Brownies

This year, Abigail is starting Brownies. I'm not sure what her ambition was to do it... I think it was because of the cookies (yes, she gets to sell cookies in the spring). We had a couple of choices of groups to put her in, and we ended selecting the one at our church. All the girls there did Daisies together, but Abigail knew a number of them from church, so she fit right into the group.

Below is a picture of one of the projects they did together that was really neat. They each sewed a heart pillow to give to ladies that are recovering from surgery from breast cancer. It's just an example of being part of a group that already spent a year together and were able to put together a project such as this.



Last weekend, Abigail got to go on her first outdoor adventure. They had a big campfire, made s'mores (which Abigail has been dying to do), and sang songs. Their first trip out reminded me of one of the first camp-outs I went on with my dad in Boy Scouts (more below)... A couple of days later they found bites all over their bodies, most likely chiggers. Now, if they had let us men attend, we could've shown our outdoor experience.

I reference my early camping expedition... we got to the site, and the older boy scouts and dads there told us that a particular spot would be nice and soft to sleep on. It was some kinda tall brush that had been trampled down a bit. Sure it was soft, but we got lots of chigger bites from the overnight trip. ouch.