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I was so excited to compete in the All American pageant!
It was a great "girls" weekend as my sister, my mother and my daughter came along to Myrtle Beach.
I was also excited that I was going to see a few old friends at the pageant! The pageant weekend
was in Myrtle Beach October 4 - 7, 2007.
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Here are some pictures from Thursday night's orientation. (Yes, the date on the
camera is set wrong!)
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Friday morning, we had an early rehearsal.
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Being the "All American" girl that I am, I just had to take a photo with this
carousel horse in front of the Caravelle Hotel.
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Here are some pictures from Friday night's pageant. Here are the Mrs. Woman
contestants. And the new Mrs. All American Woman - Maria Beall! Here she is with her court, Michele Krumberger and
Karin Jenkins.
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The pageant was great fun and I had the chance to compete in the Mrs. All American Pageant as well as
for the All American Ms. Talent title. I sang Linda Eder's "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love." I was very happy that my performance
was enjoyed by so many!
By the end of the night, I had won the Mrs. Community Service Award, the Ms. Community
Service Award, 2nd Runner-Up in the Mrs. Pageant and the title of All American Ms. Talent for 2008!
Here is the new All American Mrs. Court. In the bottom photo, here we are
from Left to Right: Pam Bolter, Mrs. All American Ambassador; Maria Beall, Mrs. All American Woman;
Dina Orr, Mrs. All American; Erika Watkins Echavarria, Mrs. All American Classic; Kimberly White-Geremia,
All American Ms. Talent; Janice Oulton, Mrs. All American Supermodel With Style.
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Saturday morning, we met before going over to the beach for photographs.
Maria and I tried and tried, but they all turned out blurry! :-)
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Here are some fun photos from our photo shoot on Myrtle Beach. Here are Maria and Dina.
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Maria and I finally get a photo on the beach! Maria looks great in this solo shot!
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With Erica and Peggy, Global America Lady.
Peggy was also a great help to us backstage for our pageant.
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Some great fun photos on the beach.
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The great thing about pageants is getting to meet such great people from all
over the country. Kaia and Chris are from Florida.
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After photos on the beach, we quickly changed and made our way to the Surfside Beach Festival.
We were able to introduce ourselves on the stage to the festival goers.
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I was happy to meet Elizabeth from my part of the country. She is from New York!
I was also pleased to catch up with Michele. We competed at Mrs. International this past July. We were happy to repeat our titles of
Mrs. CT and Mrs. MA! We also had a great time catching up with one of the pageant assistants, Mrs. SC Int'l - Janine!
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Delilah wanted in on the fun with the Renaissance man!
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After our group photo, Delilah wanted to ham it up on the fire truck with Mommy!
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Next, we quickly headed over to Socastee High School for our Saturday rehearsal.
Miss Holly is our producer and the emcee - as well as a major hoot!
Michele and I hamming it up again!
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By the end of Saturday night, I had also placed as 1st Runner-Up to Ms. All American, Melissa Hagen.
Melissa and I had competed together in 2003 in the Ms. American
United States Pageant in Florida.
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Here's Maria's beautiful new photo!
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With Dina.
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With Lauren Wanger, Ms. United States 2007.
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With Melissa Hooks - our pageant director!
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It is November 11th, Veteran's Day, and I am in New York City with my Veteran's performance troupe, The Glory Girls.
We have been invited to breakfast at the Mayor's Mansion. Here we are with the Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg .
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With The Glory Girls, inside of the New York City's Mayor's Mansion before
the New York City Veteran's Day Parade on November 11th. Here we are with some gentlemen from the NYC Navy office.
Glory Girls L-R: Jillian, me and Stacy.
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I invited my friend, Laurye Natale, Mrs. Northeast U.S. Earth along. Here we are
outside of the New York City's Mayor's Mansion.
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With the New York American Coed Royalty.
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With the New York City fire department's antique division.
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With Laurye Natale, Mrs. Northeast U.S. Earth on the float that I performed on as part of THE GLORY GIRLS in the
New York City Veteran's Day Parade.
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With Miss Empire Royalty.
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On November 30th, I served as judges chair for the Miss Outstanding Teen Wolcott and Miss Outstanding Teen Cheshire pageant.
Here is a picture of the winners with the judges. Standing in the back is Teen Wolcott, Rachel Ramonas and Teen Cheshire, Taylor Jennette.
Seated in front are Pre-Teen Wolcott, and Pre-Teen Cheshire, Jillian Callouiette.
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Here I am with one of the emcees, Miss Southington 2008, Sharalynn Kuziak.
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With my friend, Laurye Natale, Mrs. Northeast U.S. Earth and
CT's Outstanding Pre-Teen, after the pageant.
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On January 13th, my friend Laurye and I attended the Miss Outstanding Teen Westbury and Miss Outstanding Teen Watertown Pageant.
Congratulating the new winner of Miss Outstanding Teen Watertown, Sarah Cantito.
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Sharing a laugh with Miss Connecticut's chaperone and my old friend,
Lisa Little. Lisa and I used to work for Jeff Michaels of Musical Creations.
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I was so happy to see old friend and our Miss Connecticut, Dana Daunis.
I wished her the best of luck as she was leaving for Miss America in two days!
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Laurye found out about a great St. Jude's benefit and asked us gals to come along! We were
so proud to be team "Queens For The Cure." L-R: Stacy Perrone-Petta, Miss Connecticut America 1996; Laurye Natale, Mrs. Northeast U.S. Earth 2007-2008;
Diane Piccolo, Mrs. Connecticut United States 2007; Kimberly White-Geremia, Ms. All American Talent 2008. The event took place at Silver Lanes
in East Hartford. We had to get up preeeettty eeeaarly for this one! (Try 4:00am! UGH!)
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Check out this form! Old Yeller is ready to roll!
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Did I just get a strike?
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Hey! We kicked some butt!
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Team "Queens For The Cure" actually won the trophy for "Most Spirited Team!" We
proudly pose (pageant-like, of course) in front of the broadcast booth for Bosh & Cory.
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Posing respectively with the trophy that went to our Team Captain, Laurye. First, Diane; then Laurye; then me and then Stacy.
Of course, I saw all of these other trophies and had to ham it up. "Are these all for me?"
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Posing with the Country 92.5 morning crew, Bosh & Cory and her new baby, Carter. We had a blast and I was so happy
that I got to be a part of helping St. Jude's. Thanks Laurye!
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While attending the Miss Shoreline America Pageant on February 24th, I had a chance to
congratulate old friend Kara Prete on her recent win as Miss New London County.
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In March, I appeared in the New Haven St. Patrick's Day Parade with The Glory Girls.
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I attended the Mrs. Massachusetts America pageant on April 12th at Hanscomb Air Force Base.
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With old friend Sam Beamon at the Waterbury Memorial Veterans Dinner. They presented my Mother-In-Law, Lynda Geremia,
with a post-humous award for all of her work with the Veterans of Waterbury.
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It's Memorial Day and I'm off and running appearing at the Hamden Memorial Day Parade.
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I am so excited as it has been a wonderful year! I am kind of sad to go give up my talent title but I decide
to compete again for the Mrs. All American/All American Woman titles! Myrtle Beach - here I come! Click here
to see how I did!
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All American Ms. Talent 2008
