Girl Guides

I remember when Mom put me in girl guides when I was 8...  I hated it!  It would have been that we were in a new town and I hated that but I don't really remember liking it at all...  But I'm SO glad that Alex LOVES "Sparks" (Girl Guides for 5-6 years).  She has a great time selling cookies, we sold 6 cases (72 boxes), big thanks to everyone that we suckered into buying them :).  The first couple houses we stopped at Pat and I had to do all the talking, but by the 6th house she was starting to at least say hi.  And at the last 3 she actually asked "Would you like to buy some Girl Guide cookies?".  I know a couple of the people would have said no but she was looking as adorable as usual and her smile lit up the block ;)

At her third meeting we met her troupe down at Mackenzie Trails in Red Deer to help clean up the park.  Alex was VERY excited to help "Gods Earth".  And couldn't wait to get there.  It was really a bonus that we had to pick up garbage at that time because it coincided with Alex's school project.  She had to think of ways to help protect Gods Earth so she thought it would be good to pick up garbage.  So I got to kill two birds with one stone!!  Her and her little friends scoured the ground looking for anything that even closely resembles garbage.  Alex found a barbie leg and the confused look on her face was priceless  "Um what is this doing here?" *huge exasperated sigh*  "Really a barbies leg shouldn't be on the ground, it should be on a barbie..."

Pretty Girl!

Messy Boy!

LEAVES!!!!!

Joe spent 10 minutes running back and forth in the leaves.  I was just happy he wasn't screaming!

Just to give you an idea on how busy I've been, its 4:00 am and I can't sleep so I actually have time to update!  LOL!!  I'll try to get pictures from Alex's dance on soon...  I hope it doesn't take me until Christmas ;)