tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25400503637756946322024-03-04T23:14:26.978-08:00Small Town CrownMallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-24682366665536349492010-04-06T00:47:00.000-07:002010-04-21T15:28:50.117-07:00Port-A-Prayers...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj1lFYj_hh7-53tqWVv2hb4OFldje0fFN4SjN6WbC3Vq79ouV3tH2L_UEo7fWGBk6Y6cVL6jRnk-H21IkHeKabeglkh9tdKRvhnH6Xh9rLYWbA-zxetTPGRQxilzzms_hfggJlp3lqNA/s1600/Scan.jpeg"></a> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); 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/></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline" class="Apple-style-span"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456932832236069122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXNimOc9-gv5Q3xH9xI_NAZ8bBiB9ZKfxmea9WUHQjnGVI11b73g5SgGAWqJeQtl9L4UqNMZ2-a28moFdGCGPgmDQzNBgjwxDCeRRwQRbSh3az-7WQLjR7j2nWZV2FbkpjCXjW88l_DY/s320/IMG_3724.JPG" /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3xwdlIlbv_p7z-8UxLXAXjlQqwDQgZUrcEhHB_3y5aWue_rREOmo2p-b_KBNWQUIGGmdElcS8yDiTpLKI_zgR_n1lEl3agc4_Ny3kZqgbiXzTIkk52M6SAfFhdaRhnhMtQJ7xNvV_2Q/s1600/2010+Miss+America+Pageant+1PQlSaTQ5vZl.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 229px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456935162601343522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3xwdlIlbv_p7z-8UxLXAXjlQqwDQgZUrcEhHB_3y5aWue_rREOmo2p-b_KBNWQUIGGmdElcS8yDiTpLKI_zgR_n1lEl3agc4_Ny3kZqgbiXzTIkk52M6SAfFhdaRhnhMtQJ7xNvV_2Q/s320/2010+Miss+America+Pageant+1PQlSaTQ5vZl.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I have started this blog over and over.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I’ve rewritten it, added to it, taken away from it, deleted it.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">At first I went on and on…slamming away at these poor little donut glazed keys…going all the way through Miss America…story after story after story about Rush Limbaugh’s kindness, Mario and I sharing peanut M & M’s backstage, sneaking room service in the dead of the night, prayer circles, race car crashes, security guards wearing air force ones…but as I typed and typed, something kept me from posting it.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I wasn’t saying what I wanted to say.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">So I had to wait.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Thank you for waiting too.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">So now that the glitter has faded a little, now that people have forgotten how to spell my last name, now that I’m back to flipping pancakes at IHop and singing Miley Cyrus songs like a broken record, now that my Miss America wardrobe is hanging from a chandelier in my dining room WAY too small, </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I am back to the job that I asked for in the first place…I am 6 events a day, seven days a week, driving in the dark, drinking red bull and feeling bad about it and I am even more grateful for this thing that I have.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">And if there is ever a rare second that I don’t remember what I have, I walk into a store, or a school, or an event and into a room of people whom I have never met before and someone grabs my hand and says…”You made us so proud!”…and I remember.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I got the best of both worlds that final night at Miss America.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I got more that I ever could have dreamed of from my experience at Miss America then I got to walk off that stage and came back to you…to this.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Here is a cliff note version of my Miss America story…(followed by blogback#2, which will cover the three months of aftershock)…</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">In the moments before Miss America, while all of you were settling into your seats to watch, I was kneeling down in a locked port-a-potty outside of the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on the fabulous Las Vegas Strip…45 seconds before you saw me hop onto that stage this is where I was…on my knees, my head in my hands, on the floor of a white and green port-a-potty. Outside I can hear the stage crew and hostesses running back and forth shouting, "WHERE IS KENTUCKY!?!?"…”IT’S ABOUT TO START!”…”WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO ON WITHOUT HER!!”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Inside I knew that the show would begin with or without me, I knew that that floor that I was kneeing on was really dirty, and I knew that there was a small chance that that lock could stick and I would be stuck in there forever...but I had to say a prayer. In a moment like this it is usually hard to think of what to ask for...but I found it quickly.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">"Thank you for what you gave me, please let them see it, let me shine your light and be ok when I leave the stage...ok?..ok..OK!"...I felt it…I burst out...I was ready.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I looked up at the anxious and relieved faces of my search party as I ripped a brown paper towel from my left knee, grit my little teeth together, and ran to join my friends.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I stepped on that that magical stage and my prayer was answered.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">In two hours, something changed me.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Every time they called my name, every time I scanned my teary little eyes across those state banners, every time I saw someone jump to their feet when my name was called, I was humbled.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I was thankful for yet another gift that I didn’t deserve. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">And I couldn’t believe I was standing on that stage…I still can’t believe it.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Rewind…at 2:00 am the night before I leave for Miss America I am downstairs on the treadmill(in fact, that was the last time I stepped foot on that treadmill), I come up the elevator and smoke is billowing down my hallway. I knew it was coming from my door. I get closer, the smoke is thicker, I begin to run.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I walk into my condo and my mom(who was packing my things like I was headed off to my first sleep over) is standing in the kitchen…a broom in her hand and every window in the house wide open...my competition wardrobe is now wrapped in bags and on its way to the balcony...oh…no…</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The next day on the plane I am cramming. Trying to remember every single thing I have ever done in my life, the judges middle names, the reasons I want to be Miss America...however, that was the last time I thought about these things. As soon as we landed in Las Vegas I felt it. It was going to be ok. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We get room assignments...MICHIGAN...YEHHHEESSSS!!...I cried...reality tv filming every second from then on...9 days...9,000 emotions...here are the highlights of the highlights of a typical dream day…</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Sleep Deprivation…There was no way I got more than 9 hours of sleep TOTAL the entire week and a half. We got in late, ordered P.F. Changs room service at 2:00am.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Sometimes Nicole(Michigan) would drift off before it arrived…so I got to eat hers too…I rest my little head on that pillow and 2 seconds later the alarm goes off…4:00am…”Are you gonna work out?”…”No”…back to sleep...one hour later…BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP…time to get up. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Rehearsals…we would pile onto the stage, rollers hanging in our eyes, spray tans rubbing off on our t shirts, getting in trouble for laughing, falling asleep, and forgetting dance steps because we were talking or sleeping under chairs…then we would file off the stage.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">One by one we would hit the ground...boom boom boom…Another one bites the dust…We pile in rows, on top of our dresses, under seats, on top of each other…Piles of these wonderful little women who, through exhaustion, starvation, and emotional strain couldn’t ever stop smiling because we were all living in our dream.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We would turn into a bunch of little girls at a slumber party as soon as we hit those floors, only these little girls weren’t watching their beloved Miss America on tv…this year they were the girls…the girls they never dreamed they’d be.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">And there was something that I felt, all nestled up with Arkansas, and Florida, and Michigan, and New Mexico, and Louisiana, etc…we came to this hotel a few days before as competitors, and now we were nothing but friends.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I knew then that I wouldn’t be upset at all if one of them had walked away with the crown.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I knew Miss America would be one of the most wonderful girls in the world because they were.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They became living proof of a simple truth that I have come to know this year.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">These piles of my sleeping little friends proved that happiness comes from service.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I have met a million smart girls, beautiful girls, intelligent girls, successful girls, but none as happy and joyful and thankful as these.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They were given everything in the entire world they could have ever asked for then someone placed a crown on their head, and gave them a special opportunity to use these things to give it all back…and they too had been humbled by what they had.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They never appeared entitled or justified to be in their positions, just thankful, and that is a rare and special thing.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The common thread that linked us together was service.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It was our job to give to other people, and that had changed us. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Buffets…I’m talking Thanksgiving on steroids…every food in the world, every reason not to eat it, </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">every day…three times.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Interview… Vivica A Fox, Shawn Johnson, Rush Limbaugh, Brooke White, Dave Koz, and Katie Harmon VERSUS ME.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You would think the odds would have been stacked against me, but they weren’t. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">So the moment arrives…I have an opportunity to show these six people what I have to give and I have ten minutes…I walk in…there’s magic in the room.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Vivica looks me up and down…from the crown of my head to the soles of my shoes and says…”Well…you’re obviously very physically fit…”…”What, oh my gosh, thank you Vivica…wow…gosh…you should see the rest of them…thank you…”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I rambled, they laughed.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Questions, laughter, and so many stories finally led me skipping out that door, knowing that it wasn’t a perfect interview at all, but that I had made a real connection.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They appreciated my less rehearsed and less refined stories of growing up in the country, and smiled as I told them about always being in trouble for getting my sash so dirty this year…mud spots from kneeling in a pile of dirt speaking to a star struck child at a fair, or pink splatters from eating ten watermelon slices in a minute to win an eating contest at the Letcher County Kids Day.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Story after story, then I paused for a second…”You know, at one time during my year I got a little worried that I wasn’t going to be prepared once I got here, then I realized that I was doing the job of Miss America all day every day, and there was no greater preparation than that...”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Rush Limbaugh asks me…”Mallory, what does the America Dream mean to you?”...silence…followed by an answer…a realization maybe…“Well…it's hard work...it's pride in not taking handouts when you know they're there...and it's satisfaction...satisfaction once you get there...(here it comes)…and...don't you think it's funny how you think you want something so badly then you get there and you're already looking for something else?...not because you need something else, but because you know you can do something else...??”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">WHAT!?</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Was I asking Rush a question now?...He smiled at me, I stopped talking and smiled back.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I scanned that panel and they were all smiling.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It seemed as though we all understood what I was trying to say.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I think we all kind of knew in that moment that this year Miss America wasn’t going to be the one who had perfect answers, she wouldn’t be the one with the perfect dress, or the one who could walk down those mirrored stairs in her swimsuit without looking down…that crown was going on someone who was already in love with this job, someone who loved giving back and bringing a light into places that had only seen darkness, someone who would use this life changing opportunity to change other peoples lives, and I couldn’t ask for any more than that…”Is there anything else you want to say before you go?”…well…for the first time I didn’t really feel like I did, so I started to leave, then I blurt out uncontrollably…”I just have so much to give…I just have so much to give, and I just love it, I’m just so thankful…and I just, just, thank you…”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Lord have mercy get out of that room…I skipped out…</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Visitation …the hour after the preliminary nights when we got to see our families and friends. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">After the show we hiked up our evening gowns, slipped on our Uggs and ran through the service hallways in a pack of excitement…”Oh, I just can’t wait to see my mom and dad!”…”I want to meet your boyfriend!”…”Is your sister here yet?”…”Hawaii, can I get a lei necklace?”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We squeezed the entire midwest portion of states…or the south…or the north…onto a tiny service elevator all at once.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We burst out and get closer and closer to that room.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We could already hear the cheers.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I made a bee line to the Kentucky table, a table that one year before I had been anxiously awaiting Emily’s arrival, hoping that I would get to be the one who walked through the doors this year.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">There they were my family, my best friends, my pageant friends, people from my hometown, my college roommate, my sister and brothers friends, they were all there.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Clutching my signs, smiling from ear to ear, beaming with pride, making their way into my tiny little arms one by one, and with each teary eyed conversation I knew that I had nothing to lose that week, because they were all already so proud. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We laughed, we cried, we whispered and wondered, then we were pried away</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">by security guards and hurried back.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">As I walked back I remember praying that I would always remember how lucky I was to have them, and praying that I would make them proud on Saturday night…and that prayer was answered too.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The only reason that I did what I did, the only reason I even wanted to, the only reason that I will continue to do great things is because so many people did that for me.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">People in my hometown say that you could walk outside that final night and hear a roar of cheering.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They said they’ve never seen anything like it.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They tell me their stories, then they start to thank me…for bringing their family together in front of the tv that night, for giving their children an example to follow and a role model who won’t disappoint them, </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">for being proud of being from our small town and for being myself onstage…And in that moment I feel that feeling again, I am humbled to my core. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Why in the world do I get to be this person?</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Why do I get to know people like this?</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What did I ever do to deserve the love that I’ve felt this year? </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">How in the world could I ever ask for anything else in this world?</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">And for a second I feel a little guilty.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">How could I have ever asked for any more than this?</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">He already gave me what I asked for…</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Last July I stood on a stage at The Singletary Center in Lexington, Ky and he answered my prayer.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">They called my name.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I stood in the middle of a stage with a spotlight in my eyes and someone placed a crown on my head and changed my life forever.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">In that moment I knew that I could never feel justified in asking for anything more.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">However, before I knew it I fell in love.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I fell in love with the job and the change that I was making as I marched into your schools and across your fairgrounds and stages, into your homes, onto your soap boxes to support the things you cared about, and finally, onto a national stage all of this because of that sparkly little crown…that first sparkly little crown.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Thank you for showing me every single day that that one is all I ever needed and for sharing in my joy as I wore it.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You are the only reason it means anything at all. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It is my responsibility and my purpose to do good from here on out, to change the things I’ve seen, to help other people feel what I’ve felt by making their dreams come true, to give back on an even bigger stage, and to show everyone after all of this that it’s not about a crown, it’s not about a winner, it’s not about the judges, the clothes, the fleeting fame, the trip to Las Vegas, it’s about love.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It’s about finding a path in this life where you use what you have to serve, and I am thankful every day that this was mine.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">To whom much is given of much is required…but what about when he gives you this much?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I could go on and on about every single little thing that I want to tell you about Miss America.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I have pages written, but I can’t overwhelm you with this first blog back…and looking at my schedule(that is completely jam packed from morning to night every day for the next three months), chances are, I will probably see most of you around at some point soon, so I’ll just save them.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I just hope all of you know what you did for me.