Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Miss America 2010

We have been planning this weekend since last June when my former Miss Pl Grove Whitney Merrifield won Miss Utah. Whitney wanted Lizzy to come and do her hair and makeup back stage so we planned to go! What a fun week it was! Betty Memmott our dear friend came with us! It was her first time to go to Miss America...and she loved it as well! Ya gotta do it at least once! !

Here we are! Miss America 2010! What a fun week! We left on Tuesday morning.. picked up Lizzy in Cedar and headed off! It wasn't warm...but it was sunny and it didn't snow! We had some heavy rain...but hey we hardly noticed...! When you are shopping shopping shopping it really isn't a problem!

One of our first stops... PANERA! Holy smokes the bagels are YUMMY! This is one of our favorite places to eat... Cinnamon Crunch Bagels and Hazelnut Cream Cheese... Seriously so good! The clam chowder is amazing too!

Betty and I ... WE LOVE HER!

Our first night after prelims! Whitney rocked her talent! She was amazing! Stefanie and her mom Charlotte with us.

Here we are with Whit... she looked so beautiful!

Tradition... everyone poses at the Miss America backdrop!

Lizzy and I at visitation waiting for Whitney to come up!

Here we are with my other daughter... Raychellene! She did Whitney's wardrobe for Miss America.
Posing at the backdrop... not my favorite thing to do.
You know I can't stay away from a Build A Bear... Whitney needed one...(I know she did! )
Lizzy with Wilma and Bob Knightfrom Hoopeston Illinois. They were Lizzy's host family at the National Sweetheart Pageant. They are so supportive of our Utah girls. Lizzy loved staying with them and they have become life long friends! They love our girls. Whitney was another of their girls and so they came to Miss America with us!
Friday we spent the morning at the Las Vegas Temple! It was an awesome morning! What a beautiful temple! I think it is one of my favorites!
Friday night we all headed down to the strip! We ran into Kayla Barclay Miss Utah from last year. She is beautiful inside and out!

M & M Factory... who knew you could spend $12.99 on a lb of M & M's... Whoa! This is Mr. Green M & M.

Here we are in the 3 D M&M movie! We are all about high class entertainment!

Hal and Dallas drove down to "surprise"us! It was our anniversary so that was fun! I got some beautiful roses!

Here are Lizzy and Dallas at Cheesecake Factory! Yummy! Try the Chicken Bellagio!!
My cute honey... So fun to have him show up! I know how much he LOVES pageants!
I think we walked the entire strip! Poor Betty had blisters! But after all it was our 39th anniversary! We may not be able to walk much longer...since we are getting so dang OLD!

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