Pontiac Christmas Children activities and Christmas Parade!!

                        It was my very first time ever seeing a real reindeer before! It was so cool!!

                       We made some pine cone ornaments with the kids! It was so much fun!!

                                        We also made Christmas cookies that were very yummy!!

                                                                Do you like our hats?? :)

Girls just wanna have fun!!

                                                      Meeting Representative Gary Peters!

                                                                  Santa and Mrs Cluse!

Our carriage was so beautiful! I've never been in a horse drawn carriage and it was a wonderful experience and so much fun!!!

The Pontiac Christmas Extravaganza activites, on Saturday Dec 4th, were so much fun! I love to meet new people and the kids are so much fun to be around!! It was a little chilly out, but Patty (Morgans mom) brought us some hand warmers which worked perfectly for the cold weather!

After all of the fun activities and meeting some reindeer, Morgan and I were a part of the ribbon cutting ceremony before the parade! We also met Santa and his wife Mrs Clause!! They were so sweet!! We also met some great Congress men and women! Morgan and I were invited to speak at the Capital about our platforms and be in the newsletter as well as on their local tv channel to share our platform information! We are so excited and honored to be offered such a great opportunity!! Hopefully it will happen in the New Year after all of the political positions are rearranged from the new election.

Once our mingling was finished and photo opportunities were taken our beautiful horse drawn carriage arrived!! It was such a beautiful white carriage!! I had never been on a horse drawn carriage before and it was very exciting!! Morgan and I had a great time bundling up and staying warm next to each other while we waved to the paarde spectators! It was a huge parade filled with outstanding floats and characters!!

After the parade was finished my teen queen, Morgan, and her mom came over to my house where we chatted, exchanged Chrsitmas girfts and warmed up by the fire before we got ready for the Warner Mansion Christmas Caroling/tree lighting night!! What a wonderful day to celebrate the fantastic holiday season!!

Pontiac Christmas Tree Lighting!!

                                                     My beautiful teen, Morgan, and me!!!

My amazing director Franny, my teen Morgan, and me!!

The Mayor of Pontiac joined us for a photo as well!!

Being introduced as special guests!

I had to get a picture with my favorite pal Mickey Mouse!!

Part of the MOC family!

The Pontiac Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 3rd, was such a wonderful event! It was a great way to start off the Christmas holiday season!! This was my first Christmas event and the tree looked beautiful once all the lights were lit up!!! A couple of different choir groups, from various surrounding schools, sang Christmas songs for us and they did a wonderful job! We have so many talented individuals in the state of Michigan!!

Miss Capital City 2010!!

Cassandra Kramer, Haleigh Fairbanks, me, and Casey

 . . . and Mallory Rivard

These cuties escorted the contestants in eveningwear!

Nichole Smith, my friend, and me!

All the gang!

Good friends Brooke Rowland, Camille Bridges, and me!

Leana Haas the new Miss Capital City!!!! Congrats girl and great tapper!!

Miss Michigan, Katie LaRouch and Krsiten Hansen

The amazing, wonderful, helpful, creative, fun (and so much more) Director Deb Zale!! :)

Sunday afternoon, Novemeber 21st I was able to attend the Miss Capital City pageant in Lansing!! I competed there last year and a had a terrific time! It was nice to sit back this time and feel the excitement to watch a new girl be crowned and to join us at Miss Michigan! Congratulations to Lanaya Hass who captured the crown!! All of the contestants were amazing and so very talented!

It was great to see our Miss Michigan, Katie LaRouch, dance so beautifully and speak so eloquently as she emceed the pageant! Hats off to Deb Zale and her staff for putting on another fabulous pageant!!

One of the highlights of the evening was when Drew, a favorite of the Miss Michigan family, was surprised by Shelley Taylor with a free trip to Miss America in January, along with his parents! I don't think there was a dry eye in the house! That is what the Miss America Organization is all about!!

Holiday Magic Parade!!!

On, Saturday, November 20th, I had the pleasure of riding in the Royal Oak Magic Parade!! It was a great early kick-off to the Christmas Holiday Season and really helped everyone to get in the Holiday spirit!! The driver and his wife of the Saab car who drove us in the parade are from Clarkston too!! She is a teacher at a local elementary school, which is down the road from our house, and was very gracious to invite me to her classroom to speak with her students after the New Year begins!!

The Royal Oak residents and parade fans were a wonderful crowd and showed lots of enthsiasm for us as we drove by and waved!

After the parade our family celebrated an early Thanksgiving with my brother and his wife in their new home which was a perfect ending to a fun-filled day!!

Fall Forum!!

             The always beautiful Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008, and my dear friend! Love her!

                                       Sarah, Jenelle, Mekisha, me, and Alyssa pose for a pic!

                                                                     I judged this beauty!

                                Brooke Rowland, our very sweet and talented Miss Michigan Teen!
                                My mom always calls us "God's girls!!"

                                                                      More friends!

                                                                           
                                                                 Most of the gang!!

The fun and sweet Rachel McCleery!

                                                                     Dressed up!

                                                            Girls just want to have fun!

Strike a pose!

The insanely talented and amazing Katie LaRouche!! She is our reigning Miss Michigan and will take the Miss America stage by storm!! I will be in Vegas to cheer her on!! Can't wait!! :)

This was my first year to attend the annual Fall Forum!! It was an exciting day that I spent with my fantastic Director Franny and many of the contestants! Franny and I laughed all the way to Muskegon! We arrived on the westside before we knew it!

I didn't even know what to expect of this day, but I had a blast and learned tons along the way! We got a 'sneak peek' as Katie showcased her Miss America wardrobe and blew us away with her styling! The judges won't even know what hit 'em!! All I can say is 'wow!!'

It was a pleasure to hear Kirsten Hagland share stories of her days at Miss Michigan and Miss America! Kirsten is so funny and she is very articulate and humorous at the same time!! I loved catching up with her after and we got a quick picture taken together too!!

It was great to sit back and enjoy the little Miss Michigan pageant! These little girls were packed with talent and didn't hold anything back! Glad I am not competing with them!! ;) It was also great to see some girls that I knew when they competed for another organization, it's great to see they are a part of the MAO now!!

The dinner was very good and I had to laugh when I saw Catalina as a dressing for the salad!! It is my favorite dressing and most places don't have it so that made me giggle!!

The Fall Forum was a great day and an opportunity to meet some of the contestants I had not had a chance to speak with before! I am always amazed by the contestants that go to Miss Michigan each year! What an honor to be going with this group of beautiful, talented, and well spoken friends to the Miss Michigan stage in June! I am pumped! I hope you are too!!