Princess for a Night

My neighbor and friend, Shona, is on the Chamber of Commerce Cotton Council Pageant Committee. Say that 10 times! This year's pageant they added "cotton blossoms" to the program, which includes girls ages 3-13. The girls don't compete, just dress pretty, wear a tiara, and "do a little turn on the catwalk, yah, on the catwalk". So I registered Ressa and tonight was the BIG night! Now, I know those of you who know me are aware that this is not my "thing". I know, but I am willing to stretch myself in order to help my daughter experience new things and hopefully increase her confidence along the way. And in this instance, I am proud to say we were successful! Here is our little girl, wearing a Jennifer Larson orginal from her 2008 Easter collection. Thank you, Jennifer! Earrings and necklace are from the White Stage line, exclusive to Walmart. And finally, hair is courtesy of the Amber Wilkins salon for girls. Thank you for making our special girl feel even more special! I really do have great friends!

Mother and daughter

She was really all smiles the whole night. Very quiet but you could tell she was taking it all in and loving it!

These are all the "cotton blossoms", over 30 girls! Pretty good turn out for the 1st year. All the girls were so precious.

Here is Ressa next to her friends, Mimi and Daisha.


So dads could be their daughter's escort out onto the stage. I asked Chad to do it, since I was pretty sure Ressa would get scared when the time came. He stayed back with her behind the stage while I came out in the audience to take pictures.

Here are the girls waiting for their moment to shine!

Then much to my surprise, here comes Ressa all by herself. She walked right out, then right up to the very front of the stage, stopped and smiled, then turned right around and walked right back! Way to go, sis! She told me she wasn't even scared and had fun!

We had such a nice night and stayed to watch the rest of the pageant since we had a few girls from our ward competing for princess and queen. None of them won, but they all did such a wonderful job! So proud of our young women! We were all so starving since we didn't have time to eat dinner. Chad left the pageant with Lauren and the boys a little eary 'cause he was tired of chasing Lauren around. I was so thrilled to get a text from him to meet them at Pizza Hut. Thrilled because it is the first text he has ever sent me, and second, the food was already there when Ressa and I arrived. Thanks, babe!