BDT Officer Retreat 2012

On May 13 & 14, 2012 we attended the BDT Officer Retreat.  It was held at the Zermatt Resort in Midway.  Five of my six new officers were able to attend.  

 Picture they took of them as we arrived.

 Brooke, who was the Historian, made these cute notebooks for the officers to take notes in at the retreat.

The retreat began with some discussions/workshops.  The girls receive a binder full of information.  One of the first things we did, was design a cover for our binders.  Then they also got to take their picture in a photo booth that was there.  It was fun.  Each of them received a copy of the pictures and they put them inside the front cover of their binders.

One section of the workshop was about "leading with love" and they used ballet to demonstrate it.

 Ballet Class

 Fun times!  Notice Kendrick in the bottom left corner of this pic.  Yes, he went with me and after I decided he would not attend BDT Camp with me!  He is mobile and doesn't want to sit in his stroller anymore!  He was also loud when I needed him to be quiet.  Not fun!

They were given some play dough and they had to design a shape all together and work together to make the shape.

 Working on the shape.

 What they came up with - I think it was a monkey?

 I think this was a second try?  Not sure?

 Another game - I think they were trying to build a tower or something?

 They had a lot of fun, as you can see.

 Good officer bonding time!

Later, they were able to learn a fun jazz routine from Travis Lake.  They loved it!  We will probably use it and teach to our team for a football performance.

After they excused us, we went back to our rooms and the girls went to the pool for a while.  Then we met in their room to discuss our officer goals for the year and plan out a lot of stuff.  We were up quite late, but we did accomplish a lot! 

We decided our theme for the year would be "Unlock our potential and soar!"  We would use keys and locks as our symbols.  I really liked the theme and I like how we somewhat incorporate our school mascot, which is the golden eagle, by using the word soar.  I also think it could refer to our team name, Ellevé, which comes from the ballet term which means to rise up.



 Day 2:  Ready to work!

 Writing our goals/team dreams on a balloon.

 Outside, to let our balloons go.

 Maybe they didn't want to let their balloon go? :)

 They soon did, as did everyone at the officer retreat.  All of the balloons soared up, up and away!

Posing with the little house by the large chess set at Zermatt.

It was a great bonding time for my new officers.  We had a good time and got some great ideas for our year.  I'm so glad we were able to attend.

Unfortunately, a few weeks after we came back from the retreat, one of my officers decided to quit.  So, our team actually has a different historian now.  We also have two new members.  Here is a picture of the 2012-13 team with the new members (we are however, missing one girl):

So excited to see what the year holds for this team!  They are very determined and want to have the best year possible and make everyone on the team feel important and that they are loved!  Our theme will definitely be put to use--we plan to UNLOCK OUR POTENTIAL AND SOAR!