Wow! It's been a LONG time since I've been on to post! To be honest I've been pretty busy. Let's start with the Christmas Parade in Leesburg, VA. It was so much fun! I rode in my dad's jeep and it kept me warm. While I was there I met queens from the Virginia ANTSO system. They were really sweet and so was the state director. As far as the parade goes - I cannot believe how many people were out on such a cold day. The next weekend we got SNOW and I mean A LOT of snow - 20". School was canceled for the last two days before winter break and it really shut northern Virignia down. But man was it fun to play in!!
Christmas was great and my Granny and Grandad came to visit. Then New Year's Eve was spent with close friends and now it's the new year - 2010!! My time as Miss Virginia is going by so quickly. I wish I could find the pause button. In early January I went to see pre-lims for Miss Virginia Outstanding Teen. My NAM sister queen, Nyasha, was competing - she didn't win, but she said that it was okay. My mom didn't get a chance to take any pictures - well she did, but I only got to be on stage for like 15 SECONDS as visiting royalty and besides that we were trying to keep the spotlight on Nyasha.
This past weekend I went to the NBC4 Fitnes Expo in Washington, DC. There are so many great organizations that I want to volunteer for - but I think we've narrowed it down to two! While we were there I got to meet some personalities from NBC - Liz Crensha (local) and Hoda Kotb (Topday show - and just as pretty in person!) AND Miss District of Columbia USA - MacKenzie Green. They all asked me lots of questions about NAM and being Miss Virginia and it was so cool to have the opportunity to talk about it to these women - they made me feel very special!
Lately school and dance have kept me very busy. Preparing for the Science Showcase at Ashburn Elementary is a big deal. My project is on - you guessed it - chocoloate!!! It's all about statistics! Then in dance we found out we are doing Snow White for our recital. I'll dance in the first part of the show as an "emerald" and then have two other dances with the contemporary pieces at the end.
Hey, I also got my video from Nationals! I want to post a little bit - if my mom can figure out how :-)
All in all - busy and getting ready to be busier! I'm also competing in Miss Virginia International on February 14th and will decide if I want to compete in American Coed after that. The rest I'll tell about as it happens!
For now- I'll send you -
Smiles, Laughter, and Hope,
Kailee
PS: Have you donated to the Haiti relief fund?
Thank you for your email on runboard. I do not go over there anymore so I read it within the email alert sent to me. Thank you for asking about Isabella's future pageants. Isabella has quite the handful of scholastic pageants coming up and we are very excited about it.
ReplyDeleteYes, as you can see from her blog, that she is the busiest little bee out there and we have such fun updating her blog together.
Thank you for peeking at it recently. We have a tracker and we know who all checks it out and when. From Missiouri, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Chicago and the list goes on.. we see who peeks and it is very flattering!
Keep us posted on your service dates and if we can squeeze it in, maybe we can join you, so thank you for the invite.
Regards,
Stephanie and Isabella Cowley