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">That this was a shared success.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">This entire year, and especially at Miss America you prayed, you cheered, you voted, you sent trashbags full of cards and letters, you told your friends, you told your parents who told theirs, and you enabled me to succeed.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Thank you.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I was proud to represent you at Miss America and every day as Miss Kentucky.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I wake up every day and remember the way you have made me feel.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">There has only been one moment of a fallout, of a sadness, of a ‘man, it’s over’, of feeling a little sorry for myself, eating Dunkin Donuts in the dark and watching Marley and Me by myself, my phone sounds like a doorbell on Halloween…I turn it off…that’s when I look over at my dresses hanging from my chandelier and wadded up smashed behind a door, under a suitcase, literally, in my purse…that’s the second I see again that even something this exciting will fade away if you don’t use it every second…and that’s the moment I say, “Mallory Christina get off that couch, what are you doing.?!...I shove the last 5 munchkins in my mouth as I’m smearing makeup onto my swollen little face and throwing on a dress that I know I can fit into and won’t send me running back to that couch and I run out the door…on my way to a school, a hospital, Miss Priss dress shop, the grocery store…and everyone still remembers…”You were beautiful, I loved your dress, your mom and dad were so great on camera…” then a child looks up at me and says, “Miss Kentucky…you have chocolate in your teeth.” …and instead of being provoked to tell this four year old child and her father some rant about being a deprived beauty queen on a rampage after Miss America, I know that all I need to say…all I want to say…and what I automatically say as I bend over and hold my mouth open for her assessment is…”Which One?”</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">As she jams her dirty little fingernail straight into my gums she smiles.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">She realizes that I am just like her, and that she could do this too. </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">She realizes then and there that I don’t live in the castle in Lexington and that I didn’t come to the grocery store in a limo, that I’m just a real girl who gets to do a really cool job.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It has my gift, a gift that I don’t deserve, to get to crash through these misconceptions that dresses, lipstick, pictures, recognition, and a crown </span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">will change who you are, will make you successful, will allow you to change the world around you, because you and I both know that beauty can’t change the world…but making a person feel beautiful about themselves can…I am humbled to have the opportunity to do this every day.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Thank you for loving me so much, thank you for being proud, thank you for encouraging me to shine that light.</span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I always thought that Miss America would be sort of an ending for me, however it revealed itself as a beginning…the start of something new, something great, and something that I know I can do, because of you. Thank you thank you thank you.</span></span></span></p></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0uw_WxG-NGxzSNm-P-FrA7KdUCV_9BC1GWekl3jnls1H5PSlVbwPnxw1Gl-qx3ZE-pkj45AVe9Q3iR6SUpt1BchQT1vuYIfQ1AgEky3YJbUkxT9QcEKsU8dtZ9-Jk2goV1LI312axJQ/s1600/IMG_0226.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456935855180793506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0uw_WxG-NGxzSNm-P-FrA7KdUCV_9BC1GWekl3jnls1H5PSlVbwPnxw1Gl-qx3ZE-pkj45AVe9Q3iR6SUpt1BchQT1vuYIfQ1AgEky3YJbUkxT9QcEKsU8dtZ9-Jk2goV1LI312axJQ/s320/IMG_0226.JPG" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin62ftHedsQFkE3SNb-DjJI29pzImTvQ6OqJt3RIBkN2TVWnvuIB228SbeGF0gnV6YREXEekrC9pw65hET9fc9joRTXZfud-qwTuAPyV82t4Tqc5yLJhCx3Q-M43XDIBjnJJxz36sDMck/s1600/IMG_0212.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 268px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457090877489437442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj1lFYj_hh7-53tqWVv2hb4OFldje0fFN4SjN6WbC3Vq79ouV3tH2L_UEo7fWGBk6Y6cVL6jRnk-H21IkHeKabeglkh9tdKRvhnH6Xh9rLYWbA-zxetTPGRQxilzzms_hfggJlp3lqNA/s400/Scan.jpeg" /></a></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11;"></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Ps…I dedicate this blog to my dad.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Your example alone made me want to succeed, not only in the Miss America pageant, but in my life.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You are the example that I go back to time and time again when I lose my way.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Now that I feel like I’ve seen the rest of the world I see how special you are, and humble you are.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The moment I finished my song I looked over at you.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You jumped to your feet, without an ounce of hesitation, clapping your hands and shaking your head…”Wow!”…you said under your breath.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I thought the same thing about you.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I was so proud you were my dad.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Pss…New blog of the past three months is in the works…Thank you for not giving up on me.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Psss…Sorry this blog is so choppy and long and not as well written.</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">I knew that I just had to write something, and I knew that you could weed through my banter.</span><span style="font-size:0;"> </span></span></p></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoNaER_LCJNSqWUTjPQYqcFN2lZKtU93v6gaShRq8j6JUM8DLMD_ICobYr3uYlf4k71-rCjD5Kfxb7oGw2Sg8ARF_M2as8ilBzzJb5SESXBcC9u1_juyCjp2u5Z5RSWWZZlOR7nyU6XU/s1600/IMG_3759.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">I love Kris Kristofferson.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is a presence about him that is so special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It reminds me of Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There is something that radiates from him that I am certain is a presence that can’t be explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I feel in his voice, and hear in his songs, and each time I see him I wonder what it is that he understands that the rest of the world (including myself) does not.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I also get this feeling on Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I know you feel it too, that unique joy that takes you over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You may not feel it the entire day, but it’s always at some point, at least once, or at least for me it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Today it has happened more than once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Maybe it’s Miss America, maybe it’s chocolate cake, maybe it’s watching ‘The Blind Side’, maybe it’s my aunts trying on my old dresses and talking about how excited they are about Las Vegas, or maybe it’s<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>just that I finally have that presence that I see in Kris Kristofferson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From serving and loving and understanding joy by bringing it into places that have not felt it in a long time, not even on Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Repeatedly throughout the day and night I remember what it is that I have done, the dirty faces that I have pressed against my own, the towns I have sped through, the adults whom I have somehow renewed a sense of hope in about our generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And, at this point, you know I don’t sleep anymore…EVER, so at 4 am all I can do is think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Will I continue to feel it all the time from now on, not just at Christmas?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am blessed to have been given a feeling of joy, a presence of faith, and a desire to do good, so the question I ask tonight is how in the world could I not? How could my dream ever become a burden?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Once you achieve something so great I think it’s easy to turn it into a victory march.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It’s easy to see all the good that you do as a stream of justification of just how worthy you are to be in your own shoes, this is where you will lose that joy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I forget it when the mountains become a blur. I forget it when I give a high five to a child as I’m running out of a school instead of holding their little hands and listening to their fifteen minute story that will make me late for my next school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I forget it when I put on a swimsuit and still don’t look quite like I should not be walking a runway in lifesize angel wings, but everyone forgets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I am blessed that i</span>t is now rare that I forget because I am reminded of it every day, and because it is my job to remind others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I knew from a very young age that I had an ability to make people feel valued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Despite what society had made them feel about themselves or their worth I could somehow leave them feeling a little bit better about their situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Whether it was an elderly person in a nursing home who felt that they had nothing left to offer this world, or a child in the mountains who was afraid to smile, somehow I could leave them feeling a little bit better about their situation, and this is why I think I have finally found ‘IT’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is where my new Christmas(Kris Kristofferson) feeling stems from if I had to guess, and there is nothing that I have ever wanted more.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Kris Kristofferson said in an interview a week ago that a long time ago he fell in love with humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That he felt a joy every second of every day because he had the opportunity to do something that serves it…Kris, I feel you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And to anyone who reads this, no matter your situation, your hardships, your temporary problems or even the burden of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>sharing your blessings, remember to find your joy, to be happy, that maybe you don’t have complete control over the cards you’re dealt, but you certainly do have control over how you decide to play them, or how you feel when the game is over...whether you win or lose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Give this year and you will find this joy, not just on Christmas, but every day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The two weeks leading to this hour<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>in the middle of the night were not completely blissful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In fact I think I almost died...but they brought me to this point, in my home, on my couch, surrounded by my brothers and sisters Christmas presents, at 5am typing softly so that my mom and dad won’t find me in blissful insomnia yet again…trying to explain this feeling that I have…synopsis…in my opinion, the best series of events thus far...</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thursday night, December 10<sup>th</sup> I found that my quality of life was not so great as my “Quality of Life” application was due in a matter of hours….and I had to drive 3 hours to Knott county for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>nine schools, a Christmas parade, light festival, camel ride, civil war reenactment, etc…THAT NIGHT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As the clock struck midnight I was far from Cinderella and closer to Gus Gus the mouse as I tripped down the steps with a pile of clothes and curling irons in my arms in the middle of the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I began drive at midnight, knowing that I would arrive at 3am and this would give me plenty of time to prepare for my 6am start. This is my life. My mom loves me so much that she tries to make a better situation for my safety by talking to me on the phone the entire night...since driving with one hand vs two over mountain ranges is in fact safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>People usually say that they suffer from insomnia, for the past three months(and especially on nights like this one) I think that I am in fact blessed with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My clothes are still in a pile, hangers hanging off them, curling iron cords scraping across the driveway and I creep into Marada(the kindest woman in Hindman)'s beautiful home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My toothbrush is in my purse, my makeup is wrapped in my nightgown slung over my shoulder, I am a cross between santa clause, homeless, and maybe a very small glimpse of a Miss America …So, 4ish by now, of course I’m not sleeping, 6 arrives in a matter of hours and I am ready to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>SAINT Susan Amburgey greets me a few hours later in all her glory…a bit worried about mine…however, she knows that I can find it by the time we get to the first school, the first of about 9. I regained my will to live at Carr Creek Elementary School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We whip into the parking lot and I look over...the sign out front, where most schools have announcements about parent teacher conferences, swine flu vaccinations, or Christmas break, says, “Welcome Mallory, The Next Miss America”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was now fighting exhaustion, hunger, car sickness, and tears…and I knew at that point that I would be fighting them for the rest of the Knott County day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Especially when I saw those signs the children had made…you know how I’ve described before how it feels to win, how it's a certain feeling that is like no other, one I can't describe and one that I thought I would probably never feel it again…well at Carr Creek Elementary School, for one second, I felt it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I made it through, singing extra songs, asking extra questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then Susan drug me into the office to make an announcement …my announcements are risky...I get way too close, talk way too ‘football game’, but they rule…"Carr Creek Indians!!!…I heard someone say that you had were trying to win a little contest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>by having the best attendance in Knott County?!?!!(I look at Susan for the next thing I am supposed to address)…well I hear you guys are the best, so I expect you to win it!!, Oh and I’ve just been informed that you are about to have testing week, so I just want to make sure you TRY YOUR BEST…GGGOOOO IIINNNNDDDIIIAAANNNSS!!! chckluchulkdfudch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I hang the microphone up in the wrong place…I hear a scream…I’ve gotten through to someone.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Over the meadows (where we stopped so that I could take a picture with an elk), and through the woods, to school after school we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was a little boy who chased me out and almost barreled the door down , “I<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>HAVE A DREAM I HAVE A DREAM , MISS KENTTUUCCCKKKYYY!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What would he do if I didn’t hear him, if I didn’t turn around, if I ignored his desperate cry?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I always wonder that right before I whip around and wrap my arms around them to hear their little dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> "</span>I want to be a football player", he had even drawn a picture of his dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He gave it to me. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Another School…Another School…LUNCH(yeah right)…Another School, Another School…</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The High School,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>where I am ‘welcomed’ by a few attitudes, slouched back in theatre chairs, ready to eat me alive…these are my favorite scenarios though, because they always end the best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I spoke, we became friends, then I took song requests, ‘Cowboy Casanova’ and ‘I Told You So’, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Great Group…Very great…Very Respectful…very sure they will go far. There is so much more to tell about the other thousand schools, but it is now turning daylight, and I must at least get in my bed before my dad gets up and begins his daily<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bejing 2008 work out routine and tries to make me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>participate…</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So we’re at the last school, and Susan and an English teacher are hacking away at my paperwork in a classroom next to the auditorium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They fixed my grammar, my runnons, and my anxiety for one second, until I decided to listen to my voicemail…"Hey Mallory, I hope that you guys make it to the Whitesburg Christmas Parade by 5, I just saw it in the newspaper that you were the grand marshal."…"WHAT?!?...IT SAID 6 ON MY SCHEDULE, IT IS 4:30 AND A 40 MINUTE DRIVE!" <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I dramatically drop my purse and run to the English room, “Susan, it’s at 5 it’s at 5!!!”…and whether she meant it or not she said, ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is 12 degrees outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I had silk pants and a blazer to my name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No time to change into warm clothes, get a coat, gloves…anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dale Earnhart Jr.(Susan Amburgey).. herded me into her racecar and instructed me to fasten my seat belt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Oh Oh No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Well we made it, and I was probably as white as a ghost when we arrived to Whitesburg, but ghostly or not, I got there...now I had to get to the top of a convertible somewhere. Susan is driving against the parade traffic holding my crown out the window and she tells me to get out and RUN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have to find my car,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>she has to find a computer to print my application.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I climb atop a yellow Corvette and confiscate the driver’s red gloves.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I watch from a distance as Susan transforms from Dale Earnhart to Hussein Bolt before my eyes as she is now<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>running down the street screaming, “Does anyone have a computer I can use?!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It’s for Miss Kentucky!!! We need to print a paper!!” Luckily she hears a cry from God from the front porch of the funeral home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> She disappeared into the front door. I was still there, sitting atop</span> that cold yellow ice cube convertible and went back and forth from santa clause to the grinch to some form of crazy aloof queen that you all have seen in parades where you know she is not really waving at you and is throwing candy to compensate…I am never that queen, but I was so cold I couldn’t feel ANYTHING at all, and my vision was becoming blurred, so I felt like I was for a second or two.