Sept 10Madeline hanging out with Daddy at the EMHE reveal. I love my family. I just want to eat my loves up!
Friday, September 12, 2008
I love you Daddy
Sept 10Madeline hanging out with Daddy at the EMHE reveal. I love my family. I just want to eat my loves up!
EMHE: Part 6
This is the final EMHE post. (Don't be sad... it will be ok.) They revealed the house on Wednesday (9/10). You know, the "move that bus" moment and we tried to see the huge event. Emphasis on tried. More on that in a minute.
Ty was there as the furniture truck pulled up. They filmed him coming out of the house at least four times. Then they unloaded the truck. The team of volunteers unloaded couches, beds rocking horses and chairs. The behind the scenes info: only about half of the stuff they filmed going into the house stayed in the house. The rest came out of the house and went back into the truck. Yep, totally Hollywood.
The crowd gathering on the lawns across the street from the house. There were a ton of people. A ton.
Maddie and Anna went with us for the reveal. Although Maddy and Maddie did a great job and were total troopers we knew they would only last so long.
MOVE THAT BUS!
To be honest, the limo had the practice family in it, not the Martirez family. This was at 12:30pm. We had been there two hours already and they had moved the bus to film different angles at least 6 times. It was shortly after the practice family walked into the house that we decided to head home. (About 1:15pm.) It is a good thing we left because they didn't actually get the family to the house until 4:15 PM!!!!! We would have been standing on the lawn for almost 6 hours!!!! And there were people who had been there since 7am!
I wouldn't leave you without a photo of the finished product! The house with landscaping etc. It really is quite a nice house. Although it looks smallish from the front it goes on forever in the back and has a fully finished basement with 10 foot ceilings.
Ty was there as the furniture truck pulled up. They filmed him coming out of the house at least four times. Then they unloaded the truck. The team of volunteers unloaded couches, beds rocking horses and chairs. The behind the scenes info: only about half of the stuff they filmed going into the house stayed in the house. The rest came out of the house and went back into the truck. Yep, totally Hollywood.
The crowd gathering on the lawns across the street from the house. There were a ton of people. A ton.
Maddie and Anna went with us for the reveal. Although Maddy and Maddie did a great job and were total troopers we knew they would only last so long.
MOVE THAT BUS!To be honest, the limo had the practice family in it, not the Martirez family. This was at 12:30pm. We had been there two hours already and they had moved the bus to film different angles at least 6 times. It was shortly after the practice family walked into the house that we decided to head home. (About 1:15pm.) It is a good thing we left because they didn't actually get the family to the house until 4:15 PM!!!!! We would have been standing on the lawn for almost 6 hours!!!! And there were people who had been there since 7am!
I wouldn't leave you without a photo of the finished product! The house with landscaping etc. It really is quite a nice house. Although it looks smallish from the front it goes on forever in the back and has a fully finished basement with 10 foot ceilings.So it is over. The streets are still blocked and the production crew will be in town until later today. Then the local police take over patrols for the next two weeks. I am looking forward to a weekend without a million people walking up and down our street and no shuttle buses rumbling the windows. The excitement was well worth it though. What a fun week it has been in our sleepy little neighborhood.
We've been told the episode will air in the first few weeks of November. Of course I will post when it does!
mg
We've been told the episode will air in the first few weeks of November. Of course I will post when it does!
mg
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time
Either there is not enough time in a day or I am really bad at time management.
I have a ton of house work, school work and photos to post from the last two days of EMHE. But it is 9:15p so I am going to bed. I am such a woous. (How in the world do you spell that word!?!?! Spell check is no help.)
I leave you with a photo of Madeline from last Friday. I have some really great photos to post from our fun with Maddie at Mo-Bot and today at the EMHE reveal*. They are so cute together.
September 5
*The reveal was a total bust, and we didn't see the "move that bus" moment... I'll explain later. Don't worry. It's all good in the 'hood.
mg
I have a ton of house work, school work and photos to post from the last two days of EMHE. But it is 9:15p so I am going to bed. I am such a woous. (How in the world do you spell that word!?!?! Spell check is no help.)
I leave you with a photo of Madeline from last Friday. I have some really great photos to post from our fun with Maddie at Mo-Bot and today at the EMHE reveal*. They are so cute together.
