Mr. Broken Arrow Pageant

I made an appearance at Mr. Broken Arrow on October 30th. I had so much fun! Congratulations to Adam for taking the title. :) Here is a picture of me with the winner.

Veteran's Day Event

This was such a great event hosted by one of the Broken Arrow sponsors. At this event we greeted and thanked veteran's for their service while they were treated to a free lunch at Applebee's. This is just one of the many opportunities that I have had as Miss Broken Arrow's Outstanding Teen and I look forward to sharing all of the opportunities that I have with the Miss Grand Lake's Outstanding Teen Pageant. Here are some pictures from that day.

Tulsa State Fair

One of my favorite times of the year is when the Tulsa State Fair comes to town. Now that I am a part of the Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen family, I love even more the opportunity to go to the Miss Tulsa State Fair and Miss Tulsa State Fair's Outstanding Teen Pageant. This year I was able to see my sisterhood of Grand Lake titleholders. I also had the opportunity to make an appearance at the Re-Bath booth and signed many autographs. I met so many great people, I absolutely love the opportunities that I have been given by the MOOT system. 

Local Pageants 2013

As Miss Grand Lake's Outstanding Teen, I have had the opportunity to attend many different local pageants to support the contestants competing for titles and get to know my 2013 MOOT family even better. Over the past two weeks I attended Miss Creek County and Miss Tulsa State Fair's Outstanding Teen 2013. I am so excited for Claire and Jordan! It is such an honor to have new sisters added to the MOOT family every year. Here are a few pictures that I took when I attended the pageants. 

MOOT 2012 Recap

Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen was in June of 2012. This was my first time going to MOOT.  This was an exciting experience. I made new friends, learned new things and had a lot of fun! I was a great honor to represent my home town at a state pageant being Miss Broken Arrow's Outstanding Teen 2012. Even though I did not make the top 11, I still had a blast. This was an absolute great experience and I cannot put into words how excited I am to get to go back this next year!

Miss Grand Lake

First of all, I just want to say how beyond excited I am to have won Miss Grand Lake's Outstanding Teen and have the opportunity to go back to Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen. Having this title will allow me to continue to have more opportunities that will allow me to spread the word of Hemophilia. I am looking forward to attending a health fair in September and a few more appearances that will inform people about my community. As this pageant year goes on I am excited that I gradually get to welcome teens to the MOOT family of 2013.

Thank You Sponsors! - Hemophilia Preferred Care

I want to give a special thank you to Hemophilia Preferred Care group for helping support me through salute page ads, sponsoring my team for the Oklahoma Hemophilia Walk 2012, and providing me with extremely valuable information to further the Hemophilia Education and Leadership Project. Because of you, I am helping to help educate students around the state on this disease, the risks, and how they can get involved to raise awareness for those who are suffering. 

Oklahoma Hemophilia Walk

This year, as Miss Broken Arrow's Outstanding Teen, I was appointed "team leader" of a walking team for the Oklahoma Hemophilia Walk. The OHW raises money to support furthering research and development of Hemophilia at the national level. I was able to gather up 12 people to support this cause, and our team raised over $1,500. I'm proud to say the walk was a huge success and together Oklahomans raise over $88,000 for the Oklahoma Hemophilia Foundation. 

Official Appearance at the School of the Arts

As this is my first year holding a teen title, I have been so excited to get to do official appearances. Recently, I was asked to speak at my former vocal coach's School of The Arts. I was honored to speak to two different groups on two separate nights. I talked to them about my platform Hemophilia Education and Leadership Program and the significance that the Miss Oklahoma's organization holds in my life. This was extremely special to me since I have always dreamed of being a part of this organization and now I am finally beginning to live my dream of competing at the state level. 

My year at dance competitions... so far!

I am  part of Infinity Dance Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Infinity's Competitive Dance Team has been to two competitions already this year.  I have been so blessed and excited that every one of my dances has placed in the top ten! My solo has recieved a 3rd over all in my age catagory and then a 6th overall for the 15-16 age catagory in the second competition. I also recieved a 2nd over all in TOP Entertainer! We will be competing in Nationals in the month July. I am looking forward to sharing my passion on the Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen stage this June! Hope to see you there!

Hemophilia Walk and attending more pageants!

