Cinderella State Pageant 2012

Since Addison won the Knoxville kick off pageant back in September 2011 she got to attend the Cinderella State pageant held in Pigeon Forge again this year. These are always really fun. Thankfully I had Tia with me again to help out. Things went a little different this year so Addison was kind of shy while she was on stage but started to open up when the Western Party kicked off that night. Last year they had the party on day one and didn't do the pageant untill the Saturday. This year they did everything on Friday afternoon/night and just did crowning Saturday morning. First up was play date with the judges.

Tia showing off the "Team Addison" shirts she had made. We will definitely be wearing these at every pageant she does now. LOL

During "play date with the judges" all the babies in a certain age group will go into a room with a bunch of toys and the judges basically just walk around and talk and play with the kids. Not sure how they judge them on this part but it counts in their numbers.

Then the next part was Party Wear. Mom had bought this dress at the Dolly store in Pigeon Forge. They like the kids to have white dresses from what I hear since it's a "natural pageant" and since I can't stand a white dress, I improvised. LOL This dress is so cute and by the end of the pageant she had almost pulled all the flowers off and handed them to me. LOL

This is William. He's my friend Stephanie's kid. Her daughter Zoe is in all these pageants with Addison and William just decided this year that he wanted to do it too. He's a sweetie.

Checking out the competition. :)

William and Addison

Stage time for Party wear!

Time for Casual Wear.

Mommy and Addison :)

Now it's time for the Western party. This is when Addison started warming up. She was right up in the mix with the older girls trying to dance. She was trying her hardest to do the electric slide and even danced on stage and won a metal for her western wear.

Zoe :)

Can you guess what just happened?

Where's the balloon? LOL

Addison and her friend Lena.

Dancing

Doing her dancing

Getting her award for best western wear in her age division.

Saturday morning was the crowning. Addison won for Beauty in her age division. She got a trophy, crown, and an invitation to go to Internationals (which we will not be going to because I can't afford to fly to Las Vegas. LOL)

William getting his awards.

By this time Addison was so tired and did NOT want her picture taken anymore. :(

Awards Day

I know I'm starting to get behind again. The boys had their awards day at school at the end of May. Thankfully they did 3rd grade and 5th grade on different days so I didn't have to attempt to get Addison to sit through an all day thing. The 5th grade program was a little longer obviously because it was their last year in elementary school. I cried like a baby of course. Not so much when Jacob got his awards but the 4th and 5th grade chorus sang a couple songs and OMG they were amazing! I swear they could have competed with Central's Company group and won. I have it on video but I can't figure out how to put it on here of course. Eli didn't win any awards this year but Jacob got honor roll and the award that all the 5th graders got (can't remember the name of course. LOL)

Waiting on award's day to start with her visitor's pass.