Race to Vancouver Champions

Remember the biathlon? It was a challenge presented at New Beginnings. The challenge was to read and exercise daily over the course of a few months. The goal was to reach so many "miles" as a group that we would have traveled to Vancouver. Although we didn't reach our group goal, these girls pushed themselves and a few of them accomplished their individual goals. Way to go!

Blood Drive & YW Camp Garage Sale

A Big Thanks to all the girls that helped out. It was a lot of preparation, work, and clean up. The garage sale went well. The girls helped set up & organize all the items, count money, service the customers, and take down at the end of the day. The funds go to needed items for this years girls camp.

There were only a few girls over 17 yrs that could donate blood, but it was a good turn out and we helped save some lives that day.

BROOMBALL!

Just a reminder that Tuesday night is our annual BROOMBALL game. Everyone needs to bring their own broom. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE YOUR MOTHERS GOOD BROOM WITHOUT ASKING!! Broom tend to get damaged unless they are really sturdy. You can pick them up at the dollar store or any used store. It can be any kind of broom.

So bring your broom and bring a friend (and have your friend bring a broom :) and it will be a fun night!

Little Beehive Bakers

Tonight, for the beehive class activity, we baked cookies. Each girl was assigned an ingredient and we followed a recipe for chocolate chip cookies made from scratch. Some of the girls wanted the recipe, and I said that I'd post it on here. So if you want the recipe for these yummy treats follow this link:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4707215_bake-chocolate-chip-cookies-scratch.html

(copy & paste in URL)

Don't forget to check out the short video clip @ the end. And please leave comments. :)

The girls split up in 2 teams to make as many cookies as possible in the short time we had. So the following clip was made in hopes to motivate the girls.

This activity provided experience and preparation for 2 important life lessons:

1) Team work

2) Following instructions

Who knew baking cookies with 9 girls in one kitchen would teach such valuable lessons.

Armand Bayou Prairie Restoration

We arrived there at 8:30am for instructions and we were led to the field where we began to work hard throughout the morning. It was nice weather to be outside laboring in the wheat fields. A clear sunny day with cool breezes. We got a little muddy too as you can see in the photos - o.k. VERY muddy for some of us. It was a great experience planting and digging and trying not to fall into a mud hole. We learned a lot about the bayou and the field we were restoring. Afterwards we headed back to the picnic area to clean up and have some pizza. We walked along the bison fence and had a friendly encounter with the 2 young, but huge animals. Next time we'll all make sure to wear some boots!

Speed Friendships

Everybody seemed to enjoy the 'speed friendships' combined activity hosted by the YM. It was a creative get-to-know-you activity. They lined up a long row of chairs facing each other and placed a card with a question on each chair. After the alloted time one row would move down a seat and so on. It turned out pretty well. Some people made up their own questions and others had very interesting answers. "If you could have one super power what would you choose?" There got to be so many youth show up that we had to keep adding on chairs until we were almost out the door - both directions! Skittles was our preferred snack of the evening. =)

Armand Bayou

Armand Bayou Service Project
Prairie Restoration
Saturday March 13th
Leave Krogers at 8am
8am-noon

Bring:

• water
• sunscreen
• PERMISSION SLIP!!

Wear:

• long pants
• boots or old shoes
• Gloves
  

We'll spend Saturday morning volunteering at Armand Bayou helping them with the ongoing prairie restoration project. Get ready to get dirty and learn about the ecology of the area. Friends are welcome (email for an extra permission slip).

Laurels Game night

Careers Fireside

Careers Fireside

Sunday Feb 28th 6-8pm
church - RS room

Wondering what to do with your future? Join us as a great panel of speakers share their experiences on education, how they decided on a career and what they do.

New Beginnings

Lace up your running shoes and meet us at that starting line!
Tuesday Feb 23 7pm
RS Room

Crafty Bags