This commercial has a familiar face or two

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Matt Todd

When I was in Middle School (Seventh Grade, I think), I was working at our Troop 322 Christmas Tree Lot when a photographer from the Evansville Courier & Press showed up. He took several shots of different things on the lot. Then he asked me to pull a tree through the tree wrapping machine. That photo, which I cannot find at the moment, wound up on the front page of the second section (the Lifestyle section?) of the paper.

When I arrived at school the morning it was published, I had several teachers come up to me and tell me they saw me in the paper. It was so cool. It might have been the highlight of my Middle School Years.*

Mihret got to do something even cooler.

A few weeks ago, she was invited to participate in shooting some video and having her picture taken for some promotional stuff for the new Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.** She had a blast. In fact, she said it was “the best time of my life.” I mean, I can’t really blame her. She got to play with some of the brand new exhibits. And she really liked participating in one shot in particular where she ran. And ran. And ran again. Over and over and over again. The director wanted to get one particular shot just right.

That spot wound up in the latest commercial for the new expansion. You can see Mihret in three separate shots in this commercial…

As soon as it started airing, Christy and I received facebook messages and texts about how they saw Mihret on TV. She’s super excited about it and has searched for the commercial on youtube several times. I’m sure she thinks she’s a big-time rock star now. And that’s OK. I think we already knew she was.

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Let me know if you have any trouble finding her in all three shots. I’ll be happy to point them out!

*OK, getting baptized was probably the highlight, but this one was definitely up there. It would have made the One Shining Moment highlight reel of my middle school experience, for sure.

**Speaking of which, did you catch my first post on their blog? You really should.

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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"