one short day. {wicked.}

 one day i went to SLC with my mom. 

my 6 new friends. 

their moms. 

and our directors.

on this day we were on t.v.

we visited the most beautiful place on earth. 

we met with an amazing man in an amazing room.

we took one too many pictures.

and we ate the garden.

part of MY world. {the little mermaid.}

13 cheesecakes to deliver. 13 city council meetings. 1 month.

this was my month of may. each and every tuesday and wednesdays we as a royalty would go and invite each city councils in utah county to strawberry days and present them with a cheesecake.

they just wanted the cheesecake and didn’t care about our little invite. its fine.

although they probably weren’t the most fun thing i get to do for miss pg royalty it still taught me so much.

it taught me that royalty is not all about the glam and fame. it is hard work and sometimes can be boring. but you do what you have to do with a smile on your face. can you imagine how many “city council” meetings kate middleton now has to go to. bet she didn’t sign up to do that the rest of her life. but its her job so she does it willingly. as do we.

it taught me that i shouldn’t complain. yes the meetings were boring. yes we could all tell that they only wanted the cheesecake. yes it was A LOT of driving for a 3 min. presentation. but had we not been in those meetings we would have not been wearing the crown and sash. which means i personally would not have been living my dream and my hard work would not have been paid off.

it taught me that 5 girls who have never known each other and are completely different can have funny moments and can be friends.

·         Mikaela. well she is straight up bold and beautiful. she is outgoing and not afraid to speak her mind which i love.

·         Tayler. is the nicest girl you will ever meet in your whole entire life. and well she has a funny side to here which makes everything much more exciting.

·         Eliza. she is happy all. the. time. she is super bubbly and i never see her not smiling.

·         Lea.  simply amazing. i don’t think there has ever been or ever will be a better or more deserving queen. she is elegant and fun.

·         as for me i am the mother. i usually am the “go to” person. i am living up every part of this adventure. i have had to work longer and harder then these girls to get where i am. and well i am just me.

throw us together and we don’t really “go” but when we have all worked hard for the same thing we can find similarities and we can work past our differences. we are becoming best friends.

giving my part of our invite. don't worry we really did present to the city council. but apparently lindon doesn't have any problems to be announced to the council.

last city council meeting. super sunny. ignore the squinting.

the time. {black eyed peas.}

 

award.

front view.

side view.

don't fret. florida trip is coming soon.

oh what a day it has been. so it was our first parades as a royalty. exciting i know. we arrive at 8:50 right on time i must add to the springville parade. and we await for our float at number 36. we are waiting and waiting and still no float. its like 9:40 now and the phone rings. terry (our director) tells us that our lovely float is about to burst into flames and we will not have a float for the parade. can you believe that? no float. welcome to our lives. well don't fret because we are all mature and we jump into action. literally. our first plan was the float. it fell through. our plan B was a old red stretch convertible car. ya thats right. red stretch car. plan C yellow convertible bug. plan D truck. ya that is right we had back up plans for our back up plans. well we are all in action and never skipping a beat. mikaela calls her dad who calls her uncle who owns the red car. i call my dad who turns around and heads back home to retrieve the yellow bug. with in 10 minutes of our first disaster phone call we hear that the red car is on its way.  therefore i call my dad and tell him nevermind.  we worked it out and although we didn't have our beautiful float. we had probably the sickest car in the parade. ya that is right. the sickest.

springville parade. car ride.

so after our disaster float happenings we are a little nervous for our orem parade that night. through out the day we would all get text messages from our director saying. we are up and running. oh don't be too excited something else happened. oh now we are running. oh nope we will be towed by a truck throughout the parade. well we were so happy to actually get our float we didn't care it it was towed or if it was driven. we arrive at the orem parade in our designated spots 1 hour early. actually 53 minutes. sorry we were late. we conversed with miss orem, miss santaquin, swiss miss. and little miss lindon. (seriously i love these girls, i helped with the pageant and i saw how hard they worked and each one of them completely deserves their crown and spot in the royalty.) then we started. it was hot and sweaty but we looked awesome and we had the time of our lives. our float is amazing and the best one by far. i truly am so blessed to be in the miss pg royalty and well strawberry days is going to be a blast with the girls next week.

oh hey. lea putting on mikaelas shoe.
umm lea is the queen and mikaela is 4th attendent.
it seems a little backwards but its fine.

parade dress.

our amazing float. there is a float behind ours so the house and the pig is not part of our float.

miss pg royalty with little miss lindon royalty

why i am in the middle i don't know. it bugs me too.

sugar YOUR going down. {fall out boy.}

5 contestants.

dad. mom. me. ash. chad.

5 weeks

final day july 9th. the day we leave for europe.

1 winner. lets face it, it will be me.

1 prize. your choice.

a life time of bragging rights.

welcome to the biggest loser. savage style.

