11^th!

We know that this is a hard time of year for fundraisers. A lot is going on with school and other events. But, this is a good way to help us jump start our year. Also, if anyone is in need of financial support for Girl Scouts, they will be looking to see if you have participated in this event. There is an option for some cute photo books in this Fall Fundraiser. This is a new option; you purchase it upfront but have a year to make it. As a troop we will be making a book and then you will have an option later to buy our troops photo book when completed. This option gives our troop even more support. We are encouraging everyone to use the online option for ordering. It can be more efficient for processing and there are even more options for candy/nuts online.  So some key points: Orders Start October 11^th and NO SOONER.  Sales End October 26^th and are due to Jill on October 27^th.  Money is due upfront for magazines and photo books. Money is collected for nuts/candy upon delivery. The nuts/candy should be here before Thanksgiving for delivery. All money is due to Troop by December 5^th, 2014. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

We wanted to invite you to Trunk Or Treating with Green River this Saturday at 11am-1pm. Jill is going to this event and is happy to have the troop accompany her. Please RSVP to Jill by Friday if you would like to attend. She will then let you know information for meeting arrangements.

Update on Uniforms and Books. We ordered them the day after our last meeting. We have not had them arrive yet.  I did get an email that the white shirts may be taking more time than normal or arrive.  Hopefully they show up soon!  

We had a fun time making our aprons last meeting and are looking forward to using them when we make paper this next meeting. Please have your girl bring some scrap/garbage papers we will be reusing to make our paper. The more colorful the paper the better, please not newspapers for this activity. We will start talking about recycling/reusing materials and how it saves us energy. Which will then lead into our next outing of visiting the Green River Recycle Center. We have not been able to plan that exact date yet. We will keep you posted when they get back to us.  Thanks for all your Support!   

We hope you have a good evening at our Investiture and Rededication. Thank you for Attending!

Investiture and Rededication

Hello Girl Scout Families!  Just a reminder our Investiture and Rededication is tonight at the GR High School. It is from 6pm to 7pm in the commons area. Light food and refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you all this evening at our family friendly ceremony! Don't  hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!

First Meeting for the 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year!

Hello Girl Scouts!  We are excited for our first Troop Meeting tomorrow at Mansface Church.  Don't forget we need a parent to fill out some paperwork and go over some important items. While Parents are meeting with Jill the Girls will be working on getting to know one another.  We have 12 girls in our troop so far this year and we can't wait to meet all our new friends!  We will end with a simple project and if all goes well you might sneak out a bit early with your parents.  See you tomorrow at four!

update * AQUARIUM TRIP * update

Attention Junior Girls for 2013-2014 
We have rescheduled our Aquarium Trip to Utah for 
Saturday October 11th, 2014.  
We will be meeting at Megan house at 8am.  Due to overlap with the Cadettes sleepover we have moved this date yet again. So sorry,  but not enough girls could go to make it worth it.  So, last try!  Again, We have moved the Aquarium trip from September 27th to October 11th. 
The Aquarium opens at 10am and we want to be there as soon as we can.   We are planning to leave Utah at 5pm, putting us back in Green River by 8pm. We will drop the girls off at their homes on our way in. 
Lunch and Dinner meals will be taken care of. 
Please send girls with any items they may need for entertainment while driving, any snacks they might be picky about and a bottle of water. 
Sash/Vest will be expected as we are representing our Troop. 
When you drop your girl off, please be aware that they need to have permission slips signed.
 If your girl is not able to make it please Text/Call Megan so we can plan accordingly.
 We look forward to being together again!  Thank you!

Welcome to the 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year!

Hello EVERYONE!

Junior Girl Scout Troop 1256

First Meeting/Parent Information

Tuesday September 23^rd, 2014

Leader: Jill Schmidt   #307-871-0704

Co-Leader: Tanya Sorrells  #307-871-6023

Co-Leader: Megan Nielsen   #801-837-8690

We will be having our Troop meetings from 4pm-6pm at Mansface Church on Tuesdays. We will basically hold troop meetings every other Tuesday of each month. Those dates will be updated regularly on our Troop blog so please be aware all information we can give will be easily accessible to girls/parents, please check this blog regularly. You can sign up for email notifications for when the Troop blog is updated. We will do our best to keep all Green River Service Unit events updated here also.

