Some of you may or may not know that I’ve had the blessing of being a Girl Scout Leader for 16 years now.  My third and last Troop of girls are Seniors this year and are all grown up (great – I’m tearing up writing that).  If you’ve been following the blog here at all you know that we took a trip one of the World Centers in Switzerland, “Our Chalet”, this June and while there, we grabbed all the Senior shots that we could.

Hiking in the mountains and doing Senior sessions was a blast but as you can imagine, I didn’t bring my good camera nor any equipment.  Their pics still came out fantastic though and we had a great time!!  So – who better than to be my Senior Stars this year than my girls??!!   I’m going to do individual posts for the girls and I guess, I’ll just run in alphabetical order.

First up – meet my Corinne!!  I absolutely adore her – she is just an amazing person!!  She is super smart, top of her class, Soccer Star, super athletic and funny as all get out.  I have had such fun watching her grow up!  She plans to attend the Air Force Academy next year and I just know that she will do great at anything she does!

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest honor a girl can achieve.  It is the Girl Scout equivalent of the Eagle Award.  We started working on it 4 years ago, it takes over 300 hours+ or so, and I am proud to say that Corinne is a 2010 Gold Award Recipient!!!   She earned hers by hosting a soccer clinic and had a great time doing it!  WTG Corinne!!  We are SOOOOO proud of you!!!

Man, I hope I don’t tear up like this with every one of em.  Does anyone have extra tissues??  Ok – without further adieu…here’s Cori!

At the Chalet they have a special badge you can earn called the “Our Chalet Challenge Badge” which is a mix of mental and physical challenges.  You have to learn about the history of the center, Switzerland info & answer a bunch of GS related questions.  In addition you have to do all sorts of physical tests push-ups, 4 hour hikes on some serious slopes and immerse yourself in a freezing glacier lake for 5 seconds!  YIPES!

By day 3 or so – the rest of us decided that we didn’t care about that badge anymore (he he) but not Cori – no way – she held fast and was one of a handful of girls in the whole group that finished it up!  WHOOT!! (pardon the snapshot)

I sure am going to miss her!

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