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> O</span>f course the convertible is stick shift, so it was all I could do to hold on for my dear little life(that I want to badly to last until at lease after Miss America) each time it launched forward and my silk pants slid slid all over the top of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Despite all of this, I waved up a sandstorm…and speaking of sandstorms, at the next portion of the Christmas Parade(The Festival of Lights) I found that I was, in fact, provided a CAMEL to ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Enough said, look at the picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Normally in my life, if someone directed me to a camel to ride I would have asked questions like, “OH my gosh how is there a camel in Whitesburg?!”, or “Oh does it hurt it for me to ride it?!”, or “Will it run or buck?!” or anything but what I said this time…"…ok, do I sit on the hump or between the humps…?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was so cold I was not even phased by the camel ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was shaking like I had been electrocuted, spelling my name wrong signing autographs, not in complete control of my arms nor the flaming marshmallows squashed on the end of the sticks as they waved dangerously close to my Whitesburg friends…who I do really love more than almost any city of people I’ve come across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At this point I needed to get to a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So as we were walking out I hear “Hey Little Lady, Ya Ever Shot A Canon Before?” I turned around with my mouth kind of opened, my face kind of scrunched and red, I could hardly speak because my face was so numb, "No Sir, but when I was on my camel I heard you shoot one…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I knew it was coming…”Well come on over here(somehow this invitation to me also served as an announcement to the crowd to watch me partake in this danger) and shoot it!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was scared, obviously, but far too cold to care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Even if I had actually been hit with the cannon ball I don’t think I would have felt it…Abraham Lincoln and Robert E Lee handled the safety procedures…this time only addressing the crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Ok everyone, now this is dangerous, step 50 feet away, cover your ears, hide your children, confess your sins!!””<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kidding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kind of.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So everyone is moving further and further into the distance and I am standing there with no other instruction but to hold this string, wrap it across my leg, and pull like ‘the dickens’ when they said so.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In this moment, holding that string, one foot away from this deadly weapon I could have felt unsafe…but I was fairly ok with the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I kind of felt like I was about to help end the war or something.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And the pride and warmth that was radiating from my civil war impersonating friends was surprisingly making me feel ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If I died in battle I knew it was not in vain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Here we go!!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I begin to scream bloody murder as I am now back to scared to death and pulling the cord at the same time…”AAAHHAHHHHHHHHHHH” “RRRRRRUUUUAAAAAAHHHHHHH”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wasn’t strong enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think it was George Washington who latched onto me for assistance, we pulled the cord, the cannon fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I kept screaming bloody murder, even after, maybe from excitement, maybe from frost bite, maybe from the small gash and large bruise and welp I knew was quickly developing on my right thigh, but I finally stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were trying to tell me something important that I had accomplished during this feat that had guaranteed me good luck…Robert E Lee opens his glove to reveal a twisted L-shaped piece of metal…”Ya See this pick?”…”Yes Sir.”…”Nobody ever shoots a cannon off and don’t break this pick, they say if someone actually does it’s good luck that surpasses all kinds of luck…and somehow little lady, you’ve done it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“AAAHHHHHHH!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I scream with glee again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He might as well have just set that little pick on my head because I felt like I had just won Miss America in that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Just as I am about to say thank you and to give a brief frost bitten spill on how the civil war paved the way for the things I’m now free and able to do etc, I am interrupted by a cry that surpassed all cold, application deadlines, and silk pants with burnt marshmallows stuck to the side of them , “AT MISS AMERICA THIS YEAR, THE SOUTH IS GONNA RISE AGAIN!!!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was screaming and cheering, laughing and muffled glove clapping, marshmallows and hotdogs whipping about with excitement,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>because in that moment, whether it was/is or not, we all knew it was true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I looked at Susan , she looked at me, and we knew that if anyone could make it though a day like that, they were ready to be Miss America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We made our way to the car, laughing, holding onto each other, running into each other, being halfway carried by my poor parade driver who could not get rid of me but felt responsible for making sure I made it to the car considering I was fairly certain that I had lost a toe at that point (either that or he wanted me gone because his girlfriend kept calling him and I believe was on her way there).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We got to the car and couldn’t even speak to each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had both lost an earring, I had also lost an eyelash, and a few years off our lives…but that day was well worth a year or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Knott County and Letcher County, I am in love with you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Thank you for loving me too.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Stayed up all night again, left at 7 then drove home to throw the annual Miss Kentucky Christmas party for the board. I was informed that the mulled cider that I was so proud of was actually called mulling cider, and that you are not supposed to leave the spices and sticks in it…you are supposed to strain them out…but I was far too strained to read the directions. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Next day. Did schools in Harrodsburg, one in a house, then raced back to Lexington then Cincinnati to catch a flight to New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My mom, sister, and I were on a mission to complete my wardrobe for Miss America, and we so surpassed anything that we ever could have dreamed…YOU JUST WAIT!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We made it out of the city that never sleeps, that I feel I get along with quite well given this fact, and I don’t even want to wear the dresses and shoes we got because they are so magical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It all came together in those little personal shopping rooms where they lined up things for me to try and fed me pink and green macaroons. We wrapped up our preparations as every single item I needed was unzipped, ready for me to try on, and PERFECT! We stayed at the New York Palace(where Gossip Girl is filmed) and the staff would greet us(all three of us) as Miss America each time we busted through the revolving doors, tripping over the other one because for some reason we all three would try to squeeze in the same section…And I can’t wait for you to see what we found!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AHHHHHH!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Last scream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sorry.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I rushed back from New York to Lexington then had one day to get ten thousand things done, visit my friends at Total Med Spa in Louisville, and prepare for Christmas Eve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I decided, on a whim, while at Marcia’s house<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>sitting on the couch with Kaitlynne Dorothy that I would get my little brother a puppy for Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The last thing I needed to do given my situation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We found a breeder in Georgetown on her iphone and 15 hours later we found ourselves in a stable trying to choose between two tiny little batdog baby pugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kaitlynne carried our selection, ‘Raisin’ out the stable doors and she became my best little purchase ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I loved her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Then t</span>hat night I kind of lost a bit of the love I had for her as she wouldn't stop running in circles and licking my face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thank you to Christian for taking her in the middle of the night so that she would live through the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The next day I picked her up and we began our journey home, I fed her chocolate Dunkin’ Donut munchkins(not really knowing the whole dog and chocolate thing), but she loved them and is alive and well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And Gabie LOVES her!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We all do.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Her name is now 'Pearl' and I love to hold her in pictures because she makes me look thinner.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Christmas Eve I sang in a wedding for my friend Brandon and his sweet new wife Elizabeth, then the most magical Christmas Eve Mass ever, then the wild Ervin Christmas(I am the oldest of 23 cousins on one side remember).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My family is the reason I have found this joy, the reason I keep finding it, and the reason that it is so worth it to share it, because they constantly are an example of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The next day was my mom’s side, and so wonderful as well.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Christmas was magical this year, it was different, kind of like it was when we were little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was a joy, an excitement, a wonder, a wholeness, and a special hope that was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Maybe it’s Miss America, or maybe it’s just all that joy that I’ve come to feel from all the love I now know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Or maybe it comes from finally realizing that beauty can’t change the world, or who you are, but that making a person feel beautiful about themselves certainly can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Christmas was real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The world was more beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And I am ready.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn7OxN00Yhm6UGKBtNkaRap3pbiXL7xeJ0boFPS8uStafLHII8IjG7tZ7wzhwXyS0Hnnw_843wCBlX1CKi-esi43Atnbtg3DTEkRG5BkA4lzp09cXMoaoJBcCpj5EZRNUsVxvcjgouSI/s1600-h/IMG_2681.JPG"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn7OxN00Yhm6UGKBtNkaRap3pbiXL7xeJ0boFPS8uStafLHII8IjG7tZ7wzhwXyS0Hnnw_843wCBlX1CKi-esi43Atnbtg3DTEkRG5BkA4lzp09cXMoaoJBcCpj5EZRNUsVxvcjgouSI/s320/IMG_2681.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420112688002243794" style="display: block; 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I thought I had been in every situation possible until I did a program in an auditorium where they were giving flu shots on the stage behind me. It was my first school of 8 today(one of 28 this past week) and by far one that I know has prepared me for any interruption in my Miss America interview. So the sound system doesn't work, naturally, and I begin my program without it...I don't need it anyway...my voice projects, they're quiet...ha..."Alright boys and girls, now, I want you to be really really quiet today because the microphone doesn't work and I have some really important things to talk to you about...it is silent...as soon as I begin my first sentence I hear the deadliest most terrifying scream I have ever heard, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO ...AHHHHHHH ...NONONONO NONONOOOO!!" Of course it's a little funny because it was so silent, they were so loud, etc. I felt bad for laughing a little, but I knew that they would soon recover and realize that it wasn't that bad...I too recovered and went on...surely that was the last one, poor thing, they must be bad with shots. Not the case. I look over and there is a line of children looking like they are about to walk a plank. I am trying to talk to them about dreams and their future and they have this look on their faces like, "I DON'T EVEN HAVE A FUTURE, I AM GETTING A FLU SHOT!" This continues, as do I, and I get to the end and despite their dismay they were rather eager to ask questions. One little girl named Jocelyn, who I had met before her flu shot and had made it out alive, is among the hand raisers. I call her up and she meets the occasion...she slaps a smile on that tear stained face and saunters up. "Jocelyn, since you were so brave getting your shot I am going to let you wear my crown..." In that moment she knew that what she had been through was completely worth it, and I placed it on her head..."Jocelyn how does that crown feel on your head?"..."Sure feels better than that flu shot!!" She was right. It does. <div><br /></div><div>27 schools, far from 27 dresses, I am tired of packing new dresses every single day, so I decided that my coat now counts as a new ensemble. I dress it differently with different scarves, gloves, shoes, until a little boy(while running his sweet dirty little recess palms across my white (fake) fur coat) tilts his head to the side and says, "Miss Kentucky, you look just like my cat." No more fur. The schools, ranging from Bowling Green, to Grayson, to Berea, to Avalton, to Olive Hill, to Henderson, to places that I can't even remember the names of, all reminded me that although I am tired, and beginning to get caught up in preparations, I can be nothing but joyful...because at least ten times a day, I see right past it. In moments when I still call on children who are too young to answer questions like, "What is your dream?"...When they say, "Alls my dreams is about MONSTERS!" There is nothing I can feel but joy. I forget that I don't have all my dresses, I forget that I still weigh a few pounds over 100, I forget that last night I couldn't quite remember every single detail of the 3,000 page health care bill, and I quickly remember that because of what I am doing I am finally prepared. Miss America is not one single bit about me, it's about them...and in being so busy that I can't think about myself I have realized that this is the place where it changes...the place where it all comes together. It's funny how in the midst of my preparations for Miss America, and the self serving and vanity that could easily come along with it, I have in fact moved further and further from it...for I have no more reason to serve myself...and it is the best place to be.</div><div><br /></div><div>I spoke of this place for the first time in my 'going away' speech at Miss Bowling Green this past weekend. Amidst the emotion from my (improvisational) Latin version of Ave Maria in a spotlight of 'snow', giving up my last local crown, and the complete exhaustion from being in probably 40 different cities over the past 8 or nine days with 16 hours of sleep max, something new came over me. It totally trumps feelings of doubt, confusion, or lack of sleep that tend to creep up at this point in time...and I can be nothing but joyful. BTW 'going away' speech is in quotations because you know that I am NOT going away...it should be called, the 'i am letting someone else wear the crown and have my title for a year' speech...or a 'vacation' speech.</div><div><br /></div><div>I found myself almost slung out of a clown car in one of 3 parades(this one in Henderson, the others in Owenton, then Whitesburg Friday), for real...it was spinning so fast there was g force. I am being violently slung against one clown, then the other clown, the back to the other, and so on...I was deliriously tired, but quickly revived. The clowns are fake laughing and acting out almost flying out and being scared, I, like the children getting flu shots this morning, was screaming bloody murder and fearing for my life was 'real' scared.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was named a Kentucky Colonel(again) this week, got another city key(Henderson), got to wear a santa beard(so that I would stop eating at a Christmas Party), did 2 tv spots that I still haven't seen, schools, parades, drove, drove, drove, and so on. This week brought me from one side of the state to the other, several times, as well as from one side of the spectrum of emotion to the other, from exhaustion and worry, to confidence and faith. 'It' is here, finally, the feeling that I thought I would not have time to obtain. And it is nothing but a blessing...as is every day. As I said(or whoever was speaking for me) in my 'going away' speech...I wake up every morning and wonder why in the world I am the one who gets to reach out my hand...why in the world I am the one who was chosen to do this work...I may never know the answer to this question, but I continue to be guided by it...not for an answer anymore, but for proof of it. This is it.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXVtrrWb88b2WM8bOF5BwUcq7tofwVH3WSZpibW4My3htMN8V_-wgbusJvn9GAU1VNpHr0Lzhwa-tvrN6y1nEABkZjXGymSxkPDD9Nxat2tf7hoMKlfP8lvjAsScTkCtK8u3nVQxC2Zs/s320/13968_527560961888_44700424_31236132_2060970_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413448041479450146" style="text-align: left; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5WTjisixrZcs9ifC9LhfBk3lB35xaxx0Ib3iaW2oBLGTXrpVizUY1tkhQe7kr-FUow-TI84FtEDl6iw0ohuTLRTui4aBj1dof9fzt7RkD8VvoLPp1Vu2XWUQ07xH5Cm6Ct_BVJRW1W0/s1600-h/IMG_2472.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5WTjisixrZcs9ifC9LhfBk3lB35xaxx0Ib3iaW2oBLGTXrpVizUY1tkhQe7kr-FUow-TI84FtEDl6iw0ohuTLRTui4aBj1dof9fzt7RkD8VvoLPp1Vu2XWUQ07xH5Cm6Ct_BVJRW1W0/s320/IMG_2472.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413451260723240562" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXVtrrWb88b2WM8bOF5BwUcq7tofwVH3WSZpibW4My3htMN8V_-wgbusJvn9GAU1VNpHr0Lzhwa-tvrN6y1nEABkZjXGymSxkPDD9Nxat2tf7hoMKlfP8lvjAsScTkCtK8u3nVQxC2Zs/s1600-h/13968_527560961888_44700424_31236132_2060970_n.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"></a>PS...I dedicate this 'blob' to my friend Gerald Odom, whom I know is going to be the first one to read it, George Timothy Reed(who has made me laugh so hard this week I think I burst a lung), and Ann Blair's boyfriend Giovanni, because you let us see that video of you acting out Hercules in Greek Sing.</div><div>PSS...Look at Kentucky Monthly! It's out, as are the faces of my mom and sister(featured photos with me), and the quite obvious fact that they are much much prettier than me. I told you.</div><div> </div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-87900256976899693982009-11-15T21:18:00.000-08:002009-11-15T23:25:27.255-08:00Well I Was Born A Coal Miner's Daughter...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4N-VOUhEL7AIqa5jTzGx0iiKr0bePEq0c8uIJnKVuQOSQ6HZtmxVXVCKAhyphenhyphen35AHgrgeeDhdAJXCx6b9FwofcBaWAHtaqVUrfGBpUpYxajEjqtwFlgn9WBE36z3eSfWaJVLEnYwadNOn0/s320/DSC_0079.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404589766100260658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrkfBLYGdR4c_tzJPhtLK7xhI7IQrtj2hReK_jpUiggwh7EodEPd6IPT-egAYJ3riunzixInDlSTMjnMWl3NxnoCdiGMcomagkqjHN8iLrLlWxrn_LxxaowgEYJFLDQ7Eis0lnJ0GBn4/s320/DSC_0027.