Charlize Reyes - Miss Cottondale 2025

03/07/2026

Today, I shared the joy of reading with students at Cottondale Elementary, celebrating Dr. Seuss’s legacy with a “Read Around the World” adventure. I had an incredible time with my girls, and I sure do love our Little Hornets! 💙🧡

It’s hard to believe that in just 1 short week, I bid farewell as your 2025 Miss Cottondale, passing down my crown and title to your 2026 queen. I plan to soak up every last bit of time in this crown with my favorite crew! 💖

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 📚❤️le

01/19/2026

We are some PROUD queens! We love ya, Audrey! ❤️

🌟 Wow, what an exciting night! 🌟

We want to send a HUGE congratulations to our 2024 Teen Miss Cottondale, Audrey Vickery! 🎉 She’s taken the crown and is now the 2026 Teen Miss North Florida! We’ve been so honored to have her as part of our pageant family and feel so blessed to witness her dreams come true. She was absolutely flawless, capturing Best Interview, Best Spokesperson, and that coveted 2026 title!

Through all things, God gives strength, and we know He’s guided Audrey on this path. 💖

Audrey, we’re sending you all our love! You are truly a role model not just for the girls in Cottondale, but for all of Jackson County and now North Florida. We can’t wait to see where your journey takes you and how your platform, Affirmations by Audrey, will inspire even more communities. This is such a blessing, and we are so proud of you!

Congratulations once again, Audrey! 👑✨

12/25/2025

Miss Cottondale and the 💫Magical💫 2025-2026 Chipola College Show Choir wish you all a Merry Christmas! May your day be filled with joy and laughter!

Remember, JESUS is the REASON for the SEASON! ❤️💚✝️

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 🎅🏻❤️l

12/08/2025

✨Cottondale Queens Christmas Party!✨

I LOVE getting together with my girls to party and have fun! We had the BEST queens Christmas Party yesterday, and I’m so blessed to have amazing directors like Mrs. Kim and Kelly, and ALL of our pageant mamas, who make sure we are SPOILED! Thank you guys for all the gifts and love we got yesterday, yall are the best!

I hope the holidays are beautiful and bright for you all! Merry Christmas! 🎄 ❤️

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 ❤️

11/27/2025

🌟AGvocating for Agriculture🌟:

Happy Thanksgiving from your Miss Cottondale 2025! 🧡🦃

This year, I cannot help but be thankful for my friends and family, the blessings I have received throughout this year, and for the opportunity to be your Miss Cottondale, 2025. This experience has truly been everything I have hoped for and more. I’m so excited to finish out this bittersweet reign with my favorite queens!

The food pantry in Cottondale, FL was fully stocked with Thanksgiving bags made by myself, and Miss Cottondale 2024, Evangelina Reyes. We hope these bags bring those comfort who find it difficult to afford a good meal for the holiday. The bags come 3 to one full bag!

🌟: Thanksgiving meals are rooted in the hard work of farmers—both past and present. The holiday itself grew from early harvest celebrations, when successful crops meant survival for the year ahead. From the grains and vegetables shared at the first Thanksgiving to the turkey, potatoes, squash, and pumpkin pies we enjoy today, nearly every dish traces back to the people who cultivate the land. Modern farmers carry on that legacy, rising early, working long seasons, and providing the ingredients that bring families together. In many ways, Thanksgiving is not just a celebration of abundance, but a quiet tribute to the hands that grow it. 🌟

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! 🧡

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 🦃🌟

11/09/2025

🌟AGvocating for Agriculture🌟:

Give Thanks, Give a Meal! 🦃🧡

Let’s share the spirit of Thanksgiving! Help Miss Cottondale 2024, Evangelina, and I, reach our goal of providing 15 meal bags for local food pantry in need. Each meal costs just $10–$13 and includes a meat, five sides, and dessert. We’ve already raised enough for some meals, only a few more to go!

Visit Evangelina Jo Reyes - Pageants ,Community Service, Etc. for more information!

11/01/2025

🌟AGvocating for Agriculture🌟:

“See a need, FEED the need.” 🌽🫛🥫

Miss Cottondale 2024 & Miss Cottondale 2025 TEAMED up today to stock the “Food for Friends” food pantry founded by Miss Cottondale 2024, Evangelina Reyes, during her year of service. This food pantry is set to feed the needs of people in our town, and I’m glad that Evangelina and I were able to come together and do something for the community!

