Bridge to Cadette

Girl Scouts have a ceremony when they change levels called Bridging. Today Hayley bridged from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadette Girl Scouts. I got no good pictures of the ceremony due to the fact that I had Hayley's camera set to "food" (who knew there was a food setting on cameras!). I did get Hayley to pose outdoors though. She also earned her Bronze award which is the highest award a Junior can earn.

The ceremony was quite long since there were several area troops and age levels bridging. Girls all the way from age 5-18 can participate in scouts and a couple older girls did bridge to adult today. It was interesting to watch. Hayley didn't attend a Bridging ceremony when she finished Brownies since the leader of that troop chose not to participate in the council wide events but preferred to just have it more as a fun homeschooled girls group. So today's ceremony was a first for us.

Hayley was a Brownie for 3 years, 2 in a troop and one one her own as a "Juliette" when her troop ended. Then we found a new homeschool troop for the Junior level. Hayley has been a Junior for 2 years. Now she will move to Cadette with most of the same girls she's been with for the past two years.

Here are a couple of pictures of Hayley from when she was a Brownie Scout.

making cookies at a meeting-

making bread at the leaders house for a meeting-

It's fun to see how much she has changed.

I'm proud of you Hayley for earning the Bronze award and working hard to earn badges in scouts for the past 5 years!