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.

Halo

Another video for all to enjoy!

Choose a Worm

It has come to my attention that some of you do not have a facebook account and so you have not been able to see the videos that Courtney and Katie have been posting and per your request here is one of the videos.




Yes, a little silly but so fun. I think my favorite thing about this is that they are just making it up as they go. How do they even come up with stuff like this. . .?

motivation

I know I should update my blog and I have lots of things I could blog about but I just can't seem to find the motivation. . . .I have lost my blogging motivation. . . .I guess you will all know when I find it. So, for now I am going to leave you with a quote from my sister-in-law who I am thinking of today because she is having . . . .well lets say a bad week.

"An object may consistently gravitate homeward, to its parental pull, yet there is a time, a force, a strong industrial size power, which known senses alone cannot detect, that reels the object to another, more meaningful mass. " ~c. stapp

I love this quote and the person who wrote it. Enjoy:)

More Summer

Thought I would show a picture of Courtney's new hair. I love it! Thanks to Jamie Gums the best stylist ever! And not sure if you can tell but Jamie also cut Katie's hair and it also looks so good. We love Jamie if you are looking for someone great to cut your hair you should give her a try 761-4648.






















Also, just an update on our Olema camping trip/Jensen Family Reunion....it was fantastic. Probably the best camping trip I've had ever. We had lots of fun hanging out around the campfire, skits, playing Nertz, speed, Zarahemla, going to the beach, hiking and driving to fast! Lots of fun memories and can't wait for next years reunion.

























Strauss Festival was fun. Ciara had lots of fun dancing with the Polka Troupe and they were great! Polka always steals the show. And looks like I am going to be directing next years show...it should be fun.














Ciara with her dance partner Devin Kirk (Sheryl Hodgson-Drapers son), Ciara with our good friends daughter Emma Cahoon & friend, Katie and Devin, and after the show Ciara, Katie & David.


















Summer has been going by way to fast. I can't believe that the kids start school in a week. I am not ready! We have been shopping for school clothes for David and he looks great in his new clothes. He will be the best looking 7th grader at Smedberg. I will post pictures of the first day of school later. I am also headed back to Utah the end of the month. My father-in-law volunteered to take Katie and her cousin Rachel back to school and I am coming along. I will be helping both Courtney and Katie to move into their new apartment. They are going to be roommates this year. (Courtney and Katie decided to start a blog about this new adventure www.theroommateblog.blogspot.com) They are excited to be rooming together....lets hope that lasts.

Both girls will be in Noteworthy again this year...which I am very excited about and Courtney will be co-directing the group. Noteworthy will be competing again this year which means they may be headed back to New York......ahhhh, that would be so great but I am getting ahead of myself, but first they will be headed back to Marin to compete in semi-finals in March. I know this because they will make it to semi's of course. You should go check out Noteworthy's new blog at www.noteworthyladies.blogspot.com and then you can keep up with the groups happenings.

It is going to be very hard to have Katie gone again. I have loved having her home all summer and will miss her. I have gotten used to having her home again and her leaving will be like ripping a band-aid off. I am praying she will have a better year and will actually enjoy school this year. I love having grown children but hate that, that means they have to move out. I miss my kids when they are gone.

Okay, have lots to do today so I must end my rambling for today.