"All you gotta do is ask"

We really look forward to hearing your news, out and about in pageant world.  A great mom sent this in about her daughter down in Florida!  Enjoy .....
 

"Fifteen year old Arianna Hamilton of Florida is a finalist in the Miss America's Outstanding Teens in Training Camp Contest.  The Teens in Training Camp is a program geared for girls between 13-17 years old interested in competing in the Miss America Outstanding Teen pageant system. The program offers training and workshops valued at $1000. The camp is August 16th-21st in Orlando, Florida.

Arianna needs help winning the contest. You may vote for Arianna by visiting the Pageantguy on Facebook.  The Final Contest  begins Monday, April 25, 2011  and ends on Saturday, April 30, 2011.

GO TO Facebook.com/thePageantGuy

1. Click the like button at the top of the page on the Pageant Guy's page on Facebook

2. Next click the Photos Album on the left. You will select the Teens in Training Camp Contestants Album at the top of the page.

3. look for her photo and click Like next to her Photo. Her picture is pink and black- Arianna Hamilton

4. That's it! "

Tampa Bay, Cape Caneveral, South Beach......Florida Wins!!!!!

Congratulations April Lufriu, (Mrs. Florida) the new Mrs. America 2011

 
She is a former Mrs. Florida Scholarship (2008), was 4th runner up to Mrs. Florida United States 2006 as well as 1st runner up to MISS FLORIDA USA 1995.

 

The Tampa Bay Online recently covered April in a great article:

With a husband, two children, a marble and granite business, her work as a dental hygienist, model and volunteering for The Foundation Fighting Blindness, April Lufriu is a very busy woman.
And she could be even busier next month, if she wins the Mrs. America crown.

Lufriu, 41, is gearing up to compete at the April 14 pageant in West Virginia against 51 other contestants. The winner will go to the Mrs. World competition.

Lufriu says she competed in a few pageants in the past, but never won a crown. She got "the itch" to try for the Mrs. Florida title because she wanted to use the crown to raise awareness about the visually impaired.  Read more

Contrast !!

This is one of the best photos I've seen this week.  It's customary for the Mrs. America contestants to present the owner/general manager of the property where the pageant is being held with gifts.  I came across photos of Mr. Jim Justice, owner of the fabulous Greenbriar Resort and some Mrs. America 2011 delegates as they presented their gifts.   The contrast in their heights and sheer size is just so cute to me! 

 

 Mrs. Maryland America, April Henley Proudfoot

 

Mrs. Pennsylvania 2011, Erin Joy Landis 

Mrs. South Carolina, Niki Warternburg

Mrs. New Jersey 2011, Ceylone Booth Groomes

Mrs. West Virginia, Kayla Tilley

I mean, at 6 ' 7", it's a little difficult for most women to measure up to Mr. Justice, but these photos made me smile!  Enjoy your time at the resort ladies, it will definitely be an experience you won't soon forget.  Believe me, I know.  I had the same experience in Tuscon.