Change of July Date

July's date for GNO has changed - we will be hanging out on the 26th of July instead of the 12th!

Hope to see you there!!

Also, this will be our last time to get together as a junior high group, as we will be transitioning the group to a high school group

Upcoming GNO

March 8th, April 19th and July 26th are the next dates for GNO!  Will keep you posted for the 8th and what to expect!

see you soon

Truth? Right!

 

 We sure had fun at the last GNO! Playing beach ball volleyball in our basement while sitting down was challenging but entertaining! Watching clips from Return to Me, which we wouldn't recommend watching the whole movie, went(due to content Mrs. Hendrick cut out for us to view!) along with our theme... truth. Sometimes it takes guts to tell someone the truth after you have already lied to them, but you won't feel guilty anymore. Often in difficult situations, we are tempted to lie even when we know it's wrong. In that moment, send a prayer to God. He will give you the strength you need to do the right thing. One of our focus verses was John 16:13," But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." We also read Pslam 86:11," Teach your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name." Hope to see you next time!

2013? The year of GNO!!!

Hey girlies!  We will having the first fabulous GNO of 2013 on January 25th!!  7-10 at the Hendrick's!  Get ready for some fantastic girl time!

Looking forward to it!!

When girls love by cleaning

Last GNO, we all went over to a widow's rental house to help clean.  Her renters left her with quite a mess and she needed some major help. Never have any of us had more fun serving someone in our very own community! Everyone chose their own handkerchief to tie around their heads.

For our lesson, we watched appropriate clips from Bride Wars. We learned that friendship is a very important thing. After the lesson, we played a really fun game called Pterodactyl where everyone has to say "Pterodactyl" without showing their teeth or laughing! Before everyone left, Jessica announced her engagement to Jason Blankenship, an alum from LCS!  We celebrated her upcoming wedding with lots of noise!!!

Next GNO!!

Girl's  Night Out

 

Get Ready for a Fall Blast!!!

 

Friday November 16th

 

617 Wexford Dr., Lafayette,

7:00PM-10:00PM

 

Emily Hendrick's House

Hope to see you there!

 

Does your perfume smell like ice cream?

Who knew food fights were so fun! Although in the end we were all sticky and smelled strangely like an ice cream store, it was really fun to go down the slip'n slide to rinse off some of the chocolate syrup and oreos! For our lesson we learned a little about friendship and how the choices that we make often reflect who we hang around. Watching clips from the Blindside helped us get a new perspective to what that might look like. Keep in touch for the next get together!

Yeah for July!!!!

GNO for July!

          Hey, girls! Just wanted to inform you that the next GNO will be on July 20th at Emily Hendrick's house. Can't wait to see all the new sixth graders join us this year! Be ready for the time of your lives!

Summer Schedule Disruptions!!!

Ok - so June has been CRAZY!!!  But girlies, don't despair, GNO is planning a Friday for July - we had planned for June, but is just not gonna be possible - sorry to any who were totally counting on it!!

Stay tuned and chk the blog and we will get the finalized date out there soon!!!

In the meantime, enjoy your homework free evenings and sunny days!!!

Self Defense Pros!

At GNO last time, we all had a great time. Not only did we learn how to defend ourselves, but also had a campfire with smores and an important lesson on our beauty. We specifically discussed God's view of us and how He looks at the inside not the outside appearance like most people do. We listened to two songs to help encourage us to be ourselves- "Beautiful" by Group One Crew and "Live Out Loud" also by Group One Crew. These songs were very encouraging as they described how to be ourselves through living out loud and knowing we are beautiful in God's eyes. Having Zoe's dad come and teach us self defense was extremely fun. Thankfully there were no major injuries!! Playing tag was a wonderful extra activity that was included!

Stay up on the blog for upcoming dates - probably next in June!!!

Improv Rocks!!

Friday March 16th we spent an amazing night together!! We had an awesome guest speaker, Tammy Sandel, Founder, Player and Coach of the business BIG Improv. Tammy kept us laughing with each other all evening!! She taught us some improv basics and taught us how to work together as a team and applying tools of improv to life. Laughter is an awesome tool we can use in our relationships and we all had a blast together:) If you are interested in more improv check out their web at www.goBIGimprov.com

Join us on April 13th for our next GNO!  7-10PM


We will be joined by a local police officer who is going to teach us some basic tools for self-defense!!!

Pancakes before and Comedy ahead

So, coming soon is the next GNO - March 16th 7-10 PM!!! We are so excited about it - we will be being joined by Tammy Sandel, a local improv comedian who is going to make us laugh and teach us skills of how to deal better with relationships using humor!! It will be awesome - she loves talking to girls our age about this stuff.

And...don't forget in April we will be having a local police officer come and teach us some basics of self-defense - you will want to dress comfortably in April, no doubt!!

