Hello everyone! My name is Lydia Knight and I am Miss Teen Irving 2010. I am so excited about my year! In the past two months I have had a photo shoot, been to other prelims as a visiting titleholder, ridden in a parade, and had a Christmas party with my Lone Star Princesses and fantastic board members! It has already been so much fun, and I cannot wait to see what the rest of my year holds.
During this holiday season, I realized how truly blessed I am! I have a family who loves me dearly, a home, a cozy bed, and an abundant supply of food in the pantry. I felt that I should give back to my community the best I could. At Thanksgiving I teamed up with a local elementary school and helped with their canned food drive. It was so much fun to encourage little kids to bring food for the less fortunate in their community. You should have seen them when I asked what their favorite Thanksgiving food was and then told them some children their age wouldn’t be having a Thanksgiving feast. Red Lick Elementary School helped so many families have a nice Thanksgiving Day feast, and I am honored to have been a part of it.
I knew I wanted to continue helping the people have a good holiday season, so as Junior Class Vice President I organized a sock tree for my high school along with a fellow classmate’s help. We set up a Christmas tree and encouraged students to fill the tree with hats and socks and gloves and scarves which we would donate to local shelters around town. In a few days I came to school and my tree was filled! I was amazed by the generous spirit my fellow schoolmates had.
I had a very relaxing holiday season. I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed the first day of my break. That wasn’t very fun because I could barely eat all the delicious food we had for Christmas. I enjoyed being able to spend quality time with my family watching my favorite Christmas movies every night! We made sugar cookies and these amazing chocolate Oreo cookie balls! They were to die for! My favorite part about Christmas is spending time with my family reminiscing on past Christmas memories. If I had to choose my favorite part about this Christmas would be that it snowed for the first time in six years, and it was on Christmas Eve!! It wasn’t much snow and it didn’t stick, but it was enough to make everyone smile.
As the new year of 2010 begins, I become more and more excited. I am excited about Teen Texas this summer and excited to be the best Miss Teen Irving I can be! I am proud to represent such a great city and blessed to have such supportive directors.
Lydia Knight
Miss Teen Irving