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404583515725534834" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBR3hL45DW9zZM8PgB-yQidMTolKsPc2m1YlbtDnb-tu-9z0DCqpKZr6QuhS4AePxDA0ThUQYUJebzSmwQahdfb4RnGBlWDR3rQgmjdoTYKtpdai0Dh-074OUdtlVTx0QIFlL1IeAm4A/s1600/DSC_0448.JPG"></a>well sort of...a coal miner's grand daughter counts. I never know what type of situation I will find myself in by the end of the day, so when I ended up several hundred feet underground at Riverview Coal Mines with a personalized glittered hard hat on, it was no surprise. Mining has been the livelihood of many members of my community and my family for years, and as I always say, you can't turn your back on the people who made you who you are. So it is one of my many missions, to educate both myself and others on the good that coal mining brings. We always hear the bad, and like anything, there are things that needed to be addressed...and they were, and continue to be, in order to make mining cleaner. Heath, Ricky, my dad, a man named Cornbread, and I were in attendance underground. They gave me my very own personalized Miss Kentucky 2009 hard hat to keep. If Miss America doesn't work out look for me underground. Although the mines are cleaner, I certainly was not. I looked like I had been down many a chimney, and of course my dad insisted on 'running' by Wal Mart. Noone will recognize me surely...pshhh...as soon as we walk in there are two little boys running at me full blast..."Miss Kentucky!!" They saw right past that coal dust and asked me to autograph their dad's Wal-Mart receipt...this was my favorite autograph situation to date. <div><br /></div><div>This event was among the 6,000 that I had this past week in my hometown. When I go home I am relentless...I have to be, I love to be. I participated in the largest Veteran parade in the state in Madisonville. I got to do an unscheduled autograph signing when someone fell off the top of the fire truck float in front of me and the parade halted momentarily...they were ok. </div><div><br /></div><div>I did about 20 schools while I was at home. From Pride, to Madisonville, to Hopkinsville, to Earlington, to Dixon, to every other city in the West, then back to Morganfield...My Morganfield. It constantly takes me back to the moment where every single event from my life in that tiny town came together...to the moment where my dream came true, and in turn began a trend in my hometown among the young people to do the same. I went to St. Ann School until the 8th grade, then on to Union County High School(the only high school in the county). During my trip home I visited both my alma maters. At the high school I stood on the stage in the auditorium, holding the same ruby red slippers that I wore nine years ago on that same stage(playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz). Everything comes together in a matter of seconds in moments like that. However, the moment where it really came together was when we got to St. Anns. As I walked into the parish hall, my reception was similar to a surprise party...or new years...or both. They've been counting down the days...they've been making signs...they've been on the brink of bursting at the seams of their uniforms...as have I. I'm not sure that there has ever been more support in one room. Although they are all in their uniforms(with the exception of the ones in the Mallory Ervin Miss Kentucky 2009 T Shirts) they are far from the same. There is an amazing sense of individuality still present at my old school, but a rare form of it, it's mixed right in there with an underlying equality. Fifteen years ago, as a frizzy headed little shrimp tomboy, I took hold both of these things and ran with them. They are among the many gifts I was given that have powered my passions beyond those white walls. Those same walls now fence in ten of my boy cousins(whom I made come onto the stage with me and reenact the top five crowning moment). I can only do it to my them. The youngest of the 23, Paxton, a 1st grader there, thinks he is also my boyfriend. He wears a king crown at all time because he says that he is now the king of Kentucky...and he is.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other schools this week were also filled with 'moments'...a little boy raised his hand with tears in his eyes and said, "Miss Kentucky...when you sang, it sounded so beautiful, it made me cry." Of course it moved me to tears, but I was quickly brought back to the real world when I was asked the dreaded, "Did you have to dye your hair blonde to win?" question. They keep me on my toes. Other notable events included mock interviews in Nashville(work outs, etc), a lunch at Cracker Barrel where I signed autographs for over an hour, a visit to the Earl C. Clements Job Corps(where I made some pretty awesome new friends who quickly warmed up to me and let me know that they've forever 'got my back' and that I have vocally made it, as they jumped to their feet in the middle of my song and began yelling 'you did that!'...in case you didn't know, that is the highest achievable compliment.) I also visited the WONDERFUL Home of the Innocents in Louisville for a day. You wouldn't believe the extent of the services and facilities it offers to help better the lives of any child with a little bit of a harder way to go in life...wings for the medically disabled, autism programs, teen pregnancy centers, a place for children to live who are tossed around by the system or neglected in their own homes, among so many others. We should be so proud to have Mr. Gordon Brown and his team of the kindest men and women in the state doing what they do. It is our duty to help those with less or with nothing at all, The Home of the Innocents have made this not only their responsibility, but their joy. I can't wait to go back.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm leaving things out, but my lazy eye has taken over and I am craving chocolate, so I must head to bed. But to you, thank you for reading. Thank you for your messages and encouragement. Thank you for your pride. And thank you for reminding me the reason why I have been put on this earth...every single day.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8u4XOvRcoeIRxY79CgmqF8nu9Fq_pTAs-t85QgVyPhOZZeTrjxMkma6VImWcvsrHa1LA6x1qhrN3-e5CjfrD9FuvBW8TEB8dRKFO3Y1ftkCrPDokBWOKNh2VU9JQH_Sj-FZfoTYhh3o/s1600/DSC_0010.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8u4XOvRcoeIRxY79CgmqF8nu9Fq_pTAs-t85QgVyPhOZZeTrjxMkma6VImWcvsrHa1LA6x1qhrN3-e5CjfrD9FuvBW8TEB8dRKFO3Y1ftkCrPDokBWOKNh2VU9JQH_Sj-FZfoTYhh3o/s320/DSC_0010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404582637753727186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px; " /></a></div></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBR3hL45DW9zZM8PgB-yQidMTolKsPc2m1YlbtDnb-tu-9z0DCqpKZr6QuhS4AePxDA0ThUQYUJebzSmwQahdfb4RnGBlWDR3rQgmjdoTYKtpdai0Dh-074OUdtlVTx0QIFlL1IeAm4A/s1600/DSC_0448.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBR3hL45DW9zZM8PgB-yQidMTolKsPc2m1YlbtDnb-tu-9z0DCqpKZr6QuhS4AePxDA0ThUQYUJebzSmwQahdfb4RnGBlWDR3rQgmjdoTYKtpdai0Dh-074OUdtlVTx0QIFlL1IeAm4A/s320/DSC_0448.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404594763668738082" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div>as I found myself in the mountains once again yesterday, I was quickly reminded that contrary to popular belief...my accent is not that strong. So I was in Clay County, home of Richie Farmer, at my first school, Paces Creek Elementary. I enter. "Hey Paces Creek Elementary!!!!", "HIIII!", "What is your mascot?!" They all scream in unison, "The BURS!!" I thought they said birds. "Oh, the birds, I've never heard of a school with the birds as their mascot, that's cool." I am interrupted. "NO! The BURRS!" I still think they're saying the birds, so I continue, "Oh, well, I heard that but what kind of birds are you...flamingos, peacocks, penguins??" At this point they are frustrated and I am rambling off bird species like a rap song. At the top of their lungs they scream "THE BURSSS!!" Then one little Kindergarten boy in the front row says, "You know like, RRAAAWWWRRR!" "Oh...the BEARS!" Their mascot was the bears.<div><br /></div><div>And then, for the best story ever. There is this red faced little girl(you must look at her in the pictures, she has on a yellow shirt) in the front row nodding her head, answering my questions aloud, and just really feeling my speech. So, you know the drill, question and answer time. Of course I call on her. "What is your question?"..."I like your dress I like your hair I like your face I like your crown..." she says. "Oh well thank you, you are just so nice. You know what boys and girls it really pays to be nice to people like she just was to me...and because I want to show you all that being nice is so important I am going to let Selena(Selana) wear my crown." She is giddy with hysteria. I give her the microphone to hold while I pin it on her frizzy little head. However, I quickly see that this was a mistake as she boldly puts it up to her mouth and SCREAMS (pointing her little finger right at her little Kindergarten friend in the front row)..."See Paige...I TOLD YOU STOP SAYING CUSS WORDS!!!!" I lost it...completely. Finished off the Clay County school system with Paces Creek Elementary, Clay Co Middle School, Clay Co High School, and Manchester Elementary. The song requests included "Wagon Wheel"...twice...which I sang while they clapped along(way too fast, I was rapping "Wagon Wheel" by the second verse) and the Dora the Explorer theme song(among others). Refused requests included the songs, "I Kissed A Girl and I Liked It" and "Whisky River". I had a great time in Clay County...in fact, I think I just might be in love with a few of the children in Clay County.</div><div><br /></div><div>This week included another Nashville trip(mock interview where we now pretend that one fake judge is Rush Limbaugh). It also included a birthday dinner with my friends Joshie, Chuck, Monica, Robin, Gerald, Cheese Dip, and Guacomole. And a work out that did not work out because I can not say guacoNOle. Oh well. Then Jade and I made a mad dash back to Lexington to transform ourselves into a fairy and a cupcake(I should already have turned into one by now, but somehow have not).</div><div><br /></div><div>So we race into the door and I begin hot gluing my costume onto my body...safety first has always been last in my book...I just don't have time for that. But my homemade costume was almost better than the real thing. I loved it. I didn't want to take it off...however...as Jade and I left Sarahbelle's law school Halloween party the rain quickly did that for me...posterboard is not waterproof...but my house was close. I love Halloween. I kind of feel like Halloween is everyday for me this year though. When you're 24 and wearing a crown and eyelashes, it counts as Halloween. By the way, my 'piece of cake' costume was far from a 'piece of cake' to maneuver in social situations...noone could come within 2 feet of me and the only dance I could do and look cool was the electric slide...because it is solo.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kentucky Monthly asked my mom, sister, and I to be featured in and on their Christmas issue(coming soon). The shoot was at a winery called Elk Creek in Owenton, Ky, and is a hidden treasure in our state. We shot there all day(pictures, not clay pigeons, I have to clear that up because there is a hunting range on the premises). The place was beautiful, my mom and sister were beautiful(you see why I always say that I am so not the pretty one), and they were decorating for CHRISTMAS...which I feel slightly afraid to admit I have already done...to an extreme. I put up my tree, sorry. I know a lot of people aren't down with putting a Christmas tree up in late October, but I just couldn't wait. I will wait until next week to show you a picture to be more appropriate. </div><div><br /></div><div>Also, part two of my Christmas card photoshoot took place today at Corman's Marketplace(the BEST decorating store I have ever experienced). It was like being in a snowglobe(and I was the chubby little snowman in the middle of it...no maybe a gingerbread man...whatever). I just know that the delightful men who own it really had me shaken up(laughing) as they flitted throughout the store like little elves with glitter from their head to their toes. You must visit this store. However, you will walk out looking like a mermaid. I swear coughed today and I could see a hint of glitter in the air...but maybe that's from the Christmas celebration going on in my living room...</div><div><br /></div><div>Went to the UK game as well...with my brother Pikachu, and sister Tinkerbell. It was fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>And now, as it is 3:00 in the morning, and I am going to get in trouble by both my father and Kim Canter tomorrow for being up this late when I have to wake up at 6 and drive to Louisville, so I must head to bed. However, there is a reason tonight that I am avoiding going to bed moreso than other nights...because I know I won't be able to sleep. I am headed west tomorrow to do one of the things that I know will be a highlight of my year. I get to go back and speak at St. Ann and Union County High School, my schools. I know that this will be one of those moments where the madness of this job(still the most wonderful job) and the hustle and bustle ceases for a second as I walk into those gyms...to speak to those children...in the places that made me who I am. I can't wait to feel that.</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_c6Ma4STnX1QMtvDl0Z0_jLi73y5urRT6xcV1mhm5E_PNcxvsrtgIIjBdlfoDG4IPhlhoWEcdSsdMMFSMurd73cZqDUcFw8xeUpHW5L_YYQuJR8D0lqNUMecke-VYoGfvb318SQreLDw/s1600-h/IMG_2123.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_c6Ma4STnX1QMtvDl0Z0_jLi73y5urRT6xcV1mhm5E_PNcxvsrtgIIjBdlfoDG4IPhlhoWEcdSsdMMFSMurd73cZqDUcFw8xeUpHW5L_YYQuJR8D0lqNUMecke-VYoGfvb318SQreLDw/s320/IMG_2123.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400518269637676210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUmsusaaP6jtX6QnyhgKfpfzc8-43uYyd9iJSjhVkl_khOjAjfxw115Rn8SYrX4Em1bT5_tU1HUEYjm1oVsQ310_0VLMbUAuA6rAHxCa8DqvSAH_F_rpwIyCzVkXtLjbS3FMs8V_kNAM/s1600-h/IMG_2108.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUmsusaaP6jtX6QnyhgKfpfzc8-43uYyd9iJSjhVkl_khOjAjfxw115Rn8SYrX4Em1bT5_tU1HUEYjm1oVsQ310_0VLMbUAuA6rAHxCa8DqvSAH_F_rpwIyCzVkXtLjbS3FMs8V_kNAM/s320/IMG_2108.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400518265943234514" style="display: block; 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We will be skipping over Thanksgiving this year in the Ervin household so that I don't look like a big fat turkey at Miss America...kidding...maybe.</div><div>PSS...I'm leaving you with a picture...a Halloween themed picture to remind the world that I was so not cool in middle school...</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyGwjUbRoG22l7gGN0p-T3aFkkHFQkje588PcWaWbBIALJeC-weEuYYa_lupjdE-Sz3s2J-Uneq5UdmM1BLC_5ROFd_-fHvlOqUNqH2MeX9wW-gbA5H-bB_k1eByxCxMSQhtNSn88bXsM/s320/scan0006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400521235650518946" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px; " /></span></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-39403830878820093242009-10-27T17:42:00.000-07:002009-10-28T22:23:27.024-07:00Have Your Cake And Eat It Too...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkq1aZbkEAek3pPZjRXBgKUhxVAo8vjypIUDF5WXTOglCiZyzw1og6quEBjw6prD_UFz2w8sUmmasQC7B98ZPpb8HZ8B8zzzDADnjpPjmO19g3c84r21rMgpzZs-71BhTxyL_1U9cIR0/s320/IMG_1966.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397876946772148610" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6p03H6DC2P_wZe4PVMqRJko5GO-KkCmYExMPPsKckNWT-0tkadXMZd1aOjHcec7antHs67HyeELQEpxekv0biV2InVYe6OsoEupteQXUpq4WoJcElzav_gtQOUYcvhEubJAzrhy2Koog/s320/IMG_1842.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397874695370167314" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px; " /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKBKjtGUazASFoUdYOlc0Szv2YAXXflcbdWQ1dBaUus3_rkNwWjVBkLXn_1bkTRg1dEQ4vTXe3mrFn3dwdpqJEOi-MnG9iWwasqdT3VK6hBre4LoKtzeLDRHvHZVFGo6NEct3s-LTzIg/s1600-h/IMG_1992.JPG"></a><div>YEAH RIGHT...Whatever beanpole thought up that saying was NOT competing in Miss America. If they were they would have said, "have your cake and eat it too but feel really bad about it afterwards". Way to lead all of us on thinking that this mess was true. As I found my birthday(and my mid twenties) quickly approaching I found myself in way too many cake situations. I knew I could have my cake, but could I eat it? As the domineering(but caring) eyes of my Miss Kentucky friends loomed over me as I blew my out my candles on Monday night I knew they were thinking the same thing...I could have thought of 24 reasons why I should not participate in cake at this point in my life and one big one why I should(and it rhymes with should, because it is good). Sorry. I'll make up for it.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, what I cannot make up for is my blog negligence. I am sorry. But due to the swine flu, I cannot keep my promise about the 'kisses for cancer' campaign for Luke's fraternity(that I had promised I would participate in if I went longer than a week to do my blog). We will have to think of another punishment(or opportunity). </div><div><br /></div><div>And another thing while I'm doing food confessions/questions I have a simple statement. Funsize...funsize is no longer fun or funny when you eat 13. I came to this realization alone, backstage in Louisville on Saturday where I was the emcee at the Miss Louisville/J-Town preliminary. I quickly went from performer to thief as I found myself stealing the funsize candy bars from my friends' (the contestants) goody bags while they are onstage. But we're all friends, so it doesn't count as stealing, more like borrowing without returning. I used to think of myself as funsize, but it is no longer fun to have no space for weight to disperse. I performed FAME songs as well as my Miss America talent and Proud Mary(in a fringed dress that weighed as much as me before I ate the 13 candy bars). I love being Tina...something comes over me. When I start that monologue..."Ya Know, Every Now And Then..."I feel my soul come alive and for four minutes on that JTown stage I was Tina, sans the legs. I love emceeing these locals, and seeing other girls in my position just one year ago, eager to have a shot at the best opportunity in the world. And I still love emceeing even though Ean got to stand up there and tell stories and I got to direct people to where the restrooms were located on occasion. I got to talk about fun stuff too...and I got to see all my friends!</div><div><br /></div><div>So to begin at the beginning...my severe bronchitis and I found ourselves in Ashland for dos days. I did nine schools, a preschool, a nursing home, and way too many restaurants. These kids were funny...I mean funny. They all brought their wind up cameras for photographs and when the teacher would forget to wind it up before taking the picture they would get so frustrated and embarrassed. "I'm glad it wasn't wound up" I would say, "because now we get to stand here and be friends for longer." They would smile that toothy grin. The nice people of Ashland, and the Miss Ashland pageant, had a wonderful reception for me at the tourist bureau...they present me with may things...including a 'Welcome Miss Kentucky' cake. We ate all around the actual phrase and they gave me the leftover chunk. I knew that it would not be a good decision to take the cake up to my hotel room so I gave it to the people at the front desk to offer to the guests. They must have set it out in the lobby, because when I came down that morning I had three of the nicest truck drivers ready to meet Miss Kentucky in the parking lot..."We saw the cake!" they exclaimed...I have three new best friends who showed me their living quarters on their trucks, and I decided that I need a semi during my reign...I feel that it would be a great investment and a great way to travel. </div><div><br /></div><div>The next day in Ashland I did three schools in the morning, then I had a two hour break before my next pack. So, I'm sitting there and I look across the street and I see this huge nursing home...I knew I saw it for a reason...I should stop in...So I did...and oh my gosh it was the best thing I could have ever done with two hours. We forget about them. They are the kindest most appreciative group on this earth. So I walk in and ask the lady at the front if there was anyone that I could visit. The activity director just happened to be standing there and was just taken aback with surprise. "Well of course!". So we went nonstop for two hours. From one room to the next, then into the great rooms for the performance segment of my visit. Ha. There was this nice man who could play the piano like no other, and I did a concert in that nursing home. I belted out Martina McBride and gospel songs...they would sing along...they would talk...they would roll their wheelchairs right up to the ends of my toes to listen. They reminded me once again of why I wanted this job so badly. I'm so glad I stopped. The nice activity director said that they were going to plan a Miss America activity in January. I know I will have a great group of fans watching in Ashland. </div><div><br /></div><div>So nine schools...I'll spare you...they were fantastic and all so great. So that was Monday thru Wednesday. Thursday I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off then ended up at the rehearsal for the Susan G Komen Runway for the Cure fashion show and auction. The next day was the event. I was the emcee...or ad-libber shall I say. I had a program book with some notes written it it and about three and a half hours to fill in...it was great practice for Miss America though, and great inspiration to stop eating cake(upon seeing the models). Each time one would grace the stage I would move further away from the runway. Breast cancer awareness and fundraising of any kind...you can count me in. I was glad to be a part of this pink explosion that turned out to be a GREAT event that I hope will continue here in Lexington. And my mom thought it was really funny to purchase a young man in the date auction for 'her daughters'...funny...she was so embarrassed when he though he was for her...that's what she gets. "No it's for her...I'm married!!" </div><div><br /></div><div>Kearney's reception, then on to another emcee event, then on to another pack of schools. My birthday was on the 26th and I've been having a bit of trouble with the idea that I will be 24...nuts. So I go into Dairy Queen (for a salad) and I am waiting at the counter. I look down and make a comment to the cashier(whom I have already asked to describe how good the pumpkin pie blizzard is in detail), "Oh candles, my birthday is tomorrow and I'll be...24." "Oh", she says, "Well there's just the perfect amount of candles for you in that box then."