t my whole life not auditioning. I am a go od sin ger. I have been singing since I was 4 and writing my own silly kid songs and stuff. I worked my way up to singing songs in Spanish because of my dad. My number #1 Children's song is Cheese Attack! I wish I was more confident, but I think my confidence grows everyday and being on stage brings out my confidence a lot more than when you meet me in person. I am NOT cocky. My husband's family says even if I say I'm cocky they still wouldn't believe it. So with all respect on my part and on anyone's part and because I need to get this info out there, I would rate myself an 8 on a scale of 1-10. I took voice lessons last year and my teacher was amazing in almost every way. The problem was that she lived too far away and I hate driving to her house. 2nd she talks too much! We had half hour lessons and she spoke for 20 mins about life and how great I was and how excited she was for me. Again, she was amazing and great but I wish we would sing more and practice breathing more. Currently, I have an excellent voice teacher, but she lives even further away. My family and my husbands family have said I sing good and that's great, but it's family and I can't really accept their opinion because they love me and will tell me anything to make me happy. Sometimes my dad will be the honest one and tell me, "by the way you're off key." I have sang at fundraisers, the national anthem at sporting events, and at talent shows. If you want to hear me. I'll try to send you an audio clip. Back to auditioning to American Idol. My husband Steve got work off and was very very supportive. I love him so much! I didn't want to get him too excited because I knew it was pretty much you had to be Mariah Carey, be really bad or get lucky. So even though I knew those things I was still willing to go. I would still go again too. We waited in line really early and that was just to register. Finally we got our wristbands and we were off ready to go home and come back the next day to stand in line again..Yahoo. How exciting...not really. Well I met some people and they were so nice. It was so cool to have this experience to meet and see so many different people with different voices and talent. Utah really has a lot of beautiful people with great talent. During the line they were taping everyone from start to finish. Stephen and I may end up in some camera footage, but it will probably be for just a few seconds. So if you are going to be going to the bathroom during American Idol shows, beware you might miss a clip of us..ha ha. I saw former American Idol Justin Guarini, and Jon Peter Lewis from Salt Lake. Here is a pretty cool upclose shot of him. After finally entering the Energy Solutions Arena, we sang songs as a group and we did a lot of filming and taping us screaming into the camera. They setup 10 tables at the bottom in the Arena. They had about 2 producers sit at each table. They were able to judge us based off of us going in groups of 4. We had about 10 sec each. The producer I went to looked pretty bored. I really tried my best approaching her with a fun and happy attitude. She looked at me for a second and then when we all finished, she didn't look at anyone just said, "Thanks for coming, we are looking for something else at this time." Then we went into the non-winners exit. Many people were so upset and angry saying the show only did this as a publicity stunt..yada yada yada. I felt relief. I wasn't worried or angry. The only thing I wished was that I wasn't just another boring number. I felt I did even better than I had practiced. I was happy to meet my husband outside and we drove home. What a great event. And one thing I thought about was that everyone went with the driven motivation of hope. It would have been great to move on, but maybe next time I can prepare more than just a week. Here are some pics. We saw Ryan Seacrest at the ESA. It was so fun. Some guy yelled out really loud, "Ryan, I want to have your baby!" We all laughed. It was an excellent experience, I wish more people would have the guts to audition. I may be shy at times and people wouldn't know that I sing. But whenever there is a chance to showcase talent. I will be there. It is not the end of me. Thanks Steve I love you.
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