Josey Gregg CAS Blogs

 Over the weekend I went to the DASH buddy walk which is a walk for families with down syndrome. It was a little chilly when we arrived at the minor league baseball stadium we started by cheering on people as they entered. All the kids especially were very excited and loved all the encouragment they were getting. After a little cheering, we moved on to a face painting booth and started painting people's faces. We weren't super experienced, but luckily there were stencils so things actually turned out pretty okay. At first it started slow, but all of a sudden there were lots of people who wanted to get their faces painted. And it wasn't just the kids, there parents were also very into it and it was a lot of fun to see how much they wanted to match their kids and how much they appreciated the simple work we were doing. The face painting booth was basically busy all the time and our skills improved throughout the day as we added glitter and mutiple colors. In the end it was a ...

Because Halloween is coming up I have been rigorously testing recipes for our upcoming box. I have found lots of adorable recipes that fit the theme including little monster cupcakes, pumpkin snickerdoodles and some others. In order to make sure these recipes work it takes a lot of testing to figure out the best way to organize them, and also tweaking recipes to make them the best they can be.  I have used my creativity in coming up with fun colors like purple, green, and orange, and doing lots of practice decorating. This has become a fun way to spend my time and be creative on the weekends in between my school work. Of course decoration is important, but it is also important that they taste delicious so I work hard to also make sure that cupcakes have good flavor and texture and so do the cookies, brownies, and any other treats that will go in our boxes.  This has been a part of learning outcome 2, because I have aquired new decorating and baking skills. Some of the recipes ...