The Upshaws of County Line - Photo Exhibit

We earned our African American Heritage patch tonight and had an incredible opportunity to meet and talk with Mr. Richard Orton (photographer) and Mr. Marion Upshaw about the photo exhibit the Upshaws of County Line.

Our questions?

Did you have running water?

Did you have to help out your brothers and sisters?

...video to come :)

We owe a big thanks to SFA's East Texas Research Center for organizing this wonderful event for us and the Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House for making us welcome :)

More pictures

First Brownie Quest Key - Ceremony

We completed the search for our first Brownie Quest Key -the Discover Key :)

Next...the quest for the second key of course.

What can we pledge?

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge


I pledge to mentor girls and give them opportunities I never knew were open to me. I pledge to find creative ways to use my professional resources to help the community. I pledge to use canvas bags and not plastic. I pledge to nurture the dreams of my family, friends, and co-workers. I pledge to show my renewed pride in being American through my actions toward others. -Rachel

It's Go TIme

It's Spring, that wonderful time in the girl scout year when I ask parents to step up and help plan meetings, earn try-its.

I plan to help us complete our first Brownie key, our Native American, African American, Latin American, and maybe Jewish heritage patches. Breier will also be rescheduling a time for us to earn our Love, Hug, and groom patch out at her barn -Oaklawn. There is a try-it we can probably earn at the same time -Horsin' Around Texas.

The three primary try-its that I would like parents to volunteer to plan are:

• Working it Out
• Caring and Sharing
  
• Friends are Fun

The friendship book we have has great ideas for games and activities that should be applicable to to earning these try-its.

If you are wondering about what we have already (or are in the process of completing), you can book mark this blog entry. We will recieve most of our try-its at our award ceremony at the end of the year. We will have a special key ceremony when after we complete our first key.

It's Cookie Time!

Good Luck with your new goals!

Feliz Navidad

Here is short video of our float on the move.



Our first, last and only parade float turned out lovely. Thanks to all of you who helped pull this off! The girls had a blast. Here are some more pictures from Ms. Angie.

We'll gather again in January :)

Meet Josefina Book Club Meeting

Tonight while mom's made hundreds of paper flowers for our float, we discussed Meet Josefina. We talked about Josefina's adventures and how she stood up to her fear of Florecita the goat. What are we afraid of: black widow spiders, snakes, scary roller coasters, roaches, tigers, donkeys, and reared up horses.

We also got to learn about how some women in Mexico prepare wool for weaving -just like Tia Dolores did in our book. Here is a video of Ms. Alisa on a Teacher Expedition to Oaxaca learning to spin wool.



Here are more pictures of women in Oaxaca at the Women's Cooperative: Las Mujeres de "Vida Nueva" showing us all the steps needed to prepare wool for weaving beautiful blankets. We even got to touch a blanket Ms. Rachel brought home that these women made.





















There are some fun games you can play while you learn more about Josefina at the American Girl Website.

Finally, we colored hammered tin suns (another craft straight from Oaxaca).