I can't believe June is almost over. It feels like it just started. Yesterday was my love's birthday, he is now 32 years old. He was 24 when we started dating. :) We had to celebrate his birthday on Wednesday, because I spent most of his birthday filming for MDA. We went up to a small lake, complete with fishing license, two fishing poles and worms. We caught nothing. :) Oh, well. It was beautiful up there, much cooler than here and not a cactus in sight. Poor Jeremy just had bad luck - the bobbers ( I don't know how to spell that) kept sinking, the line would get tangled, the reel on one broke and when everything happened to be working, the boys would start throwing rocks in the water, again. I hope we can try again with better luck. Then we came home and had Jeremy's chosen dinner - pizza and hot wings :) I hope he had a good birthday. Last year, he says he spent his birthday alone in a hotel room with a can of spam. So hopefully, this was better. But, how can you really compete with Spam? He was teaching a workshop in Austin and we were in Houston praying that Michael wouldn't come while he was away.
The next day, Jeremy and I both went to work. Thankfully, Lynne came up to celebrate with us and to watch the boys while I filmed. Everyone was really nice and even though they misspelled my name on my VIP name tag - Cindy Selin- I still felt important. It was filmed at the national headquarters of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, so no one can go in without being signed in, given a name tag and escorted by an employee to wherever you need to go. I have no idea why.
But, anyway I learned how easy it is to work with a teleprompter. I always thought that it was right next to the camera and that you had to balance looking at the words and the camera, but it is the camera. The words are right on the lens of the camera. Pretty cool. I will probably never have a need to know that again, you typically don't look straight into the lens. :) This time I only looked straight into the camera for one shot anyway. I had a great time. I felt like a professional. It was a nice feeling. I didn't have to calm any children, change any diapers, etc for six hours and I got paid to pretend I was talking to someone on the phone. :) It was great. If I hadn't almost walked into the men's room, it would have been virtually painless.
One hard thing is it gave me a taste for it all again. I would really love to do more. I hope that other things will come along when I really need a break. Or a new pair of jeans. :) Andrew can go through a pair of pants faster than anyone I know. Only his church pants are without holes in the knees. And not the fashionably ripped jeans, just ones that obviously happened when he fell down. They match all the bruises and scrapes all over his legs. He plays hard! I am not excited for school clothes shopping.
My baby turns one next week. I can not accept that!

Father's Day

We had a great Father's Day this year. At least, we enjoyed it! I hope Jeremy did. :) Andrew was the event planner this year. He decided we needed to do a Father's Day parade complete with marching band. Andrew played his guitar, Jacob played the recorder and Michael and I were on the drum. We walked in singing, It's a parade, It's a parade, It's a Father's Day parade over and over all while playing our instruments. Jacob was really funny to listen to, as he was trying to blow into the recorder and sing the song. We all had the song stuck in our head all day.  Then we presented Jeremy with two fishing rods, one for him and one for the boys. Then we gave him a pair of shoes that matched the boys shoes. They picked all of it out. And total it was $20. Not bad discount shopping!  He woke up with a smile, which was sweet.  Anyone who knows Jeremy knows he hates to wake up, he loves to sleep in if he can. And then we had pancakes, eggs and bacon, which the boys helped make.  Then we all got ready for church and went to church.  It was so fun to have the boys so involved and that Jeremy really liked everything. He is really hard to shop for. 

I am so glad that Jeremy is the father of my children. He loves then so much and they really love him. Whenever Michael sees him, he gets the biggest smile on his face. He has started to just let go of me  and try to jump to Jeremy when we are standing by him.  We love you, Jeremy. I am glad that there is a day to honor them. I got to talk to my Daddy and he really likes the fishing pole we all got him. I wish I could have been there to celebrate with him, too. Last year we were there. It is hard to be so far away. Love you so, Daddy.

I would include pictures, but our memory card is acting up and the camera won't read it anymore. Oh, well. 

We have had a great week. Last Wednesday, the boys and I went to a playgroup tour of a fire station. Of course, I forgot my camera.  But, we had a great time. They saw the the bedrooms and the four refrigerators and the fire truck! They climbed in, 'drove' the truck and watched how high the ladder went up. On Saturday, we went hiking at the top of Mt. Lemmon with Celia, another Acting Fellow at the UA.  It was really beautiful. We had a picnic and the 'trail' led you across the creek several times. We saw a small waterfall and threw plenty of rocks in the creek. 

On Monday, I had my first audition here in Tucson. It was for a video teaching the volunteers for the MDA telethon what to do. The MDA headquarters is here in Tucson. It was nice to be auditioning again. I saw the other women there that were auditioning and thought, 'oh, well. At least it will be good for me to get my feet wet again.' They were beautiful and totally different than me. I stumbled a few times in the cold read, but overall I felt fine about it. When I left, I didn't think it was mine. But.... yesterday my agent called and told me I got it! I am really excited. I am thrilled to  take a little time away and film something. The money will be nice, but it feels good to be doing something different and using my talents.  Too bad it is on Jeremy's birthday. 

His show opens in two weeks and he will be performing on his birthday, too. 

And - Taylor and Justina has their baby! Yesterday, their little girl, Eva Elle Selim was born. I think she was about six and a half pounds and they are doing well. I will post a picture when I get one. Taylor sounded so happy when I talked to him. Congratulations! When I was talking to Taylor, I told Andrew his cousin was born and he asked," Is she big enough to play with us?"

Now he is going to start asking me for a baby sister again!