Miss Orem & Teen Blog: June 2014

Utah Symphony

Having the Scera as one of our sponsors is the best. I absolutely LOVED going to the Utah Symphony the other day. The music played was so beautiful and edifying. Jenny Oaks Baker was featured, and she is such an inspiration to me. Plus, I have a secret obsession for film scores, so when she played a few of those I was way too happy.

Yeah, my brother Robbie and his friend Shawn are the coolest to come with me.

Guess who I saw there!! Miss Provo, Melissa Richardson, is so adorable. We had so much fun sitting together and getting to know each other a little better!

I waited a little too long to take the picture, so the lighting looks bad. Just believe me when I say that it was a beautiful sight to see :)

Yes. I was indeed Classically Charged after this experience.

Plus, I got to meet one of my favorite people ever, Elder Oaks! He and his family were so kind and funny and I felt so privileged to meet him.

Love, Maddi Millard

Miss Orem 2014-2015

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Beautification project!

Orem's beautification committee heard that Miss Orem is a great resource for service projects. So they got in contact with my director and asked me to beautify the flower bed in front of the City Center.

Since my platform is "Create the Good," you can imagine how excited I was to put this platform into action!! I called Mountain View's and Orem High's Student Body Presidents and asked them to recruit their student councils to come help us beautify this area! I was so pleased with the turn out. Getting people of all ages involved in service has countless benefits. We were able to witness a few of those benefits as we got to know each other and worked together to complete this project.

It started off as a grassy mess, so we weeded the daylights out of it!

Yes, gardening clothes and a crown is a strange combination...but I guess it comes with the territory.

The success of this project would not have been possible without the incredible assistance from my mother!!! She knows just about everything about gardening so she was a spectacular woman to have on the team.

Thanks so much to everybody who helped out with this project! Especially to Cooks who worked with us so well to get all the plants we needed at a great price.

Many hands make light work! We were a great team, even though not everyone could stay the whole time.

I am so excited for these plants to grow and fill in! They've got a great start already.

The point of service is to give all you can. The point is not to be seen by others, and it's not to get glory. It is to better those around you with a selfless and positive attitude. That's what being Miss Orem is to me :)

Love, Maddi Millard
Miss Orem 2014-2015

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Princess Festival

There's a little Magic in everyone!!!!

It is every princess favorite thing to be surrounded by other princesses. There was so much laughing, smiling, and curtsying to go around; Amy, Emily and I had an absolute blast.

Princess Parade!

Emily out playing with the kids!

It was nearly impossible to get this little girl to hold still! I knew her from the baby contest so it was fun to see her again:)

We had a little too much fun with the bubble machine.

Nobody models bubbles better.

I felt pretty cool that I knew Robin Hood.

We felt so honored to be asked to sign autographs!

The three princess amigos.

Love, Maddi Millard
Miss Orem 2014-2015

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Beauty Queens

One of the fun things about pageant-land is taking royalty pictures! We had such a fun time shooting in this cute farm. Michelle with edreamphotography did a great job.

Emily, my dearest sister queen! I am so thankful for all you do with your title! I love working with you and being friends with you :) You never cease to make me laugh and have a good time! I'm glad the year has just begun because we've got a lot of work left to do together!

Face it. We're fabulous.