Busy, Busy!

Well, after a two week absence, I have plenty to report. . So, why not begin with some congratulations?! State High School and Collegiate pageants are in full swing and several new titleholders have been welcomed into the MHSA and MCA family over the past few weeks:

-North Carolina High: Victoria Baskett

-North Carolina Collegiate: Natalie Tolbert

-North Dakota High: Josie Hettich

-Texas High: Jessi Amerie

-Texas Collegiate: Hoang-Kim Cung 

Congrats, ladies! I can’t wait to meet you all in March!

I’d also like to congratulate my friend and MAOT sorority sister, Taylor Kinzler, on her 2^nd runner-up placement at the Miss Massachusetts America Pageant last weekend. Below is a picture of Taylor, Angie (Miss RIOT ’08) and me. It was so great to see my beautiful sisters :)

Now, some updates on the things that I’ve been up to:

Last Wednesday, I emceed the Central Maine Egg Festival Pageant, a Maine Academic Pageant Prelim, along with Mrs. Maine United States (Dr. Christine Blake), Miss Maine High School (Sammi Clark), Miss Maine Collegiate (Kristy Huff), and Miss Eastern Maine Collegiate (BreAnna Beal). It was a fabulous evening and I look forward to seeing the new titleholders, Marissa McGraw, Callie MacQueston,  Samantha Turcotte, Olivia Patterson and Hannah Bradley, at the Maine Academic Pageants in August!

On Friday, I participated in the Yarmouth Clam Festival Parade along with Miss Maine High School (Sammi Clark), Miss Maine’s Outstanding Teen (Alison Folsom—My baby sister) and Miss Maine (Julia Furtado).  The weather that day was perfect and the parade drew a crowd of over 100,000—a huge success and lots of fun! One man asked me whether or not I was a singer, while my car was stopped on Main Street, prompting me to break into an acapella version of “God Bless America”. I wasn’t expecting to sing at the Yarmouth Clam Festival, but I’ll take any opportunity I can to perform :-P 

On Saturday, I emceed another Maine Academic Preliminary Pageant in Warren (We are so excited to have picked up so many locals over the past few months!!) I enjoyed spending time with all of the contestants and modeling another Christine Blake Design dress :) While scores were being tallied, I had the chance to follow Daisy Blake and Julia Badarako in singing two acapella songs for the audience.  After this week, I think I may need to expand my acapella repertoire! I look forward to seeing several of the new titleholders at the Maine pageants in August!!

With Sammi, Christine and Daisy!

Coming up:

This week, Christine Blake, Daisy Blake and I will be filming the choreography for the Maine Academic Pageants so that all of the girls can become familiar with the opening number steps ahead of time! We will be posting the video online soon.

Next week, I’m headed off to Arkansas for the Arkansas High and Collegiate Pageants! I can’t wait to meet all of the contestants and reunite with my pageant family—Amanda Patterson, Inez Freeman, Summer Priester, Carina Romero, and Kyndal Hayes! Yay!