Mother Daughter Campout Pictures.

Brooke & Sarah with their flowers they made.
Mrs. Dana & Ashley concentrating on their flower craft.
Mrs. Denise (my previous co-leader now leader of my old Cadette Troop #141) & her daughter Jennifer.
I had to work again on the weekend of the mother daughter campout so Ashley had to spend the night with Mrs. Kim & Kaitlyn in their cabin. Brooke was very upset that me and her had to leave after the games. This year I went back a different way so I didn't get a unecessary speeding ticket. Last year I didn't realize I was close to Eros until I rounded the curve and say the speed limit sign change to 35mph. I threw on the brakes, but I still got a ticket. I told the officer I was leaving teh girl scout camp and Ashley was asleep beside me to prove it. I told him I was very unfamiliar with the area, but he still gave me a ticket. Shame on him. I had to go pay the mayor my ticket guess where???? At the gas station where he was working. When I asked how much he guessed $120.00. You could tell he was guessing. That will be the last time I go through Eros if I can avoid it.

Next here's a picture of my little sister Lynnsey who is getting married in August.

I'm not sure if I posted a picture of Brooke's straight A trophy. Here it is Mom. For those of you who don't know my parents live in Tenessee and use my blog to see pictures of the kids and their accomplishments. It is alot easier than emailing them.

Brandi

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More Beach pics & Family Game Night.

Ashley & Jarrett watching the fireworks in Destin.

Ashley & Brooke watching the fireworks. This is one of my favorite pictures of the beach. Jarrett is riding on the luggage cart to the car.
On our last night there we got ice cream and walked the beach. This was a first for all of the kids and they enjoyed it once they saw there was nothing to be afraid of. We had to chase Jarrett to get him to the beach b/c he was scared. Brooke was worried about crabs, but luckily we didn't step on any. We had trouble keeping the kids out of the water. It was just tooooo tempting.


Awwwww sweeeettttt. Look at the sisterly love.

I love watching them walk together. It counteracts all of the sibling fights they have in my book. It proves that they do care for one another even if they fight over the seats in the van.
Game Night. Jarrett was soooo excited. I guess Jason told him about it on the way home b/c when he saw me he kept asking to play games. He kept walking around saying "It's game night. It's game night." Jarrett played Tetris & Hungry Hippo. I loved the way he giggled the whole time playing the hippo game. You can also see his tongue sticking out while he concentrates in the 3rd picture.
playing tetris

Last but not least Ashley during our game night. Jason, Ashley, & I played Phase 10, Dominos (double 12's-Mexican train), and Boggle. Needless to say Ashley won every game we played. She is my little gamer. She once chose a binder with games printed out from the internet at a Girl Scout christmas party. Denise who made it was worried that no one would like it. She was super excited when it was the only present taken during our game. You know the game where if someone wants it they can take it or open another present. Ashley still to this day plays with that notebook of games. I think these games have helped her in Math. I realized we should probably start inculding Brooke & Jarrett in our card games to help with their Math. Brooke had to go to her Dad's so she was unable to play games with us, but she'll get to on our girl scout game night this weekend.

Brandi

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More Beach photos

Yes Ashley and I did ride the Cyclone you see below. I thought it was just going to be like a big farris wheel without all of the cars. Boy was I wrong. My neck still hurts. When you reach the top it flings you over and you flip over and over. I couldn't even tell if we were upside down on right side up. The one time I tried to open my eyes we were upside down and that threw my stomach for a loop. It was best to keep my eyes shut or I was afraid of getting sick.
Before: Notice the smiles :) :) :)
During. It went so fast Jason had trouble getting pictures. He kept taking pictures of the sky.

Afterwards. Notice no smiles :( :( :( We were fighting our stomachs. It took a while before our equilibrium allowed our stomach to settle. Even Ashley had trouble with this so it's not me getting older like I usually think.

