Best Buddies Ball at Viewmont

This past Saturday I was in charge of the Best Buddies Ball fro 11 high schools in Utah. It was nuts! Our D.J. canceled at 3:00 pm that day and we had all sorts of wild happenings. The dance ended up a success in the end though. We are having another one January 17th at the U of U Student Union building if anyone would like to come or volunteer. It really is so fun!

This is Amber Wilding who was one of my roommates at USU. She is a professional wedding coordinator and has amazing taste. She was in charge of all of the decorations for this dance and is doing the college Buddy Ball in January. She is honestly one of the nicest girls I know. She did a phenomenal job. And I was in love with the dress she was wearing!

These amazing women are from the Salt Lake City School of Cosmetology. They volunteered their time to come and do hair and make up for the buddies before the dance. Those who did it looked beautiful. On of the Utah queens Sarah Pettit was so amazing to get all of the hair stylists and the photographer who was amazing. She was incredible. Unfortunately she got sick the day of and couldn't come. Thank you Sarah! I think it was fun for everyone.


So a little intimidating to take a picture standing next to the Jazz Dancers! They were so great to come and participate in our ball. One of the Utah queens that has been so great to help me with these events is Arial Larsen who also happens to be a Jazz Dancer. She arranged for them to come for a while.



It was so fun to see how all of the cute girls got their hair and make up done. I think this was a really fun part of our event.



I just had to get a picture of this guy. Amber and I casually took our picture standing a foot apart right in front of him, do you think he noticed? Okay so I am so awful, but this man was the bane of my existence for a week! He demanded that we pay him for being there...and this is what he did all night. I am so glad that he earned his dollars. At the end of the night we had to clean everything up. He watched us do everything and didn't help at all. There was tape on the walls up really high left from the dance the day before. I asked him if he wanted us to clean it up. He told me that is why he brought me a ladder! He just watched while I started climbing the ladder in my evening gown! Luckily one of the guys from our committee came and did it for me or I think I would have ended up on my head. He was such a character (in a bad way!)

The Jazz Dancers got everyone in a conga line. I hope they all had fun. The kids thought they were so great. They were really sweet to come.



Dancin' the night away (it isn't that easy dancing with a rhinestone tower on your head).

My cute friend Natalie came and was the photographer for the night.

These are all of the Miss Utah queens that helped me with the ball. I have been so impressed with each of them.

These kids really are so wonderful to be around. They are always happy and have so much enthusiasm for life. I feel privileged to be able to work with them so often.


We had a royalty and everything. The Jazz Dancers named the King, Queen, Prince and Princess. The kids got crowns and everything.

We gave away door prizes compliments of Mrs. Fields and TCBY. Everyone thought they were pretty cool.

Janna (Miss Riverton) and Lauren (Miss Sandy)were so great to help me prepare for the ball, stay the entire night dancing with the kids and helping with everything and then they stayed after and helped clean up. Amazing girls!