Fame! I'm gonna live forever!!

We are super-stars! My Dad's company needed a family to participate in a PR shoot for a product called Umcka. Judging us by our good looks, they asked us if we were interested. Lucky for them, we are actors too! Jake was supposed to wear a calm color. I can not even describe the fight we had to get him to wear this shirt. He wanted to wear his transformers shirt. Yeah, right. This is going on national television! And I will NOT have my child promoting a motion picture! Anyway, not the outfit I would have chosen, but you pick your battles.

We arrived at Nature's Way where we went into hair and makeup. (See, I told you this was big!) Jake was mad he had to have makeup on. But then he couldn't even tell. His role was to go into a doctors office looking sick. This is where his acting skills took off! He told the camera man to get a close up as he "rocked back and forth." He was supposed to have a cold, not be dying of a stomach ulcer! It took us about 3 hours and they even fed us lunch. Well, I ate lunch, Jake ate a plate of pastries.

They weren't able to complete their filming that day. They arranged to use my parent's kitchen to film the rest of the shoot. My job was to give my girls Umcka. Into makeup we go...
The girls were enthralled! Then it was Adalyn's turn to be a princess...
And finally, the princess of all princess was thrilled to get her makeup done! (I absolutely love this photo!)
Adalyn was first. We went through about a quarter bottle of Umcka. She took it well each time. It was precious. After she finished filming, I put her into the den to watch a movie.

Then it was Juliana's turn. She too went through a quarter bottle. Half way through filming Juliana, Adalyn wandered into the kitchen. Her face was flush and she looked sick. She came to me and said, "My tummy hurts Mama!"

I quickly said, (while the camera was rolling) "Did the Umcka make you sick?" The director said, "We certainly don't want THAT statement in there!" Luckily, no one had to pay to clean my carpets. She digested it just fine!
That shoot took us almost four hours. We ended it with my statements and testimony of the product (all true, by the way.) We loved every minute of this fun opportunity. When finished, it made me wish for a small moment that I had stuck with my dream of being a journalist - how much fun I would have had! But, then I remembered that I picked my course.

And I'm just as happy!