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!!!