September 5*The reveal was a total bust, and we didn't see the "move that bus" moment... I'll explain later. Don't worry. It's all good in the 'hood.
mg
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
EMHE: Parts 4 & 5
Sunday, September 7th
I stopped by the house at about 7:15am before heading to work at my other part time job. (yep, working two jobs. I'm crazy.)
I found a house. It is amazing to think that just 24 hours before the "house" was just a whole with foundation forms still on. This is like two weeks of real life work crammed into 24 hours.
It looks like a house!
Crew change. This is the night crew heading home at about 7:15am.
They only had a small section of the roof to finish Sunday morning.
It looks like a home!
I find this sign all well and good, but we haven't seen a designer in at least two days.
There is so much going on at the site. There are constantly people coming in and out of the house and there are trucks pulling up and bobcats leveling gravel. (I would love to know how many tons of gravel they used for this job, b/c every time I have been there more gravel has shown up. It is quite amazing really.
Madeline was ready for bed time. Isn't she cute?!?!
I stopped by the house at about 7:15am before heading to work at my other part time job. (yep, working two jobs. I'm crazy.)
I found a house. It is amazing to think that just 24 hours before the "house" was just a whole with foundation forms still on. This is like two weeks of real life work crammed into 24 hours.
It looks like a house!
Crew change. This is the night crew heading home at about 7:15am.
They only had a small section of the roof to finish Sunday morning.Monday, September 8th
I stopped by in the morning during our walk, then we went when Kevin got home from work. They have done all of the stone masonry on the exterior of the house and are starting to put the porch on. I was impressed that the walls inside were painted, and there are built-in book shelves, and a stone fireplace inside already. You can't really see too much inside, but they are amazingly fast.
I stopped by in the morning during our walk, then we went when Kevin got home from work. They have done all of the stone masonry on the exterior of the house and are starting to put the porch on. I was impressed that the walls inside were painted, and there are built-in book shelves, and a stone fireplace inside already. You can't really see too much inside, but they are amazingly fast.
It looks like a home!
I find this sign all well and good, but we haven't seen a designer in at least two days.
There is so much going on at the site. There are constantly people coming in and out of the house and there are trucks pulling up and bobcats leveling gravel. (I would love to know how many tons of gravel they used for this job, b/c every time I have been there more gravel has shown up. It is quite amazing really.
Madeline was ready for bed time. Isn't she cute?!?!mg
Monday, September 08, 2008
EMHE: Part 3
Saturday, September 6th
I was a EM junkie on Saturday. I went four times.
First with my parents at about 9am. The foundation was poured and they were begining to take the forms off. At 9 the night before it was just a mud pit. Amazing.
The second time I went alone at about 12:30pm. The forms were off, and they were just starting to pump gravel into the basement so they could pour a floor.
I love this photo. This is a volunteer with his two children. The little boy would not let go of his daddy, not even a little.
One of the house's across the street has had a camera on its roof all week. There was actually a guy up there with it this time!
Can you see how huge that tracker is? Can you see how little those people are? Can you see how close the huge tracker is to those little people? I was happy up on the hill. It is tight quarters on this build, let me tell you!
Sponsored by Fitz's. That's my kind of build.
Madeline, snacking in her back pack. We {heart} this back pack. I forgot we had it... and it is much beefier than the one you saw my dad wearing earlier in the day. (sorry dad) Strollers are not really an option when there are that many people and only a 3 foot walkway.
The first wall going up.
Designer John Littlefield was on site putting in the first wall. They filmed him getting it into place and then he stepped over to the right side (in the black shirt and pants) and hung out.
Carpenters, working hard. John Littlefield, hardly working.
That's the theme this week.
They had all the exterior walls up and much of the interior framing was complete. They were taking in plumbing fittings and already assembled shower pipes. It was pretty cool.
This is my favorite photo so far.
We were there as they set the first section of the roof.
Wicked cool.
I was a EM junkie on Saturday. I went four times.
First with my parents at about 9am. The foundation was poured and they were begining to take the forms off. At 9 the night before it was just a mud pit. Amazing.
The second time I went alone at about 12:30pm. The forms were off, and they were just starting to pump gravel into the basement so they could pour a floor.