..."WHAT!?"...I said..."There are only 24 candles in this pack?!" My hair seemed to turn grey right in front of my eyes. At that moment I realized that I was on my way out. I will have to buy two packs of candles from now on. For the rest of my life the person handling my birthday cake situation can never say the phrase, "Oh, just pick a pack of candles!!...Now they have to pick up two!...That or buy those big awful numbers! That day was almost one of my first sad days as Miss Kentucky. However, my frown was turned upside down when my family came up for round one of birthday celebrations. Then all my Miss Ky crew attended my 'real birthday dinner' or 'my last supper' as Jamie referred to it on Monday. My friend, and fellow cupcake, Ashley Upton Gabbard had balloons, multiple hats, and a cake that triumphed over my elderly saddness...no matter how many candles were springing from that fondant I could have only been moved to happy tears. The Postels, Kim, Marcia, Jamie, Lisa, Mom, Luke, Tanner, Carson, The Uptons, The Gabbards, all of my friends were there to remind me that I really do adore 24. </div><div><br /></div><div>My Christmas card photo shoot(part one) in Barbourville was short lived because of the rain, but Joetta and I will make up for it this week...get ready for that Christmas card! Then today I found myself 3 hours away in Greenup Kentucky, where I did four elementary schools and a middle school. Greenup moved on up my list of favorites as I ended up in a concert like experience singing a requested Miley Cyrus song with the elementary(who just happened to be decked out for rock star day) screamed along. Then at one school there was the nicest little boy who raised his hand and said, "Miss Kentucky, I just love the ribbon you're wearing today." As you will see in my pictures I was not wearing a ribbon today, but I thanked him so much for his compliment and for being so kind. "Are you always this kind to people?" "Why yes, I sure am!" he says in a jolly voice from his indian style position on the cafeteria floor. I was walking away and I glanced back to see if maybe he was just joking about the ribbon in my hair...and he wasn't. I still haven't figured it out. He was so sweet though. They all were. Then there was one school that I almost lost my composure at when I asked, "Ok boys and girls, who can tell me the word in this song that I am about to sing ("Somewhere Over The Rainbow") that the song is all about...and the word that I am going to talk to you about today..it begins with a D..."..."DRUGS!!" two children yell at the same time. I got worried for a second until I remembered it was red ribbon week...All the schools were wonderful today and I have officially gone Green(up). Oh, and as I was leaving there was a sign on the side of the road that said, "Welcome to Greenup, Home of the 199? Miss Kentucky Tonya Virgin White" I teared up...then quickly realized that I could not tear up while driving in the mountains...it's hard enough to stay on the road without blurred vision.</div><div><br /></div><div>And I'm sorry for the delay, thank you for not giving up on me. I promise you that my Halloween costume will more than make up for any strife or impatience I have caused you. 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Thank you for all of your endless support and love during my preparations...and thank you for my birthday wishes.</div><div>P.S.S. Mr. Mike Fromm, I will miss you terribly. Thank you for giving the world your wonderful daughter Chelsea. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-46676242606018267812009-10-19T15:51:00.001-07:002009-10-19T16:28:08.632-07:00Lowlights...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpU7xHpQ1CqG4YaWmw6Tvmw946H7WtcOm9hR8v6RRY5KGCY7qZzMQJLo5VCsr_nhZpAqF6p-4wZWhW3Z4ZpXNyDPfq7DKBN5aXW6GbMhSNQsZ3Y-qeO6fJdJjB4JB3iYKchd4qLQ0zwI/s1600-h/IMG_1806.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PI3nLI62Pb5nBRUWhP5QQlA2bQyhF-yI2aQXc7JNP8qIlto-mMmk0ZLlsvOtT6MAZabR2-Lv72ycj8nYJ-XObbpNy6x6oLmHdjSik4UUX9FP8sJZwgiJ_5Ylu-mWVpPc7ND8lI21wtQ/s320/IMG_1771.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394453586474140866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IQgCd5FQvn6rjR9UJKyqcYitU0Ha-fd-EvXBkwPaOGlgXQVx9NHDMvtbBoLEdZFrWQWmdX6i5ZESry9nxgbmEgkl3SqoeUrMh08uVO3_Jm_NnFdevZG3Pz1olVUqsOugcX_2iwgvJ6E/s320/IMG_1782.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394453653482469970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div>I rushed home from doing 7 schools in Rowan County on Wednesday to get lowlights after another round of honesty from my little friends brought me back to reality. I get this question a lot, but never this answer. "How old are you?" a first grade little boy asks. "How old do you think I am?" I continue on as I always do. "Um, eighty nine?". "EIGHTY NINE!!??!!". "Do I look eighty nine, why do you think I look eighty nine?" I realize that I probably should not have asked this outloud but it is too late...here it comes...."Because your hair is white." Got lowlights that night and thus far have had no more confusion on that matter. But that lowlight night was a mere glimmer in the distance at that point in the day...the marathon day...the best day...I will get to that soon.<div><br /></div><div>So, Monday, Nashville to work out with my little rat trainer Josh. Got to see my sister Jade and cousin Thea. I am also pretty sure that I ate a decoration on Jade's counter. It was a pink cupcake(that I shouldn't have been handling in the first place) that after a few bites I realized may have been either a candle or doll food. I wish all food that I tried to eat was fake. Dash on to Louisville where we entered into the secret back entrance of Heather French Henry's design studio. It was dark...until she walked out into the abyss and lights it right up. Anyone who knows Heather knows what I'm talking about when I say she kind of glows. She took us up to her studio where we talked about Miss America, furs, and dresses. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then I begin my own version of MIDNIGHT MADNESS as I arrived back to Lexington that night, pretty mad that it was already past midnight(I had to leave in about 4 hours for the next day). I began to gear up for the rowan county school district day(the one that I alluded to in the beginning). 7 schools...one day...no room to play(or so I thought). It was intense, but so am I, so it was fantastic. Tilden Hogge Elementary, McBrayer Elementary, Rowan County Senior High School, Rodburn Elementary, Clearfield Elementary, Rowan County Middle School, and The Morehead Youth Development Center) I feel like I'm singing the Johnny Cash 'I've been everywhere' song when I rattle off the schools I did that day. But, the superintendent has the prettiest most wonderful wife, Lucy, who has this drill down to a science. She picked me up, initially she was my driver, she quickly became my best friend. We went from one school to the next to the next to the next. I felt like the president. We would pull up to the back entrance. I would jump out and my little feet would hit the ground running. I hand over my ruby red slippers to the first teacher I see, then my cd to the next, all the while someone is briefing me as we power walk into the gym where the kids are on pins and needles...waiting. "Schools name?...Elementary, Middle, or High school?...School Mascot?...Demographic?..."...and..."Hello ____ Elementry_____, are you excited to be out of class?!?!" It happens in less than a minute. So clearly there are several funny occurrences when you come in contact with more than 3,000 whipper snappers. Favorites = at the high school a brave soul raises his hand and asks if I could please sing 'Friends In Low Places". "Well, ok...if you sing it with me." He and his friends leap over their seats and join me onstage without hesitation. We begin the tune and they are amazingly in sync...was this event staged?...I then look over at the boy beside me and his shirt says 'You Look Better With Me'...I think I was punked for a yearbook photo op. As I am leaving they ask for pictures, they then whip out their cell phones and begin sneakily looking for someone to take the picture. "Can you have cell phones in school now?" I accidently blurt out. All at the same time the teachers realize what is going on, as do I, and the student now has to explain himself. "Uhh, I use it as a calculator." Smooth. Then on to the next school, the next, the next...So many great children, "How much longer will it take for me to get bigger?" "How tall is your dad?" "Why is the sky blue?". THey kept the questions coming. I also signed a teacher's bald head(Gov Beshear signed the other side) and got to see former Miss Kentucky Tonya Virgin-Smith, who is just as beautiful as the day she won...all before lunchtime. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mid day we headed to the All Seasons restaurant (adorned with a Welcome Miss Kentucky sign). A group of us had lunch then as we were leaving two of the nicest men(who owned the restaurant/home goods/flower shop) came around the corner and handed me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers larger than most of the children I had seen that morning. They then hand me a homemade pumpkin roll...oh no...someone is going to have to roll me onstage in a wheel barrel if I keep experiencing the splendors of these hometown baked goods). They are euphoric.</div><div><br /></div><div>Right back to the routine after lunch and before we knew it Ms. Lucy and I were coming down the homestretch and quickly approaching the final stop of the day at a juvenile detention center for teenage girls (the Morehead Youth Development Center). It's really easy to inspire a group of starry eyed children, but I knew this group could be harder to win over. We made it through the security and there I was standing in front of them...Their apprehension and my reservation disappeared into thin air within 2 minutes. They were the best audience I've spoken to yet. These girls may have done some bad things in the past, but I can tell you that after spending two hours with them inside these gates, that I know they will do good things in their future. They are so good inside, they just need someone to remind them of that. I was honored to be that person. They had me singing every song under the sun(or rain on that day). "Sing Beyonce'!!", "Sing Carrie Underwood!", "Sing Amazing Grace!". They sang along, they clapped, they laughed, I cried. I didn't want to leave.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thursday, back to Louisville where I spoke to two different groups at Thomas Jefferson Elementary where the school theme is 'to learn like rockstars'. Maybe this explained their immediate requests for me to sing Mariah Carey, Beyonce'(again), and several artists that I had not heard of. They were rockstars.</div><div><br /></div><div>Back to Lexington then right back to Louisville for the 'Outrunning Autism' event. A while back when I was at the capitol rallying for our autism insurance reform bill I met several people from autism organizations across the state(this is how I find myself at these great events). This time I volunteered my passion for the cause and was forced to drag along my disdain for physical fitness since it was a fundraising RUN...dang...I prefer bake sales and dinners, but for autism I will do anything. So, I was expecting a run. However, I was faced with a nature hike/marathon on speed. A man named Jim Ball(who has 2 grandchildren with autism) was running for 24 hours straight, so I thought I could at least join him for an hour...surely it won't be that hard...wrong. At a few points in this ultra intense experience I felt that I was on a Japenese game show and my cousin Emily, a real runner, who was running behind me was in constant laughter was the mean American laughing at this crazy show. I too was laughing so hard at my situation that I nearly tripped over about 70 tree roots and walnuts and at one point a crazy squirrel(all while being slapped in the face by tree limbs, etc)...and all in the freezing rain. But like I said...anything for my favorite cause...and for these great people. Then on to the Hard Rock Cafe for a Susan B Komen benefit concert. Michele Branch, Safety Suit, and Better Than Ezra took the stage, and once again, the lead singer from Better Than Ezra took my heart. Long story short, one spring break at Sewanee we all rented this big home down south and went for the week. At the end of this week we found ourselves at a concert where Better Than Ezra was in the line up. We started off in the middle of the stands, however, I found my way to the front of the stage and quickly fell in love with the lead singer...he gave me his guitar pick...I was hoping he would not remember this situation and that I would refrain from reminding him, but I found myself right back at his mercy(look at my face in the picture at the top). He is the nicest man in the world. Noone is Better Than Ezra.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next morning I roll(aka drive 3 hours) into the mountains for the annual Red, White, and Blue parade in Martin, Ky. Whoa. So, this town is in the middle of a flood renovation and is being completely uprooted(every single building) and moved to a higher point right next to it. It's wild. The people there are so welcoming. I wanted to uproot some of their children and move them to Lexington with me. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then to round off the weekend I spoke briefly at our local directors meeting on Sunday. All my friends (the local preliminary directors) were there. These people, their commitment to the Miss America system, and their selfless generosity to their winners each year is why I am able to write this blog. Thank you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now I have to get off this computer and drive to Ashland, Ky tonight...See ya latah alligatahs...</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbZ60yl9drcKMT8sklGc0dmkEl-4cVmQnt2zHjTe8bofGVoIqrxnQUO8FbrMrpkI3DkpDJT2rNGG_7sT2bJsaiAnIXzMhyphenhyphenZq0THRKmu5b2m-EVb76h0wIB3k5X5nu_opWBqUWONT8_NU/s1600-h/IMG_1740.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbZ60yl9drcKMT8sklGc0dmkEl-4cVmQnt2zHjTe8bofGVoIqrxnQUO8FbrMrpkI3DkpDJT2rNGG_7sT2bJsaiAnIXzMhyphenhyphenZq0THRKmu5b2m-EVb76h0wIB3k5X5nu_opWBqUWONT8_NU/s320/IMG_1740.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394452796517003218" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloXMIafaYLAUbjsS5JFI5UtxLMG7Xl5e0h97prZVS3ZACcLWzAyhhlihx52G4NfR3BwY9BWvXFG-treQ_VovkTfTMJEIEUrBSR-J4chnLoIIGPjRgRobjEdK8PEIjFI5Ghbt3sO5bxLM/s1600-h/IMG_1738.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloXMIafaYLAUbjsS5JFI5UtxLMG7Xl5e0h97prZVS3ZACcLWzAyhhlihx52G4NfR3BwY9BWvXFG-treQ_VovkTfTMJEIEUrBSR-J4chnLoIIGPjRgRobjEdK8PEIjFI5Ghbt3sO5bxLM/s320/IMG_1738.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394452782161234786" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></div><div>P.S. Go to www.greentwithtamara.com and get a huge laugh out of my spaz go green video clip...you can watch all the states...and you can VOTE!! Don't judge my environmental knowledge from this clip...I was hungry.</div><div>P.S.S. Grandma and PaPa, thank you for finally breaking down and getting a laptop so that you can read my blog. Thank you for always being my biggest fans. I miss you every day and can't wait to see you soon!</div></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-51818045351871958592009-10-11T20:16:00.000-07:002009-10-11T23:13:42.509-07:00Five...<div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbQ_TBJnvHGXOZFH_CC22ocIAL776ZbHbGEJb2LQwl22e27zwoCpYNDA0mPT_6jxPVjUB-_Gv8dTN_Zi3a0p79hVXpKqNouZGLjqIYIQoccLO600zSSoTmVfFZG4_7ls8I7cQaFDjRpQ/s320/IMG_1604.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391577934551390482" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KE_61SZRSSf7V-V2B1qzfQemtFN21zXseoFV-btzOVEcnf5N31igR55XNKyyqWW8E-v1lTPqMyfecvs0S8b4L84q5qmluqpjbNfgbqs-guvpU4NALlV6nWMLU-wKxFNqzT9Ecvx6lMo/s1600-h/IMG_0002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KE_61SZRSSf7V-V2B1qzfQemtFN21zXseoFV-btzOVEcnf5N31igR55XNKyyqWW8E-v1lTPqMyfecvs0S8b4L84q5qmluqpjbNfgbqs-guvpU4NALlV6nWMLU-wKxFNqzT9Ecvx6lMo/s320/IMG_0002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391578853668778306" /></a><div>this number represents the number I finally received in the Miss America line up, as well as the number of strokes I had during the placement draw on Monday. So, in case any of you were wondering just how we get our numbers for Miss America, here is what you've been waiting for...So we all(all 53 contestants and our boards) sign into the online lottery and watch as the states are drawn. As I confidently sat down to my cursed Macbook I said aloud, "I just know I'm going to be in the first 5 states drawn."...JINX...The first five pass, then the second, then the third, then the fourth, and so on. About an hour into this madness(and well into the 40's) I am out on my balcony dejected, we're not even watching anymore. We had tried everything..."Everyone cross your fingers!...say a prayer!...don't look at the screen!...look at the screen!..." All to no avail. Then finally, I'm drawn. Limited choices left, but we decided that it was just meant to be. So, I'm number 5. I'll do interview(with Rush Limbaugh btw, who is the first judge to be revealed) Monday morning, Onstage Question Tuesday, Swimsuit and Evening Gown Wednesday, and Talent Thursday. AHHH!</div><div><br /></div><div>So, just when I thought that the questions couldn't get any better, I head into the mountains. Amidst my schools this week I found myself in West Liberty Kentucky. My last school there was Ezel Elementary. I always enjoy schools like this one, it's a smaller school(one that called the children to the cafeteria/gym by word of mouth rather than by intercom). As they file in the janitor and I are still trying to find a plug in that will work to play my song, so they see me as they're filing in(I usually hide and make a big entrance). An argument takes place..."That's her!", "No it's not, she's our age.", "No she is not, look at her hair!", "How can you tell how old she is by her hair?", "I just can!"...the argument ceases as I turn around and wave to them...they look as if they've seen a ghost. They all get settled. My talk is longer on this day. They really get me going. I like them so much that I took about 30 questions at the end, building up to the final 'crown wearing' questions. When I open up the floor I must prepare myself for anything. A seventh grader yells out, "You're hot!" he is quickly silenced by his teacher who says, "Now that is not a question is it?"..."No it is not!"