Life as a Brandtito

Take a good look, this is the last photo of Heaven Brandt as a Brownie Girl Scout!! As of this evening, she is an official JUNIOR Girl Scout!! The older girls took part in the "Bridging" ceremony  at this weeks meeting and once again we are a split troop.  The girls are just fine with that, and both our Juniors and Brownies are eager to get started on earning some badges for this year! The troop's first "Camp Out" is next Friday & they are also tentatively planning a weekend get away this year.  And of course.. .there are always the cookies ... Heaven getting "sashed" Troop 418 Junior Scouts Heaven showing her Bridging certifcate The bunch!

Here are are a few videos from the GS Bridging Ceremony. Pledge (I'm not entirely sure why I recorded this)         I missed the first girls "bridging" due to a phone mishap, but it starts with the first girl saying "Girl Scouts are..." and then each girl following gives an example of a  Girl Scout characteristic.

 They entered as Brownies...and left...well, still as Brownies. Tonight the girls had their first Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony. Of course I stayed (much to their displeasure..COOL PARENT!!) so I could embarrassingly photograph & video the goods. Heaven is now an official second year Brownie & Annabelle is an official first year Brownie. Technically Annabelle should have been a Daisy last year, but since we joined in the second half of the year, her leader (her fantastic, amazing and wonderful leader) said it was kind of pointless to buy a slew of Daisy stuff and allowed her to go ahead and sport Brownie Gear. Now it's official and we've got lots of new badges to sew !!  (and by that I mean glue on with Fabric Glue of course).   Heaven reciving her badges earned thus far (Not sure what's going on with that kid in the corner but it looks no bueno)