You are My "SONshine"

Hamburger (Sam) is truly the sun that shines on my stormy days. He fills my spirit with intense joy and lights up heart. I am SO grateful for this (sort of) surprise baby for I cannot comprehend my life without his bright and happy influence. Sam and Daidy are THE best little buddies. He watches and learns from everything she does and he usually follows suit, good thing she is a good influence:), he trusts her so much. Daidy is so careful about including him in all she does and cares for him in a nurturing and motherly way. Their relationship is precious, tender, sweet, gentle, happy and truly warms the room. Golly, being a mom is just the best darn job in the world!

A little Improvising

We had to do a little improvising today. We had some kind of flu-ish thing go through our family mainly me and Daidy and since we have been tied up in a messy, partly packed up house most the week we had to do something out of the ordinary or we were all going to loose or mind. Since we lack a swimming pool we decided to fill our plastic tubs with warm water from the kitchen sink and pretend swim. Daidy and Sam had a blast singing, splashing, dumping and pouring with an occasional juicy kiss (voluntary might I add - check out that tongue!) It was so sweet!

Castlewood Canyon

One of the items on our long list of "things to do in Colorado before we move to Texas" is to go on a hike in Estes Park in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. The weather here has been pretty rotten and we basically skipped spring so with the clock rapidly ticking we were a limited to a closer to home picnic and hike (walk) at Castlewood Canyon 15 minutes away. It was still fun, refreshing to get away from boxes and breath some fresh air.

Recent Fueld Shoots

Ckeck out those geeks!!! Who is that?? Oh WAIT it is my husband.....Oh the Shenanigans my husband gets him self into.....(I love you Sugar! You're RAD) They are doing a spot for the lieutenant Governor in Utah, don't ask me what these poster have to do with anything but he promises me somehow they do. All in the effort to provide a great product Ben always goes above and beyond much like these fine handsome young men in Galactic Trek Wars...Anyway here are some photos of set.


Ben recently shot a commercial for Westwood College that was a rather big production, for him at least. Fueld brought on one of Ben's friends from LA, the awesome verging on celebrity DP (Director or Photography) Doug Chamberlain :). They shot many locations, built sets and had a myriad of costumes. See the "rough cut" link below. www.fueldfilms.com/westwood_rough.mov




Here are 2 other spots he did as a favor for a standing client and friend for the Utah Hogle Zoo.
www.fueldfilms.com/westwood_college.mov
www.fueldfilms.com/olg_galactic.mov

http://www.fueldfilms.com/monkey_mix.mov

Austin House Hunt

Ben and I went on a house hunting trip in Austin and saw way to many great houses and explored way too many options including building, we left a bit overwhelmed. We have yet to finalize anything but are hopeful that we will find a house that works for our family of 7 and soon. Our realtor is working hard, bless her little heart, maybe I should have prefaced our relationship with the fact Ben and I are both perfectionist and can be hard to please :)

This is what we saw a 10 minutes before boarding the plane.... WHAT the heck! it was May 1st! When we got off the plane in Austin it was 80 degrees and like heaven.

As much as we tried to remember to take pictures we just simply did not but here are 2 that confirm our trip :)

Good Smell'in Shoes

I just had to share these darling shoes.... AREN'T they cute!!!!??? Made by Sugar

This is my new favorite scent, Alien and Alien Luminesent (Limited - sold out at Nord'es in 3 hours). If you know me I have a new differnt scent every day of the week and this may be my new daily best friend :)

The Denver Experiment

Ok, the pressure is mounting to divulge the details of our next adventure. YES, as long suspected it is confirmed we are moving to Austin Texas.

The story goes (if you are interested)......2 1/2 years ago we embarked on an exciting possibility as we considered moving our family to the Denver area to bring on a much needed producing partner (Brady Anderton). 18 months ago we made the move on a little more than faith. I have often looked back to that move and the blindness in which we made the jump and am amazed at our courage, courage unsustainable without faith, it felt a little like we were being pulled here by ropes. At the time there were far more unanswered questions then there were answered ones, we just knew we needed to come. There was an overwhelming feeling that this (Denver)is where we needed to be. We moved into a rental home with our 5 children, the youngest (Sam) being only 5 weeks old. As we settled in we anticipated buying a home here and as badly as we wanted to be settled, we never felt comfy cozy about staying put. We had a silent impression this was right for now and a nagging feeling that it was not a forever place. So as we pursued putting offers in on homes, things kept falling through, until one day on the tails of us rescinding an offer on a home, we started talking about the possibility of moving to Austin Texas. Ben has always wanted to move back to Texas and has always know Austin and surrounding cities (Dallas, Houston and San Antonino all with in a 3-4 hr drive) were big production cities. As the weeks went on, the discussions became more and more serious so we went on a exploration trip to see Austin last February. We came home even more excited about the possibilities. What started out as a little flicker of light, increasingly got brighter and brighter so bright it is burning our eyes, you just can not ignore that kind of confirmation.

People have asked "Why Austin?" and simply put, why not? Austin, in comparison to Denver, is a much larger production city, amongst the more active in the country for movies and advertising. Being that we own a production company (Fueld Films) it would be paramount that we reside in a city that has the market to support this type of business. "Why not LA?" seems to be peoples next question and though LA/California is beautiful and plenty of film work there, it has just never made sense economically. Besides any more you can really live anywhere and "make it" in the film business if you are good enough and Ben has proven in 2 weaker markets (SLC, DEN) that he is good enough! Austin is a very cool city, lush and green, a great place to raise a family and has fertile "film" soil to let our company grow.

Denver has been good to us and remains an active place for us, Ben and his partner will keep an office here to keep relationships ongoing for as long as they need to. So when all is said and done this "Denver Experiment" has been a success, we got what we came here for which was a terrific partner Brady Anderton and now we are moving on to bigger and better things in Austin Texas this summer.

We have made some wonderful friends, some that have felt like family. They will have forever left an imprint on my heart. In some ways I have a broken heart, I will miss these wonderful people so much but will cherish those friendships forever and ever. Something I have said a lot lately is "it is easy to do the hard thing when you know it is right" and this certainly falls into that category. Gratitude oozes from every pour, grateful for so many blessings and especially for a loving Heavenly Father that is constantly keeping us on our toes, growing and learning every stretch of the way :) Thank goodness for blogging, we can all stay connected where ever the winds of divine currents take us.

That's our srory and we are stick'n to it!


Denver, if it only looked that pretty all the time.


Downtown Austin