She was amazing! I know I am biased but she truly sang well. She only sang four songs. One in Italian – Non so piu cosa son (from Le Nozze di Figaro), one in German – Du Ring an meinem Finger and two in English – Give me Jesus and Ride the Morning Winds. She had the audience weeping twice and at the end they gave her a standing ovation.
The First Mr. MPFO Pageant was a fun time for all!! The small setting on the stage of the Plano West Senior High Theater was perfect. Kevin Howard and troupe made everyone there laugh. The fathers of the titleholders and LSP were good sports, as well as the supporters from other organizations.
David Dennard was crowned Mr. Frisco
Michael Sproul was crowned Mr. North Texas
Michael Sparks was crowned Mr. Plano
Dominic Locascio was crowned Mr. Talent
Honorable mentions were:
Angel Resendes was named Most Handsome
Aaron Richardson was named Most Poised
Beaux Wellborn was named Best Active Wear
Many thanks to our judges for their time and support, thank you to Norv Sykes at PWSH for the use of the theater and his students for their time and help, thank you to Kevin Howard, Mary Anna Dennard and Randy Pruett for their efforts in the show. Thank you to all of the LSP, titleholder families and MPFO board for their help and support in this event. We couldn’t have done it without any of you!!!
If you took photos of this event, we would love to have them to post. Please email them to me at mpfonews@mpfo.com in JPG attachments please.
Miss Plano, Adrianna Nelson will be performing in her recital this coming Saturday, April 19th. Two of the six to eight songs that she has prepared to sing will be “Give me Jesus” and “Ride the Morning”, one of them will be sung in Italian and the other in German.
Also, on Wednesday April 23rd she has been invited to participate in the Honors Program. Details for this event have not been released yet.
Then on Saturday May 3rd Adrianna will graduate from Lon Morris.
Congratulations Adrianna!!! Can’t wait for pictures!!
I just returned from spring meeting, and I had a blast. Although you are there to turn in paperwork, listen to speeches, and go to rehearsals I made so many new friends. Some people believe that pageants are full of mean girls, but the reality is that you can meet great people who can be your friends for the rest of your life.
This is my second year as a teen so I knew what to expect, but one thing that I thought was so cool is the service project that everyone had the opportunity to participate in this year. It was for Caitlin’s closet, and I thought it was a great way to help not only the girls in one community, but in many. To get all of my gowns I put bins in a few local schools and the community really showed their support once they found out what I was doing. I collected about seventy-four gowns and I was able to pick really quickly. I was so excited; because I was able to pick the exact position I wanted, X-12. I feel so good about the spot I chose, and I can not wait until this summer!
I could not have done this without the support of the whole MPFO group though. I have learned so much already from them and hope to keep learning. They have such a great group of people helping and I am ecstatic to get to be a part of it all. I am looking forward to representing them this summer and am going to work as hard as I can to do so. ~Hillary Sproul, Teen North Texas 2008
Over spring break I had the awesome opportunity to get together with a lot of the MPFO Lone Star princesses. We had a great time! We had a pizza and blanket making party, it was so much fun. We made blankets together because the auditorium can get pretty cold the week of Miss
Abby, Elle, Claudia, Sophia, Miranda, Kristen and tall one in the back is Hillary.
As a first year Miss contestant I was more than ready to experience Spring meeting. Ready to meet all of the contestants, turn in the paper work that I had been working so hard on to another set of hands, get closer with my pageant sisters and learn more about this summer!
Friday started off great, turning in our Caitlin’s Closest dresses for the deserving girls who will receive them for events in their lives.
Thank you thank you to those of you in my hometown of 
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Saturday Adrianna, my amazing roomie, and I got up met the group and head to the high school for rehearsal practice. Just watching Lea and Anna dance was my favorite part, they were SO adorable. Brooks and I will be gracing the stage in the ballet section of the opening while our sisters are dispersed in different groups. MPFO will be all over the stage!
