My Beautiful Little Mermaid - October 28, 2007

All American Pageant - October 6, 2007 - Pageant Socastee High School

By the end of Saturday night, I had also placed as 1st Runner-Up to All American Ms., Melissa Hagen. Melissa and I had competed together in 2003 in the Ms. American United States Pageant in Florida.

With Dina Orr, Mrs. All American 2008.

With Lauren Wanger, Ms. United States 2007.

With Melissa Hooks - our pageant director!

All American Pageant - October 6, 2007 - Rehearsal Socastee High School

Next, we quickly headed over to Socastee High School for our Saturday rehearsal.Miss Holly is our producer and the emcee - as well as a major hoot! Michele and I hamming it up again! New England's in the house!

All American Ms. Talent - October 6, 2007 - Surfside Beach Festival

After photos on the beach, we quickly changed and made our way to the Surfside Beach Festival. We were able to introduce ourselves on the stage to the festival goers.

I was happy to meet Elizabeth from my part of the country. She is from New York! I was also pleased to catch up with Michele. We competed at Mrs. International this past July. We were happy to repeat our titles of Mrs. CT and Mrs. MA! We also had a great time catching up with one of the pageant assistants, Mrs. SC Int'l - Janine!

Delilah and I had a blast meeting one of the Renaissance performers!

The whole group headed over to the fire department display where they let us take these great photos!

Delilah had to at least get in one photo with Mommy!

All American Ms. Talent - October 6, 2007 - Beach Photo Shoot

We had to get up early the next morning for our photo shoot on the beach. Maria and I are sharing early morning greetings before we head outside.

Afif is a terrific photographer and he makes the shoot so much fun.

Here are some of the great photos he took of us.

It was also an opportunity to take photos with my new Florida friends - Kaia and Chris. Also, Maria and I got in one last photo.

Mrs. All American Pageant - October 5, 2007 - Pageant at Socastee High School

The pageant was great fun and I had the chance to compete in the Mrs. All American Pageant as well as for the All American Ms. Talent title. I sang Linda Eder's "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love." I was very happy that my performance was enjoyed by so many!

By the end of the night, I had won the Mrs. Community Service Award, the Ms. Community Service Award, 2nd Runner-Up in the Mrs. Pageant and the title of All American Ms. Talent for 2008!

Here is the new All American Mrs. Court. Here we are from Left to Right: Pam Bolter, Mrs. All American Ambassador; Maria Beall, Mrs. All American Woman; Dina Orr, Mrs. All American; Erika Watkins Echavarria, Mrs. All American Classic; Kimberly White-Geremia, All American Ms. Talent; Janice Oulton, Mrs. All American Supermodel With Style.

Mrs. All American Pageant - October 5, 2007 - Rehearsal

Here are some photos from Friday's early morning rehearsal.

Being the "All American" girl that I am, I just had to take a photo with this carousel horse in front of the Caravelle Hotel.

Mrs. All American/All American Pageant - October 4-7, 2007 - Myrtle Beach, SC

I've been having such a great time and I want to keep competing. Someone told me about the All American pageant and so I decided to give it a try! It was a great "girls" weekend as my mom, my sister and my daughter came along to Myrtle Beach. I was also excited that I was going to see a few old friends at the pageant! Michele Sharpe from Massachusetts. She and I had just competed in the Mrs. International Pageant in July. The pageant weekend was in Myrtle Beach October 4 - 7, 2007.

Here are some pictures from Thursday night's orientation. Holly talks to us about what to expect at rehearsal tomorrow morning. They also had vendors set up and we got to mingle and get to know each other. Melissa Hooks, the Director, also spoke to us about the pageant and what to expect for the weekend. (Yes, the date on the camera is set wrong!)