Girl Scout Activities and More

Tegan’s birthday last Friday night was a great success. The girls slept well and were off to their own various Saturday activities by 9:30 am. We had to make it a short morning because me and the girls were headed up to Bellingham for a Girl Scout Build-a-Bear adventure.

 

The girls had a really good time with the troop getting new stuffed animal friends. Tegan picked a nice bunny named Carmel, Kelby got a new zebra named Zee, and Anika got a sparkly pink unicorn she obviously named Sparkle. The girls got to choose $20 worth of animal or outfit paid for by the troop and then had to pitch in for anything more they wanted. After the fun, we had a little picnic at the park.

Saturday night we took our tent trailer over to Gramma and Grampa Wright’s house. I did a really bad job of making plans, but in the end it worked out to have dinner and cupcakes over there and popcorn by the campfire. The next morning Mike came over and made Eggs Benedict for me, his mom, and his sister. It was delicious. That was when the news of Grandpa came. We went as a family over to visit Grandma and had a very nice time looking at family pictures.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week was a little this and that. I had a meeting for Girl Scouts on Tuesday night. I’m going to be an official Girl Scout troop leader next year, so I’m finding out what that all involves and making plans for it. I can’t wait! We also have a big encampment weekend coming that first weekend in June. Tegan and Kelby get to spend stay at a camp nearby for two nights. I’m excited I even get to teach some crafts for a couple sessions for it.

We had to miss our Girl Scout meeting this week because our car was in the shop. It is making a horrible noise that seems to be getting worse. I got a bit of run around though because they couldn’t hear the noise at first and sent me to the transmission guy. They said it was the engine and sent me back. On Monday I’m getting an oil change and an additive added hoping to make the sound quiet down because if that doesn’t work we’re looking at thousands to fix it. We might just have to run it until it dies. We’ll see…all that matters is that I have a trailer towing vehicle!

Yesterday we got to go with the Girl Scout troop down to Seattle Pacific Science Center. I didn’t drive this time because of my car noises. I didn’t want to get stuck in Seattle with a bunch of Girl Scouts! We got to have a birthday party package that included building rockets out of film canisters and Alka-Seltzer…they popped off perfectly every time. They also made ice cream with liquid nitrogen! The girls were very impressed. We spent a couple hours touring the facility and saw all kinds of bugs and butterflies and hands-on exhibits.

 

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While we were at the Science Center, Mike’s mom and dad were over here helping Mike with my “Mother’s Day” present. I wish we hadn’t had that Girl Scout thing planned so I could have stuck around with them. Ever since we moved in to this house I have wanted to finish the ceiling on our back covered patio. It has been open to the rafters and didn’t look very pretty. It looks SO fantastic now! Thank you so much to George and Debbie for helping Mike to do that!! They gave up their Saturday to help. Thank you. Doesn’t it look beautiful?!

  

Today our church had a special service that was a Christian band concert. It was a group called “The Lads” from New Zealand. The 3rd-6th graders use their music in their Studio A program. It was a great concert. We brought our neighbor Savanna and Kelby’s friend Taylor too. Both girls have been over most of this afternoon playing too. The weather is beautiful, so they are on the Slip‘n Slide. I actually had to use sunscreen on them today!! Maybe summer will really come. Only 4 1/2 weeks left of school.

Kelby and Taylor with Mark from The Lads

Fun in the Sun!