Swiss Days: Santa Clara City Royalty

This week was Swiss Days and so it was a very busy week for our Santa Clara City Royalty!! Sunday afternoon included a photoshoot in order to hurry and get a photo ready for the Town Hall. 

Tuesday the girls met at the town hall to put together the race packets for Saturday's 5K. Here are the girls with our Mayor, Jarett Waite. Jarett took office last January, replacing Rick Rosenberg, who served as Mayor for 19 years. 

Wednesday night included meeting the city council. 

This is the royalty with the city council and the youth council (in red). I didn't even know that our city had a youth council! Jenna and the other royalty members all decided to join the Santa Clara City youth council, and so now they will be doubly involved!  

Thursday the girls helped serve cookies at the Town Hall dinner. 

After the dinner the girls changed from their short dresses into their long dresses for the Swiss Days opening ceremonies, where they were officially introduced to the audience.  

Friday the girls helped with butter-making at the pioneer games. 

Friday night the girls helped with the Swiss Miss and Mister presentations. 

Saturday morning, bright and early at 6:00 am, the girls helped finish up the race packets for the Swiss Days 5K, and then helped with the time cards after the race. 

Here is Jenna with Clarissa and Audrey, who ran the race.

Then the girls changed into their gowns for the parade! 

Jase and Ellen brought the kids to meet me at the parade. But then Jase and Evan had to leave for Evan's soccer game. Ellen stayed with Eli and Elsie and we got some pictures of them with the royalty at the "meet and greet." You can see by Eli's face that he is NOT happy about having his picture taken with the princesses, haha! 

We got a similar picture with Jared years ago! 

After the meet and greet the girls ate take-out from Costa Vida and then headed to the town hall to host BINGO!! Apparently this is a very popular activity with awesome prizes. 

Swiss Days wrapped up around 4:00. Jenna came home and attempted to take a nap and then she and some of the royalty girls met up with some of her other friends to go to the city slides in St. George. Busy day!! 

Neighborhood Chili Cook Off (Halloween Party)

Tonight was the annual Chili Cook-Off in the Bishop's Cul-de-sac -- lots of yummy food, dunk tank, painting pumpkins, games and more! Jenna got permission to leave her rehearsal for Into the Woods an hour early in order to go. She dressed like a princess in Janika's former prom dress and looked SO pretty! 

Janika wore this princess dress to her Senior Ball on April 14, 2012 and also when she won Santa Clara Princess April13, 2013! 

Clarissa also donned one of Janika's former dresses and looked very pretty also! Jaiden and Emily also went as princesses in 2019 and so I will include one of their pictures just for fun. Jenna is wearing high heels and so she is actually as tall as Clarissa in this picture! 

Janika -- Santa Clara Princess!!!

Janika participated in the Santa Clara Princess Pageant tonight and she WON!!!  She did such a great job and we are really proud of her!  Janika's best friend, Kiara Christensen, also did an amazing job and got 1st Attendant.  She did a humorous monologue and it was so funny!  She is a great actress!  2nd Attendant was McKayla Redfearn.  She did an amazing job on her piano solo (playing "Tarantella")!

 All of the girls were absolutely gorgeous (and sweet too) and they all did a great job on their talents!  For Janika's talent she sang, "I See the Light" from Tangled and in the middle where there is an instrumental interlude she signed it in ASL.  It was gorgeous!  For her "active wear" she highlighted "dance" and "cooking."  She looked great during the group dance number and had a great smile and so much stage presence!  (This first picture was taking during the rehearsal).

When Janika's Aunt, Julie, heard that her pageant was tonight she and Madee decided to come down from Ogden to attend!  And then Grandma Jensen and Gerilyn decided to come with them!  Janika's cousin, Kallie Sabey, was also in town and came!  Janika was SO excited to have them come and was thrilled to have Julie be her backstage stylist!  Julie did all of her pageant hairstyles and Madee did her makeup at home before the interview and before the evening portion of the pageant.  We appreciate their support and help SO MUCH!!



 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

You can watch the pageant HERE!!