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| Amanda at Camp Cloud Rim summer 2000 |
As someone who has been a Girl Scout leader for 12 years I try hard to live by the Girl Scout mission, to build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. I started out as a co-leader with my daughter Amanda's Junior troop, when she was in 5th grade. I've been my daughter Alyssa's leader since she was in 2nd grade, and she is currently in 10th grade.
I've seen so many young women who used to be my Girl Scouts grow up and have success. I figured out that I've had over 200 girls in my care as their leader. I can't imagine a better place to be!
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| Brownie troop 1011 Macey's trip. Alyssa kneeling, pink pants |
My daughter Alyssa has been a Girl Scout since she was a Daisy. I started being her leader in second grade. She wasn't in a troop in Daisies, just an independent member and someone else was her leader in 1st grade because I was a leader of a different troop at the time. Alyssa has grown in Girl Scouts with more confidence. She started out being so shy to sell cookies and now she makes plans on how to sell the most cookies. She has been our troop's top seller for 5 or 6 years now. She's not a camper like her sister was. She'll go if I go. She is a program aide. Program aides help at various activities and in our service unit the program aides run our day camp. She has helped run our day camp now for 3 years. We are having a Fall day camp next week which she also has helped to make decisions and will run various activies along with some other girls.
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| Alyssa and Kaili with stuffed animals collected for the children in Afghanistan |
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| Update April 2012, Silver awards and certificates |
Along with her best friend Kaili, Alyssa has earned her silver award and will be presented to them at next April's award banquet. They followed the example of their idol, David Archuleta and helped children out through various ways with service. The place where they put most of their 50+ hours of service was collecting items for the children in remote villiages in Afghanistan. Mainly stuffed animals, school supplies, tooth brushes and floss. They also did free babysitting, giving gift bags to children in the hospital, collecting food items for low income families with small children for Thanksgiving, and giving their time at places like the Gingerbread festival and our local children's library. I'm proud of them and their time spent to earn it. Just started my 13th year as a leader (13 "actual" years will be in March). I have 46 girls in my troop and love it! I have fantastic leaders who are so helpful in my quest to make our troop be a place girls love to attend with fun activities, field trips and camps for them to go to. Our troop has rented Trefoil Ranch (Girl Scout camp) in a few weeks from now. Going to take them on some hikes and have some fun tracking and trail sign games. Help my older girls to earn their backpacking badge and my Juniors to earn their Camp Together badge. Going to be a fun year!
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| Bell Tower at Girl Scout Trefoil Ranch, Provo Canyon |
