A Chrsitmas Carol ... Bah Humbug! What The Dickens???

Can you believe its that time of year already? Its crazy how time flies ....

A few months ago it was brought to my attention that my stake was putting on the production A Christmas Carol. To start off with I wasnt too sure if I wanted to be apart of it. Im a singer not an actor BUT after being apart of the British Pageant in the summer I felt I couldnt pass this oppertunity off.

BEST CHOICE EVER!!!!!

I havent blogged for awhile but I felt it right to blog about my experience during these last few months of rehersals and the final product. It has been crazy and as I sit here typing im struggling to think of how best to explain my thoughts and feelings. So bare with me ... Are you ready??

Firstly to start off with I feel that its important to mention our wonderful producers who worked so hard on bringing this magical Christmas Production together. Without the likes of Aaron, Jenni and Freda this would not have been possible. I cant even imagine how much theyve done that we havent seen. They are seriosuly the best and of course talented. Its amazing how a group of people can get together and produce such an amazing outcome. I feel truly blessed and honoured that I was able to work with these 3 talented people ... From day one im pretty sure they knew who they wanted each and everyone of us to play and man did they get it spot on!

The A Team :)



My better half :)






 

So briefly The "A Team" casted me as a Soul and as Beth .. I had so much fun getting into my different characters! On one hand I had to play a tourtured soul who looked rather angry and slightly depressed and then on the other hand I had to play Beth wife of Scrooges Nephew Fred who was slightly posh ... for anyone who knows me knows that I am far from posh :P But ... thanks to those around me and my wonderful on stage hubby formally known as Karl I was able to feel comfortable and confident and yess I think I pulled both roles off rather well if I do say so myself. I cant express my grattitude enough to my coco Fred ... He was literally my rock. He helped me to stay calm on both nights of the performances and we just had such a laugh. I really dont know what I would have done without him!!! :D

So performance night was approaching and we had a dress rehersal on the Wednesday, I wont lie after doing this particular rehersal I was rather scared as to how the actual nights were going to go because it didnt go too well ... I for a start forgot my lines!! But when Thursday came and we had a little audience for a REAL dress rehersal all hope was restored and we were all excited for the real thing!!!

I feel like im babbling on here but I did tell you I would struggle for words .. anyway lets continue :P

Just before we hit the stage for our first performance.

Dunnnn Dunnn  Dunnnnn ... It was D DAY! Friday night had approached and it was our opening night. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! It went so well, we had some slight technical problems but thats nothing our Technical master James couldnt sort .. He was fab! I think there was around 300 odd people watching on the Friday night including some of my non member friends .. They loved it.
Everybody did so well. It was so tiring when we had finished but we were all so excited at the thought of doing it all over again the following night ... Safe to say Friday night we all slept pretty well!!


This was it, it was our final night .. I think we all had mixed emotions as it was our last night but man did we go out with a bang!! Saturday night, our final show was just the bees knees ... Nerves had well and truly left the building! WE SMASHED IT! the crowd loved it and everything went amazingly! I was so proud to be apart of it!

There are so many things that I loved from this experience, it was so nice to be able to spread Christmas Cheer for all those that attended and it was so important to us that we showed the true meaning of Christmas and I think we did a pretty good job ... I was able to go through this process with my mum. Everybody including myself was able to see a side to her that we really never usually see .. shes crazy, a darkhorse! Ive loved meeting new people and making new friends. I know that my testimony has been strengthened so much by doing this and by doing it with the people I have done! Ive had the time of my life and I owe it all to you ... ( Oh yes a bit of dirty dancing in there haha)

Thank you to everybody that had any involvment within this you really did make it special!

God Bless you! <3

We did it!!!!!
I love my second family!
ACC 2013





 

 

"Everybody got time fo that" ...

I cant believe its nearly June already, where has the year gone?
Im not going to lie Ive been totally blessed these last few months ...
Are you guys ready? So guess whos going to Uni in September? Yep thats right ME! Its only taken me like 4 years to decide to do this ... The best thing is that I was offered an UNCONDITIONAL place at my first Uni of choice Chester. So come September I will be studying Youth work so I can finally work closer to gaining my dream job as a Youth Probation Officer. Ohhhh Yeahhh! Can you tell Im excited? No? Thought not ;) ... Im so ready to embark on this new adventure! Its so true what they say, If you do everything your supposed to do and you follow the Lord you will be blessed. Well I couldnt think of a better blessing than this. Oh and on the subject of blessings I finally after 9 months have a job. Its not my dream job but it offers me stability and a sense of independance again which as we all no is something Ive really missed. So you could say life is good.

Over the last few months Ive been blessed with so many amazing friends, inside and outside of the church. Friends are the family you choose ... Its so true! I must have choosen some pretty epic family members. " Everybody got time fo that" ;)

I had the pleasure of being able to attend The Bristol Convention in May. Not gunna lie it was epic and to top it off I got a tan ;) No really ... It was amazing! The dances were so much fun and the oppertunity to see some old friends was just perfect. The best day had to have been the Saturday when we competed in the "Its a knockout" ... Ive never had so much fun in my life. Mormons in Sumo costumes going crazy on blow up courses was just awesome. One thing I really loved about this convention was the tight bond that was made with friendships - Friendships for life were made this weekend and I know that Im eternally grateful for that and Im sure others would say the same.





















As most of you know I am a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints. Gosh I love my church, my calling as The Young Single Adult Leader and most of all My Saviour. The Church over these next few months are going to be offering me one of the best summers EVER. I have the excitment of being an EFY leader (Especially for youth) which I am SO excited for because I remeber how amazing it was when I was in youth. A week of having your testimony strengthened and meeting equally amazing people .. You cant go wrong.

As well as going on EFY I have the amazing oppertunity of being apart of the First British Pageant for our church. Both myself and my mum are apart of the family cast - My mums so excited at the prospect of wearing a bonnett ahah .. Me, I just cant wait to be apart of this amazing oppertunity and being able to do it with some amazing friends and my mummy. HOW EPIC!

Keep loving life, I know I will ... Roll on happy times.

God bless you all x