On the January 26, I met with the Oklahoma Hemophilia President and the Oklahoma Hemophilia Event Director. This meeting was to inform my family and I about the upcoming Hemophilia Run. This run is to raise money, not only for the Hemophiliacs and their families that live in the Oklahoma area, but also for the National Foundation for reasearch and development. I am now a new team leader for this run and I working to gather donations and runners to participate. Contact me for more information, or visit www.okhemophilia.org.

In January, I also the went to watch the Miss Route 66 and Miss Sooner State pageant. There I got to spend some time with my MOOT 2012 sisters. The girls did a Wonderful job! I also loved seeing Gentry Johnson up there as the emcee. I was her Oklahoma Star for Miss Oklahoma when she was competing and we had so much fun together. She was a great inspiration for me when I decided to start pursuing a pageant title in the Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen System.

Glamour Gowns Fashion Show

In January, I was asked model for the Glamour Gowns and More Charity fashion show. I was so honored and excited to be apart of this fashion show along with many other contestants competing in the Miss Oklahoma and Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen Organization.

 I have enjoyed growing my skills in modeling through holding the title of Miss Broken Arrow's Outstanding Teen 2012. This was my first time to be modeling on stage outside of pageants. They assigned me four dresses, I loved them all and was sad I couldnt keep every single one of them! :)

I had so much fun modeling for a good cause, Children's Miracle Network,  and spending time with some Miss Oklahoma friends. I would definetly do it again next year! 

Check out some photos from the event!

December Updates!

During the month of December I had so many opportunities to spend time and promote my title as Miss Broken Arrow's Outstanding Teen 2012. I had an opportunity on December 3rd to participate in the Broken Arrow Christmas Parade. The weather was not deciding that it wanted to stay sunny, so we hoped and prayed that it would at least hold off until we had finished the parade and guess what? IT DID!  I was pretty excited about that.  Even though it was a little bit chilly, I loved being able to connect with the community of Broken Arrow and represent them as a young woman and leader in their community. 

 On December 16, I volunteered at the Assembly of Broken Arrow's Christmas Gift Give Away. This particular event was an evening that families around the Tulsa area came and received a meal and a present for each of the children along with some entertainment. It was so much fun! At the end of this event i asked the family if i could take some pictures. They agreed and we took some really cute pictures. In one of them i even put my crown on their daughters head and they thought that that was special. I was so glad that i was able to make this Christmas special for that little girl.

   Going back to November I had a chance to visit the John 3:16 Mission in downtown Tulsa on the 27th and serve for the Homeless and visitors there. First, we had to set the tables, bring spoons and knifes out on the table along with plates, napkins and a slice of Pumpkin pie in front of every seat. Also, the staff there asked the volunteers to bring tea or water and set it also with every seat. Second, they asked for 3 volunteers to serve in the kitchen while the visitors had chapel and ate their meal. I volunteered along with my two friends. I had a blast taking their food and putting it into the trash can, handing the tray to one of my friends who rinsed the tray and handed it to her sister, my other friend, to put it in the dishwasher. And yes I got food all over me along with water my friend splashed while rinsing the trays. We were in and out of there in less than 2 hours. I would encourage everyone to volunteer and you can be surprised how you can make something so simple so much fun.

This month, Miss Broken Arrow Dani Delso and I were asked to go to the LoneStar restaurant and talk to the costumers about giving donations to Children's Miracle Network. We raised over $400, which is an amazing amount for this type of event!  The restaurant was so impressed they asked us to come back and do it again so that we could help the Children's Miracle Network to a greater extent on behalf of the Miss Oklahoma Organization.  It's no wonder that the Miss Oklahoma organization is nationally recognized because they are strongly supported but the state and local communities.  We absolutely could not do it if local businesses did not believe in the success of the Miss Oklahoma and Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen contestants. 

Last but not least, I wanted to attach some photos from a photo shoot that was donated to us by Hope Toliver Photography and Amaranth Collection.  They gave us the ultimate treatment, makeup and hair services, photos, and styling services.  We were able to use the beautiful accessories provided to us by Amaranth Collection and get some great practice modeling in our crowns and gowns. :) It is with support from businesses like these, that Miss Broken Arrow and myself are able to experience such great opportunities throughout the year.

I hope all of you had a Blessed and Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.