Royal United Universe Pageants

10/18/2025

I stopped by Nine Mile Creek Senior Living to drop off cards and treat bags for the residents. I truly believe that small gestures of thoughtfulness can make even the loneliest days a little brighter for our elders.
-Jessica Tranby-Laudahl
👑Miss Royal United Universe👑

10/17/2025

Happy Friday Lovelies!
It’s Tylar your Mrs. RUU!

if you saw my get to know me post, you read that I’m a vet tech at a small/large animal vet clinic!

All these photos are just a very small portion of my life as a vet tech. And I wouldn’t trade it for the world!

🐾 Veterinary Technician Appreciation Week🐾

Vet techs are much more than animal lovers — they are highly trained professionals who wear many hats. From assisting in surgeries and monitoring anesthesia to running lab work, drawing blood, taking radiographs, placing IVs, and educating clients — their work touches every part of the clinic.

They are the steady hands in emergencies, the quiet comfort during tough moments, and the reason so many pets receive the excellent care they need. Whether they’re handling the most technical procedures or taking on the not-so-glamorous tasks, they do it all with compassion, precision, and heart.

What many clients may not see is the emotional strength it takes to do this work. Vet techs are there for the joyful first visits — and the heartbreaking final goodbyes. They support pets and their owners through the very best and hardest moments, and they do so with empathy, professionalism, and dedication.

Please join me in celebrating everything vet techs do — not just this week, but all year long. Shout out to my amazing coworkers- we’re rockstars💕❤️

10/10/2025

Happy World Mental Health Day!

09/20/2025

Hi lovelies! It’s Tylar, your Mrs. RUU!

here’s a little update on the monarch caterpillar! About two weeks ago the caterpillar went into its chrysalis stage.

Look what I just found after work!

I plan to release the butterfly tomorrow in my wildflower patch. It’s recommended to give them at least 24 hours before releasing them into the wild.

I’m so excited and happy that this guy made it!

09/05/2025

Happy Friday lovelies!!

It’s Tylar- your Mrs. Royal United Universe!

I missed a few posts- but I’m back!! This post today is about monarch butterflies!🦋🐛

Just this last weekend, my sister in law was telling me how her and her two daughters were raising monarch caterpillars- in hopes they’d turn to butterflies! After hearing about what her and her girls have been doing, I decided to check the milkweed I had growing in my own backyard yard- and found these two! Drastically different in life stages but both monarchs! Unfortunately the smaller one had managed to escape the enclosed I had them in. But the larger one is doing great!

Here’s some fun facts:

✨ 2-10% of eggs and caterpillars successfully reaching the adult stage. This low survival rate is due to high predation from birds and insects, the impact of parasites and diseases like OE, and exposure to environmental factors such as weather.

✨ In controlled conditions, such as when raised by humans with proper care, the survival rate can be dramatically increased to 80-95%.

✨Monarch caterpillars only eat Milkweed. In fact- depending on the milkweed and leaf size, this can equate to roughly 175–200 leaves or the equivalent of one to two entire plants for the caterpillar to reach the chrysalis stage! (Can confirm- this guy eats like crazy)

✨ Their Chrysalises Have Gold Studs
Funnily enough, the word “chrysalis” is actually derived from the greek word for gold, “chrysos”. The gold spots on Monarch Butterfly chrysalises are due to carotenoid pigments from their milkweed diet.

✨ Monarch butterflies undertake an incredible multi-generational, 3,000-mile migration, using the sun and Earth's magnetic field to navigate, and they are the only butterflies to do so.

I already have plans to plant more milkweed with my wildflower patch next year- and I highly encourage you to do the same! I’m having so much fun watching this guy grow!

09/04/2025

08/17/2025

Hello from your Royal Couple!

08/15/2025

💕Fun fact Friday💕

Happy Friday lovlies, it’s Tylar- your Mrs. RUU! I thought I’d hop on here and list off some little fun facts about me!!

*I am a vet tech at a general practice mixed animal clinic. We have four veterinarians, one does strictly large animal, one does small animal, another does small animal and exotics/ruminants, and the other does small animal and equine! I mostly help with small animal and equine.🐶🐱🐰🐴

*I’m a type one diabetic, diagnosed in 2017. I occasionally like to bling out my insulin pump and CGM💙

*my favorite flower is the Hibiscus.🌺

*my absolute favorite place/city in the US is Nashville.🎼

*I have one horse named Liberty. She is a 17 year old American Quarter horse.

*I love thunderstorms and meteorology! 🌪️

*I have a degree in professional photography! (The last photo is one I took for a dear friend of mine at her wedding)

✨I’m incredibly bummed I won’t be able to attend crowning tomorrow and meet my royal family, but I can’t wait to see the photos, and hear all about it!

08/08/2025

👑Flashback Friday👑

Hey lovelies! It’s Tylar, your Mrs. Royal United Universe!

thought I’d share a little flashback Friday, but make it pageantry edition!!

if you saw my "get to know me" post from Monday, you may have seen that my pageant journey started with National American Miss! NAM holds such a dear place in my heart, I learned so much, grew as a person, gained confidence, and made lifelong friends...as well as fall in love with competing in pageants!

I then stopped competing once I graduated high school, and had aged out of competing with NAM.

I then signed up a to compete with Miss Royalty International in 2020. At the International pageant in 2021, I ended up winning the International Model Citizen title, going back to compete again the following year, winning the National Miss Royalty America title.

My reign with the America title ended in February of 2024, and I haven’t competed since. That is, until I signed up to compete for RUU- and here I am💕

Please enjoy these photos from my pageant journey this far! 👑

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08/03/2025

✨Get to know your 2025-2026 Mrs. Royal United Universe!✨

Hey there! I’m Tylar Schiefen, your 2025 Mrs. Royal United Universe! I’m so incredibly excited to represent this amazing system this year! I thought I’d hop on here and give you some fun facts about me!

👑 I started competing in pageantry in highschool, competing freshman-senior year in National American Miss! A few years later I competed with Miss Royalty International for two years. I then hung up my heels until this year, and was crowned with RUU!💕

👑 I got married to my husband Travis on August 24, 2024, we’re almost at our one year anniversary!

👑 I was diagnosed with Type One diabetes at
20…talk about a live changer!

👑I have fully trained my own service dog- Bailey, a German Shepard mix whom I rescued from a local shelter, to be my Diabetic alert dog. I am currently training a second, my Goldendoodle named Cooper! (Another post on them will be coming sometime!)

👑My platform is Alert & Empower: Turning diagnosis into advocacy, one paw print at a time.

Hope you had a great time learning some info about me! And enjoyed my silly photo with my horse, Libby and my photo of Bailey and Cooper! I can’t wait to share my year with you!

👑Keep an eye out for the other 'Get to know me’ posts!! 👑

&Empower