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Designer Edwardo Xol was there... not doing much though. That is him in the black shirt.
Designer Edwardo Xol was there... not doing much though. That is him in the black shirt.
I love this photo. This is a volunteer with his two children. The little boy would not let go of his daddy, not even a little.
One of the house's across the street has had a camera on its roof all week. There was actually a guy up there with it this time!
Can you see how huge that tracker is? Can you see how little those people are? Can you see how close the huge tracker is to those little people? I was happy up on the hill. It is tight quarters on this build, let me tell you!
Sponsored by Fitz's. That's my kind of build.Then when Kevin got home from work at 5:30pm we went back to the site. Kevin's first time on Saturday, my third.
Madeline, snacking in her back pack. We {heart} this back pack. I forgot we had it... and it is much beefier than the one you saw my dad wearing earlier in the day. (sorry dad) Strollers are not really an option when there are that many people and only a 3 foot walkway.
The first wall going up.
Designer John Littlefield was on site putting in the first wall. They filmed him getting it into place and then he stepped over to the right side (in the black shirt and pants) and hung out.Carpenters, working hard. John Littlefield, hardly working.
That's the theme this week.
And because I can't get enough of this craziness, Kevin, my dad, my brother and I came back to see the progress. We got there at about 8pm.
They had all the exterior walls up and much of the interior framing was complete. They were taking in plumbing fittings and already assembled shower pipes. It was pretty cool.
This is my favorite photo so far.We were there as they set the first section of the roof.
Wicked cool.
I have more from yesterday and today. (not that many more... but it actually looks like a house... which is what I am sure you are all waiting for...)
Anybody actually care about this? I just can't get enough. If this build was in any other community I probably wouldn't even go see it. But because it is literally around the corner I can't get enough. Yep. I'm crazy.
mg
Anybody actually care about this? I just can't get enough. If this build was in any other community I probably wouldn't even go see it. But because it is literally around the corner I can't get enough. Yep. I'm crazy.
mg
EMHE: Part 2
Life in our quiet town has been turned up side down this week. It is all very exciting. Really. We don't love all the traffic, but at least is it for a fun and honorable purpose.
Traffic signs near our street. Although they say the street is closed to only local traffic, there isn't anything stopping people from traveling the road. Well, other than the earth movers and dump trucks blocking the way.
What the house looked like on Wednesday.
What is looked like at 1pm on Friday.
They spent all of Thursday packing and moving the families belongings out of the house. They also spent some time reclaiming things like doors and windows to be recycled.
Ty in the center. If you have seen the show you know that they send a video of the house being torn down to the family on vacation. They filmed that at least twice that I saw.
Ty, filming with the crowd.
Ty walking by as they finished the filming. (Heading to his trailer for a nap.)
One of the Shea family. Part of the construction company running the site (Calliers, Thompson and Shea).
I guess they forgot to move the bed.
If you look closely you can see there are THREE back hoes taking down this house. (the third one is just coming up the driveway on the far left of the frame) The Fire department was spraying the demolition, so that isn't dirt, just water vapor.
We have many more photos from Friday night, Saturday, Sunday and today. So stay tuned. When I get around to down loading them I will post.
Life is crazy here!
mg
Traffic signs near our street. Although they say the street is closed to only local traffic, there isn't anything stopping people from traveling the road. Well, other than the earth movers and dump trucks blocking the way.On Friday they took down the house. Maddy and I walked over to take in the action.
What the house looked like on Wednesday.
What is looked like at 1pm on Friday.They spent all of Thursday packing and moving the families belongings out of the house. They also spent some time reclaiming things like doors and windows to be recycled.
Ty in the center. If you have seen the show you know that they send a video of the house being torn down to the family on vacation. They filmed that at least twice that I saw.
Ty, filming with the crowd.
Ty walking by as they finished the filming. (Heading to his trailer for a nap.)
One of the Shea family. Part of the construction company running the site (Calliers, Thompson and Shea).
I guess they forgot to move the bed.
If you look closely you can see there are THREE back hoes taking down this house. (the third one is just coming up the driveway on the far left of the frame) The Fire department was spraying the demolition, so that isn't dirt, just water vapor.Life is crazy here!
mg
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