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November 2005 – September 2006

 

 

The story of my visit with Girl Scout Troop 1297 in Lake in the Hills, IL in the United States of America

 

 


November 28, 2005 –- I arrived today in Lake in the Hills, IL , I can’t wait for Saturday when they are going Caroling for Canned Goods to donate to the local food pantry.  I am so excited that I get to meet a lot of new girls! 

 

 

 

I had just arrived in Lake in the Hills, IL  in this picture with Cassie and Sarah.

 

 


December 3, 2005 -–11 of the girls from Troop 1297 and 3 leaders went caroling for canned goods.    It was a perfect night to go caroling!  It was just freezing out and SNOWING big huge wet flakes that were very fun to throw snowballs, make snowangels and go sliding on.  We got lots of donations for the local food pantry.  And then we came back to Ms. Sandy’s house and had hot chocolate. YUM! 

 

 


The girls are practicing before caroling.  I am with Natalie, Heather and Cassie.

 

 

It was snowing HUGE, WET flakes that show up as dots on this picture of us in front of one of the houses we caroled at.

 

 

Here is the caroling patch that was earned.

 

December 6, 2005 –- The girls did the “Looking Your Best” badge.  Jenny and Jennifer worked getting this badge ready to present tonight and they did a great job.  They got donations of the hotel sized hygiene items and each girl got soap, shampoo, conditioner and toothpaste and toothbrush.  They made a healthy snack for the girls to each. 

 

 

Here is the Looking Your Best badge that we earned that night. 

 

 

 


 

The girls and I are doing the flag ceremony at the beginning of the meeting.  Allie, Haley, Meghan, Kelsey, Jennifer, Natalie, Courtney, Jenny and Bailey are here.

 

 

 

December 19, 2005 to December 20, 2005 –- Wow! Tons of fun!  The girls had a Christmas party sleepover and we learned about selling cookies.  We talked about what we would use the money for (Puppet Opera and Kohls Children’s museum are 2 things) and set goals for how many boxes we were going to try to sell.  We also talked about safety. 

 

The girls also got their badges tonight that they earned this year.  They had Secret Santa gifts to open, did some skits, and played “spa.”  Everyone got a chance to get and give massages.  It was fun. 

 

 

 

I am with my new friend, Rudolph, who came to the sleepover with Meghan.

 

 

 


December 25, 2005 -– I spent Christmas at Mrs. Sandy’s house.  They opened presents in the morning and had turkey and ham and all sorts of other yummy things for dinner.  We sang karaoke, played games and watched the March of the Penguins movie.  We stayed up late and had a lot of fun. 

 

December 31, 2005 -– It was a quiet New Year’s Eve.  We watched “March of the Penguins”, played cards and counted down to the New Year by watching the celebrations in Chicago on tv. 

 

January 2, 2006 –- We had a Girl Scout meeting tonight and sang lots of songs and made the prettiest flowers out of tissue paper. We also had time to dance the Macarena again.  


 

 

I am helping sing “The Ants Go Marching” song with Natalie and Kelsey.

 

 

 

January 6, 2006 – Some of the girls went skiing.  They left me to watch.  A couple of the girls decided that the lessons were really scary and didn’t ski anymore.  The rest of them LOVED it after the very scary lessons.  It didn’t help that the temperature had been above freezing for a week.  The snow base was very hard when you fell and the snow ended very close to the bottom of the hill, so if you couldn’t stop, it hurt to all the sudden run into grass.  They had 80 Girl Scouts there that night from all over the area.  It was fun to watch!

This is the badge earned for skiing.

 

 

Here are all the girls who went skiing and one of the girl’s cousin’s who took one of our leader’s place when she couldn’t come.

 

January 13 and 14, 2006 – We all went to an overnight sponsored by a local town’s public museum. It was at a nature center that used to be a Girl Scout camp.  We earned 3 badges – Pet Care, Art in the Home and Camera Shots.  It was very fun!

Here are the badges we earned:

 

 

 

Here are all the girls from Troop 1297 that went.

 

They brought a dog that did lots of tricks and each girl got to give him commands.

They brought a cat that had been abandoned for the girls to pet!

 

 

Spikey and Spiffy at the 3 badge sleepover

 

 

 

Courtney and Spikey at the 3 badge overnight

 

 

February 6, 2006 - We earned the World Neighbors badge tonight with the presentation put on by Abby, Kelsey and Natalie with their parents to help.

 

Here is the World Neighbors badge earned.