...he bravely exclaims. I thank my new friend who will probably be in trouble as soon as I leave and continue on. The final question is quickly approaching and I had my eye on this little boy with curly sitting indian style in the front row. He raises his hand for every question, but I knew he had a good one so I saved him for last. "Ok, now it's time for the person who thinks they have the best question to raise their hand."...they all raise their hands...but he is my guy. "You, in the blue shirt(they all look down at their shirts and sigh...all but him...he knows)". He waddles up. "Now what is your name?" As he says his name into the microphone and it blares over the speakers and he realizes what he has gotten himself into...I could see his thoughts leave his mind..."What is your question?" He remembers, he is on a mission, he immediately begins..."WHY...does..."...(it's loud, they laugh, he backs up a bit)..."Why do..."...(we're all waiting, eyebrows raised, ears open)..."Why do..."...(he looks up at me)..."Why do snakes eat people?"...(he then lets out a huge sigh of relief). It's off his chest. As the children and teachers laugh I too am about to burst into laughter, but then I look down at him. He is serious. He wants to know why snakes eat people and he is waiting for me to answer this question for him. "Oh...well..." I realize that I could be dealing with a phobia here so I must be careful. "Did you see that on TV?" I think he had a miniature flashback as he shakes his head yes...he is now looking at me like I'm the snake...I grab his chubby little hand. "It's ok, because do you know what?" He now wants to talk into the microphone so he leans his little Kindergarten head down and speaks directly into it, "What?" "Everything you see on tv isn't real...And guess what, when I was little(he's looking at me like, um, you're still little) I used to love snakes!" He then writes me off as crazy. I've first told him that things on tv aren't real, and now I loved snakes. I had nothing to lose at this point so I went on..."Yep, and when I was 3 and 4 years old I used to run out into the yard and catch them and bring them into my house and let them go!!...And do you know what my mom would say?...Oh my gosh THERE'S A SNAKE IN THE HOUSE!" They all laugh at me now. Even him. His phobia left him right before my eyes. And this story is true by the way, so true. I did this. From the time I could walk I would catch snakes in our yard and drag my new friends into our house. My poor mother, it's a wonder she had three more after me...Oh my gosh, and I almost forgot about this special little girl at another school who, when I asked for questions stands up, lifts her shirt up to reveal her insulin pump and yells out, "Miss Kentucky, I have diabetes and I don't let it ruin my life!!" She almost got to have my crown. </div><div><br /></div><div>The rest of the week involved a lot, including secret meetings about my Miss America wardrobe at my favorite dress shop Miss Priss...another trip to Miss Priss where I ran into my string bean sister queen Maria Montgomery(I can call her my sister queen because she is Miss Kentucky USA). She is fifteen feet tall and glows in the dark. She is perfect. I have no makeup on and just ran in through a rainstorm. This happens to be the day where every customer who comes in wants a picture. I was glad to see her as well as all of my best friends at the shop. Elizabeth, Nola, and Cara, I love you, even when you don't have strawberry oreos.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then for my favorite part of the week, my photo shoot with Jerame Stephens, a hidden treasure here in my new city. Right after I won he had offered to 'shoot me' at some point during my reign, so on this free morning of mine he 'captured' much more than my photos, but my friendship as well. It's rare that a photographer can truly capture your spirit in their work...and my spirit is fast...he has mastered that.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then Keeneland with Sarahbelle(Sarah Billiter). As soon as I got to the tailgate I heard her mutter under her breath to the griller, "Um, can I please have one more cheeseburger?" This is why we are friends. My first time at Keeneland will certainly not be my last. I ended up on the track unsure of my duties but sure that the blonde walking toward me was Charlize Theron. I am so cool with celebrities, "Oh my gosh you're so pretty in person, I mean you're so pretty in real life, I mean..." She thanked me...I thanked her...for some reason...cool. Middle school boys, I know just how you feel when you forget your questions.</div><div><br /></div><div>And now I brace myself...here comes a new jam-packed week...one filled with more chubby little hands and a few more of the best days of my life...BYE!</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWUy8uSikYzo_O4csWdalKjCues4TjWFDBd_9GuTeVb8gruFcRlAPG2MFxOQ86m9n_-LJAUbob_YYtBQclt118uoTxawSQK0_yv4XShQgCHZxmLCUBLGYHKUVzW_woYZf_tgg_fXdegQ/s1600-h/IMG_1676.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWUy8uSikYzo_O4csWdalKjCues4TjWFDBd_9GuTeVb8gruFcRlAPG2MFxOQ86m9n_-LJAUbob_YYtBQclt118uoTxawSQK0_yv4XShQgCHZxmLCUBLGYHKUVzW_woYZf_tgg_fXdegQ/s320/IMG_1676.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391578847192056674" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div>P.S. Get well soon Natalie Canfield. </div><div>P.S.S. Yes, that is me with the snake in the picture at the top...circa 3 years old.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-87792457746271250212009-10-04T11:50:00.000-07:002009-10-04T19:13:53.718-07:00Heads or Tails?...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4XO2nTR4FVZJhU0gLy9ob2turoTgZBzs8S0wn6RbPFpbnIBmGkYwEebdRbe2ItX6Gq3__vcbA_nIA1U9PPv4QiLy5ZJZbnLUtFjAiB9pllFTgIi4udViJ3z401JqzrgM4e4YV7G5V15w/s1600-h/IMG_1586.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgitPeQI61Bg1-puVogx0Uy4sswOaijN2CaD7AnEOsTy7G6V9nATkoUC0VG0tN7oKFA_6K0fwVOtXGQHSoRUIalC6X3844lGSfo5_jmWI-14arpCwLuub58lvSxoKHO_2eQ4u_hWCEUcv8/s320/IMG_1514.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388917685416447186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TlqvplbJYK48zS3WY23SVj9wR9Gk60EpwNZEvynbR3NoRXYRomV3iFEh-UqE0BdFbcAPd-pMTBtE0JbFzQzBzaFOF3fHSQn7dy5AZfNhgIzzs00zwePSdSDRWzpi6zDpXkcCblH_l0g/s320/IMG_1350_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388907195604718370" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbHyJ6OH7xLoAA1_xz-lHXjz7biU1qbcwZCd19V9GUx3a5LgGDetPDKcLCeAe8npYcK83fTzaMBt4GP612pPOf3cjLH2-IgXu1MEdvPaqHq32IGAA4pD1Gad4YnD9M0Ld4h-_xV8QH2M/s320/IMG_1470_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388917036352976050" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 320px; " /></span></div>...tossing a coin is fairly tough under pressure. As I practiced this art on the sidelines of the UK/Florida game last weekend, I realized that this may in fact be one of those things that I'm just not that good at(which joins the list with trying to do a 'cool wave' to celebrities). We (myself, the refs, and the captains of both teams) were summoned to the center of the field...they walked and I ran(our stride ratio was about 16:1) through a cloud of firework fog into the circle. They hand me the coin(which if felt was the size of one of those free weights that you put on exercise machines) that I was to balance on my tiny red thumbnail and launch into the air...and somehow I did it! I also almost rammed heads with the captain of the Gators as we both dove our heads forward to see what side it landed on(which I kind of wish would have happened, then maybe Tim Tebow and I would have been roommates in the hospital). Kidding. Cats won, which means WE won! I love tossing coins now. We're changing my talent to coin tossing at Miss America.<div><br /></div><div>I have turned into quite the wildcat(uk wildcat) over the past couple months. I love the games. Now that I am sugar deprived(kind of) I find the concessions much more appealing. I take one bite of cotton candy and I turn into a six year old...wanting to rip the wildcat head off to reveal his identity, screaming for the wrong team because I'm just so excited, etc. The Alabama game this weekend was the same way, as I got extremely frustrated that I couldn't seem to master the binoculars. Between my blind right eye and eyelashes there is just no hope. I got to hang out with some of my fellow Union Co. friends in their suite with a better little better view, so i didn't even need those binoculars anyway...</div><div><br /></div><div>And now, for an apology...not for breaking sweet eating promises to you(because those are automatically implied now) but for neglecting my blog duties for two weeks. There is no excuse. My mom and dad have begun a 'WE WANT WEEKLY' protest campaign if anyone wants to join...just kidding. I was waiting on coin toss pictures, that I still have not received...but that's not an excuse. Sorry.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, these last two weeks...Watterson Elementary, I must touch on this because I met the tiniest little boy with the longest little legs of all time(refer to photo) who was yet another reminder that height does not necessarily coincide with age, and that I am the luckiest person in the world as I held his little hands. I thought that he was old enough to come up and answer a question so I called him up...he jumps over the head of the child in front of him...dead give away that I was wrong. "Ok, what is your dream?", no answer, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", he is thinking, hard. As I am now down on my hands and knees at eye level with him I begin to rephrase the question. Right in the middle of it he dives toward the microphone and yells "BIG!". Smart. As he hops back to his seat I try and cushion his answer so they won't laugh too hard, and so that I can turn it around so that the other children will gain some sort of knowledge from his example, but then look back at the little boy, who is gleaming with pride and so confident in his answer...i immediately stopped and we gave him another round of applause. I wish I could have packed him in my crown box and taken him home, but his legs would not have fit.</div><div><br /></div><div>I carry on to Mount Sterling, where I did a radio show on WMST. Great show. I talked 650 miles per hour to this dynamic duo of a husband and wife(who were also blessed with the gift of gab) who later told me that they were considering naming their stray cat after me. It was an emotional day, I almost cried. Then on to the Whitaker Bank Women's Only Luncheon, where I was the keynote speaker(information that I was not completely aware of until I glanced at an invitation an hour before). However, it turned out to be one of my favorite speaking engagements of my reign. To have the respect, attention, and admiration of the women who paved this road before me is something that I can't describe. I cried, they cried, it was one of those rare moments where everything just connects. Afterwards I asked the staff at the country club if there was any chance there was a hidden camera in the room so that I cold get a tape of it...odd request coming from a Miss America contestant maybe... </div><div><br /></div><div>Then on to New Castle Indiana to Jim and Joy Robbins, the king and queen of interview coaching. I sit on the couch, where numerous Miss Americas and their fellow competitors sat before me, but also, where another version of myself sat just two years ago. As I began preparing for Miss Kentucky I knew that I had all the will, love, and compassion for this job, but it was just so hard to express. Jim and Joy taught me how to finally show it, so they would finally see it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then Jamie Breeding(Miss Ky director) and I headed on to Nashville for two days of pageant prep. As soon as we rounded the corner and my former stomping grounds came into view I had to stomp out that small longing to be back...I have the best job in the world...what was that feeling?! I was put through the ringer again during a mock interview at my wonderful friend Gerald's house. We also visited Kim Grayson at her home, where she introduced me to her new make up line and reintroduced me to the fact that I do in fact wear too much make up sometimes...but I love it! She sent me on my way with the right amount of makeup on for the daytime as well as a bag full of her products! Then for the best part...Joshie! My old trainer and best bud(even on those days when I was hungry and threw weighted excercise balls at his pretty little face and made his teeth bleed). I got to see my old gym friends at my old stomping grounds(the most literal version of stomping grounds ever since it really was a place where I stomped around angry about working out often). Other than my body fat measurements it was beyond fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>Back to Lexington for a casino themed event at Keenland. Very fun. I married a 7 year old in a fake wedding. Then on to Shelbyville for an Autism Chili Cookoff...genius...the kids and the cook off. There was a little girl there who completely relieved me of my duties as she instructed me to not only give her my crown and banner, but also my chair at the autograph signing table. She then scribbled sharpies on my autograph pads and handed them out to passers by. She was so special. Later, when I was brushing her hair a little 3 year old boy named Mac came back to my table. "Mac, do you want another autograph?" I asked. He looks at me like I'm a crazy person and says, "Aren't you going to brush my hair?". "Well of course Mac, hop on up here." As I was brushing his red hair his dad was laughing and yelling across the field, "What are you doing to my son?". Mac then decides that I need to sign his dad a picture, I ask him his dad's first name and he says Mac's Dad. Mac's Dad got an autograph. Small towns making a mark on our autism journey warms my soul more than the 15 different types of chili I sampled. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then the weekend proceeds as I have a throwdown backstage with BOBBY FLAY. He is sassy, as am I(in a good way), so we really hit it off. He won the throwdown because he let me eat his ribs and homemade biscuits onstage. I introduced him then sat onstage with Richie Farmer and his family and my fellow Miss Ky sister and sampler Kaitlynne Dorothy. This was all at the first annual Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show. It was spectacular. Food is SO much fun when you're not supposed to eat it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I went on to the Alabama game, where I got to see some of my old friends on the team, then on to Miss Lexington. I wasn't prepared for the line, "and now let's meet the contestants vying for the title of Miss Lexington, to compete for the title of Miss Kentucky 2010." Ahhh, I wanted to grab the crown and run out, then I realized, I still have 10 months. I never want to stop, but I know that I need to give someone else this gift. I'll be ok with it by then. I think.</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't even tell you how the people of this state make me feel every day. In the gas station, in the grocery store, in the teachers lounge, at a ballgame. They endlessly pour out their love and support all over me. They go on and on, thanking me for talking to their child, or taking on a cause that hadn't been noticed, or stopping for a picture. I wish I could open up my mind at that moment so they could realize what they have given me...it's far far more than what they think I've done. I'm the lucky one. 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a>PS...If I ever miss over a week again I will do the 'kisses for cancer' fundraiser that my brother and his new fraternity seem to think I should do...haha...talk to you all in A WEEK! </div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-55904914961748470342009-09-21T16:38:00.000-07:002009-09-21T21:54:02.576-07:00"Queen Of Our Crop"...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg919YQ51rrl1GzHLqJfMwLeeywf1Yib_sFVdkK9XPI83-EuatmiOrE9n8FjTfRDegOMssDnpcK7sZC3PxsaBxxvw-LMkRT9Q4JttZyZCxipy51hdXzOUiXWZ7UAUeWqCFit9tnisyq9ew/s1600-h/IMG_1324.JPG"></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMpSvN3Wjx8CxLZ8Exr_5Y0b2yeRzKxsK-wyoig4wcUgzEz0lRadZdpuLvn7ZwcDgeCF96kLTsSjNEc2iDWNDC9P19iulyWQM3MzUWmn9Kg4lOe7buhhExd4Qhl1vh2pBzocz25bPcVx4/s1600-h/DSC_0181.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMpSvN3Wjx8CxLZ8Exr_5Y0b2yeRzKxsK-wyoig4wcUgzEz0lRadZdpuLvn7ZwcDgeCF96kLTsSjNEc2iDWNDC9P19iulyWQM3MzUWmn9Kg4lOe7buhhExd4Qhl1vh2pBzocz25bPcVx4/s320/DSC_0181.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384101906733373234" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 224px; " /></span>and what a fine crop to be the queen of. I made my way back down to Union County this weekend for the annual Corn Festival in my hometown(in which 'queen of our crop' was the theme)...this time as the Grand Marshal! This weekends events began in Lexington at the POW/MIA ceremony at the VA Medical Center. They set me up at the registration table to sign autographs, but any person who knows a veteran knows that they don't just want an autograph...they want a hug...no...an embrace! I gladly gave many. These are some of the greatest men and some of my greatest fans(and I am proud to call myself a fan of theirs as well). As I travel the state as Miss Kentucky I am free to take on any cause, pursue any dream, and set an example to children that they too can do the same...all because of these men. Thank you for my freedom. I also sang the National Anthem(one of two times I belted out the tune that day). </div><div><br /></div><div>I then jetted off that slippery stage and rushed to the airport in the pouring down rain to catch a flight to Western Kentucky that Mr. Joe Craft so kindly invited me to crash on(ahh crash, wrong plane lingo, hop on?). We (we being Coach Calipari, Mr. Joe Craft, House Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, Mr. Craft's 'sharp as a tack' assistant Kelly, and I) made our journey from Lexington to Union County for the grand opening of the River View Coal Mine. Mr. Craft took on yet another business venture in the face of the coal industry controversy, to provide over 600 jobs and to continue to power our state and country. I am proud of this project and to be a part of making sure this industry is understood, by helping people to realize the good that the coal mining industry brings to our economy and the people of our state(we're cleaning it up in the process to make it more environmentally friendly of course). I sang, Coach Cal spoke, Governor Beshear joked about only coming to see me again and then spoke. Several politicians, and of course my friend, Mr. Joe Craft made their way to the podium as well. Mr. Craft's passions for providing opportunity and for giving back is contagious...I caught it. Coach Cal disappeared underground to tour the mines momentarily, upon emerging he said that he would share something with his wildcats that he heard from a miner down there..."we go down together, we come up together". He nailed the hard working people of this industry perfectly. Then...for my favorite part...we all cut the huge blue ribbon with huge blue scissors...and no one cut off my ponytail! I was so proud to be a part of this event that will bring jobs to the good people of my county.</div><div><br /></div><div>Slid out of that one then went on to my Alma Mater UCHS to drive my little brother Gabe(a freshman and homecoming candidate) in the ceremony. I helped with the crowning...a task that I still find emotional, even if I am putting a cardboard royal blue crown on a boy's head in the middle of a football field. Something else funny that I experience nowadays, I'm just sitting there(in this case in the football stands) and I feel someone rubbing the back of my hair. I sit there for a second, thinking maybe someone was walking by and accidentally brushed it, but it continues. I turn around and there is a PACK of the cutest little girls(one whom has been stroking my hair) wearing t shirts with my name on them and little crowns. They are my favorite little things in the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>Next morning...Corn Festival. I was the Grand Marshal of the parade(which is quite the event in our town). I've been on about every float in the parade at one time in my life, but never even close to the GM. I realize that I may not be made for parades as I try desperately to have conversations with onlookers from atop the convertible...they can't hear me, I know this, but I just want to talk to them so badly that I do it anyways...maybe I'll throw candy next time(no, I can't be around candy). Then my mom and dad met me at the end and we raced to a local business for a costume change from formal to FRINGE! I wish I could wear complete fringed outfits all day every day...but I know I can't. I sang, in my fringe, for an hour. It is quite surreal standing on that stage in my town(that was once only a flat bed truck) singing to those same people who have been listening to me since I was 6 years old. I did Tina Turner and Reba songs, along with my grandma and papa's old favorites like 'Blue'. I told stories and invited all the little girls in the crowd to come up and sing 'Tim McGraw' with me. And of course, as I was wrapping it up with 'Famous In A Small Town' I can't help but cry...again...and I am so not a crier. There is just something special about that song and singing it at home. Oh my gosh I almost forgot! The Mayor of Morganfield(Mr. Jerry Freer) gave me the key to the city...the first he has given in his 11 years as mayor!! This was one of the greatest surprises and honors I have ever received. </div><div><br /></div><div>Next day, back to Lexington. My mom had to drive me back while I slept in the car, revving up for my next event with Eddie Montgomery (from Montgomery Gentry) and his wife Tracy. This event benefited a camp called Horsin' Around, for sick children with everything from cancer to diabetes. It was a bikerish theme. I am such a poser and of course tied a bandana around my crown before jumping on the Harleys and signing autographs for my new biker friends. It is a style that I think every Miss America contestant should practice at least once during their reign. It makes you so much cooler.