Protect Idaho Kids

I have grown pretty fond of Protect Idaho Kids since I have been able to work with them since June of last year! They have a great organization going and do a lot of outreach. I have been so blessed to get to know the founder, Bruce Wingate, and can call him a dear friend now. I was asked to do an appearance for them on January 14 and help raise awareness. Mrs. Eagle, Kristie Bear joined us for the afternoon and helped spread the message of keeping our children safe here locally. The goal is to make Idaho the best and safest place for children to grow up!

Boise Capital Lions Club

On January 13, I got to speak to the Boise Capital Lions Club about my voluneerism in the community and let them know about the pageant experiece thus far. I was truely honored to speak to them about the opportunities that I have as Mrs. Boise in the community, since they are the largest organization in the world for volunteerism. What an honor! Pictured with the VP and a member Nancy.

Alliance

All of the current contestants were offered a free self defense class in Boise from Alliance Jiu jitsu on January 8, 2011. It was a blast to learn how to protect ourselves from potential attackers. Scary at times, but overall, extremely educational! I wouldn't mess with us if I were you... :-)

Movie Night with the other queens!

On January 7, 2010, Mrs. Twin Falls, Kimberly Page hosted a movie night at her parents house to watch last years pageant in the theater room. It was such a fun evening with lots of fellowship, food, getting to know each other and of course, photo ops! :-) Thank you to Kimberly for her warm, welcoming family!

Polar Bear Plunge!

The Make a Wish Foundation hosts an annual event called the Polar Bear Challenge to raise funds for children's final wishes to come true in Idaho. It was held on January 1, 2010 up at Lucky Peak Reservoir.

The goal is to get sponsors to donate or sponsor you in this event where all proceeds to back to the Make a Wish Foundation. I was able to raise a little bit of money and have a LOT of fun!

Mrs. Meridian, Beverly Hartle was the one to encourage all the women to help support this great cause and we were the only ones crazy enough to actually pull it off!

For anyone that knows me, they know I really REALLY don't like to be cold, it's not my favorite thing to do to say the least. So, to get out of myself and "suffer" for a bit in the freezing temperatures (negative 15 degrees outside with the windchill) was a bit of a stretch for me. I am so glad I did it, my mind set going into this event was "these children suffer everyday all day, what is one minute to me?!" Off I went into the freezing water!!!