i have been keeping tabs on jamie oliver & uncle ben's search for a food tube contest and wanted to write one.more.post as it is wrapping up today!
abbie and i just watched finalist amber kelley's latest video together on the couch. as soon as it was over, she wanted to watch another and excitedly asked, "mom, can i help you make breakfast today!?" now that's what i'm talking bout!!!! no lecturing or nagging from mom needed after you watch this little star.
so who is going to be the next food tube star!? there is no doubt that felicitas pizzaro is on the road to victory. she's kicking bootie with over 14,000 likes for her fabulous video. i am looking forward to seeing her on the food tube cuz she "had me at merlot too"!!!
in honor of this super fun contest wrapping up today, paul (the superman behind my entry) and i wanted to extend a little gift out there to anyone who would like help in creating a Visual Keepsakes montage for the upcoming holidays (gulp, yes they are coming...) or just because you want to! here is link to one of his family's montages that gives me the tinglies everytime. i hope it'll get your creative juices flowing for what he could create for you and yours. a summer sports recap, vacation memories, a birthday or an anniversary gift... the sky is the limit, right?! in case you did not get a chance to see the other videos he has done for me in the mullies, here they are: a mullies cooking class & a mullies suit and tie cooking party. we watch them over and over and over...
Visual Keepsakes would like to offer any mullies readers 10% off a video creation. basic photo montages start at $50 and videos start at $75. pretty rad huh?
Paul Molidor
630.697.1180
paulmolidor@gmail.com
just tell him i sent ya.
congratulations to the five finalists, high fives to felicitas for smashing it and i hope you love the food tube as much as we do!! i am particularly loving the new save with jamie videos. save some $$$ and save your belly... yes please, may i have another?
a year ago this weekend, i went to my oldest son's flag football game and talked to my girlfriend jen about what i was about to do: clean out my fridge and pantry and go grocery shopping for "cleaner' food.
yesterday we had another flag football game. i saw her, gave her a big hug and said, "you and i spoke exactly one year ago today. today was the first day of my food change."
i really don't even know how to describe how i felt watching the game. reflecting on how i took my family's food life by the "go-nads" without any guarantees that it would work.
man, am i glad i did.
today is the day i tackled blogger and signed myself up for one crazy ride.
oh jen. thank you so much for cheering me on that day, for not telling me i was crazy and for sharing your successful experiences with food and family. you were such an inspiration that day and you still are. totes to you my dear.
it got HOT sitting on those bleachers, so i went down under to see where the kids were all hanging out and popped a squat myself in my beach chair.
i told abbie what day it was and she gave me that face. HA!!
so far so good in 2nd grade.
i still feel like i'm in a cage sometimes, with the weight of the bleachers on my shoulders.
and sometimes i feel like this. like i just won the lottery. because i really have. this life of mine. i love it and i hope that i leave some realgoodstuffbehind.
bring on the yin and yang spiderman.
what will year two bring?
ohhhhh dolly miss molly... a lot of sunshine i hope.
hope #1: to inspire more families to get their lean.mean.fighting.machines cleaner and having fun cookin in their kitchens.
hope #2: it's sunday people. today marks the 1st day of the bears road to a superbowl victory.
DAAAAAAAA bears da bears da bears da bears da bears da bears da bears...
xoxo
ps
and how about this timing? the top 5 finalists in jamie oliver's search for a food tube star have been announced TODAY!!! i didn't make it (drat) but i sure had a hoot making this entry video. i'm really glad i didn't have to narrow down the field, and i'm really happy to see these individuals as finalists. i love them all. ***if you look fast at the first block of videos in the beginning montage, i get a shout out on the bottom middle square... look quick! i think jamie and the food tube liked it!!!!! yea baby yea!!!!
NOW GO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE(s) TO WIN!!! i'm voting for 2 i think:)
it begins with a little road trip to see my chimmie laura.
this is my favorite spot at her house. she got me hooked on her morning ritual: these green smoothies. i have made them before, just not every day... we lingered in our pj's every morning watching our kiddos play in the backyard.
this adventure cleared my head a bit. there is nothing better than getting out of your own kitchen sometimes!
this was the one night we went out on the town, that's why we look so darn cute. so of course, we couldn't get our "going out" clothes all messed up! we donned some aprons, cooked fast and got outtathere with her hubby as soon after babysitter arrived. he had a ball taking these pictures of us goofing off.
she makes me laugh so hard i pee a little.
can you tell we are both obsessed with kale chips? the butt of many jokes...
made from scratch pizza, ranch and kale chips with some fruit and veggies - a dinner plate of champions.
uuuuuuummmmm you have something on your face... the spirulina shots came later...
i think these pictures say it all.
laura (with her sweet nutritionist background that i mooch off of) has been telling me about kimberly snyder for months. and i was like "ok, sure, i have to check her out!" and i'm pretty positive laura responded, "i'm gonna cut you if you don't!!!!"
a light bulb came on about a week later for something i was dragging my feet on.
one of kimberly's recipes (the nuttty butter spread from her cucumber asian rolls) gave me the inspiration for a beach day cooking festivas with megan, one of my best girlfriends and hot mamas in the mullies. i figured this might just be a good time to try taping for my entry. would it work out? who knew!? who cares!? it was gonna happen no.matter.what. so i just jumped.
on a friday morning, megan came over with three kiddos and i had my 3 crazy daisies. we had a cooking class of 5. we cooked, prepped and assembled as fast as we could cuz they wanted to hit the beach! she took all the pictures, took all the video (my computer got in on the action too) and boy oh boy did we have fun. we just rolled the tape. she's a teacher, i'm a coach... not a bad team when you're working with kids! the kids came in and out, others left and played at times... it was a team effort.
megan's brother paul (who has a full time job separate from his super.crazy.mad.videographer.skills) edited the video for me. i found the oh.so.perfect.lightening.from.the.sky music online and sent it to him to use with the footage. i'll never forget the moment i started listening to "this is the future" ... the song gave me the tinglies:
oh wow, this sounds like the beetles...
i love the beetles...
oh man, this has really good energy...
and oooooh it's about today being the future...
kinda like cooking with kids is our future...
ohhhhhhh the kids ARE OUR FUTURE... OMG *(&&&*^(*&^*&^*&^*&^(&^(*&^*&)....
i immediately dumped the other "favorited" tracks cuz i knew i had found the one.
here's the part that i'm.still.scratching.my.head.at: after paul and i discussed what i envisioned, this crazy talented man sent one, ONE draft of the video to me about a week and a half later. i told him to fix some spelling, add a few more video clips, switch the order of a few and add some pictures at the end. he dropboxed it back a few days later, all pretty and perfect. i submitted the entry about 15 minutes after receiving it from him. i think i shocked him:) that was it. done. he'd never created a video quite like this for the mullies (he collaborated twice before with meg to put these two montages together: our first mullies cooking class and our food revolution suit and tie party).
paul and meg knew exactly the energy, the message, the story that i wanted to convey (and continue to convey) and he did it so perfectly i could squeeze him (and her) to bits. it's like we all share the same brain... i think it's because i too have a red headed brother and sister... it must be our families' ginger power. i put some ginger in my green smoothie this morning. it's the best stuff ever.
so that's the story of how my food tube entry was born. chimmie and i spent the most amazing weekend together. she introduced me to kimberly snyder's awesome orange book of glorious clean food. i hooked up with miss memories by megan photography for an unscripted beach day cooking adventure. mr video keepsakes waved his magic wand with his sister's fairy dust and poof.
