09-21-2007 - A glimpse into the life of crayon artist, Bailey Shumpert.

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Bailey Shumpert shared her MudFlap masterpiece.

A crayon looks deceptively simple, it lacks the mystique of a brush filled with paint. Place one in the hand of a child and immediately an abundance of creativity flows. Children do not know the "rules" of coloring inside the lines or that the sky is blue.

Bailey Shumpert's coloring page is uniquely her perception of the bucking bull world. This blonde cutie is a first grader at Longmont Christian in Longmont, Colorado. Her teacher is Mrs. Millane and Bailey loves everything about school. She likes to learn and loves her friends and teachers. She lives on a ranch with her parents, her Father trains horses and is the foreman for Little Thompson water district, and her Mother, Doreen, is a free-lance writer. In addition, she has three sisters (Chancey, Codi, and Megan) and a way older brother, Sean.

Bailey likes to ride horses and barrel race (walk/trot for now) on her mom's old cutting mare, Mae, whom Bailey has adopted. Mae is 28 years young and still going strong. Bailey also has a 19 year old gelding named Doc, but she needs a little longer legs to get along a little better with him; he can be stubborn. Bailey likes living in the country and waching rodeos on TV and she likes seeing how big the bulls are. :)


Questions posed to Miss Bailey:
Q. What is your favorite color
A. Blue

Q. What food will you not eat?
A. Potato salad – it makes me gag really bad!

Q. What is the last movie you went to?
A. Ratatouille

Q. What is your favorite animal?
A. Horses and dogs and I like to catch bugs, moths, dragonflies and ladybugs and butterflies and put them in my bug house.

Q. Do you have a favorite dessert?
A. Ice cream

Q. Name the last summer event you went to that was FUN.
A. I went to California for 2 weeks with my Grandpa and Grandma then I went to Elitches in Denver with my Mom.

Q. Favorite Holiday and why?
A. Christmas is Jesus' birthday and we get presents to celebrate and I like Valentines and Easter for candy.

Q. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A. A horse trainer this week, or a Denver Broncos cheerleader.

Q. What is your favorite song to sing?
"Jesus take the Wheel" - because Carrie Underwood sings so good and is pretty.

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