Tennessee Cinderella pageant in Pigeon Forge

Friday and Saturday morning was the Tennessee Cinderella state finals pageant. Since Addison won Miss Photogenic back in the fall/winter here in Knoxville she automatically got to be in this one. Friday night they had a Play Time with the Judges (was exactly what it sounds like.) All the babies in her age group were in a room with a bunch of toys and the judges walked around and talked to all the babies. Here's a pic of play time. (For warning these pics are blurry because no one would sit still!)
This is what she wore to play time.

This is the "gift shop" at the pageant. I spend $28 just for the souvenir book and a pin to hold her number on. Ouch!

Play time with the judges.

The page in the souvenir book with Addison's picture. Of course the only important page in the book! :)

Then after Play Time we had to change clothes and they had a Western party. Me and Stephanie basically just sat there and watched. Not much a 1 year old and 2 year old can do at this really. But she looked cute in her outfit! Mom made her shirt and Karen let her use a horse to go with it. She looked so cute. :)

She wasn't too much of a fan of the hat. She kept trying to take it off.

Here's her $8 pin and her number. Which is was really pretty so I guess $8 wasn't TOO bad.

Zoe Renee at the Western Party. (My friend Stephanie's little girl.) Such a cutie!

This little boy was so cute. He had a little toy gun and was showing off and cheesin so much. LOL

And she's escaping!

Sharing some orange sherbet.

So sleepy after the party that she fell asleep before we even got to the hotel.

Justin and Tia trying to help her chose which dress to wear. LOL

Addison ended up not falling asleep til around 1am Saturday morning. She went swimming after the Western party and I guess she was just too excited about the pageant Saturday morning. Yeah...right! LOL We had to be there at 8:30 Saturday morning and I think we left the hotel at like 8:20. LOL As usual... Here's her casual outfit.

Checkin out the competition. :)

Waiting on the party dress part to start!

Determined to get her shoes off.

I'm #1!!!

Josh said this is the last big pageant she's doing. It was stressful! Like nerve wracking.

Baby races...no not really but they were getting bored. LOL

Addison was being nice and letting her catch up. :) That's a 10 month old by the way. Addison's 13 months old. They looked the same age.

Zoe won 2nd place as well as baby with the most ads sold!

Addison won 3rd place!!! We get to go to Las Vegas if we want for Internationals but it's a little over $800 so that's most likely not gonna happen. But she got a trophy and Josh said she smiled so big when they gave it to her that we should have gave her something shiny at the beginning and she would have done that the whole time. LOL :)

This is why I do these pageants. Yes, they're fun for me but Addison seems to actually enjoy them too and I would like for her to have something when she gets older to show off. If she EVER tells me that she doesn't want to do these anymore, then we're done. And once it gets to where she has to learn a talent, then we're most likely done too because I'd rather her play sports as to be up on stage wearing a skimpy outfit like all the older girls were done. If you could only hear what Josh would say when a kid would get up on stage. (I won't repeat. LOL)

She was so tired afterwards that she fell asleep within minutes of being put in the car and didn't even wake up when we'd stop to shop.

Josh's mom brought up Gabe and Abby and Daddy brought up Jacob and Eli afterwards so we took the kids (all 5 this time) to Splash Country. It was so much fun! They swam and rode and then Sunday morning Addison was so tired! She even took a 2 hour nap with Daddy before bible school last night. She's still catching up from being up til 1am Saturday I think.

By the way, this was what Eli looked like when my dad brought him to me Saturday. I left Friday and he didn't have them but Saturday morning he was covered in poison ivy. It was even near his eye so this time we went to Children's for the boys instead of Addison. And his eye isn't shut, it's that swollen. :(

Overall, another AWESOME weekend!