On Friday, Sept. 3, Romeo and I headed to Dayton for the Labor Day weekend. 
The Roepke family joined me and brought a 51' living quarters horse trailer for us to stay in. Friday night's performance was very fun. Tally, Miss Rodeo Cherokee, and I split chasing back with the Dayton Rodeo Queen, Jami Hadaway, and the Dayton Rodeo Princess, Danielle Hadaway. After catching John Payne, The One Armed Bandits, performance and the Wild Horse Race, Tally and I headed out on the hill to sign autographs.
On Saturday night Jordanne joined us up in Dayton. We had a great night again with the Dayton Rodeo Committee along with Announcer, Boyd Pullhamus, Gizmo McCracken and Cory Wall the bull fighter.
Jordanne also joined us on Sunday for Tough Enough to Wear Pink night. It was amazing to see everyone on the hill decked out in pink.
On Monday morning was the parade. Tally and I, along with the two Dayton Queens and Cervi Rodeo Company led out the horses. Dayton is a pretty tiny town but they had a very long parade and so many people came out to see it. Monday afternoon was the last performance of the weekend and afterward I headed back to Ames to get some homework done before I took off for Fort Madison on Wednesday.
A huge thank you goes out to the entire Dayton Rodeo Committee for having me at their rodeo, Paula Jameson for the Cowgirl Pendent, Blake and Tammy Roepke for letting me stay with them in the AWESOME trailer, and of course my mom for meeting me in Ogden to take my dirty clothes and bring me clean ones.
TRI-STATE Rodeo-
After only 1 full day in Ames, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, Romeo loaded back up and headed out for Fort Madison for the Tri-Sate Rodeo along with the Miss Rodeo and Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa pageants.I made it down there in time for Wednesday's Tough Enough to Wear Pink night. The Miss Rodeo Iowa contestants, Rachel Bergren, Rachel Burton, Heidi Gansen, and Abigail Peterson, were already there and checked in.
On Thursday morning Jordanne, Rachel Kelderman, Miss NFPB, and I went to an elementary school for a school visit. We also stopped by a special needs classroom and signed autographs for the kids. After that we met up with the Miss Rodeo Iowa contestants and 3 judges for lunch. At 3:00 that afternoon the Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa contestants, Charity Howk and Caitlin Kuehn, had check in and then went to the rodeo grounds for the rodeo. Before the rodeo, Jordanne 
and I signed autographs at the Dodge Rodeo booth and also did a quick radio interview. While Jordanne and I stayed horseback the whole night with rodeo announcer, Boyd Pullhamus, the contestants mingled through the crowd with people's choice buckets.
Friday morning started with the horsemanship portion of the competitions. It was kinda rainy and chilly but rodeo queens aren't fare-weathered cowgirls. After horsemanship we all had lunch together and then returned to the hotel for the Teens interviews. Right after interviews were speeches and impromptu questions and then we headed out for the rainy Friday night rodeo.
Jordanne and I 
put on our slickers and our hat covers and braved the rain and the mud.
Saturday kicked off with the parade. Well it started with Miss Rodeo Lenox arriving at about 3am but then we had the parade. After the parade it was back to the hotel to get ready for the coronation. Coronation started with all of us girls doing a dance...Jordanne and I may have gotten a little carried away with our ending but we had fun. :) Jordanne and I both modeled our dresses and we also did a farewell speech, where we gave each of the board members roses. Coronation ended with Heidi Gansen being crowned Miss Rodeo Iowa 2011 and Charity Howk being crowned Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa 2011.
(to see full results of pageant visit www.missrodeoiowa.org)I know that two lives were truly changed and Heidi and Charity will have the experience of a lifetime. I wish them both luck in their travels this coming year and hope they take it all in. I'd like to thank the Miss Rodeo Iowa board for all their hard work in the pageant. Without them this thing really wouldn't go on. I'd like to thank the Tri-State Rodeo Committee and all of the sponsors for such a great rodeo. A huge thank you goes out to all the sponsors for the donated items given away as gifts and donated items for the silent auction. Thank you to all the visiting
royalty for coming down and supporting the Miss Rodeo Iowa pageant.
Stacie Baumann, thank you for donating Dalton Wisdom Tee's to all of the girls. And finally, thank you to all of my wonderful sponsors who got me through this year and thank you to my mom, grandpa and grandma for being my support group all year. I couldn't have done any of this without you. I'm sad that my year as Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa is coming to a close but happy for all of the experiences I've had and people that I've met. Jordanne and I truly have had an amazing year and I am so happy that I have had such a wonderful Miss Rodeo Iowa to follow around.
Until we ride again...
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