And...just to update you on our time together in January, it was


AWESOME!!!!!!!


We had so much fun! Jessica's fiance and Emily's dad and little sister, Sophia were our pancake chefs and we had a feast!

Then we had a great pillow fight and then a lesson about how TV shows can draw us away from the things that are most important in our lives, all centered around the verse from Luke that we have been focusing on - "Where your treasure is, there you heart will be also."

We want to learn to invest our energy, time, passion in those things that will bring us closer to God and His ways, not further away!!!

December balloons!!

Well, what can you say about our December GNO?

It was beast, beastiest of the beast!!!

At the beginning of the night, the room had about 500 balloons in it.

After

Lots and Lots and LOTS

of NOISE and SCREAMING and LAUGHTER...


only latex pieces all over the place!


What a crazy fun time to hang out, eat and laugh and play!!!


Plus, we talked more about our theme verse - "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." This time in conjunction with movies. We again learned that what we put into our minds, invest ourselves in, and spend time doing is what we tend to become like. We saw and talked about some examples of movies that lead us toward Godliness and some that lead us away. We also learned that many times the influence that these types of things have on us is not something we see at first. We even talked about ways to guard ourselves from harm and bad influences and to help each other to treasure the best, so our heart will move toward the best!!!


In short, it was a great time!!


We will be hanging out again on February 3rd, March 16th and April 13th - all 7-10PM unless you are otherwise informed!


hope to see you there!!!

Fall and Fantastic Females!!!!

Hey Girls! Well, it was a fantastic fall party for GNO this last Friday. It was crazy and wild and leafy!! There was flashlight tag and frenzied leaf pile diving! And, of course, there was great food!

Plus, we had a great time learning following after Luke 12:34 about how music and what we listen to can have a big impact on our lives - we heard some examples of music that seems so perky and fun, but the words begin to lead us to believe things that will be harmful to us. And some music that was awesome and the words helped us grow closer to God too. We made plans to look at the words out of our music much more closely in the future, remembering that what we put into our minds (our treasure) will often be what we become (our heart).

We will be hanging out again DECEMBER 9th - mark your calendars, tell your parents!!!!!!!

7-10PM!

Upcoming Dates for GNO - Mark Your Calendars!!!!!

Our next GNO's will be October 14th and December 9th

You won't want to miss...it's going to blow your mind!!!

Don't forget, if you have favorite music, movies, tv shows, video games, etc and have not already sent them to us - please do!!!!

See you soon!

A Review of AWESOME!!

Hey Girls!!

We had an awesome time on the 9th! We spent some time just talking about all we have talked about in the last fantastic year of GNO!!

We then started making a list of the things we will stand for:
1) We will not gossip - we will not talk behind other peoples' backs
2) We will embrace the differences between us - we are glad we are all unique
3) We will encourage each other for the way God made us
4) We will include all who join us, and work to exclude no one.
5) We will put good things into our bodies, our minds, our souls.
6) We will spend time investing in things that will make us more like God made us
to be


We then went crazy, and fired up the nerf guns for the annual GNO Nerf Gun War!!!!

It is amazing how fun controlled nerfy violence can be! Thank goodness for goggles!

As always, we had great food, and great times - enjoying fantastic girls!

Next GNO!!! September 9 - 7:30-10:00PM

So, here is the announcement!!!

The next GNO is September 9th!!!

The time will be 30min later for start because of a soccer game for several of the girls - starting 7:30, until 10:00!

We want to see you here!!!

Don't forget the last post - we are looking for your favorite music groups, favorite tv shows, movies, magazines, books! Post on the blog!

Thanks and looking forward to seeing you all soon!

For the next GNO

Hey Ladies!

We need to hear from you!

We need to know

Your

Favorite

music groups,

tv shows,

movies,

magazines,

books,

even commercials & video games,

before the next GNO!


Post HERE.

Thanks!!!!


The date will be coming soon!!

YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

What do you get when you mix ice cream and a giant slip & slide?

Well, i guess that pretty well summarizes last night's craziness here!!!

There was ice cream and toppings in more places than anyone had seen before! It was a fantastic fun time - crazy and fun!

What's funny too is that the time of sharing we had was all about where our treasure is: Nutrition and Health!!! How funny is that? Talk about nutrition ans health and then thorw ice cream at each other!!!!


It was good to be together - 6th-8th grade girls all dedicated to the ideas of GNO - not gossiping and trying to form positive relationships where we all work together to be the best we can be. We learned about how putting good healthy food into us and being active and getting plenty of exercise is a way that we treasure who we are and who God is making us - obviously based on the activities of the night, it is not that we can never have chocolate or ice cream or play video games, but that we need balance in our lives.


We will be posting the next date for GNO soon!! So stay tuned!