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It looks like a laser gun, but it is actually a bubble blower that she used during the parade to blow bubbles.

Passing candy to kids along the parade route – she saved some favorites for Ivan.

Showing off her troop t-shirt. Thanks to Aunt Amy for the pins on her vest. The GS membership pin and Trefoil pin were taken from Amy’s old uniform and added to Ezri’s vest to march in the parade.

This ceremony marks the end of Brownies and rising to become Junior Girl Scouts.
Since Ezri’s troop leader after 4 years leading a troop is not planning to lead next year, Ezri’s scouting future is uncertain.

She has earned 25 of the 35 possible badges and has many happy memories with this bunch of Brownie Scouts.

Eric sewed a quilt for Kate (with me in charge of getting the girls’ squares ready) to thank her for her scouting leadership.

Each girl spoke about what scouts meant to her.

They are a good group who have become good friends.

I did a scavenger hunt for the Brownies at TY Warner park.

Three teams ran around following my clues through the park.

Grown-ups in charge of teams were left in the dust by excited scouts on the move.

Ezri’s team posed on a bike rack where a clue was found.

Sledding hill is fun to roll down when there’s no snow.

Ziplining

At World Thinking Day the girls shared information about Peru with other troops.

Team DELI (Dakota, Ezri, London, and Izabella)

Cookie seller & rockstar

Cookie mom

These outgoing girls did a great job talking about cookies and helping and recruiting customers.

There’s an elf riding a reindeer.

The Santa breakfast has both pancakes and Santa.

The Ornament Smash – Another tradition is the pointless but satisfying destruction of glass ornaments. You hurl an ornament at the wall to shatter it. If there’s a golden ticket in it you get a prize. If not, they can’t take away the joy of hearing the glass crunch against the wall.

The Brownie troop had a bake and craft sale table. The girls made unicorn ornaments and brought other home made crafts and baked goods to sell. Ezri made magnets to sell. Her magnet craft made around $24 dollars for her troop. The troop will donate most of the profit this year’s sale to a holiday fund for families at the school who could use help and keep a bit in the troop coffers to pay for their activities.

Brownies, their leader, and Santa

Making tied fleece blankets to donate to our local humane society

Making ornaments to decorate the tree in Downtown Downers Grove by the Main Street Station

Ezri and I spent two nights in a cabin at camp Tecumseh with 13 Brownie Scouts.

We rode horses, slid down slides, canoed, climbed walls, did obstacle courses, played in the GaGa ball pit, hiked, made slime, did archery, crafted candles, played board games and are now exhausted!

Despite a brief migraine for me, several camper meltdowns, rain, one scout’s car sickness, holiday weekend traffic and a general lack of sleep – I’m calling it a success!

Here are some photos of the weekend courtesy of Ezri’s Brownie leader.