Archive for August, 2013
Happy Birthday Sweet Page
Sunday, August 25th, 2013
We had a small birthday at Grandpa Jim’s. Page had loads of new pressies, cowgirl boots, cowgirl hat, sunnies, fairy wings, crowns… It was special to spend it with Grandpa. We’ll have another when we get back to Los Gatos on Sept. 7th…
Cheers to the best 3 years of my life, full of smiles and laughter. Thank you Page!!
Daddy’s back!
Sunday, August 25th, 2013
Brendan came back into town! We spent his first day on the set of THE SURFACE. We took the girls to watch the rescue Coast Guard scene. It was pretty cool to see it all come together.
On Friday after the last day of shooting the movie, we drove up Green Bay to get in our first Packer Game. We had the pleasure of staying at Ed and my late Aunt Bert’s cabin. Such a beautiful home and nice to see her work. We ate at Kroll’s and ate gourmet butter burgers and deep fried cheese curds. YUM! After the game we went over to my Cousin Gretchen’s house and watched the last bit of the game. Page and Annie were so cute together, wish I could have a picture. We spent the next day relaxing at the cabin. I slept on and off all day, I had no idea how exhausted I was. Kudos to all the single mom’s out there, but I hope to never have to go at it alone like that again. Its such a treat to have Brendan around taking care of.
The Italians on a lake
Sunday, August 18th, 2013
We drove up to the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan for a small get-together with our family, the Ippolite’s, Martini’s, Fear’s, and Thomson’s. The UP is gorgeous this time of year. Lots of great stories about Grandpa and Grandma making raspberries pies and ravioli’s for us. Hard to believe its been 5 years this November since Grandpa Blo has been gone. Page ran around with her cousin Mason all weekend playing in the sprinkler, playing hockey… They were so cute together. Sienna has really found her voice this week. She is squealing with delight! We even ran into a movie star…
Auntie Barb and Page
The three sisters, Erin, Kim and Michelle
Don and Erin
Chris and the loud one
Awwww, happy Grandpa with his girl
Marissa and Katie Chang, Sofia Coppola’s newest muse and star of THE BLING RING – check it out!
Beautiful Marissa
Beautiful Katie
Silly Evan
Hockey practice!
Too cute for words!
Page wrapped the towel around Mason to keep him warm, so sweet.
Posing
Having fun!
Hollywood, WI
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Grandpa Jim helped me sneak over to Milwaukee to surprise my girls.
I walked into Grandpa’s house early on Saturday morning.
I said “Hi” to Page.
Neither Page, nor Alex knew who I was.
After a few minutes they worked it out.
They both got very excited.
The film, that Alex has been working on was being filmed at the house on Monday, so I stayed an extra day to watch it all happen. It was fascinating, and I got to sleep on a movie set! (Look for my jammy pants hanging off a surfboard in one scene)
We had to wake up at 5:30am as the crew started arriving at 6am. By the time Page had woken up, they had turned the house upside down. Page was very excited to see Grandpa’s house “upside down”! I then felt it time to have that “idiom talk” that every parent dreads.
Despite not seeing the house literally upside-down, Page and I did a tour of the house looking at all the equipment. Page was even offered a ride on a “dolly”. Still more confusion.
There are about 75 people involved in the production, and a good number of them were involved in the shooting. The cars stretched half way out of the estate. You might notice the Airstream in this photo, where the stars were supposed to hang out. Though Mimi Rogers preferred to have a nap in the house.
There was even a train in the living room. After I picked up Sienna and Page from daycare we checked out the filming of this scene. We did until I got the feeling Page didn’t want to be quiet any more.
“Settle!”
“Action!”
“Rolling!”
“Cut!”
The final scene of the day was an establishing shot of the house. Should add an extra $100k to the value, I’d say…
