Mrs. Idaho America 2009 Pageant Weekend

Great weekend, Great Ladies, Great Times!

Congratulations to all of the Mrs. Idaho Delegates and Best Wishes to Jamie Hilton Mrs. Idaho America 2009.

Posted by Mandi Feely Idaho State Director

Mrs. Idaho America Pageant 2009 Rehearsal and Queens Dinner

For all of the Mrs. Idaho America Blog Followers I wanted to post some pictures, I will blog more about our Thursday happening tonight and will post pictures for Friday's interviews and rehearsals.

Mandi Mrs. Idaho America State Director

Mock Interviews at Mrs. Idaho America 06' Elizabeth Amar's Home

Angie Williams Mrs. Southern Idaho and Erika Wonacott Mrs. Meridian

Sondra LaVoie Mrs. Tri-Counties and Tammy Nichols Mrs. Middleton

Erika Mrs. Meridian

Sonya Hoadley Mrs. Treasure Valley and Angie Williams Mrs. Southern Idaho

Tina Mitchell Mrs. Western Idaho

Tina Mitchell Mrs. Western Idaho, Angie Williams Mrs. Southern Idaho and Jamie Hilton Mrs. Sun Valley

Mrs. Idaho America 2006 Elizabeth Amar hosted a Mock Interview party for the 2009 Mrs. Idaho Contestants. This gave the ladies one last chance to practice interviews before this weeks Mrs. Idaho America Pageant. The ladies had a great time and all are very grateful to Elizabeth and her husband Kevin for opening their home and hosting this event.

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Sondra LaVoie Mrs. Tri-Counties Uniquely Me Program

Sondra Mrs. Tri Counties just emailed me here is what she had to say:

Mandi,
Every Friday at lunch I take an hour to mentor some amazing 5th grade girls using the Uniquely Me program. This fantastic program helps the girls understand why we have standards and values in our relationship, our friends and ourselves. The past few weeks we worked on a project called “Ladies under construction.” The girls bring awareness to the values, morals and standards that they are building to be contributing ladies of their communities. We have a saying in our meetings that is taken from a poem: As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

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Mrs. Treasure Valley Sonya Hoadley and Flat Stanley

Sonya just emailed me about her 2nd grades project with Flat Stanley here is what she told me:

In my classroom we have started the "Flat Stanley" project. Flat Stanley is a book by Jeff Brown and in the story the little boy gets flattened out and is able to travel all around in an envelope! Our class gets to decorate their own Flat Stanley's and send him
to work with their parents, to friends or relatives across the US, or just to interesting people they know. I got an exciting package in the mail yesterday from another school in Boise... it was a Flat Stanley that wanted to hang out with MRS. TREASURE VALLEY! Since my class is doing the same project, I brought him to my school and showed my students. Our classroom's Flat Stanley got to meet the "Boise Flat Stanley" and we had a great time filling out his journal. For more information on the Flat Stanley Project, please visit http://www.flatstanleyproject.com/.

Hugs!
Mrs. Hoadley AKA: Mrs. Treasure Valley

Posted by Mandi Feely Idaho State Director

Mrs. Idaho and Mrs. Rexburg attending the Ririe Jr. Miss Pageant

Jackie Mrs. Idaho America 2008 and Ellon Chase Mrs. Rexburg 2009 attending the Ririe Jr. Miss Pageant.

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Sondra LaVoie Mrs. Tri Counties and Big Brother Big Sister

Sondra LaVoie Mrs. Tri-Counties sent me this email about Big Brother Big Sister:

Kaylene (My little sister thru BBBS) and I attended a Big Brother and Big Sister event at the Qwest Arena to support our local basketball team the Idaho Stampede. We attended the game with other BBBS matches from the program and boy can those kids get excited. It is a pleasure to represent both Big Brothers and Big Sisters in the pageant and bring attention to the pageant at the Stampede game!

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Mrs. Nampa Jill Knapp with Anytime Fitness - Speaking about Healthy Eating

Jill Knapp Mrs. Nampa emailed me yesterday and shared these pictures with me from her appearance at Anytime Fitness :

Tonight I was honored to be the guest speaker at the Anytime Fitness Biggest Loser Contest educational night. I shared my story and helped get the contestants motivated to begin their journey of the biggest loser challenge. My fitness trainer Rebecca Carington spoke to the group of contestants as well. It was a great night and I was glad I was invited to speak. :-)

Posted by Mandi Feely Idaho State Director