We played Minature Golf. Jarrett hit one hole in one, but the star was Brooke she hit about 4 or 5 hole in ones. She loved this game. The low of the game was when Jarrett accidentally lost his ball in the water. He cried the remainder of the game even though Ashley gave him her golfball.

We went to the Track. It had a minature fair. It had loads for the kids and they had a blast. We will definitely visit one whenever we see one.

Brooke riding the wet bumper boats.

Ashley and Jarrett riding GoKarts. P.S. Ashley got carded trying to drive with Brooke on the 3 story gokart track. The driver must be at least 16 yrs old to have a passenger. Jarrett & Daddy riding.

Jarrett on the swings. He wasn't afraid of anything this year. I can't wait until the fair.
Brooke & Jarrett on the train.

Brooke on the freefall ride. See her doing the rock on thing she does.

Awwwww Aren't they being sweet together.

Jarrett & Brooke riding the airplane. I'm suprised Jarrett did this b/c it went up in the air like it was flying. He was all grins and giggles. It was so cute. All in all it was a great trip. The kids had a blast. We aimed for it to be a kid trip and we were successful. They want to do it again next summer. I have no complaints.

P.S. Girl Scouts Juniors or older we are planning a Savannah Georgia Trip to the birthplace of Girl Scouts. It is a girl scout town. We will be going Nov 20-24, 2009. Deposits will be due real soon. The tentative price will be $450 per person, but we will have several fund raisers. I will post the tentative itinerary later. Ashley and I will be going. We can't wait it looks like it is going to be a blast!!!!!

Brandi

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Beach Trip :)

We left our house at 7:30 am headed to Destin, Florida on our first family vacation ever. You can see how excited the kids were. And of course Jarrett couldn't leave without his blanket. (This blanket was used by my brother when he was a baby and Jarrett has become extremely attached to it.)
Here are the kids going into the Mobile Bay tunnell. You can see the terror on Jarrett's face. He didn't like it. Jason and I even turned on the radio so the kids could hear it go away to static.
Here is Jarrett during the tunnel. He covered his head with his security blanket and cried.
The kids loved my mom's van so much. Here is Jarrett in the back. The kids did a good job not fighting over the backseat which was the favored spot.
They did nap part of the way down there.

Beach pictures. :)




Jarrett was afraid of the ocean. He would scream like we were killing him if we took him out into it with us. My neck has the nail marks to prove it. He did love the water though. He loved jumping the waves and falling.

Brooke was a little water horse. She hung out with Ashley the whole time and they traded a boogie board and a pink inner tube.

They didn't play in the sand much, but they did bury Ashley. They liked the water more.

The kids had a blast. So much so that they said they'd rather go to the beach for a week next year than Disney world as planned. Fine with me. I'd rather be in the cool water than the hot theme parks anyday. We even found a crab one day and the kids got to see it close up. Jarrett was so funny he looked at me very seriously and said "Mom they are supposed to be red." He was talking about the crab b/c the crab on sponge bob is red. We got extremely lucky Friday night b/c were we ate we got to watch 2 fireworks shows as we ate and afterwards we sat on the pier behind the restaurant and watched a huge fireworks show in the harbor. The kids loved it.

Our room was the best. It was like a little apartment. It had a full kitchen fully stocked. It also had a washer and dryer & bath n body soap and shampoo. Our complimentary breakfast was like going to Shoney's. We will definitely come back to this place. We had to drive to the beach, but thats ok for me.


It had such a big closet that we turned into Jarrett's room. He sleeps better in a room by himself.

One night we kept them out until midnight playing minature golf, gokarts, got ice cream, etc. This is Jarrett resting on Ashley while I fixed his pallet in his room.

The fun didn't stop there. I'll post more Friday. I don't want to make it to long, but I will leave you with a Jarrett funny.

As I was setting up our umbrellas and chairs I looked up and Jarrett was standing where the waves crash with his pants down peeing infront of a very very very crowded beach. Needless to say my hubby wasn't watching him very closely. This was mortifiying. Needless to say the nextday we went to a public beach that had restrooms.

Talk to you all later,

Brandi

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