Girl Scouts is celebrating it’s 100th birthday this year. What an exciting time to be a troop leader, or a Girl Scout for that matter! This past week has just been crazy with birthday celebrations. Last Monday Chick-fil-a in American Fork was throwing a birthday party for Girl Scouts. So we just had to go check it out! Here are a bunch of Girl Scouts that came to the event. Of those girls, only Tyra is in my troop.
And the cow is wearing a Girl Scout uniform!
We bought our dinner, but Chick-fil-a had birthday cake that they cut up and passed out, and they had balloons for the kids and free ice cream cones. Over the course of the evening we did see most of the girls from our troop, and it was a really fun family night activity.
Tuesday night, there was a city council meeting, that they asked all the Girl Scouts in Eagle Mountain to attend. The first item of business for the evening was to read and vote on a proclamation declaring March 12, 2012, Girl Scouts Day. Personally I was really excited to be there JUST to get a visual of how many Girl Scouts there are out here in EM, just because I know that my troop exists and that Tyra’s old troop exists, but other than that I kind of feel like our troop is all alone out here in the middle of nowhere. After the city council voted on the proclamation they wanted to get a picture with all the Girl Scouts:
Now I don’t know if that’s an accurate representation of ALL the Girl Scouts out here in EM. But I do know that only 50% of my troop was there. (They are the 4 brownies right in the middle). 🙂
Then tonight I had the opportunity to take my troop up to the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City, for a birthday celebration. I just loved the view as we were driving up the street to the capitol building:
The building straight ahead, and flags all along the street announcing the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting. So awesome! The party at the capitol consisted of singing some Girl Scout songs out on the front steps. They had some ladies from camp there, to lead the girls in singing some camp songs. Then we moved inside to listen to the program, which was made up of some state officials talking about Girl Scouting and how excited they were to be able to share in our special celebration. And we scored three different patches for each girl just by being there! (I love patches 😛 )
Here’s my troop out front of the Capitol building. It’s been a lot of fun to be the troop leader, and to be doing these things with my daughter and her friends, and in the process I’ve been able to make new friends too. 🙂
Tyra is sooo cute!!! 100 Years of girl scouts, and they are missing their full uniforms. Is that all they wear? Just a sash ot vest?? Tyra is still cute!! =D
There are full uniforms, but I don’t know how many girls actually have the full thing. In my troop, only Tyra has the full uniform, and she only wears it sometimes.