Friday, August 20, 2010

Garfield County Outstanding Teen - 1st Attendant

Last night McKenna competed for Garfield County Outstanding Teen and received the title of 1st attendant! I am constantly amazed at this young woman, all her accomplishments, her attitude and her growing independence! Congratulations McKenna, you are beautiful, inside and out! For her talent, McKenna sang "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" from My Fair Lady. She tried to find a time period costume and thought it looked a little too elegant for Eliza Doolittle. So she modernized her wardrobe but kept the English accent. So cute!

She had to answer 2 onstage questions. The first one was about her platform issue. She is going to have a big fundraiser in all the Panguitch schools for Primary Children's Hospital. It really impacted her being up there for her surgery a couple of years ago. She roomed in the ICU with a little 18 month old boy who had basically lived in PCMC all his life. He was suffering from a degenerative disease. She wants to give to all those she saw that were in more medical need than herself.
Her next question was about a role model and why. She said her "awesome mother and grandmother". I agree her grandmother is amazing, but I wondered about the mother part. She just probably wants to gain brownie points for when she gets her license!

Instead of swimsuit competition, they have fitness lifestyle competition. Garrett scrubbed up his bike and let McKenna use it to show the judges. She also tried to brown nose the judges by saying that biking is her way of "going green"!


At the end of the night, Kenzy Veater of Panguitch took second attendant, Alexis Tebbs of Bryce Valley took Miss Garfield County, Outstanding Teen, and McKenna took first attendant! I would not have wanted to be a judge, all the girls did an incredible job. Congratulations!

For evening wear, the girls all had escorts. McKenna asked Garrett to be hers. After a promise of a dozen doughnuts, he finally agreed, and showed up at the competition dressed to the nines just to show off his sister! I think he looks pretty impressive myself!

McKenna and Garrett just after the competition. My photo of him escorting her onstage didn't turn out.

However hard we try, Garrett still shies away from kisses. We still try anyways! A great night!

3 comments:

  1. Wow, seriously McKenna, GREAT JOB! That is great and you look so beautiful! How fun. Love your purple dress and the Eliza Doolittle dress is just adorable. And I agree, you do have an awesome mother!! :)

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  2. Jeff better get a bigger baseball bat. Congratulations, McKenna!

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