We will continue to provide updated/short notice information via text messaging. Please make sure we have current contact information with a primary contact number.  On the flip side, please don’t hesitate to contact any of us with questions or concerns.

Some Troop Expectations: As we welcome these girls into Juniors there are some expectations that they need to be aware of. The girls need to start being more responsible/involved with each passing year in Girls Scouts. Keeping that in mind, we need to be having the girls in uniform for our meetings. We are not going to be strict, but a reward system will be established to reinforce this. Basic Uniform: Junior Sash or Vest with a white shirt under paired with a tan/khaki pant or skirt. If we are doing a community event, uniform is required. We want to represent Girl Scouts respectfully.

We ask girls to come and be ready to be involved. We try to make every event fun… but there are things we do need to accomplish at each meeting.  Girls need to be respectful and prepared to start our meetings.  We start each meeting with our promise/law and anything else the girls establish. We will end each meeting with a friendship circle.  The girls are expected to learn, know and hopefully life the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

Dues:  We are asking for 5 dollars a month in dues for our 9 months of troop meetings.  If you want to pay in one lump sum for the year your grand total is $45.00.  Cookies make our activities possible, but they do not cover everything for our supplies.  

Book/Uniform: The start up kits for Juniors is running $50.00 per girl. That is for a sash, council patch, flag, troop number, book, Journey book, bag, insignia tab/pins.  We are going to be doing the Get Moving Journey this year.  We are happy to order these kits all at once or you can go to GSMW.ORG and shop yourself.  You will need to get this as soon as possible if we do not order it for you.

Investiture Date: Tuesday October 7^th from 6-7pm at the Green River High School. This is our rededication ceremony that we all do as a Service Unit.

Next Troop Meeting Dates: October 14^th and October 28^th.

HelloTroop!

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Summer! I have missed seeing all your smiling faces!  I had a very busy summer and I am sorry to say that effected our Summer Activities.  I want you to have some information of our troop changes and be aware that we need to start planning our Aquarium trip for one of these upcoming weekends. This will be our Last activity for the 2013-2014 Junior Troop.  It will need to be on a Saturday in September. I would love some feedback on what would be best for your girl. We will make it a day trip down to the aquarium and back.

Our girls who are continuing on this Girl Scout Journey to Cadette. We are sad to see you fly but so excited for your new adventures.  The Cadette Troop holds it's meetings at the Immaculate Conception Church on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month from 7-8:30 pm.   Kris and Cynthia are the the fabulous leaders of the Cadette Troop. Their contact information is:

Kris Sherwin                       307-297-1699               krissherwin@live.com

Cynthia Welch                   307-870-6050                cynthiawelch04@msn.com

The Cadette Troops first meeting will be held on September 16th. I am sure Kris and Cynthia will be contacting each girl with more information. 

All our Girls are Registered for this 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year. We took care of that with troop funds. 

Tanya and I will be joined by Jill Schmidt as our fearless Leader! With three of us this year we are looking forward to a fun and more organized year right from the start.

Our first meeting for our Junior Troop is going to be on Tuesday September 23rd. Our Meeting time is going to be changing a bit. We will be meeting from 4pm to 6pm basically every other Tuesday, which works out usually being two Tuesdays a month.  We are asking a parent to join us for this meeting. We would love to sit and talk to you about what we are planning for the year, your feedback on how we can make this a better year for your girl and just so we are all on the same page.   

Looking forward to seeing you all very soon!

Sad News

Hello all,  with a sad heart I need to cancel our Aquarium trip this upcoming week. I had unforseen car issues and do not have a dependable vehicle to take the girls in this week. We will reschedule for a weekend after school starts.  Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

We will be contacting every as our new Girl Scout year gets underway after school srarts.  We will be holding a parent meeting before our actual year starts so that we are all on the same page this year.

