Klingler Family: Dazzling Diamonds

Kylynn brought home a paper from school advertising the Dazzling Diamonds, she asked if she could do it. At first I told her no because it caused to much. She began to cry and talk about how I never let her do anything she wants. I thought about it and asked myself why I wasn't letting her do this when I was willing to spend about the same amount of money on the other kids to play sports. In the end I decided that I needed to let her do this to help her with her confidence and self esteem if nothing else.
You may wonder what the Dazzling Diamond are, well it is a non-competitve program done in conjunction with the Miss Rexburg pageant. Kylynn got to attend several different workshops on Poise, self-confidence, and dance routines. He favorite workshop was the Glam session, where she got to have her hair and make-up done at Paul Mitchell and then have a photo shoot.
Kylynn worked really hard and looked forward to each activity, It was never a problem getting her to go, because it was something she truly enjoyed.
As the final event she was able to participate in the Miss Rexburg Pageant on March 21st. In total there were 13 Dazzling Diamonds. They performed a group dance number at the program. They also got so show off what they learned in there poise workshop and walk on stage modeling their own Evening Gowns and have a spot light read about them written by their parents. The final time they were on stage was to escort on of the Miss Rexburg contestants on the stage for the Evening Gown competition.
Kylynn did wonderful and she looked so beautiful, thanks to Grandma Erikson, Aunt Cristy and Justine doing her hair and make-up.
When it was all over I found out that she got so much more out of doing this program then the $75 I payed for her to participate. I am so glad that she was able to do this.