Victoria Bryant State Park

My daughter's American Heritage Girls troop set up a family camping weekend out at Victoria Bryant State Park. My son chose not to go as he's going camping with his troop next weekend and temps were expected to get below freezing on us. We were the 3rd family to arrive and set up our tent.

We had a cool view of the creek/river running behind our tent.

We survived the night of cold and were woken up by a wild turkey right behind our tent. (I was actually already awake, not having slept much during the night.) We climbed out of our sleeping bags and had a warm breakfast. This is my daughter with one of her AHG friends.

Some time after lunch we decided to 'hike' over to the play ground and check it out. The night before we had stopped in a small field to check out the stars. We decided to go back in daylight to see what the field looked like. We found a lot of turkey tracks all over, mixed in with deer tracks. My finger is beside the turkey track to show how big it really was.

This is a view of the creek over by the playground area.

The kids spent at least 2 hours running around the playground. It had some really cool things for the kids to climb on and play iwth.

This thing would go up and down at the joints depending on where the weight was. The kids had a blast trying to make it jump so that kids would jump/fall off.

Around 4pm we decided it was time to head back to the campground and get ready to go home. I wasn't willing to stick out another night of freezing temps. We crossed the creek on the way in and on the way out of our campground at this crossing.

All in all a very beautiful area. The park itself was rather small, there are a few hiking trails in the area as well.

Heritage Girls Award Ceremony/Cross-over

Award Ceremony - my daughter receiving her awards for the year.

My daughter's group of Heritage Girls crossed over from Tenderheart to Explorer Monday night. My camera wasn't cooperating, so I apologize for the quality of pictures.

Heritage Girls go horseback

Over spring break, my daughter's group in Heritage Girls went out to a local ranch in Dacula to work on their horsemanship badge. The first horse is called "Pretty", she was trained as a cutting horse but now does riding lessons. This one is "Munson". He was a UGA competitive horse, now doing riding lessons. Learning to curry on Pretty. Riding Munson

Puppet show

My daughter's group with Heritage Girls put on a puppet show for the parents. It was a classic "how many will fit" when all the parents and family tried to see the show. Not that you can see them all in these pictures, but there are at least 4 girls under the table working the puppets while the others read the story.

Powder Puff Derby

I have to give the girls credit, they are VERY creative when it comes to their cars. My daughter, unfortunately, didn't win anything, but it was a good experience any way.

My daughter's car is the center one. The outside left is a VW Bug, the other end is an ice cream sandwich..

Flowers, keyboards, Tinkerbell, oh my! Cell Phone, Flag, Crayola box & a butterfly! My daughter with two of her AHG friends

Award Ceremony

My daughter attended her first award ceremony as an American Heritage Girl Monday night.

Part of the color guard (finishes another badge) Receiving her Joining award (with the leader of the AHG troop).. Receiving her Swimming and Computer Adventure badges (with her leader)

Trees Atlanta Service Project

My daughter and I went to Midtown this past Saturday to participate in a Trees Atlanta service project. We started at the Midtown Arboretum post in front of Grady High School. We then went to where they were planting the trees (check their website for the layout of the Arboretum). She dug her hole.. She massaged the root ball to loosen roots. And in the end helped to plant 3 trees to brighten up the downtown area.

Service blanket

My daughter needs service hours for American Heritage Girls. We got this idea from the project she did a week or so ago. We got a blanket and made it 'prettier' to be donated to charity.

Heritage Girls

My daughter participated in "making" no sew blankets with Heritage Girls Monday night. I caught these pics on my phone.