Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2010

Girl Scouts gone WILD.....

Another cold evening selling cookies on the side of the road....
But tonight, the girls got a funny idea to wear the cookie boxes...
Faith had to have one too and I thought it was appropriate that hers was a Thanks A Lot....

It was bitterly cold outside with a stiff wind but it didn't dampen the spirits of the girls. They made up a game for Faith to play. She would take one of the kid's hands and jerk them around and the girl would spin around in circles away from her. To say it was funny to Faith, is a mild understatement! She was laughing hysterically! One of the girls came up to me and said "Mrs. Candace, I love Faith's laugh. It is contagious!"


Actually the box idea was great because we had a big increase in cars stopping when they were out there dancing on the side of the road. Some of the girls really got into it and were shaking their hips and running into each other! It was a riot!


Clearly, Faith thought so too! She got a little windburned on her cheeks but she didn't care!


She got right in with the box idea. When I went to take it off she signed more, so I handed her the box and she put her head in the box, like she wanted to do it again!

Then some of the kids figured out that the boxes blocked the wind so they started wearing them on their heads. We looked out onto the highway and people were videoing the kids, with their cell phones! Truly it was stupendous! Probably one of the greatest promotions of girl scout cookies EVER!

I know I say this every week but...GOOD GRIEF I love those girls! They are SOOOOOO good to her and she loves them all so much. She is always hugging them and kissing them and they don't even care that she drools all over them!

I think I need to become a National Spokeswoman for Girl Scouts....

Friday, February 19, 2010

Adventures in Cookie Sales....

Cookies....
Cookies....
Cookies....
Did I mention.....
Cookies....Two days after we received our cookies for Girl Scouts I AM SICK OF COOKIES....
I spent about 5 hours passing them out, yesterday and then the troop had their first booth sale tonight- 2 1/2 YEARS....Oh, I mean hours....he he he.



Just a trip to daddy's work, where Faith is followed around by "paparazzi" took almost three hours! She sold over 150 boxes just at his office and I am pretty sure we have broken 250 by now. Faith had so much fun racing around the side of the road, being pushed by all her little friends. It was the first nice day in a very long time, the weather was almost perfect. The children doctored up Faith wheelchair with posters and paraded her up and down the side of the road. They performed cheers, did pyramids, carried each other around on their backs. It was so cute!
They included Faith in selling the cookies...she passed out boxes and collected money. But mostly she just got pushed around. After about an hour or so she started to wear down and by the two hour mark she was ready to go home. I leave you all with pictures from our first adventure, tonight, and promises of an exciting next post. A first for our rock star girl scout....wait and see!