Scouts

Ella and Jack have really been enjoying Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts, respectively, this year.  Ella was a Brownie this year and Jack was a Tiger cub.  Their troops have had a ton of fun activities for them between September and May—most of which I don’t have pictures of—and I’m glad that both Ella and Jack want to continue in scouts. At the end of May, Ella bridged over to the Girl Scout Juniors and Jack became a Wolf cub. 
Here are just a few (very few) images that I do have of one of Jack’s scouting adventures:
 
{jack participated with his pack in presenting the flag at an assembly at his school.  he was so unsure about wearing his uniform to school—not knowing whether anyone else would or not—that he finally decided just to wear the shirt and kerchief.  parents were not invited to the assembly, but thankfully a few photos with jack in them circulated amongst the pta.  and, aside from jack’s pinewood derby, that’s all i have in the way of images from jack’s first year in cub scouts.  will have to do better this coming year!}
Thanks to the Girl Scout Troop moms, I have quite a few more images from Ella’s last year as a Brownie:


{ella’s troop cleaned up the grounds of their school at the beginning of the school year, and made the local paper in doing so.}













{in november, ella’s troop got a behind-the-scenes tour of carvel ice cream, learning about the business side of it.  they also got to decorate their own ice cream cakes—perfect take-home treat considering it was jonathan’s birthday month.}


{ella’s troop also got a behind-the-scenes tour of Second Harvest Food Bank. they brought a donation with them, too.}


{selling girl scout cookies at a cookie booth in early march.}

{later in march, ella and jonathan went to a girl scout father-daughter dance.  for whatever reason, jonathan and ella are the only father-daughter duo not in the album from the night—jonathan has kind of implied that this is how these nights work, he escorts ella to the dance and and she kind of runs off to hang out with her girlfriends.  jonathan likes to stretch out their dinner together before the dance to make sure to get his time with ella that night.}


{in april, the girls got to learn about the theater program at the local high school and watch a dress rehearsal of the show oklahoma.}

{in may, ella’s girl scout troop went to camp harrison for an overnight encampment trip.  it was a little rainy, but it looks like the girls had a great time.}


{hmmm, we might have to have a talk before ella’s first full week of sleep-away camp—is that a dinner plate full of french fries with an apple and bread on the side??}


And in early June, Ella’s Girl Scout Troop had a ceremony where the girls bridged from Brownies to Juniors—looking forward to what’s ahead as a big Junior!