Great time at the Colonia Easter Festival

Thank you to the Colonia Corner for sponsoring the Colonia
Easter Festival. Our troop had a fantastic time, and we won
some great prizes too! What a fun day!

We made music!

The girls had a great time "making music" to earn their
patch for Girl Scouts. They watched bagpipers, played
musical glasses, sang, danced, and even tried to sing in a
round. What a very musical day!

Girl Scout Proclamation Reading

Our girls at the Girl Scout Proclamation Reading by Mayor
McCormac and also with Councilwoman Velasco.

Field Trip to Raritan Bay Hospital

Thank you Lisa McDermid for organizing our Field Trip to
Raritan Bay Hospital. Look at all of our future surgeons!

Girl Scout Celebration Party

Everyone had a great time at the Girl Scout Celebration
Party.

Zumba anyone?

The troop earned their Dancercise try-it patch with a
special Zumba lesson and dance party. Special thanks to
Valeria for leading us all. What a great day!

Congratulations on the Cookie Sale

Hi everyone. I just wanted to send around our final numbers
for the cookie sale. What a fantastic job the troop did!
The final amount of cookie boxes sold was 1536 boxes. Yes,
1536 boxes!!! The final dollar amount was $5,376.00. Of
that, the troop keeps a whopping $998.40. That's a great
job for the troop and our first ever cookie sale.

The girls have decided to use that money for three things -
(1) an end of year activity/party (we will let them pick
their actual activity), (2) craft supplies/patches and (3) a
small donation to the church that let's us hold our meetings
there for free. All a great use for the money!

Again, please join me in thanking Dawn for all of her hard
work as our cookie manager. She went to cookie meetings,
met the cookie truck, held hundreds of boxes of cookies in
her basement, and kept us all organized. Thank you Dawn -
great job!!!

What a fantastic cookie sale!

February was great!

February was a great month for the troop. All of the girls
did a fantastic job with the Cookie Sale, and I think they
all had alot of fun! The girls also really enjoyed making
their self-puppets, Doodle 4 Google, and starting to get
their pledges for "Pull the Plug".

February Dates to Remember

Above is a picture from our last meeting. The girls made
"self" puppets. Very cute!

Also - I wanted to send out a reminder with a few important
dates for the next two weeks. I will update the larger
troop calendar once I have everything final for March and
April, but for now, please review the following dates for
the next two weeks:

Saturday, February 12th
No meeting but last opportunity to submit cookie orders
Due to Dawn via devinsmom98@verizon.net

Saturday, February 19th
1:00 to 3:00PM
Regular meeting and Cookie Order Pick-Up Day. Bring Cash.

Sunday, February 20th
Cookie Booth #2 at Walgreens (optional)
If you want to participate, here are the timeslots:
4PM – Jessica, Maddie, Adelina, Devin
5PM – Isabelle, Zahira, Bea, Amanda
6PM – Andrea, Samantha, Annaliese
But this is optional, so if you do not want to participate
just reply back and let me know so we can move another girl
into your slot.

We have some great activities scheduled for March and
April - a ZUMBA class, a tour and activity at Raritan Bay
hospital, and a visit from the Middlesex County Pipes and
Drums. Fun, fun, fun!

Cookie Booth - a success!

Just a quick note to thank everyone for their hard work at
the cookie booth today. I really think the girls did great,
and so did the mom's :) Special thanks to Dawn for doing so
much of the work and prep for this cookie booth. We could
not have done it without her, so THANK YOU DAWN!

As for how we did, Dawn estimates that we sold 82 single
boxes, 5 boxes for the troops, and 33 boxes in the bundles
which comes to a grand total of about 120 boxes of cookies!
Nice job everyone!

If anyone took pictures from today, please upload them to
our photo site. I just uploaded a few of mine and there are
a few cute ones of the girls and their mom's :) Take a
look.