FYI a little heads up information. Tanya and I will be joining with Jill to make up our Junior Troop Leaders while our Cadettes will Be moving up with Cynthia and Kris. Our Junior troop will still be meeting on Tuesdays.  

For the girls who did not make it to our end of year BBQ. I have your cookie incentives and will be bringing them by to you this week when I can. Along with your badges. I was hoping to give them at our summer get togethers.  Good intentions but unforeseen events changed our summer.   Looking forward to seeing you all soon. Hope you have all had an amazing Summer!

Summer Fun!

HAPPY SUMMER Girl Scout Families! We hope it is going well for everyone!  July has been one crazy thing after another so Tanya I decided to not have an event in July.  Everyone was in too many different directions.   We are still planning on our Aquarium trip for August.
We have decided on August 12th the Tuesday before School starts to have our day trip. We will leave in the morning for the Aquarium in Draper, UT and be home that same evening.  It will be a busy but wonderful day.  Please save the date and keep it open so that all our girls can join us.  More detailed information to come as the event gets closer.  Thank you all for your support, we love ya!

Troop 1256 Year End Award Party!

Come join us for a family fun evening at Edge Water Park on Tuesday June 10th.
 We will be providing the main dish (dutch oven chicken).
Please bring a potluck side dish or dessert to share.
We will have our award/badge ceremony prior to eating dinner.  We will keep it short and sweet.
This will be a great casual evening together. We also have the incentives for the girls for Cookies. So we have lots to give out!
Please RSVP to Tanya or I the number of people attending so we can plan food accordingly.
Text or call:
Tanya (has a new cell #): 307-871-6023.
Megan cell # 801-837-8690

Please have Girl Scouts wear sash/vest. 

We will be discussing our July activity with parents at this event. We look forward to your feedback and help planning of this big activity.  

Also a quick reminder that if any girl wants to add something to our time capsule, we would love that to still happen. We will be closing it up together at our July activity.

Bridging Ceremony

We would like to extend a warm invitation to our service units bridging ceremony.  It will be at noon tomorrow at our local Green River High School. We will be acknowledging the girls who are moving up to the next girl Scout level.  We have six girls bridging up to Cadettes.  A light lunch will be served after the ceremony.  Dress in Girl Scout uniform please!

May13th Meeting

Meeting starts at 4:30 pm and ends at 6:00 pm.

Have your girls bring whatever they want to add to the time capsule & an Address we can mail their invitations to for when we OPEN the time capsule in 10 years.  This means it needs to be an address of family or close friend that will not  be moving between now and then.   

 We are having the Brownies who are bridging to Juniors at this meeting, Our Juniors get to show them what we have done this year. Also, Cadette girl(s) to teach the girls something. These two things are required for the Junior girls who are earning the bridging badge. 

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. It is going to be fun time together!

Clean up Canceled

Due to unforseen circumstances this morning we have canceled meeting for the Green River Clean Up. We are sorry for the inconvenience this brings. We will be doing another service project that is beautifying to our community to replace this event.

 We look forward to seeing everybody at our upcoming meeting on Tuesday.  A very important note. We are meeting at an earlier time on the 13th. We need to meet at 4:30pm at mansface to accommodate our guests.  So our troop meeting will end at 6pm.

 We hope that you all have a beautiful weekend.  HAPPY Mother's Day to all our amazing Girl Scout Moms!

Troop SONGS!

I LOVE GIRL SCOUTS

By: Girl Scout Troop 1256

(To the tune of I Love the Mountains)

I love Girl Scouts, I love the Confidence,

I love the Promise, I love Serving,

I love the Friendship that fills me with Laughter

Boom Di Yadda Boom Di Yadda

Boom Di Yadda, Boom Di-ay

The Cookie Bunch!

By Olivia H. & Olivia N.

