Hard Work

The girls are hard at work rehearsing for the show. They got to LA on Saturday had a meeting with important people and then were off to Kelsey's wedding reception. Sunday, was an 18 hour day of rehearsing, fittings and all the other things that go into making a reality show. I can't go into alot of details here just yet but lets say they are all working hard.

All the groups are really great and really nice and all are having the time of their lives. I don't have any pictures to post but thought I would give you all an update. Since, I don't have any pictures here is a video for you to enjoy.


Courtney & Katie cover of Beyonce's Irreplaceable

On their way!

The Noteworthy ladies are officially on their way and I am beyond excited. Sometimes, when I think about it I am so excited I just want to cry. As I am typing this they are actually in the air flying to LA. First thing they will do is meet with NBC and then the nice people at NBC are driving them out to Kelsey's reception. Kelsey one of the girls in the group is getting married today at the Redlands Temple. (wow she really has an exciting weekend) And then tomorrow actual rehearsals begin. I know Noteworthy will be amazing and if they are supposed to win they will but winning isn't really the goal; having the opportunity to share who they are with the world is and I hope the world can see just how awesome these girls are. I also wish the best to all the groups on the show and can't wait to see them all.

Ahhh, now I think I will go do the "happy dance".

Noteworthy - Salt Lake Tribune Article

Check out this article about Noteworthy that is in the Salt Lake Tribune:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_13852769?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com

THE SING OFF

The eight groups in NBC's The Sing-Off—competing for $100,000 and an Epic Records/Sony recording contract—will be: The Tufts Beelzebubs from Boston, Massachusetts Brigham Young's Noteworthy from Provo, Utah Face from Boulder, Colorado Maxx Factor from Baltimore, Maryland Nota from San Juan Puerto Rico The SoCals from Los Angeles, California Solo from Omaha, Nebraska Voices of Lee from Cleveland, Tennesse It's on. NBC will premiere its new singing competition special The Sing-Off on Monday, Dec. 14. The four-night show will feature a cappella groups from across the country competing for a recording contract with Eric Records/Sony Entertainment.

So, yeah this is the big news we have been waiting to share. NBC has a new singing competition/reality show in December and my girls Courtney & Katie and all the Noteworthy girls will be on the show. As you might imagine we are super excited. The show will be on Dec. 14, 15 & 16th and then the finale is Dec. 21st. The only time the audience gets to vote is at the finale. We are hoping Noteworthy makes it that far and then we can all vote!

Last night we were in bed I was asleep my husband was watching TV when all of a sudden he is trying to wake me up because there was a commercial on for the SING OFF and Courtney was beatboxing. It was only about a 10 seconds long but we were freaking out. So, now we have channel 3 on and are waiting for the commercials to come on. I know, I know we are dorks, but hey, if it was your kids on TV what would you do? So, far we haven't seen the commercial again but we will hopefully! We will be traveling to LA to watch the taping of the shows so that will be lots of fun. We are just so excited to see these amazing young women take the stage and share their talent, their love of music and performing, their beautiful spirits and joy with the world. Everyone involved with the show has already noticed that there is something different about them and they love the Noteworthy ladies. Hmm, why is that? I am thinking the gospel of Jesus Christ makes a difference.

Okay, so you will probably get sick and tired of all this but I am exicited to share the news with everyone and will keep posting any other exiciting happenings about the sing off here.
This is a picture of Courtney and Katie in front of KSL TV Studios in Salt Lake when the group went to tape some songs and stuff for the news.

WOOT, WOOT!

Almost

Less than 24 hours!

Can You Feel It?

Can you. . . Can you feel it? Big, exciting things are happening!

GET READY FOR IT:)

Annie

After lots of rehearsals, blood, sweat, and even a few tears EGMTC pulled if off again. Both shows turned out great in the end. Jungle Book was fun and the kids were so cute. Annie, also was awesome. Someone, even came up to me after and said it was there favorite show so far! Wow, that was a really nice compliment to hear. Producing and running a theater company is hard. . .especially when you don't have a clue what your doing. It is a learning by trial and error experience for me. I have learned ALOT over the past 5 years. And I have made a lot of mistakes but when all is said and done I am very proud of what we have accomplished. Yes, there are times when I want to pull my hair out and just quit because it is so hard. But is during those really difficult and dark times I remind myself of the good things we have accomplished, the smiles on the performers faces or someone tells me thanks for what I have done and how it has helped their child or how much fun they are having and it gets me through those difficult times. At the end of the day it is worth it. I have to remind myself more often that the hardest times/things usually bring you the most joy. And that is definitely true with EGMTC. Also, I want to give a huge thank you to all the parents who help make this possible. Without them there would be no Elk Grove Musical Theatre Company. And especially to Angee Wangsgard I really couldn't do this with out you. And I can't believe it but we are having auditions for the Spring show Dec. 10th. Oh, let the fun begin again!

Here are few pictures from the show!


Annie and Sandy


Annie and servants


Ciara during NYC


Easy Street

If your out there

This is a video of when Noteworthy went up to Oregon last April and performed with the group from University of Oregon - Divisi. They girls had such a great time and are now great friends.

Our Zoo

Welcome to our zoo. Yes, somedays I feel like I am living in a zoo, literally. I thought I would share some pictures with you of our zoo.



Meet Pepper. She adopted us. I wasn't really excited to have a bunny but she is fun to have around. She just runs around our backyard. She loves carrots and sometimes she lays out on our deck and looks like she is sunbathing. Pepper has been with us for about a month. I think she is here to stay.





This is a lizard. You have to look closely to see him because he looks like the leaves. He knows how to camouflage very well. Louie eats crickets. Louie is not very exciting.



This is Kevin the King Snake. He is also a new addition to our zoo. He eats mice and sleeps. Kevin is a nice snake and if you are up to it, he will let you hold him. He likes to snuggle and get warm.



Meet our dumb birds. Yes, that is what I call them. I could also call them loud and louder or annoying and more annoying. If anyone would like some parakeets you are more than welcome to take these. You would probably really like them if you feel like your house is to quiet.



Meet Dolly. She is a desert tortoise. Dolly has been with us for several years now. We are not sure how old she is but she could be around 50+ years. Desert tortoises live to be like 100 or something so she is probably older than me. We have two tortoises but I wasn't able to find Big Buddy at the time of this posting to take a picture. He looks just like Dolly only bigger hence, the name. (i just need to say at this point I did not name the tortoises my son did when he was about 6 or 7) Anyway, Dolly and Big Buddy are married and this summer Dolly laid 7 eggs they have been cooking away for almost 4 months and here are the newest additions to our zoo!









The babies are really quite cute. They love to play king of the hill.

And now, my husband wants chickens! And Ciara wants a dog. I may have to start charging admission.