Miss Minnesota is Brooke Kilgarriff

Congrats to Miss Twin Cities Brooke Kilgarriff the new Miss Minnesota 2009!
Kelsey our Miss Mankato 2009 was amazing! Making top 10 semifinalist, Quality of Life finalist,and won overall swimsuit award! We could not have asked for a better representative as our Miss Mankato 2009!
She made us very PROUD!
Monday morning Kelsey was emailing and setting up more appearances as Miss Mankato!
You ROCK Kelsey!
THANK YOU for being such an incredible strong and talented woman of today!

Kelsey is Prelim Swimsuit winner!!

Kelsey looked fabulous tonight! She made Mankato so proud!

Kelsey won the prelim swimsuit award!!!

Another similarity! Kelsey swimsuit prelim winner...Jennifer prelim swimsuit winner!!!

You know what I am thinking!!!

Miss Minnesota 2010 Let the Fun Begin!!

I picked Kelsey up at noon..her mom could not drive her so I did! Same thing happened with Jennifer Hudspeth Miss MN 2008. ( Sorry mom's but I LOVE being mom for the day!)Got lost in Apple Valley and Kelsey had to direct me to her house over the phone! Funny but the same thing happened when I went to pick up Jennifer in Apple Valley two years ago!

Similarities !!!

Now I am hoping for another same thing ...a crown for this Miss Mankato to be the new Miss Minnesota!!!

Kelsey was waiting by her room, well everything that will go into her room!

Kelsey with neighboring Miss South Central Natalie Davis looking radiant!

The five Quality of Life Finalist before their interviews.

These five ladies look amazing, and there is a dozen more still to arrive!

Hope to get some pics of all of them soon!

Miss Mankato 2009 is a Quality Of Life Finalist!

Top 5 have been named for Quality Of Life Finalist and Kelsey is a finalist!!
Send off was Sunday...she is ready for Miss America!
I remember suggesting to Kelsey not to prepair for Miss Minnesota, but to prepair for Miss America!
Well she did just that! She is sooooo ready!
Kelsey has been an amazing ambassador for Mankato, and is ready for the job of Miss Minnesota 2010!
THANK YOU KELSEY FOR BEING THE BEST MISS MANKATO 2009!