Samoas, the coconut-ie goodness.

Thin Mints, the chocolate minty yum-yums.

Do-Si-Dos, the peanut butter sandwich

Tagalongs, the peanut butter chocolate cookies, Yum!

Savannah Smiles, The lemony smiles.

Trefoils-the Original Shortbread

That’s the Cookie Bunch, Yah Yah!

Cookie Lullaby

By: Tanya

(To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

Thin Mints, Tagalongs little cookies

Samoas & Savannah Smiles building character

Do Si Dos & Trefoils bring goals to our lives

Girl Scouts here we come loving life & selling cookies

Cookie Round-off

(to tune of Generic Army Marching Cadence)

In Green River Wyoming,

There are Girl Scouts here & there.

 We have cookies that are good

& we also have some spares!

Round off 1, 2 Round Off 3, 4

Bring on the cookies, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4

Troop 1256 News for May.

TROOP 1256 NEWS!

EVENTS:

May 2^nd Mom & Me Tea @ 6pm Bring your own tea cup & get dolled up!

  Held at the Senior Center: 550 Uinta Dr, Green River, WY 82935

May 3^rd Arbor Day @ 10am Held at Collier Park.

   Come see the trees we donated and have some fun.

May 10^th City Wide Clean UP Meet @ GR Visitor Center 8am 

  1155 W. Flaming Gorge Way. Let us know if a ride is needed.

May 17^th Bridging Ceremony @ 12 pm Held at the Senior Center. A light lunch will be served after the ceremony. We hope to keep this event to an hour.

June 10^th Save the Date Badge Ceremony! Time/Place to be announced. This will be a family event as we present the girls with their badges earned & have a little celebration!  

May 13^th- Last Official Troop Meeting for 2013-2014 Girl Scout Season

For our last weekly troop meeting, we will be working on things for our Bridging Ceremony. You need to attend this troop meeting to obtain your official Bridging to Cadettes Badge. There are two requirements for our 6 girls who will be in Cadettes next year.  This will be an opportunity for our Junior Girls to meet the Brownies that will be Juniors next season.

This week we started on a Troop Time Capsule. We will be finishing that up next week with some very lovely guests. We have asked the girls to be creative and make/add something personal to the Time Capsule to add at our last meeting.

It has been a busy few months with one more to go. Thanks to everyone for your support and hard work! We look forward to having some fun through the summer as we hope to have one event each month.

Any Questions/Concerns Please let Tanya or Megan know.

*Please let us know if you would like us to register your rl early for next year.  We hope that you all would like to continue on this Girl Scout Journey!

A GREAT BIG...

THANK YOU! For everyone's help and support through this cookie season. I cannot express enough how grateful we are to all the girls and parents for your hard work!  We have basically sold out of cookies except for a few straggling Tagalongs and Do-si-does.  If you have not turned in your cookies money to Tanya already, you must do so TODAY!  Since our troop meeting was postponed last week(totally my bad, I was sick) to this week. You have a great opportunity to catch us at the meeting.   Cookies are a lot of work, the girls learn loads of wonderful things and it makes a big difference for our troop. So again, Thank You!

I need to apologize for not being diligent about updating this the last month... I have had internet issues that have now been resolved.

We have lots of information for everyone with upcoming events. We have some awesome things still in store for our troop.

Dates to Remember:

Mom and Me Tea: has been moved to May 2nd @ 6pm-8pm being held at the Senior Center. 
Arbor Day: May 3rd @ Collier Park we think the time is 10 am, but that still needs confirmation.
Green River Girl Scouts are donating three trees this year.  Come help us celebrate this wonderful day!
City Clean Up: May 10th @ 8 am @ Green River Chamber.  This is our last big event to finish up the Girl Scout Ways Patch. We would love to see everyone there. If your girl need a ride, please let me or Tanya know. Once we arrive and register we will be told where to go help.

Bridging Ceremony: May 17th @ Noon (location still to be determined)  This is the transition for the girls to move up to the next level and celebrate their accomplishments this last year. Lunch will be served.

