Pay It Forward...

I got this from BreAn! Here it is:

The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well. Leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on YOUR blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 3 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick!

I'm not as creative as BreAn, but I'll try!
If you want, I'll have Kayley make you something...she's a lot more artistic than me. haha!

Hidden Mickey?

I made this special Peanut Butter cookie for Kayley today... Does it look like someone familiar?

Dancing...

I think there may be a future in Irish Dancing for Kayley...

Artie the Artichoke...

I wasn't sure what I might want to blog about today, so I decided to blog about my favorite college mascot, Artie ...

I was a student at Scottsdale Community College for a year and a half - home of The Fighting Artichoke!

During that time I had the pleasure of serving on the Student Leadership Forum (ie. Student Government)... My first year as a Student-at-Large and my second year as Chair of Student Leadership Forum. It was a lot of fun. See if you can find me in this picture, it should be pretty easy, I'm the only one over the age of 24.

As a member of student government many of us had the privilege (although a LOT of people didn't want to do it) of wearing our mascot costume. This costume was Hot-Hot-HOT and pretty heavy. It messed up your hair terribly and your arms would go to sleep since they basically had to stick straight out the whole time through those little arm holes on the side. You had to have an "escort" to help you get where you needed to go because visibility is very limited. You can't see it, but you wore these GI-normous sneakers that fit over your regular shoes.

Anyway, I was given the opportunity to wear our mascot costume during our interview with CBS's Bill Geist...I even managed to catch a basketball with those tiny arms! I heard I was nearly famous after it aired on CBS Sunday Morning, but somehow I missed it and can't find a link to it anywyere on the internet.

I also got to wear the artichoke during this photo opp with our (now retired) college president, Dr. DeCabooter... I look great in green don't you think?

Some video from Pioneer Park

I couldn't get blogger to work on Saturday to upload these videos.
Here are some movies of Kayley at Pioneer Park.







Kayley the slow-poke...