PAGEANT WEEKEND!!!!!

Whoa! What a weekend! It was non-stop pageant stuff!

We started with the WA last call prelim! I was looking forward to kinda sitting back and enjoying this last preliminary with Kennedy. Sounded like a great plan except for the fact that there was 40 contestants! WHOA! That required quite a bit of help from my mom, Katy and I just to keep things running. We ended up running a little late - which was unfortunate because most of the prelims this season were very on time LOL. But when you have so many kids interview and talent take quite a bit longer than normal. It sure was a fun day though! Meeting so many new Cinderella families! Hopefully they will all come to state! How fun would that be!

Sunday morning Kennedy and I headed out to the Puyallup Spring Fair. That was a lot of fun! I have never been to the spring fair before. It is a lot like the one they have at the end of summer - just not as many buildings and rides were open. We met a few Cinderella Families there and rode some rides. I think Kennedy's favorite part was petting the new baby animals. Goats and Bunnies... too cute! Dressed in white and in her banner and crown! LOL That was interesting!

After the fair we stopped off at another local pageant running this weekend to say hi to some of our friends then home to watch the Miss USA pageant! We missed most of the pageant - but I still managed to pick the winner! I am 3 for 3 the last 3 years for Miss USA! Of course - I did miss the first part of the show so I only picked her from the top 5 - so I guess you could say I kinda cheated - but Kennedy was VERY impressed! She picked California - I think she is developing a skill here! LOL. The funniest thing EVER was listening to her commentary on the dress.... "I really like that dress, but I think it would look better on ______ (forget who she said) because she has really long legs and I think it would look good on her." LOL.... Oh my gosh! It was just the funniest thing ever! I wish I would have recorded it.

So! The pageant marathon weekend is over! Focus for next week: GYMNASTICS! State is Sunday! Wish her luck!

Last Prelim of the Season!

Well - this weekend is the last prelim of the 2008-2009 Cinderella Season! I think it has been the most amazing preliminary season since we started with Cinderella. We have met so many new people - Kennedy has had a blast. It will be a little sad though that this will be her last preliminary as the 2009 International Miniature Miss! It's hard to believe the year has gone by so fast! Good luck to all the Cindy girls competing this weekend and I really hope we will see you all at state!

2009 North Sectional Competition

Well... after Tami's wedding Kennedy started to get sick. =( I tried everything I could think of to try and keep her healthy - but every day she seemed to get a little more sick. She had to go to practice every day last week since it was the week before sectionals and I am sure that didn't help. She eventually developed an eye infection. But she was determined to compete at sectionals so that she could qualify for state. Even feeling as bad as she did she scored season highs on bar (8.675) and floor (9.050). She had some issues with vault.... and beam was the last event and the medicine was starting to wear off. Beam is usually her high score but she managed to stay on the beam even with her limited vision and her balance all "off" from the medicine and she scored an 8.875 - not her best - but not too bad either. She scored 35.275 and will advance to silver state. Her goal was gold state and she needed a 35.375 to qualify to gold.... SO CLOSE!