 Troop Meetings:
Counting today we have only three troop meetings left for this season.
April 15th, April 29th & May 13th. 
TBA: We will be planning a few Summer events, we were hoping for one fun event a month to keep the girls connected over the summer. These will also be part of their reward/goal for our awesome cookies season.

Early Registration
With the end of our Girl Scout Season wrapping up... we need to start thinking about next year.  Early Girl Scout Registration is upon us. For the girls who want to continue in scouting next year we are happy to take care of this early registration for them. 
For any parent/adults who would like to help out more we would love to have you register also. By registering you do not necessarily have to lead a troop(unless you want to be that wonderfully involved!). By registering you would be covered to help chaperone for events, fill in at meetings when one leader cannot attend, driving to events and/or helping with cookies. By being a registered adult in Girl Scouts you can help as little or as much as you would like.  It is something to think about as your daughter continues on this journey in Girl Scouts.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like your daughter preregistered for next year. Even if you are unsure about next years plans, I highly recommend you have us preregister your daughter. It is always up to your daughter how involved in scouting she wants to be when the time comes.

Lastly, our troop currently has eight girls, six of which will be bridging up to the Cadette level. That leaves two girls at the Junior level for one more year. Typically with Girl Scouts as leaders we would bridge up with our girls and continue on this path with them. Because of our small service unit, the needs for all the troops are still being addressed. Once we have a for sure Early Registration count on the girls, we will determine what direction is best for the troop/girls. If you have any questions or concerns on this matter. Please talk to us, we would love your feedback. 

Thank you everyone for being so fabulous. We love you all and look forward to seeing you SOON!

UPDATE on COOKIES!

COOKIES ARE ARRIVING ON MONDAY MARCH 17th!  

When the truck arrives, we will unload all the cookies. We leaders will separate them into troops and then we will be able to send word that you can come pick up your daughters individual orders. You will help sort and count out each order so you are confident we have your accurate order.  Look forward to seeing you all Monday at the Lee's house. (1255 Fawn Circle)

Facebook & Girl Scout Week

If anyone is interested there is a private group on Facebook for Green River Girl Scouts.  They have posted pictures of our Service Unit Activities if anyone is interested in joining.

Ice Skating @Rock Springs Rec Center Jan 25th, 2014

This of course is Girl Scout Week, where we get to celebrate the first Girl Scout Meeting held March 12th, 1912.  In celebration our service unit put together a basket to donate to the first baby girl born this week @ Memorial Hospital.  When this was decided we had already planned out our troop activities and did not bring this to the girls to help put together. I did mention it to the girls last troop meeting, but we decided to not ask for more from you all at this time. We did donate from our troop diapers, wipes, a baby bunny hat/mittens, mitten clips and baby wash.




A last minute idea for a  picture to be taken before taking the basket over happened last Saturday. I think we managed to get a girl from every troop represented.  We are proud to announce that a sweet baby girl was born Sunday March 9 @ 7:25pm. Little Baby Harper is the winner of our baby basket! She is cute as a button and just happens to be a cousin of one of our Green River Girl Scouts! Congratulations to Harper and her Family!

COOKIES ARE COMING!

Pick Up For Cookies: 
1255 Fawn Circle in Green River

We should have confirmation today sometime when cookies will be arriving. They will be here by the end of the week. It is very important that you are flexible and pick up your cookies the day they arrive  You will be counting and signing a receipt for the cookies you pick up to make sure everything is accurate. You will also sign a receipt when money is turned in for the same reasons.

We have signed up for Cookie Booth dates, please save these dates:
March 22nd @ Smiths in Green River from noon-6 pm. We will be blocking this out so girls need not be there the WHOLE time.
April 5th @ Albertsons in Rock Springs: Noon-6pm. Again, girls need only attend a two hour block.
April 12th @ Walmart(first door) in Rock Springs from Noon-6pm. We hope to be sold out by this time, cookies booths end on the 13th. We just want to plan ahead in case we do have cookies.

