A Visit to Carly's House and a Cha

One reason Emily has been spending time in LA is because of a call back from a casting director named Jenny Treadwell. Jenny asked that prospective talent stay in the LA area for three months. When Emily's agents at KSR found out about this connection, they wanted to make sure Emily met Jenny's partner, Krisha Bullock, who does the actual casting for Nickelodeon shows like iCarly. After being coached by her wonderful new acting coach Dawn Jeffory Nelson on her comedic monologue, Em was granted an interview by Krisha last Friday. After waiting a few minutes, it was determined Krisha would be too busy working with the director of iCarly to see Emily. However, Jenny videotaped Emily to show Krisha later, then took us on a tour of the set, which is closed to the public. Above, Emily is at Carly's apartment door. . .then in her kitchen . . .and sitting on her couch. . .and hanging out in her green room! Jenny even toured us through sets that were being built for a space ship episode that hasn't been shot yet.Jenny, who was as honest as she was kind, made sure Emily understood that this was not an audition for a specific part, and if that opportunity came, she would have to try out like anyone else.
All is well back home in Granite Bay as Peter has been practicing for his All-Star baseball games, which began with a 10-0 victory today. The baseball field literally backs up to Granite Bay High School where Emily was swimming with her team against the Granite Bay Gators, so I could run back and forth and watch them both! Emmy achieved personal best times in breast and butterfly, due in large part to the encouragement she receives from our special coa-cha (this is coach plus a cha, you see), Jackie Vigeant. In addition to being an amazing swimmer, Jackie is both a real princess and a hostess with the most-ess. Although she can be seen as Cinderella, Tinker Bell, Alice in Wonderland and other characters, on this day she was The Little Mermaid, Ariel, and therefore needed to use a dinglehopper to comb her hair.We had the great honor of assisting her with some of her duties at Olivia's Doll House. This was followed by a session with Jackie generously putting up our hair and playing dress up! Emily's doll friends, Samantha (who is seen here resting her broken leg), Nikki and Miley all came for a tea party.