No Starving Artist Here

Those of you with a keen eye may have noticed today's event in the "Major Upcoming Events List" on the sidebar and wondered what it was. Well, today was the big presentation for the Grand Prize Winner of the birthday card design contest for the Boy Scouts' 100th Birthday Celebration! We got to go to it beecccaaauuuussse.....Joshua was the winner!!There were over 250 entries and Joshua's was chosen as the grand prize winner. His drawing will be made into cards that the District and Council will use for their correspondence throughout the year! He was awarded a special birthday cake collector's patch, a certificate, and a $250 gift card to the Scout Store!
We got up very early this morning and headed to Baltimore for the Executive Board Meeting with the corporate sponsors. These were the big dogs-the ones who grew up as boy scouts (many of the men wore Eagle Scout pins on their lapels) and have continued to support scouting financially through their businesses. The cars in the parking lot gave a pretty good indication of what a big deal this meeting was. Our Honda Odyssey enjoyed hob-knobbing while we were inside. ;-)
Everyone was very friendly and excited to meet Joshua. He took it all in stride because, after all, he was pretty sure he was going to win from the minute he submitted his drawing. 6-year olds have an incredible amount of self-confidence. And he drew a lot of extra confetti on it just to make sure. :) Alyson stayed home from school today so we could all go up to support Joshie. Nick was asked to help the little guys (one of the 1st prize winners was there as well) lead the flag ceremony to start the meeting. I have no good pictures of the presentation because I was way in the back and then a nice gentleman offered to move up to take some pictures for me. Unfortunately, his pictures didn't turn out any better than mine. I will be getting some copies with the CEO and other chairmen and I will post those then.
Now it's time to go shopping! We'll see how much of that gift card gets spent on Big Boy Scouts....