Mrs. Southwest Colorado 2012

June 30th ended my reign as Mrs. San Luis Valley 2011. What better way to spend it than with Mrs. Colorado Director, Emily Stark.
Emily came to South Fork and spoke at the Chapel of South Fork's Chapel Jewels Ladies Luncheon. Emily spoke about her experience finding out she was pregnant with conjoined twins, the birth of her girls and their separation. Emily had all of us in tears one minute and laughing the next. It was an awesome experience and the ladies are still talking about her and her presentation. It was so great to get to hear Emily's story and to meet her adorable little boy.

My reign as Mrs. Southwest Colorado 2012 began on July 1st and has already been busy. While I didn't wear my banner, I participated in the South Fork Chamber of Commerce 4th of July Parade on July 2nd....dressed as a duck for the duck race float.

I was more festive and appropriately dressed for Creede's 4th of July Parade. Thanks to my good friend, Naomi Anderson, who drove me in her car in the parade (see my photo album for parade pictures). For as small as Creede is, there were thousands of people in attendance at the parade and probably close to 100 participants. The parade started at 10 a.m. and took about an hour to drive down Main Street. It was so much to see all the spectators wearing their red, white & blue and celebrating Independence Day. The little kids were so cute, yelling for me to wave at them. I even had a mom and her daughter stop the car we were in during the parade. The little girl was holding a bouquet of red, white and blue flowers. The mom raised the little girl up to where I was sitting on the roof of the car and the little girl handed me the bouquet. It was so sweet and she was so adorable.
After the parade, Naomi, my daughter and I took some photos at Kip's Grill where we had lunch and then at the Autumn Tenyl trunk show. I LOVE her clothes!!! What a great weekend to begin a new reign!!!

I will continue to advocate for dating/domestic violence awareness as Mrs. Southwest Colorado 2012 and hope to spread awareness from Alamosa to Cortez and every town in between.