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sorry for the photographic overload, but there was just so much to show you!!</div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnN-SrA0yVapfNPOsJ8FmNNHke5XxV0uOZAJZ2vPHlPkl1VlwhFsBraHcF6oII56iXuC81ULftW2ohX2iPwE-hz1xghwYY_IgffVOeC0Dg5EW2WcgOC2vd_AcSz9FYzTQMDtHQtBazkY/s1600-h/IMG_1263.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnN-SrA0yVapfNPOsJ8FmNNHke5XxV0uOZAJZ2vPHlPkl1VlwhFsBraHcF6oII56iXuC81ULftW2ohX2iPwE-hz1xghwYY_IgffVOeC0Dg5EW2WcgOC2vd_AcSz9FYzTQMDtHQtBazkY/s320/IMG_1263.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384102917494794002" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibQrtVVA-pOnme3CGQvzUL6U9sOXCsHg0fU03zcma7tJDM7z51DJDq_nLNglz1qYVxRj-hLZ6xpoyTkKCUl0uixhCRwPpyh1Xono47zozczdP7G5dD7AoLV_QY_I4-tSrOFWTnG5HIJ0/s1600-h/IMG_1256.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibQrtVVA-pOnme3CGQvzUL6U9sOXCsHg0fU03zcma7tJDM7z51DJDq_nLNglz1qYVxRj-hLZ6xpoyTkKCUl0uixhCRwPpyh1Xono47zozczdP7G5dD7AoLV_QY_I4-tSrOFWTnG5HIJ0/s320/IMG_1256.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384102902643732242" style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; 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I love my mom and dad...thank you for carrying my 100 lb fringed costumes, making sure the microphone is turned all the way up, and loving every single song I have ever sang on that stage. I wouldn't be here tonight writing this Miss Kentucky blog without your love. </div></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-40769443545864888492009-09-17T18:31:00.001-07:002009-09-17T19:24:54.123-07:00Rupunzel Rupunzel Let Down Your Hair...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLPuPC86OD8PlxQrToaWFXMkrw6o-DbMI-cqtVQ-nxexRtjJ44pPC3-lVfwbQkjGRSU_E53vkzhBSzFmCl6A-5SIehe5KQZ7d6YCHmzN1wn1S4aKJdLq1_AwzoFXCj8k6qUx7dWFJXzk/s1600-h/IMG_1231.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBkWdFSAYs_YKcWIGFGaoY-eHsrVJYnMEjKeTCw87qORhU0ksACE9jwVVcFzLefv_aiks_594Q61DtTZARn813E2zXdw6Qcdbth-FyPV2dcGxxjApOI-qK7WWiMoB1-3LxzpFGS2qty0/s1600-h/IMG_1218.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBkWdFSAYs_YKcWIGFGaoY-eHsrVJYnMEjKeTCw87qORhU0ksACE9jwVVcFzLefv_aiks_594Q61DtTZARn813E2zXdw6Qcdbth-FyPV2dcGxxjApOI-qK7WWiMoB1-3LxzpFGS2qty0/s320/IMG_1218.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382621825738100706" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhwmZn_-ZYL5qPNFshyphenhyphend3tU9n6AxldqdsW1QtzuLv0c1C3swedZofJSeEtwqedTZpOcaArgx126sSOvT0T0QSV6QYH2nOIfqKrv5PEcoQhoDwuoHMJOmevzHlMSYOmekcXYnWaKIlv0A/s1600-h/IMG_1213.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhwmZn_-ZYL5qPNFshyphenhyphend3tU9n6AxldqdsW1QtzuLv0c1C3swedZofJSeEtwqedTZpOcaArgx126sSOvT0T0QSV6QYH2nOIfqKrv5PEcoQhoDwuoHMJOmevzHlMSYOmekcXYnWaKIlv0A/s320/IMG_1213.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382621819770141298" /></a><br />...then try not to be upset when we chop it all off. I know that I can't have hair down to the floor during my reign, but as soon as it gets a little bit long again, I fear that someone is about to come up behind me with hedge clippers and chop off my ponytail(Kim Canter). Rapunzel, you are so lucky...maybe I could be RUPPunzel...more at the bottom on the hair...<br /><br />So...weak week...NOT! Nutso week! Let's see if I can recap in order. Here are the schools from Tuesday to Friday(not to mention from Eastern Ky to Western Ky). Robert B Turner Elementary(Anderson Co.), Sturgis Elementary and Union County Middle School(Union Co.), AB Chandler Elementary(Corydon), Jefferson Elementary, Niagra Elementary(Henderson Co.), and Holy Spirit School(Evansville). These schools stepped it up a notch with questions like, "What do you think about President Barack Obama?", and when I asked the 1st grade class about what their dream was I had a family rights attorney and an astronaut vs. the usual princess and baseball player. I run 100 miles per hour from one school to the next and am sometimes stopped dead in my tracks by a really funny child. So, I’m at Niagra and this little girl with thick pink glasses looks up at me (I am immediately reminded of myself when I was little). First I tell her how special she is because she has glasses that make her eyes big and pretty just like mine when I was little(which I made the mistake of saying in front of several other little girls who are now hoping for eye problems in the future…). She gets really confident after that and I could see her little mind working, and as I'm walking away she yells out, "Miss Kentucky, I'm going to think of you every night before I go to sleep and then every morning when I wake up and I never want to think of anything else except for you ever again!!". Then her friends got really brave shouting after me as well with ones like, “Can I have your crown?” and “Will you marry my dad?”. This is the joy of being Miss Kentucky.<br /><br />Mixed into the miles from mundane madness was the Trimble County Apple Festival(I tremble when I think of how many apple dishes I sampled) where I judged the Little Miss Apple Festival contest and the Apple Pie Contest. Also, the MacKenna Foundation, where I sang a song(that I learned in the car on the way over), such a wonderful event and cause. I also threw in a two day Dale Carnegie marathon course in Louisville. MARATHON.<br /><br />So, I must touch on the hair once more. I believe that once you've found a hidden treasure you should share it...so...her name s Rebecca Martin...She highlights my hair and rejuvenates my soul. She is a miracle. Noone in the whole world should ever go without her. We spent ten hours together Sunday and I quickly am reminded of what a find she really is. I will share her...8593611566.<br /><br />And thank you thank you thank you to Tops in Lex magazine for making me their cover girl! I attended the release party last night(where I was greeted by my face blown up the size of a mini van upon entering). Tops people are top of the line!!<br /><br />Can't wait to share the events from this weekend with you...I swear to you I won't slack off again...See ya latah...<br /><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9vztl7KIOl1H9nHMNqGhX7AZSgr-urFqBHquOhTVVZ8W2CW04fwAaKi1j8MhoTTtkP3CPE88g2Msw-BP7HPUaGNGFboBEXaIJ2UdNuIbmTlnmnujkrenoh_nwMKnYrPfCjen65pIpWao/s1600-h/IMG_1211.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9vztl7KIOl1H9nHMNqGhX7AZSgr-urFqBHquOhTVVZ8W2CW04fwAaKi1j8MhoTTtkP3CPE88g2Msw-BP7HPUaGNGFboBEXaIJ2UdNuIbmTlnmnujkrenoh_nwMKnYrPfCjen65pIpWao/s320/IMG_1211.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382621814940475186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBDKZAeChsKbnsKEq9ZZN2HiMo3coKfEMrXo_tAwyvFKbOkXEbx7H25-HujU1ZlCljKnwqBLTidwY4fwqg18TNZecaOdIznKgPRo8rW68UyZrEtnemSGZnhz2tX9GXapqFCpjNXJX8do/s1600-h/IMG_1208.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBDKZAeChsKbnsKEq9ZZN2HiMo3coKfEMrXo_tAwyvFKbOkXEbx7H25-HujU1ZlCljKnwqBLTidwY4fwqg18TNZecaOdIznKgPRo8rW68UyZrEtnemSGZnhz2tX9GXapqFCpjNXJX8do/s320/IMG_1208.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382620658064931698" style="display: block; 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This blog is dedicated to my best friend and number one fan Alden Knowlton(who will crush anyone who ever tries to harm me...).</div><div><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-86798789430979231722009-09-07T14:31:00.000-07:002009-09-07T22:08:07.233-07:00I've Got Lightning In My Veins, Thunder In My Chest...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDuceGnRtiXOeojnT817ivtOesn_EZPLFicoDErb9uAc6Q6ANQzAif8IMSRjVbItjxs6cTeRYhyruohUq0eJ5FXSarIW0FKyy8L4D1HbCx4A-BzH3Uyw8NZkSP7lTGROjJAQPObXqEnsI/s1600-h/IMG_0987.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDuceGnRtiXOeojnT817ivtOesn_EZPLFicoDErb9uAc6Q6ANQzAif8IMSRjVbItjxs6cTeRYhyruohUq0eJ5FXSarIW0FKyy8L4D1HbCx4A-BzH3Uyw8NZkSP7lTGROjJAQPObXqEnsI/s320/IMG_0987.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378891282576243202" /></a>...or at least I would have if I had left my crown on while demonstrating a safety procedure to 300 fifth grade students in Union County (that procedure was how touching a metal object to a telephone line will electrocute you...I could have been quite the example with the lightning rod atop my head). Safety Day was one of the many things I got to do this week in MY HOMETOWN! I snuck into Morganfield the night before I was supposed to...I just couldn't wait. I love my home and I hadn't seen a bit of it since the day after I was crowned(when I was still extremely delirious, in shock, and cross eyed with disbelief). All the people I ran into reminded me with every congratulations and thank you that I am the one who should be thankful...for being born in this town. <div><br /></div><div>Upon my arrival I woke up my entire household(which only consists of my mom, dad, and gabe since jade, luke, and I left for college). We sat around on the couch and talked about how we still can't believe what's happened. The next day was the Farm Bureau Safety Day! Only a Miss Kentucky would give her first big speech in an open field to 300 children sitting on hay-bales, ultimate. I kicked off the festivities with a speech about dreams/gifts/small town-big dreams/health/tomboys/tim mcgraw etc. to the most attentive little corn fed kids around. After my speech I took my first live question and answer session...a daily part of my year that I am certain will keep me on my toes moreso than my 5 inch heels. A few of the good ones..."Have you ever picked a peanut plant?(my talk said nothing of the sorts about peanut plants)"..."Have you ever met Taylor Swift...followed by...oh, well, then have you met Barack Obama?(Taylor Swift is now not only topping the charts, but apparently now the president as well)..."Are you dating a famous person?"..."Are you healthy?"..."Have you ever been in a pageant and won?"...etc. I spent the rest of the day in first class Union County style, being chauffeured from one outdoor station to the next in a Kabota. </div><div><br /></div><div>The next day came bright and early with my mom's intercom wake up call that reminded me of high school days, and presented me with yet another great group of children and an opportunity to inspire again, this time indoors. Uniontown Elementary sat like little angels as I entered into their gym...quickly turned into miniature megaphones for a second when I said "Hey Uniontown Elementary...are you excited to be out of class?!"...then right back into angels. The first question I asked broadened the generation gap between my generation and theirs from about the size of the gap between my little sister's two front teeth growing up to more like the grand canyon. I'm standing there in ruby red slippers and I say, "Ok boys and girls I want to start today by singing a song for you from a movie called 'The Wizard of Oz'...can you guess what it is by these shoes on my feet...?" In unison they all yell, "Red High Heels!!!!!" Oh well. I guess Kellie Pickler has officially replaced Dorothy, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' is now only a place where Skittles come from...but oh well, they'll be ok...Then on to Morganfield Elementary where 500 more of the best kids around sat indian style and refrained from turning into wild indians for the entire assembly. Questions from this bunch got even better, with ones like, "What's your mom's name?" and "Are you country?" The children I've seen so far have been perfect(though I could be partial). Someone needs to inform the world that the future is going to be just fine judging by what I've seen so far here in Kentucky.</div><div><br /></div><div>And amidst my time at home I found myself trying to catch up on sleep, only to be quickly reminded that it is in fact dove season...and there is no way to nap or sleep in when your brothers and cousins are shooting shotguns right outside your bedroom window...so I joined in for a spell. I also got to see baby Daylee!</div><div><br /></div><div>Flew back to Lexington and jumped right into the (all day long live tv) Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon doing interviews, answering phones with callers on the other end, answering phones with prank callers on the other end, etc. I was happy to be a part of this great cause...Go Jerry!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwhgRX1KBB3AUfJ7dm2ft5fdfcC6tqvJt-PwYEbc4Ekm5W0w-1GMNSRLUPAWINcbNdTpjQNHUTr2e9y0KO99qDhU7bUWBbIB-kPUyOAwPLi0UGT037jXUjS-Bwi7O9Rv90-0WLHJTmGo/s1600-h/IMG_1061.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITL8d2_KWMlV1DClZzglA7QRa5bHx_0KRG2jDhlLDHOf5YZsnVeysq3thqeTDtsV8QkFEA8YAmHQwZ_1oQ7VjzlZGNzZPpkGwsckZm9z83oR0An2SnEAPjZCsSNDI3-gDtXmPdFLYdLc/s1600-h/IMG_1026.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITL8d2_KWMlV1DClZzglA7QRa5bHx_0KRG2jDhlLDHOf5YZsnVeysq3thqeTDtsV8QkFEA8YAmHQwZ_1oQ7VjzlZGNzZPpkGwsckZm9z83oR0An2SnEAPjZCsSNDI3-gDtXmPdFLYdLc/s320/IMG_1026.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378891261509606882" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></div><div>And finally...for the bad news. Sianara Sugar! Labor Day marks the beginning of many days laboring on the treadmill for me...or else I will be looking like this photo of me in my very first swimsuit at Miss America...and you thought you were a fat baby...WRONG! Please say a prayer...I live right beside Dunkin' Donuts.</div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9kWUK8clmlUVPsR10bKtzhUaaMhso8JXbLlPdTCMSde7ftbK9XdRppcJyZebTYAxRmdEuqT6VofXECCMHIa_IAsbr2ADXo2c6-k9DuqpKO4QP7hQbuc6xNSLmxv8qG8onxlk8q_woyM/s1600-h/IMG.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9kWUK8clmlUVPsR10bKtzhUaaMhso8JXbLlPdTCMSde7ftbK9XdRppcJyZebTYAxRmdEuqT6VofXECCMHIa_IAsbr2ADXo2c6-k9DuqpKO4QP7hQbuc6xNSLmxv8qG8onxlk8q_woyM/s320/IMG.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378892596147510162" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px; " /></a><div>P.S. Thank you Union County for making me who I am...</div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-20823453408524112982009-08-30T15:12:00.000-07:002009-08-30T16:48:52.269-07:00Hulk Hogan Ham Holder<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfk6koOwMMpvudB7uPWAnUfUiQSB6ts8HqsvaNIYi4g46fnDNh1mwv8YCNuEHbslJWm-vjScBe44vxinWFQFLPuBm4jolNCVwB-55888vAcowg3b-ArqKlaA97r7QuX0PfzHL2ZMiGCM/s1600-h/mal+blue+dress_2.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcH0sCAWt0H8dt1LjFnAsa8ls9eYezrcN9n96C-U5CYQ-duL9P6MHAx7Vm36z0dPOncUuqNiCmbvd8LPekwhBlDjk5x3WmM9ctOeLXNGSvsUzArwrh6HXfykMGwF-kbP3iPeYVK40RJH4/s1600-h/IMG_0939.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcH0sCAWt0H8dt1LjFnAsa8ls9eYezrcN9n96C-U5CYQ-duL9P6MHAx7Vm36z0dPOncUuqNiCmbvd8LPekwhBlDjk5x3WmM9ctOeLXNGSvsUzArwrh6HXfykMGwF-kbP3iPeYVK40RJH4/s320/IMG_0939.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375890986799619234" /></a><br />I tell people how strong I am all the time, but it wasn't until I had to hold a 6,000 pound ham (that they somehow said weighed 16 pounds) for a good 15 minutes, running back and forth from bidder to bidder pleading my case of why they should pay thousands of dollars for a country ham that I proved my strength. And despite my inability to move the next morning, it was well worth it. The ham went for triple what it has ever sold for before...a new record of $1.3 MILLION DOLLARS. Intense. All the money raised went to charity. Oh yeah, this was Thursday at the state fair during the annual Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast. Onlookers waiting for me to fall on my face included Senator Mitch McConnell, Governor Steve Beshear, my best friend Commissioner Richie Farmer, Lt Gov Mongiardo, Trey Grayson, Jack Conway, mayors, senators, house members, etc, and my favorite Miss America, Heather French Henry, her husband Steve, and their spitfire little girls. I was so proud to be a part of this spectacle as I can officially add both 'ham displayer' and 'professional briber' to my resume, but most importantly to have been a part of raising over a million dollars for charities in our state. Recession Schmesshion...in Kentucky we know when to spend money...when it's for other people. <div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRj1o6CKdq_7gSYmeo2I2fi8YGZ9r1XtFvSL67Uh9I5ik3uLLFXia6b9K9RX_FB1YmLn5kSGNU9KV84RhDKf0SSNUfX0tpPr897bDd5XFpD781dSNIxcWHolVk5lv9AK0M02q9lNDUMag/s1600-h/IMG_0868.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRj1o6CKdq_7gSYmeo2I2fi8YGZ9r1XtFvSL67Uh9I5ik3uLLFXia6b9K9RX_FB1YmLn5kSGNU9KV84RhDKf0SSNUfX0tpPr897bDd5XFpD781dSNIxcWHolVk5lv9AK0M02q9lNDUMag/s320/IMG_0868.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375890993732456914" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGm5-OoWVD_KCVvoONbmeTsBa6Eh6TzRIbk_wzxw3Ys6CwJrDJc0T2kPOKYP_6ztzRheyvhPcYwLRI0fdWURsDmkT7wN9QH51uiVm5NrolIpzoIEdo7u23rb5NK1rkgZ2ISwHiyXKav0/s1600-h/IMG_0883.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGm5-OoWVD_KCVvoONbmeTsBa6Eh6TzRIbk_wzxw3Ys6CwJrDJc0T2kPOKYP_6ztzRheyvhPcYwLRI0fdWURsDmkT7wN9QH51uiVm5NrolIpzoIEdo7u23rb5NK1rkgZ2ISwHiyXKav0/s320/IMG_0883.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375891011980751106" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a>Governor Beshear finally helped me hold the ham.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSO9cLlYdVio5tfTjTg5FXN0h0sxWT3yxPvDmP2QCt4uZEGkDCTacyMjQMt1M84NkaFExIPhgUDQl666Ky0lk0Sg_IFRxXBdbkkLUvakB3GRHP1_YkzCFwYngYwV4_VBwnUyy5TIpIz0/s1600-h/IMG_0888_2.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSO9cLlYdVio5tfTjTg5FXN0h0sxWT3yxPvDmP2QCt4uZEGkDCTacyMjQMt1M84NkaFExIPhgUDQl666Ky0lk0Sg_IFRxXBdbkkLUvakB3GRHP1_YkzCFwYngYwV4_VBwnUyy5TIpIz0/s320/IMG_0888_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375891001249490450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkzZwCz-WqqVO3_eQLFvJMPwu_FYAl20vpvsCi6iUUaAye3jlgTokgdNA9nT-NvofP1EcrG2dBSsuu4od-BUc8M9Wh_ODZJDyKa4nYdPxoA_2yHB99DUYMqbdUWtkwIGoHNxEtkRz7Lw/s1600-h/IMG_0895.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkzZwCz-WqqVO3_eQLFvJMPwu_FYAl20vpvsCi6iUUaAye3jlgTokgdNA9nT-NvofP1EcrG2dBSsuu4od-BUc8M9Wh_ODZJDyKa4nYdPxoA_2yHB99DUYMqbdUWtkwIGoHNxEtkRz7Lw/s320/IMG_0895.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375891018494081090" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px; " /></a></div><div>I wrapped up my week at the state fair wondering just why they call it 'the fair'...it's so not fair...at least not for me. Every single food that I know and love is not only extremely accessible, but displayed in rows of flashing lights. There was no way not to give in...it was the last time though...I swear. Here are some 'not so fair' photos from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.</div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOLPKSu7Xkz8hD_HSX4f2IU0x7jcsW-p3dcZsZv5XRogNA3sARJCNolTlg3jB4DmN9eb2lTK6M2spmnc0aQxFIhBYSLwkTKeOkvQFtvRUUKx2sdLc4HQQGrMCJbxBSx5MJhJoUUNCdC0/s1600-h/IMG_0915.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOLPKSu7Xkz8hD_HSX4f2IU0x7jcsW-p3dcZsZv5XRogNA3sARJCNolTlg3jB4DmN9eb2lTK6M2spmnc0aQxFIhBYSLwkTKeOkvQFtvRUUKx2sdLc4HQQGrMCJbxBSx5MJhJoUUNCdC0/s320/IMG_0915.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375897357662839618" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGp6IzieLK0nCKGAdjfrlyHrfmCyOuT9UtUt4g1UVaP-vABNlyGErAaLeGRg_oeztkhQQISUCUnl8ELBQmBKMF33MnTq2N-jbbK6W7fx-3yIHExkDZ3YyR44qC4W-62cAqqKM0BBJLVY/s1600-h/IMG_0913.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGp6IzieLK0nCKGAdjfrlyHrfmCyOuT9UtUt4g1UVaP-vABNlyGErAaLeGRg_oeztkhQQISUCUnl8ELBQmBKMF33MnTq2N-jbbK6W7fx-3yIHExkDZ3YyR44qC4W-62cAqqKM0BBJLVY/s320/IMG_0913.