 

 

At a local nursing home on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, where we played BINGO with the residents.  We lost two of our members over Christmas break, but added three more.

 

 

 

 

At the Kohl’s Children’s Museum in February 2006.

 

 

 

February 24, 2006.  We went with a few of the girls to Scout Day to a Chicago Wolves hockey game.  The Wolves won! 


 

Here is the patch earned at the Wolves game:

 

 

 

During the beginning of March, I helped the girls sell cookies at a local Jewel grocery store, a Culver’s restaurant and the Huntley Business Expo.  The troop sold over 1200 boxes of cookies by taking orders and about 300 boxes at these sales!

 

 

 

This is the Cookie Sale badge. 

 


March 6, 2006 – The girls earned the Stitch in Time badge with Jenna, Haley and Desiree showing us the badge work and their parents helping.

 

Here is the Stitch in Time badge earned:

 

 

Here are the girls presenting the Stitch in Time badge.
March 12, 2006 – Here is a picture of most of the girls who went to the Girl Scout Sunday at Abby’s Lutheran Church .  The troop tries to go to a different church each year.

 

 

 

March 20, 2006 This is at the end of the Limited Too! Tour where we are all dressed up in the clothes from our fashion show.  We love being silly!

 

 

March 24- April 4, 2006 – I went camping in a “pop-up” trailer to Disney World in Florida with Meghan and Mrs. Dahnelle’s family for Spring Break!  We met with Abby, one of the girls in Troop 1297 who was also visiting there that week.  Pictures of this trip and several others from a meeting are in a photo album.

 

April 3, 2006 – We made Easter cards for our 3 adopted veterans, made an American Flag from a safety pin and beads and made Mother’s Day cards for our moms. 

 

April 17, 2006 - Courtney & Reagan & Charlotte presented the Staying Safe badge.  One of the things we made were little first aid kits from film canisters.

 

 

Here are our visiting mascots, Spikey and Spiffy, hanging out during our Staying Safe badge.

 

 

April 27, 2006 – The girls helped with Arbor Day.  All third graders in their school district get a tree seedling on Arbor Day.  We helped wrap the roots or red maple trees in wet paper and put them in bags with instructions as to how to plant them. 

Here are 3 of our girls helping wrap tree roots for Arbor Day (people are encouraged to plant trees for Arbor Day).

 

May 1, 2006 -  Bailey, Sarah & Kassandra presented their badge work. 

 

Here are Sarah and Bailey helping us get our badge.


 

May 29, 2006-  We marched in the Memorial Day parade to honor our veteran’s who died in service to the United States .  It was a lot of fun and there were a lot of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts that took part in the parade.

 

Here we are at the Memorial Day Parade

 

 

June 2-3, 2006 – We had our end of the year sleepover.  Mrs. Sandy is not sure what happened to the pictures from this.    We made Soil-Sam’s putting grass seed and dirt into a lady’s knee high stocking and decorated a baby food jar to look like our dad’s.  It is very fun to see our “Soil Dad’s” sprout hair.  The girl’s will be giving them to their dad’s on Father’s Day.

 

July 15, 2006- We took the train to Chicago , walked to the “L” to take the subway, and took a bus to get to Lincoln Park Zoo which still free to go in.  We forgot our camera and have no pictures.  It was about 95 degrees F!  We drank lots of water, and stayed in the shade a lot since there were lots of trees here.  We brought a picnic lunch and got ice cream.  Yum! 

 

 

There were lots of sleepovers during the summer, so I often had Girl Scout company!  I had a lot of fun, but I am glad that I get to go home. 

 

Troop 1297 is getting ready to start a new year as I go home.  They have 12 girls in their troop this year.  They are only meeting 1 night a month and at least 1 fun activity a month. 

 

 


September 19, 2006 – I was at the Troop’s first meeting of the year where they planned their many fun activities for the year. 

 

 

Here I am with 11 of the 12 girls who are in Troop 1297 Girl Scouts this year. 

 

 

I can’t wait to get home and show my own girls all the things that we did.  I had a great time!

 

 

 

Thank you Girl Guides, for allowing us to share our year with you.

 

Girl Scout Troop 1297, Lake in the Hills, IL, USA

 

Bailey

Jenna

Jenny

Natalie

Heather

Charlotte

Cassie

Desiree

Kelsey

Jennifer

Allie

Haley

Courtney Larkin

Reagan

Sarah

Kassandra

Meghan

Abby

Mrs. Sandy Howard

Mrs. Dahnelle Sedey

Mrs. Vicki Chambers