Miss Spanish Fork

Upon digging through a box of my books long ago packed away in the basement, I stumbled across my video recording of the 2001 Miss Spanish Fork Scholarship Competition. Aw shucks, I had to watch it! ...But it didn't end at just pressing play. I rememered I had my pageant gowns packed away and was curious how they would fit. Ooookay, I tried those on too while I watched it. Hahaha! (Girls will be girls.)

Here I am strutting the runway and "waving" as they introduced each contestant after our introductory dance number:

Here I am during the "evening gown" portion of the competition (it's a little fuzzy):

Yup, still fits... loose even! YAY!

Proof that I can get a tan when a lot of lightbulbs get involved. (Katie took this picture the night before... I was laughing too hard to stand up straight. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the swimsuit portion of the competition... well, maybe that's a fortunate thing.

But here I am getting prepped for the swimsuit competition. An awkward picture, I know. Jessica Tuckett is gluing my swimsuit in place so it doesn't ride up while I'm walking the runway. My butt used to be SO MUCH BIGGER!!! I hardly recognize it.

This is the dress I wore for the talent portion of the competition. I sang Fats Waller's Keepin' Out of Mischief (popularized by the broadway musical, Ain't Misbehavin'). Watching the competition now, I'm actually impressed with my performance. I don't think I can sing like I used to. Probably due to being out of practice and out of training.

And that is my pageant experience in review. The results were, I won first attendant (2nd place) which entitled me to scholarship money that paid my second year of tuition and a summer of fun riding floats and waving. Too bad I'm too old to do pageant now. I'm suddenly interested again. ...not really!