Sunday also was a day of dancing and bonding. We had a great time the whole weekend. After Sunday’s events I headed back to
Capitol Day was so great!! I had such a wonderful time touring the capitol, listening to wonderful speakers and learning so much about
Overall meeting was absolutely wonderful! I am so excited and pumped about this summer. I am working hard and ready to be at Miss
Spring Meeting was a huge success! Friday started out with a bang as I was named the contestant who brought in the most dresses for our Caitlin’s Closet dress drive and thus I got to pick my placement first (C38, exactly where I wanted!). With the help of countless people, I collected 129 dresses, garnering over 500 points!! My mom (Moo) and I were very resourceful, and surprisingly the number one trick to getting dresses was simply going out there and asking! I put together a Facebook event, sent out text messages to everyone in my phone book, announced it at Kappa, called/emailed friends and family. Also my family at the Kim Dawson Agency, Lone Star Princess moms, the Salvation Army, Moo’s students, and the MPFO board were a great help. A GIGANTIC thank you has to go to my wonderful mother who picked up almost every dress, bagged them, AND labeled them. There is NO way I could have done this with out her. She’s the best 
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Saturday was a BLAST! We had rehearsals all morning where we got to learn the choreography for the opening number. Brittany and I were both cast in the ballet section. I really enjoyed not only getting to learn the choreography, but also getting to know all the girls. We had so much fun laughing and tossing our hair and basically hamming it up. All the girls are so fun–I can’t WAIT for the summer! Oh and of course the talent show on Saturday night was RIOT!! Who could forget Ricardo in a tutu?? I know I won’t (whether I want to or not…ha-ha!). After the hilarity,
Sunday was filled with more rehearsals and a wrap up meeting. Overall the weekend was really inspiring. It was the extra push I needed to keep going with my preparations and genuinely made me excited about the relationships I am forming between such incredible people. I am so proud of this organization, both locally and statewide, and I am so grateful to know the people within it! I can’t wait for July!!
xoxo
-Brooks, Miss Frisco 2008
Participating in the Carrollton Special Olympics were several of the Miss Texas Titleholders, including Miss Plano, Adrianna Nelson and Teen Plano, Taylor Lowery. Below are a few pictures from the event and here is a message from
Whenever I get the opportunity to work with the Special Olympics I always say yes if possible. I was able to help with the Carrollton Special Olympics on March 26th.There were several other Miss Texas titleholders that also attended the event. We were asked to encourage and cheer the athletes on as they participated in their events. I met a boy named Ryan who wanted me to watch him run so of course I was there by the track during his race. When he saw me he got so excited he nearly stopped running his race but I yelled and said "Ryan, keep going your doing great"!!! He ended up placing and how fun it was to be able to be the one that placed the medal around his neck. Every time I am able to help with the Special Olympics I thank God that my platform is "It Takes Someone Special to Help the Special". If you ever are offered the opportunity to volunteer at the Special Olympics take advantage of it; the event is well worth your time!!! I want to say a special thanks to Beaux Wellborn for asking the MTO girls to participate. ~
The two girls are Lufkin High School freshmen Morgan Berger and Taylor Lowery and they will compete in the Miss Teen Texas America pageant in Fort Worth in July. Berger won Miss Teen Longview back in December and Lowery won Miss Teen Plano in October.
Growing up Berger and Lowery competed in some of the same pageants. "I remember winning trophies that were taller than me," Berger said. "I stopped when I was around 4 and I was glad because the dresses were always too itchy." Lowery remembers Berger beating her in some contests. "She would always beat me. I was bald until I was about 5 years old and she always had pretty hair," Lowery said.
Lowery gave herself even less time to get prepared for the pageant, deciding just a few weeks ahead of time to compete in the Miss Teen Plano contest.
Lowery’s training for the fitness portion didn’t see any changes from her regular routine. "I just like to eat a lot and being in track and also a cheerleader I figured that was enough training," Lowery said. It worked. Lowery won the talent and fitness portions of the pageant.
Lowery’s platform is "It takes someone special to help the special." "I’m really involved in Special Olympics and I also help with the mentally challenged the Oak Creek Center here in Lufkin where my aunt works," Lowery said. "I try to encourage everyone to help with the mentally challenged. I think a lot of people are rude and just don’t understand, but I want to change that."
Lowery says she gets nervous before the talent portion, but that’s not a bad thing in that it gives her energy. She says sometimes during the interview portion she gets asked questions she just doesn’t know. "I got asked a political question one time and I just wanted to say ‘I don’t know, can’t you ask me something about math? I’m really good at that,’" Lowery said.
At the pageant, when she realized she’d won Lowery says her first thoughts were, "It’s so exciting," and then, "Oh, what do I need to work on and I hope I don’t have to go on a diet plan."
"I’m really excited about it," Lowery said. "We’ll be there for a week but we won’t get to room together or anything."
"It was all worth it," Berger said.
Article is only partial from actual one on the Lufkin News website….
Congratulations Lea on getting the braces off and the new hair style thanks to Troy Richard Salon!! Looking good!!