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375897352151363298" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV3j56PukD96bxPrHrjFz2GAyASED0V_AhTiHFeoKeQ5i_ovNNfIjZ-4w9JiwAcjeO2AkkWcmi5qpuhaQ2tZVvBetgbIgze5Xyf3umrPE04W5bUxNScNjMaOf6JCTv8yJ4j0e_KIUS0s/s1600-h/IMG_0838.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV3j56PukD96bxPrHrjFz2GAyASED0V_AhTiHFeoKeQ5i_ovNNfIjZ-4w9JiwAcjeO2AkkWcmi5qpuhaQ2tZVvBetgbIgze5Xyf3umrPE04W5bUxNScNjMaOf6JCTv8yJ4j0e_KIUS0s/s320/IMG_0838.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375897328458882386" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px; " /></a><div>Presenting an award at the World Horse Show.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzM1WlaudiyAHzJCWxyhyphenhyphendrPHUIgYJs4Ce8sIKNNw8JP7gNnZyfunwhZKiodhNsMfts4nnBwMwfQK30cj5QL8EDoPtzhWrqUh2yQ7K1vC0r2pmUvGwTSm_5wHwI2a5hoBVHfGAs1em3zM/s1600-h/IMG_0930.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzM1WlaudiyAHzJCWxyhyphenhyphendrPHUIgYJs4Ce8sIKNNw8JP7gNnZyfunwhZKiodhNsMfts4nnBwMwfQK30cj5QL8EDoPtzhWrqUh2yQ7K1vC0r2pmUvGwTSm_5wHwI2a5hoBVHfGAs1em3zM/s320/IMG_0930.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375898357988054258" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px; " /></a><div>Oh, and my family came!...if you are a reader who doesn't know me as well, let me just say that I am who I am because of nothing more than my family. They have been in the front row supporting me ever since I was this little three year old girl in blue...who lied about being four because I just couldn't wait to be in dance class and be onstage.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfk6koOwMMpvudB7uPWAnUfUiQSB6ts8HqsvaNIYi4g46fnDNh1mwv8YCNuEHbslJWm-vjScBe44vxinWFQFLPuBm4jolNCVwB-55888vAcowg3b-ArqKlaA97r7QuX0PfzHL2ZMiGCM/s1600-h/mal+blue+dress_2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfk6koOwMMpvudB7uPWAnUfUiQSB6ts8HqsvaNIYi4g46fnDNh1mwv8YCNuEHbslJWm-vjScBe44vxinWFQFLPuBm4jolNCVwB-55888vAcowg3b-ArqKlaA97r7QuX0PfzHL2ZMiGCM/s320/mal+blue+dress_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375898367568203138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px; " /></a>P.S...Happy Late Birthday to my Best Bro Scottie Coleman. I miss her. <div>P.S.S...Go Dr. Wakefield!!<br /><div><br /></div></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-42987185032696009142009-08-25T18:52:00.000-07:002009-08-25T19:46:58.665-07:00That's The Way We Take It To The House...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1jVKOj6bUc7KlX6361DnJn3h_JinJ-oXNxIqYjq9uUV-rMQAivJK7Qieq9oHMXV2qw1TSfWKmVlhPrwLvs97orWNxkOg7WqdQv-h6MwUlusNANAErbyz2tx3L0NcCiNSgLTmZAKD3bA/s1600-h/IMG_0805.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1jVKOj6bUc7KlX6361DnJn3h_JinJ-oXNxIqYjq9uUV-rMQAivJK7Qieq9oHMXV2qw1TSfWKmVlhPrwLvs97orWNxkOg7WqdQv-h6MwUlusNANAErbyz2tx3L0NcCiNSgLTmZAKD3bA/s320/IMG_0805.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374095570908656642" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Frankfort witnessed its very own version of the parting of the red sea today as mothers, teachers, and advocates for autism flooded the capital(all wearing red). Our very own versions of Moses, struggling mothers simply trying to get their tired voices heard, came forward once again to plead with close to thirty of our house and senate members to pass an Autism Insurance Reform Bill. This bill, that many states have already passed, will help cover the outrageous costs it takes to treat this disease(which, contrary to popular belief, is treatable...I've seen it). Since my platform is autism awareness(because of my three autistic first cousins and my families struggle with autism) I joined this movement long ago. However, it is days like today that remind yet again of the joy of helping others and of the opportunity and responsibility I have to serve this year. More to come on that. Photo above of myself along with testimony leaders Lorri Unumb(with Autism Speaks), Anne Gregory, and others devoted to this cause. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdle_bNUxo7azk5AMf9t53zlCDTuPfsKT704LfEge7iEeCDMmaz_civz0gyAw1MISfJBSAhN7fkgxlpBbeH6YNfNeOWbWocYQojX-F1PQhGnyAPMKfliq1gpd60qT-x0niO1I2exaY-8/s320/IMG_0801.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374095575787515362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last night was my final princess night and my last stand against the battle not to eat the new chick-fil-a peach milkshake. I lost that battle last night. Sorry dad.</div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7vHUlT2CuQj1wiLSe1n34tIw06rW1ZqPbShep9GkO73AFEzv7HA_cqr5fR063yEuNgSHK9wtdw8mGd_YZcqukVb3zXvk3cbuSg7a-epXBN-07mWJqPRBb4b45s47TfpdBl_vJzRm760/s1600-h/scan0005.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7vHUlT2CuQj1wiLSe1n34tIw06rW1ZqPbShep9GkO73AFEzv7HA_cqr5fR063yEuNgSHK9wtdw8mGd_YZcqukVb3zXvk3cbuSg7a-epXBN-07mWJqPRBb4b45s47TfpdBl_vJzRm760/s320/scan0005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374095583575184642" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 320px; " /></a>And I'll leave you with my second grade yearbook photo...as a snapshot of proof that natural beauty so does not exist and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See ya.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdle_bNUxo7azk5AMf9t53zlCDTuPfsKT704LfEge7iEeCDMmaz_civz0gyAw1MISfJBSAhN7fkgxlpBbeH6YNfNeOWbWocYQojX-F1PQhGnyAPMKfliq1gpd60qT-x0niO1I2exaY-8/s1600-h/IMG_0801.JPG"></a><div><br /></div><div>P.S. Happy Birthday Richie Farmer... </div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-82998962537031778642009-08-23T14:14:00.001-07:002009-08-23T15:26:40.458-07:00When You Think Tim McGraw, I Hope You Think Of Me...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh62dwDKWmoDszUIQCrb4Xi5kVYSVTFsosK3z8n3QfTYKyuLK1bnxIcaQZ7W4z0-e-RyZbTexXvsrD_0VnnCRA8Dkjx26TaQSGOV0IAE5xRFOohZ8XQeq-Zo28n4X7NgJUmpR8xCTmxFQ/s320/IMG_0740_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373272237289758162" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 320px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">My new bros Timmy and Dierks.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHfLo8Il-I051wPevBWR5Qylb71wPHfpEZZAno5XA2vOvp2Qxv2E7fqhzXp6O7DYRfmS63MQozfgsqimpLCiG52u3TymM5Oyss1EzYwQDHyNj3qc8_DRfq7fnudUOsHlR-GfUhBNbjiU/s1600-h/IMG_0753.JPG"><br /></a></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TRT8qwUEXRcID140iDNQmZQYbuJhBIHmT8mNgGpCtm47Yri-aktz6byoJSf-odN0oWjNLQI_ExpoUDeyYo6QzLC03W4Mrm2LL5UVxLqrIF2-inJBdm9xQz6thUtK18-0ZUTzVKJ6tiI/s1600-h/IMG_0745.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TRT8qwUEXRcID140iDNQmZQYbuJhBIHmT8mNgGpCtm47Yri-aktz6byoJSf-odN0oWjNLQI_ExpoUDeyYo6QzLC03W4Mrm2LL5UVxLqrIF2-inJBdm9xQz6thUtK18-0ZUTzVKJ6tiI/s320/IMG_0745.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373272244271780066" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Lee Brice is cool as ice...<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHfLo8Il-I051wPevBWR5Qylb71wPHfpEZZAno5XA2vOvp2Qxv2E7fqhzXp6O7DYRfmS63MQozfgsqimpLCiG52u3TymM5Oyss1EzYwQDHyNj3qc8_DRfq7fnudUOsHlR-GfUhBNbjiU/s320/IMG_0753.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373272272683534466" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MT5t1fB_0cR6a9t3fYx-pEC0zkwXDQrvZZqE2Eb_i7YfNb0j71Vm_LReFIvG-S_HugyOP61iJ6JQGSWrcwfdf7vEo2u5oChSxrq42DYgFXepRyDFC9Se_WV-HXw30TR5AgydnHjfggU/s1600-h/IMG_0751.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MT5t1fB_0cR6a9t3fYx-pEC0zkwXDQrvZZqE2Eb_i7YfNb0j71Vm_LReFIvG-S_HugyOP61iJ6JQGSWrcwfdf7vEo2u5oChSxrq42DYgFXepRyDFC9Se_WV-HXw30TR5AgydnHjfggU/s320/IMG_0751.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373272264563651426" style="display: block; 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" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Race-car legend Kyle Petty was just dying to wear my crown, so we made a swap.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGg0M5VyYgikPeeXXV4M3UhYI7fo2sl8Au0eh-FzWyDk_rfmIRQGlbnrM9Pnf4xYRWk5zrh5f2sh4Mi-MwDApoYIdGZZs9-SNZqqjUvAPHscrIQ9stWiaF1GIZQnojCqKGfWsztQjR6s/s1600-h/IMG_0756.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGg0M5VyYgikPeeXXV4M3UhYI7fo2sl8Au0eh-FzWyDk_rfmIRQGlbnrM9Pnf4xYRWk5zrh5f2sh4Mi-MwDApoYIdGZZs9-SNZqqjUvAPHscrIQ9stWiaF1GIZQnojCqKGfWsztQjR6s/s320/IMG_0756.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373274478201204994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Lieutenant Governor Mongiardo and his niece and friends. <br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8G2LTMQFqPkiG1HS6Mn63ruPG17URflbimmv-8y-OVA2IYftvyZqgDEuDya2ESg_wlIjTxLx0CiDF0_Qy0Gk9_C-0HDhX1clCr9VO2wxqJyYKhdrp2JQ-H_B4KgWsVbG-M-bAQlvyjM/s1600-h/IMG_0699.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8G2LTMQFqPkiG1HS6Mn63ruPG17URflbimmv-8y-OVA2IYftvyZqgDEuDya2ESg_wlIjTxLx0CiDF0_Qy0Gk9_C-0HDhX1clCr9VO2wxqJyYKhdrp2JQ-H_B4KgWsVbG-M-bAQlvyjM/s320/IMG_0699.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373274472498761090" style="display: block; 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The event was held to benefit abused children, a cause very close to my heart. I opened the show then was invited back to the stage to sing "Here's To Finding A Good Man" with Danielle Peck(one of the nicest, most beautiful girls I've ever met). The line up included Me(haha), Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Danielle Peck, Krista Marie, Lee Brice, Halfway to Hazard(the two boys who made all this happen), Gabe Garcia, Keith Anderson...etc...with special guests Lt. Gov. Mongiardo, Coach Brooks(my new best bud), Kyle Petty(the recently crowned miss kentucky), and many many more. They rolled in on their mini mansion tour buses and helicopters appearing to be typical stars, but were as far from that stereotype as we were from the closest town. Big stars have big hearts. 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My right arm is going to be WAAAYYY bigger than my left one at Miss America...</div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S.S. Here's a Friday update since i missed it...state fair...</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGrh7I7EypHEcKfPTqD3NMV-a9BilnI-hEWP2jbsZlHU-BsyxXk8ikr9QWkCuFWNEXBaPqb4ZViehHXJ-cJeyUhcPfmw7rmBETblwvXQbpP_mglbSACSfC2RUaPS1PujEvcD3N2qrehY/s1600-h/IMG_0635.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGrh7I7EypHEcKfPTqD3NMV-a9BilnI-hEWP2jbsZlHU-BsyxXk8ikr9QWkCuFWNEXBaPqb4ZViehHXJ-cJeyUhcPfmw7rmBETblwvXQbpP_mglbSACSfC2RUaPS1PujEvcD3N2qrehY/s320/IMG_0635.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373286806972241058" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsd9yDnoN9Lno4Je8t2W770Xr7owFY6Xcx4IHks0OdSvDZ_F1m95kGuv2M4A2INqLeiPt-AwkD6ZoKAgu2JwzswmOhKJ9W6jnr4tGQtAFwrcyTfKS5ObKox_43YwA9ZQab1cTJcUkTBGk/s1600-h/IMG_0565.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsd9yDnoN9Lno4Je8t2W770Xr7owFY6Xcx4IHks0OdSvDZ_F1m95kGuv2M4A2INqLeiPt-AwkD6ZoKAgu2JwzswmOhKJ9W6jnr4tGQtAFwrcyTfKS5ObKox_43YwA9ZQab1cTJcUkTBGk/s320/IMG_0565.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373286779057806562" style="cursor: pointer; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 320px; " /><div style="text-align: center;">The Kentucky State Fair Kick Off this morning(at 6:30am...left at 4:30) was not exactly the best diet kick of for me...but toooonnnnnnsssss of fun...tons tons tons. The Commodities Breakfast this morning was flanked with media, politicians, and one(and shall i say the one and only) brand new basketball coach. Coach Calipari certainly made a wildcat out of me. There is a video clip on this website... http://www.fox41.com/global/story.asp?s=10962867 ...you have to watch it...even though I am a goofball on it. He told funny stories about people in Kentucky being so happy he's here that he has women coming up and kissing him on the mouth, etc...I swear if Barack Obama had walked into that room not a soul would have turned around. I've never seen anything like it. I'm proud to call Coach Cal my new pal. (Other friends there: Gov Brashear, Lt Gov Mongiardo, Comm Farmer, Jack Conway, etc.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am involved in all of the festivities because I am the new spokesperson for Kentucky Proud...a statewide campaign to eat locally grown and manufactured products(which I am very proud to take on since I grew up on a farm). Thus I am placed into the hands(and I hear they're quite the pair of hands to be in judging by how they handled a basketball a few years back) of my new boss and friend, Richie Farmer. His three boys(and my three new best friends) and I walked around the fair for hours...petting goats with no ears, trying to con the rabbit salesman into letting us have free rabbits, signing autographs, eating (caramel) apples, trying to steal golf carts, etc. I can't wait to go back tomorrow!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I raced back to my car to make it to a princess night in Lexington. I am so tired my lazy eye has taken over. Here are some shots...See ya latah!!</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLR0e-0ct9ekYBbTwTEUBNSRE3uEvOxYY4I8G7oUZIC0tKC6j43YHMTeSZv328jEulCxUaOfuUXyCvWFveupFqMEXoIm_0_Op2jFORTJnOzlJO3RpkZBJJfpAGwFFmFBJZSkEbeZ-U0I0/s1600-h/IMG_0554.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLR0e-0ct9ekYBbTwTEUBNSRE3uEvOxYY4I8G7oUZIC0tKC6j43YHMTeSZv328jEulCxUaOfuUXyCvWFveupFqMEXoIm_0_Op2jFORTJnOzlJO3RpkZBJJfpAGwFFmFBJZSkEbeZ-U0I0/s320/IMG_0554.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372214174769849810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjdalsDfA5dNYA5DTHdVbbrj8ZuwUo9CscB0k0eXF8oY7khf1REUnt_AE0hdK_gRLDHAv9wqwhE1qJMQRhq5criBl3QMnWZ4MoKOa_VCY5OgWI9Qk2-9pRvrqfj6v2CPvAXVYH07bWcE/s1600-h/IMG_0548.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqQRGyhvTJC665kjtWOumcxQEWa6DLKkkUFhgKKJpjuu0C1kduhmj7Nm8Gto8E0Sh_yVahfHlmmXsBGGJrxoUtqwGpn2vQF6-0g6k5ucyVKMtUp7eaxRL1L6n1LJoW5n16MukvM4i5Knc/s1600-h/IMG_0547.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqQRGyhvTJC665kjtWOumcxQEWa6DLKkkUFhgKKJpjuu0C1kduhmj7Nm8Gto8E0Sh_yVahfHlmmXsBGGJrxoUtqwGpn2vQF6-0g6k5ucyVKMtUp7eaxRL1L6n1LJoW5n16MukvM4i5Knc/s320/IMG_0547.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372214159480500850" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S. I'm sorry I broke my pinky swear to you...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-2220644765347062862009-08-19T14:46:00.000-07:002009-08-19T15:26:16.363-07:00Ketchup...(i know it's not really spelled like that)...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Nm3OcicyFMdHp8cMiVDf_6Z8t3Yyh182NC5j4yn8X0hx8rfNrP-2emwBdMH6IPrP5_YYQVzgpYf6JOtOfFRdk92JiEnc-PuUfBpUiW1ucv6tnI6B3UwXEPmmOc3iak_M88QL3In99_M/s1600-h/IMG_9661.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;">Today is my final lull...the calm before the storm so to speak. A single day where I can get things together before I jump back in the middle of the tornado(and leave at 4 am for the state fair). I feel like the guys on Twister though...I love jumping into it...I live for it. So since i want this blog to be daily updates on what I've done that day, I need to share just a few more things with you to catch you up on the past month(the boring black and white world that existed before I burst through the pearly gates into blogland)...<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Nutshell(in the wrong order): Homecoming - Grand Openings - Showers - Back to School Kick Offs - Autism Golf Tournament - Highlands Autism Center Visit(autism is my platform for miss america, more to come on that) - Lexus Deal - A Few Photoshoot Shots(where i look about 12) - Richie Farmer(my favorite person in the state now) - Etc.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-UAtnhihayPyy13cqCtVfuFSNc4FwKPOFjjgbj8_ta5NcaBIV7i57WU8y3WAiiloTa7jcTZlsxgkp_UypGPKsdjRxSCp4Wo9uk3RFXBwDhWP4JANAmRl4th97pmiXIJeX6E-hefLkxU/s1600-h/IMG_0222.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-UAtnhihayPyy13cqCtVfuFSNc4FwKPOFjjgbj8_ta5NcaBIV7i57WU8y3WAiiloTa7jcTZlsxgkp_UypGPKsdjRxSCp4Wo9uk3RFXBwDhWP4JANAmRl4th97pmiXIJeX6E-hefLkxU/s320/IMG_0222.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371802554391426338" style="display: block; 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I pinky swear to my trainers and everyone reading this blog that I won't eat funnel cakes at the fair tomorrow...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-20969220516709132912009-08-18T18:33:00.000-07:002009-08-18T18:45:31.900-07:00I Love Being Santa...<div>Chick-Fil-A Princess Night...I am Santa Claus. I love being Santa Claus. Tiny princesses and their 'too cool' brothers plop down in my tiny lap for pictures and autographs. I love love love love love love love it!!! Santa is so lucky!!! 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I love Elizabeth (Cruse)...thanks for letting me wear the green ones even though they didn't match...</div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-19685896261693713112009-08-18T17:53:00.001-07:002009-08-18T18:32:30.201-07:00If You Liked It Then You Should've Put A Crown On It...<div><div><div style="text-align: center; ">On Madison's head that is...oh well...she will be a great miss teen kentucky the rest of the year. So Orlando...I still can't stop rambling about it. There's so much I want to spill about it. 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">P.S. ...i love Michigan.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-76124936493670374812009-08-18T01:27:00.000-07:002009-08-18T01:27:00.045-07:00No Way Jose'At 1:31 am I realize that it has been a month. A whole month. I don't want it to be a month...I don't want it to be a minute. I never want this year to go by. I have never experienced anything like I experience every single day now...<div><br /></div><div>Nutshell: </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">July 18th </span>- Dream of becoming Miss Kentucky comes true in a tornado-like experience at the Singletary Center in Lexington...followed by lots of cupcakes and prayers(the sole reason i got that crown, the prayers not the cupcakes). </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">July 19th - 21st </span>- Wake up and don't believe it...followed by 46 hours of running to the other side of the state, throwing every belonging i own in huge black trash bags and beginning my journey to my new home in Lexington...stopped dead in my tracks by the most wonderful surprise homecoming ceremony a small town queen could ever ask for.<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">July 23ish -29ish </span>- Move In and TV Interviews...followed by watching them and realizing that I am far to excited to do tv interviews yet...calmed down for a day...NOT!</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">July 28ish - August 10ish </span>- Lots.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">August 12th - 17th</span> - Orlando!!...went to the teen pageant in orlando to cheer on my pretty little teen queen madison(aka my sister)...met the contestants(loved all 53 of them, really), filmed our interviews for the tv special, went to universal studios in matching red t-shirts and rode roller coasters, had meetings about MISS AMERICA(ahhhhhhh), received every single 'as seen on tv' product known to man(including zebra print snuggies), and got to know each others' real names(so that we don't have to call each other by our states anymore) over late night meals at 'the deli'...it was more fun than Christmas.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am just so excited!! I'm not that great at blogging yet. I'll get better...I'll bet my crown on it...</div>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540050363775694632.post-10292686068801811392009-08-17T22:33:00.000-07:002009-08-17T22:46:39.212-07:00Where Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HwIy_mhyphenhyphenL6c9zd4IymzxT8AM69S7CWb9H5KPBH5P5QqIkFYwH08I-9i8LzwAzrr9_Zyz47G9jjDZcMT4V_yVHyDnSC8hPSzV3MjIzIbezUy_-q5-uFEyrKTshL6GztJr56AdH3RR0Xk/s1600-h/malcrown3.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Talk about some shoes to fill! Emily Cox(Miss Kentucky 2008) is the most selfless and kind person on this earth. I love how you can see that in this picture. I also love that you can see my rosary bracelet that Jaders Taders(my sister) gave me before the pageant. I wore it the whole time. My faith brought me to the moment in this photo...more to come on that.</span><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HwIy_mhyphenhyphenL6c9zd4IymzxT8AM69S7CWb9H5KPBH5P5QqIkFYwH08I-9i8LzwAzrr9_Zyz47G9jjDZcMT4V_yVHyDnSC8hPSzV3MjIzIbezUy_-q5-uFEyrKTshL6GztJr56AdH3RR0Xk/s320/malcrown3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371173691833292578" /></a>Mallory Ervin - Miss Kentucky 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/00712826473631483281noreply@blogger.com0