Since I moved to NH back in 2001, I have fallin in love with Fall in NH. It truly is the best place to be during the season from the leaves turning to the beauty of the lanscape to the fun events! One of my favorite and best events of the Fall Season here in NH is the Annual Milford Pumpkin Festival!
This year, the festival took place on Oct 7-9 and it was one of the nicest weekends ever! The weather was incredible and all you wanted to do was be outside, enjoying the event! I was asked to be a judge at the Pumpkin Festival's Talent Show which has grown thru the years to a Big Event! This year the talent was amazing. There were bands, dancers, singers, theatrical performances, a yoyo performance and of course the Comedy of Carl Zahn. The winner was an 11 year young star in the making, Caroline from Hollis! She sang Adele's "rolling in the deep" and she was amazing!!! I think we will definitely see more of her in the years to come!
In addition to the Talent Show, we enjoyed the Pumpkin Festival and had a blast walking around seeing all the shops, live events, children's fun spot, tasting the yummy food and meeting up with friends!!! Basically, it was a fun filled Pumpkin Festival weekend - in a perfect NH Fall Setting!
My fellow judges at the Talent Show with winner, Caroline.
With fellow judge, Adam Sexton of WMUR.
At the Pumpkin Festival with our very own, Little Miss US of America 2011 (Evmorfia, my big girl)
Check out those pumpkins!
Holy Pumpkins - look at the size of those things!!!!
And the Best picture yet..... Family!!!
When we got the audition alert for A Christmas Carol at the Palace Theater, Ev said she "Really" wanted to audition. So, we said "ok, are you sure, it's going to be really tough and you have to really prepare for this audition as it is a professional show". She said she was up to it! We take her to the audition and holy cow!!! The voices were unbelievable! Scott and I thought - there's no way she'll get cast, there's just way too many people auditioning and they all seemed like pros! We were able to hear her audition from behind closed doors and she was really good! I am my own worst critic by far which makes me unfortunately, their worst critic, but also their biggest fan!! Well... she was cast in the show as one of Belle's daughters, a snowballer, child of poverty and as a youth caroler! I can't even begin to tell how excited she was and how proud we were of her, not only that she was cast, but that she auditioned doing something she had never done before! The rehearsals were demanding, but the end result was AMAZING!!! We were so impressed with the staff at the Palace! They were fantastic with the children and mixed them in well with the professional actors! When we went to watch the show - I have to admit - I had tears watching her, she was a natural and seemed so comfortable on the stage! The music, the dancing, the voices were phenomenal. Truly a fabulous show! 
and making some new sparkly friends - USA Ambassador Queens!