(want to read ash's take on this healthy competition? find it here)

the climb: part 5. {miley cyrus.}

attention: this post is EXTREMELY long. don't worry this is the last "pageant update post."

during the whole miss su pageant process, i was also looking into the miss pg pageant again.  i had my mom go to all the meetings and deep down i knew that if i didn’t win miss su i wanted to compete for miss pg again.  i was ready to do my best.  i told my mom like a week before miss pg that this would be my last time doing a pageant no matter the outcome.  i was ready to be done after this one last time. i knew it was hard on my parents to watch me do something i loved and never succeed.  well it came faster then expected but i was more prepared then ever. as i waited for the girls before me to go into their interview i started getting nervous and i was worried that i would bomb it.  i am so glad ash was there throughout the whole thing.  she really helped calm me down and she knew better than i did that i could do this and was prepared.  i went in with a smile on my face and confidence radiating in my eyes.  i had my interview and as i was walking out I knew I nailed it.  for me it was my best interview EVER!! as i walked out the door and to the car all ash had to say was you did amazing!! i then just had to nail everything that night and i was ready.  i was nervous because my harp wasn’t in my favor.  but again ash was my staple and helped me stay calm and not psych myself out.  well that night was a wave of emotion.  before the pageant started i all of the sudden had this feeling shoot through me that this was it.  this was my last shot and i knew i wanted it so bad, probably more than anyone competing in the pageant. don’t get me wrong everyone competing wanted to win, but also everyone else this was their first pageant they had ever competed in. this was my 4^th and i hadn’t even placed in the other 3. i can tell you i wanted it the most. anyways my emotions almost got the best of me and i almost burst into tears.   then the pageant started and i had a rush of adrenaline and the tears were gone.  i rocked my swimsuit the best i could. and then was on stage question.  let us just say i had an awkward pause and i didn’t answer it very well.  i went back stage and it kinda threw me over the edge and the tears almost came again.  i was panicked again because next was talent and i was already nervous for that.   my mom knows me so well and right as i went off stage she texted ash and told her to calm me down and it wasn’t that big of deal.  ash was on it; she calmed me down and got me ready to rock my harp.  my dad came back stage to wheel on the harp and he gave me his words of encouragement. i knew he was pulling for me but his faith in me was not at its highest…don’t worry dad i still love you J.  so i started my harp.  in the middle of my first section before i change keys the pedal my foot was on started to come up.  i almost died.  had it came up it would have changed keys and well i probably would have cried right then and there.  in my mind the only thing I could think of was “do not move your foot keep it there, only a couple notes more before you can fix it.” i made it. I changed keys and i continued to play flawlessly.  then i had to change back and continue on with the most important section of my life… the section i bombed in msu.  as i continued on all of the sudden my left had stopped playing.  somehow i am not sure but my right hand continued on and eventually my left hand picked up.  i finished strong and i couldn’t believe that i had made it through.  i had the piece so memorized with both hands that seriously i didn’t know the song single handedly.  how my right hand continued i still do not know.  after the pageant my mom told me that she saw the determination on my face to continue and well i did.  after evening gown which i did great in it was time for results.  they did all the small awards in which i won miss photogenic. which still blows my mind because i have never seemed photogenic to myself but hey that’s $100 extra dollars. woot woot! anyways they started the non finalist awards. and well i must be honest.  when they started the awards in my head all i was saying is "not me. please not me." well i came out with out an award. in my mind i had to have placed but then i had that feeling come over me and it reminded me that I have never placed so why now.  i knew winning was not on my side but in my mind i felt that i had done well enough. they continued.  4^th attendant… and well again in my mind i knew it wasn't me. i was right. as usual.  3^rd and 2^nd attendants were called all which i knew were not me. but i started to worry. so far all my pageants had been the same. before they called 1^st attendant i had this feeling and i literally said in my head. brooke this is you.  i don’t know how i knew but i knew that i had gotten 1^st attendant before it was even announced.  they said 1^st attendant goes to … in my head i was saying brooke savage ...  brooke savage contestant #5! i was still shocked even though i just knew. i had never been so happy in my whole entire life. i was just so stoked to finally win i didn’t really know what to do.  after what felt like a million pictures i went down and found my family.  and hugs went all around. my dad was honest with me.  he said “brooke when it got down to 1^st attendant i won’t lie i was a doubting you..” hahaha i showed him J just kidding. but from there i got so many congratulations one even from the current Miss Utah’s body guard. he plays the harp and he told me that i was amazing and that i definitely need to continue on with the harp and pageants. well another person who has had such an influence in my life is terry marchbanks. she is the director of miss pg and when i did lml she was also the director of that.  she has watched me grow more than anyone. i know for sure that Heavenly Father knows what is best for each of us and well we must be patient in getting it. even if that means waiting 3 years of lml, once i grew up 3 more years and 7 pageants later.  this is going to be an experience i will never take for granted and well like i said before pageants have made me who i am, and it has shown that if you work hard in the end it will pay off.  i can’t wait to work with these girls and seriously this summer is going to be the best summer of my life.

being crowned 1st attendant

royalty. 4th: mikaela harmon. 3rd: tayler welch. 2nd: eliza shumway 1st: me. miss pg: lea wride

oh did i mention linds was little miss lindon 2010?

ps. let the real posts begin. a post on florida is coming up once i put the pics on the computer. oh and we love healthy competitions.