Thursday, December 27, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope everyone had a restful holiday and is ready to celebrate the New Year!!! Can you believe 2008 is already here!?!?! Time does fly =) Since I was unable to send everyone in Georgia a Christmas Card, I wanted to share the photograph shown in my card this year and wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I am so proud to be representing this great state at Miss America.... Thanks for all of your support and the happy holiday wishes that many of you sent my way! My family and I really appreciate how wonderful everyone across the state has been to me!!! I love you all =)

I also wanted to share some photos from my Christmas as Miss Georgia. The first picture is of my sister Laura, my niece Caroline, and me =) The next shows both of my nieces Caroline and Baby Kate in the Christmas PJ that I gave them. The rest are of parades and Christmas appearance I did this holiday season.

Last and most importantly I want to thank those who helped make my CMN PJ Drive a HUGE success!!! Thanks to all of the sponsors- Ben Hill County School System, Central United Methodist Church, and Domino’s Pizza. Additionally, thank you Susan Hughes and Connie Massee (a.k.a. MOM) for all you did to make this a success. For those of you who have no clue what I am talking about… I threw together a fund-raiser after speaking with CMN staff members during Thanksgiving. They informed me of the need they had in their hospital for children PJs. I told them I would try to gather a few things to bring them after Christmas. My goal was to at least gather 50 items. So- We had a PJ party in honor of CMN. We all wore our PJs, played Christmas games, ate pizza and other goodies, and HAD A BLAST. I am proud to report that we surpassed my goal and raised over 300 items to take to the CMN hospital in Columbus. THANKS SO MUCH FITZGERALD FOR YOUR DONATIONS!!!! Again…. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Leah’s bang looks great & I hope you really go w/ that look @ Miss America b/c it’s up to date and really compliments your face. Good luck!!

LEAH!! Thank you so much for the sweet Christmas card. I was so excited when I got it! It seems as though you are doing well and are having fun which is wonderful. The bangs look great! I just got them too about a month ago and still haven’t figured them out! Happy New Year and good luck in the coming weeks. You are so amazing! We’ll all be cheering you on in the Golden Isles!
Love, Sarah D

Hi Leah! It’s your cousin Tabatha. It’s been years since we’ve seen each other but I just wanted you to know how very proud we are of you here in Woodstock. I’m so excited that you are representing our state in the upcoming Miss America pageant and wish you all of the best in the world. Please tell everyone I said hello.

P.S. I’ve been watching the Pageant program on TLC. So cool. Good luck!