Happy Thanksgiving from sunny southern California. Nationals is in full swing and things couldn’t be going smoother. Tonight are the first of the pageant finales and by 2:30pm we will have our first new national queen for the year.
During the Red Carpet Awards Ceremony, Steve Mayes, my national director, asked me to say a few words to the audience. And the words couldn’t be more applicable than now. Please remember that nationals and even the pageant is about so much more than crowns, banners and trophies, it’s about letting these kids know how special we all think they are. It’s about taking every opportunity to applaud these kids..to celebrate them.
I read a great quote the other day on the internet that really brought it home for me. “Kids are the living messages that we send to a time that we will not see.” How true that is, they really are our legacy!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Matt
We are at the National American Miss nationals too! It is so amazing! LOVE the STAGE!! I always wondered what it would be like to be on a stage like that with all the lights and fog and stuff. It is so much fun. We went to Disneyland this week with all the girls in my age group, and went on a tour of Hollywood and saw the Pacific ocean too. I do not want this week to end. It is going to have to leave here and go back home to school next week. But Christmas is soon, so that’s ok I guess.