*Please plan to dress accordingly for the weather, wear good shoes. Please plan to eat before you come to the booth. Bring a drink if needed.  Your uniform is expected to be worn. Have fun and be creative also, we want SPARKLES!  We also have some cookie costumes if the girls are interested in dressing up while at the booth.

I will need ALL money for Cookies by the 15th of April. Before we head off for Easter break. Thank you for all your time and energy with cookies!  Any questions please let Tanya or I know.

A Quick Note:
I have all the pictures for the Me and My Guy Dance, I will be handing them to the girls tonight @ the Girl Scout Birthday Party which is being held @ my home, not the church. (1730 Idaho St #3) I hope everyone received their invitation.

UPCOMING DATES FOR MEETINGS:
March 25th @ normal location
April 8th
April 29th

Service Unit Events:
 Mom & Me Tea Friday April 25th from 6-8pm @ the Senior Center
Arbor Day Saturday May 3rd @ Collier Park (our troop will be purchasing a tree to be planted)

March 11th, Troop Meeting

We will be doing something different this next week for our meeting.  Starting Sunday the 10th is Girl Scout Week.  It is Girl Scouts way of celebrating it's Birthday, which is officially March 12th.  The very first Girl Scout meeting was held on March, 12th in Savannah, GA.  We are going to have a party at my house to help celebrate the birth of Girl Scouting. (This way we can have an intimate gathering without making a mess at the church)  It will still be at our new normal time, 5:15-6:45 pm.

Address of event:
1730 Idaho St #3
GR, WY
We will be watching a video about Juliette Low, The founder of Girl Scouts, while comparing scouting then and now.  Also, some fun birthday activities to help celebrate the event.  I have sent out official birthday invitations to the girls.  We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday and having a party together!

DUE TO ME MARCH 8th!

Do you know a girl who did not reach her cookie goal due to catastrophic weather conditions?Girl Scouts in Montana and Wyoming may continue to sell cookies on their Goal Getter Card! 

From February 22 - March 8, girls may continue to take orders for cookies!

Question from a volunteer...Yes, you may take orders on the Goal Getter Card -  even if you don't fill up the whole card! You just need the 24 customers to qualify for the Build-A-Bear drawing.  

• Print a Goal Getter Card  GOAL GETTER CARD also on our website www.gsmw.org/bear 
• For every 24 customers with an order listed on the Goal Getter Card, her name will be entered into a drawing for 1 of 5 BUILD-A-BEARS pictured below.
• Girls simply collect orders from Feb 22-March 8. Once they have sold to 24 customers, turn the form into your troop cookie manager. The Troop Cookie Manager will submit the cookie orders to the "GoalG" column in eBudde under the Girls Order Tab.
• FIVE girls will earn a Build-A-Bear!
• Deadline for cards to be entered is Noon, March 14.
• Once your card has been entered, your name will be placed into the drawing!
• If you complete one card and want to keep selling - just print a second card an keep selling!
• Participation information online www.gsmw.org/bear

Me and My Guy Dance

 

Just some information for the Luau this Saturday.  For those of you who are attending and do not have an envelope for the purchase of pictures. I ended up with extra, please let me know if you need one.


If you are interested in ordering a boutonniere/corsage for the dance. Rose Floral is giving Girl Scouts a deal. They would like orders in by the 25th but can take them after. They just may be limited to what is in stock after the 25th.

Rose Floral Of Green River

2 E. Flaming Gorge Way

Green River WY 82935

(307) 875-2136

Troop Meeting Today!

Hello Troop!

 Today we will be working on our last art project for the Drawing Patch.  We will be putting them all together after this and sending your girls art work home.  Not all the girls have enjoyed this patch as much as we thought, though we have done some difficult concepts about perspective and such.  We have really tried to get the girls to know that is alright. It's not about liking everything we do, it is about trying new things and being open minded about them.  We have had some issues with the girls just wanting to play around and not being respectful. We have talked about this numerous times... please help us to get the point across that it is not ALL fun and games at girls scouts. We do have things that need to be accomplished so that they are exposed to as many new adventures as possible in our short time together.  We are not as strict about things in our troop as we could be.  We do not want to be, but we do need to have them willing to get things done and respectful of us leaders and each other.  We want everyone to have a positive experience at scouts!