Shelf-stable foods like canned corn, green beans, chips, and other packaged goods play a vital role in connecting agriculture to everyday life. These products come directly from farm-grown crops that are harvested, processed, and preserved to last months or even years, ensuring food availability beyond the growing season. By turning fresh produce into long-lasting goods, farmers and processors reduce food waste, add value to raw crops, and support rural economies through food manufacturing jobs.

Now that the Peanut craziness has come down, Im excited to get back out in MY community and make an impact! 💛

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 🌽💛

10/24/2025

🌟COTTONDALE HOCO PARADE!🌟: 💙🧡📣

We had the BEST time in the homecoming parade today, throwing candy and making an appearance in our community!

I loved this event with my girls, and tommorow is PEANUT PARADE day! 👑

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 💙🧡

10/23/2025

To me, THIS is what’s pageantry is all about.

Sisterhood, it’s a beautiful thing. That is EXACTLY what the MNPF opportunity has given me. A chance to build lifelong connections, relationships, and most of all, foster sisterhood amongst young women.

I’m so incredibly thankful for this opportunity to not only represent Cottondale, FL, but to meet my bestfriends. I will forever cherish this experience for the rest of my life.

Thank you Jesus, that’s all I can say. Thank you.

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 🩷

10/20/2025

🌟PEANUT PAGEANT🌟: 💃🥜🩷

My time spent being apart of the Miss National Peanut Festival Pageant was extraordinary! Between arrival day to running in my mommas arms after Finals night, this experience left memories of laughter, love, and bliss. I’m so proud of EVERY contestant and their placement, and I am over the moon about my opportunity to represent Cottondale, FL.

I applaud the MNPF committee for making this dream possibile for every contestant. I appreciate you all SO much!

Congratulations to the new Miss National Peanut Festival, LaRae Smith! I KNOW she will serve this title with dignity and grace, and I’m excited to see where her reign takes her.

Now that this one of a lifetime opportunity has made its way, I cannot wait to jump back into service with my sister queens, and be a pillar to my community. Cottondale, FL, I’m SELFISHLY excited to still be yours! 🩵

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 👑

10/15/2025

🌟PEANUT COUNTDOWN🌟: 2 Days! 👑 ( FINAL COUNTDOWN POST) !

T-Minus 2 Days till we hit the stage! 💃❤️

2 Days to stage time, and I leave for peanut TOMMOROW! How are we already here? I’m not quite sure, it snuck up on me! 🥜🩷

It feels like just yesterday I was crowned Miss Cottondale 2025, with the opportunity to be a part of the Miss National Peanut Festival Pageant. I’m so incredibly grateful for everything that I have been given since I began this beautiful journey, and for the people who have stood by me and helped make everything possible. 

I knew when I began the countdown that I wanted to save this picture for the last day I would be able to post, and that’s because this picture is so special to me.

Fervent prayer went into the road I traveled to become Miss Cottondale. I’ve held this very dream in my heart for four consecutive years, and the road traveled wasn’t always the most glamorous. While it came with growth, excitement, and opportunity, this road also beared anxiety, stress, and obstacles. I found myself spending a lot of time talking with God about opportunities, and putting me on the road that he felt fit HIS plan for me. I eventually came to terms with the idea that even if I wasn’t crowned come pageant day, his plan for me was still beautiful and full of life, bearing other opportunities for service and sisterhood.

The morning of March 29th, 2025, I felt a feeling of peace and contentment over my body. Even as I did things like competed in interview, continuously practiced my walk, and did hair & makeup touch ups, nothing shook me up the way I had anxiously anticipated. I truly believe that was Jesus holding my hand throughout the entire day. I felt content, knowing no matter the outcome I gave it everything I had and that was a win for me. 

On stage question came, and I truly feel my answer depicted exactly how I felt that day, every day leading up to that moment. I gave all glory and praise to Jesus, acknowledging that his generosity gave me the opportunity to compete for this title, and the opportunity to try one more time.

Crowning time arrived, and when I was announced as Miss Cottondale, the first thing that I could do was hold my hand to my heart, and point to the sky. I knew the man in the sky was the person who made this possible, who finally saw that everything I poured into this opportunity, was of service to him, and my heart.

And now here we are, sitting one day out from arrival day, looking back on a summer filled with Peanut parties, big hair and makeup, memories, and most of all, service.

I hope when I walk across the stage in just a few days, I not only make my hometown proud, but I show people the walk with Jesus that I experienced to bring me to this incredible opportunity, to be Miss Cottondale, 2025. 

Charlize Reyes
Miss Cottondale 2025 💛 💫