Archive for May, 2010

I have been looking forward to and dreading this past weekend for months.  It marked the last time I would ever take my Girl Scout Troop camping again and the last time we would ever get together again.  After 11 years of it the time came where I had to let go.  It was a relief but sad at the same time.  It is hard to say goodbye and I still hope to keep in touch with many of the girls I have led over the years.


So my Friday started with a shopping trip to Sams Club and Walmart for the camp food.  Sams always has sample booths to try stuff. Lucky me there was a booth for Fudgie Wudgie there just for the weekend.  I had to have some Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge yummy!!!!!

Walmart has some new office supplies that I decided I don’t need but want  I would love to deck out my computer desk at home with this:

They had this green, bright ass yellow, brown and another color I don’t recall.  I started shopping around 2:30 and started to worry if I would make it to camp on time when I was leaving my last store at 5:30 LOL  Camp can be so much work!  It’s a good thing though that I was running behind because the county was doing a memorial of some sort.  The road to where I needed to get my key was blocked off and all the police officers were participating, which is who I needed to get the key off of.


Friday night we had a campfire with Smores of coarse.  I haven’t done a campfire in a year, since our last camping trip.  I love the campfire.  The smell, setting it up, keeping it going.  There is just something about it. I love coming home from a trip and all my stuff smelling like a campfire.

That evening we had a bad storm roll through. The cabin set up has the girls in a bunk room on the top floor with windows on all sides. All the girls wound up dragging their mattress’s downstairs and sleeping on the dining room floor. You couldn’t hear or see much of anything there so they quickly fell asleep at 3 am finally!


For breakfast Saturday the girls made pancakes, bacon and eggs. The girls cook every aspect of all meals themselves. Here you see my niece cracking the eggs.

For lunch we had Walking Tacos.  It’s a real easy meal to make and the kids love it!  We brown ground meat and add taco seasoning.  Then we set up a station with all ingredients they can complete their meal with. Frito’s or Tortilla Chips (you can get small bags they can eat right out of or do it in a bowl), shredded cheddar cheese, shredded lettuce and Catalina Salad Dressing.  There are many other toppings you can add but for a bunch of girls we stuck with the basics.

For most of the day we had the girls make gifts for Mother’s Day as well as crafts for themselves.  They spent alot of time just running around and having a good time.  We had planned on a hike and outside play but it was just too cold.  This is my daughter decorating a storage container.

You can get them at Pat Catans for $1.79 I believe.

I pushed for a Healthy Dinner and the girls all liked it. They put chicken, carrots, potatoes and seasoning into a foil packet to cook over the fire.  They were so juicy and yummy! This was a meal my niece helped prepare.

The end result after about 20 minutes on hot coals:

One of my girls is a talented artist.  She spent quite a bit of time on a drawing on the chalkboard in their bedroom.

Of coarse we had another campfire that evening while listening to the Pens game. Yay Pens won!  Two of the girls decided to make up a scary story about a woman they saw in the woods to scare the other girls and wound up scaring themselves instead.  Tee Hee, that’s what you get. We had banana boats and I would share a picture, but then you wouldn’t try them if you saw them first LOL You keep the peel on a banana and slice longways about halfway through. Stuff it with pieces of chocolate and marshmallow and wrap it up in foil.  About 15-20 minutes on hot coals in the fire and you have warm mushy heaven!


Sunday pretty much consisted of packing and cleaning up the cabin.  Yes the girls clean! It’s amazing what kids will do when there not at home.

We left our last mark in the scrapbook that stays at camp.  The girls decorated the page and signed their names.

When my husband picked me up my other two children arrived with flowers  How sweet!

We only had a few issues over the weekend that involved one girl throwing a fit when she had to leave for awhile, another being a little too mature for my liking and her age, and another who had some stinky ass feet. Other than that it really was a perfect weekend without too much drama or trouble.


Girls thank you for a great weekend!  And thank you to Lori, the mother who volunteered to come camping with us.  You were fun to be around and very helpful! I hope that everyone keeps in touch, you will all be missed!


Note: If parents or girls want any pictures I can email some to you.  I only put up ones of my daughter and niece here as I didn’t want to upset anyone.