We are going to need to change the time of girl scouts a bit. We are going to move our time up by 15 minutes. We are overlapping with the Boy Scouts at 7 when we leave and it is becoming a challenge to end our meetings. So our new meeting times will be 5:15-6:45 pm.  Thank you for being understanding!

All Cookie Orders at DUE TODAY!  I have to have them all to council tomorrow.  PLEASE bring a copy of your Drivers license with your orders today. We can not put in your daughters orders without it. THANK YOU!  Hope you have all had a great couple weeks selling and look forward to delivering those cookies in March.

Cookies!

Welcome To The 2014 Girl Scout Cookie Season! 

Thank You for everyone who made it to the Cookie Rally last night. We truly appreciate all your time!  I think we got off on the right foot and I am totally pumped to see all the amazing things the girls are going to accomplish!  Cookies support our troop on the day to day... we can do more because of cookies! Every box counts! Thank you!

*Remember girls cannot sell without parental permission, so if you did not make it to the cookie kick off. You will need to meet with me to sign the permission slip and get the cookie packet.

A few things to remember:
Girls must be accompanied by an adult if selling door to door.
Girls need to represent Girl Scouts and be wearing their uniforms. 
Payment for cookies are due upon delivery.

So, I spent a chunk of my morning making sure the girls were all set up in our Cookie Club website. This is a great online tool for the girls to reach more people in a convenient way. This is my first year using this program and both of my girls scouts seem to like it already. It seems very user friendly.

FYI: If people donate cookies online in our gift of caring program. They will be sending cookies to local cancer/chemo clinics for patients to enjoy while getting chemo. They have found that the thin mints settle upset stomachs. These boxes will go directly to council. If you have people donate on the normal order form we will be giving those cookies to our local VFW.

Tanya was going to text everyone their log in information. But, I can post the general info here.

You access cookie club by going to this site:
  https://cookieclub.littlebrownie.com

Your log in is your daughter name(lowercase)and our troop number.
Your password is your daughters name with the first letter capitalized and first initial of her last name(This last name initial is also capitalized).  Example:  Login: megan1256   Paswrd: MeganN
The program did a couple odd things.
Lauren: You have two ones for your troop number 11256
Emily: Since you go by your middle name you will need to type in your first and middle name together as your log in and the name you go by is your password.

I hope that Cookie Club is a helpful tool for everyone! If you have any questions please let Tanya or I know. We are so happy to help you find the answer.

There are some great tools for your girls online, I suggest:

Little Brownie Baker
 http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com   They have the link to cookie club, the cookie app and lots of helpful information, activities for girls and families.

Info on what a cookie can do:
http://gsmw.org/get-the-facts/

Helpful and fun suggestions for Selling Cookies(lots of good stuff here, even more order forms to download if needed):
http://gsmw.org/selling-cookies-toolbox/

We are setting our Troop Cookie Goal at 2500 boxes. That is close to the average of what the girls decided in our meeting.

Important Dates: 
Feb 17th: Last day to sell cookies!
Feb 18th:  Troop Meeting and all Orders are due to Leaders:
Cookies will arrive sometime after March 11th. We will update you all on this as it gets closer and we know more. It is vital that you pick up cookies the day they are delivered!  We are very lucky to have someone donating their personal space for cookie delivery but all cookies need to be out of their garage by end of day! You must be flexible as possible with this week and we will do our best to inform you with as much notice as possible! THANK YOU!

Our Girls are so Awesome! I hope that they are excited to sell and reach our goal so we can have some awesome events in our future together.  2014 Cookies will help our troop to grow in so many ways!  So... have a great time out there!