e street was loaded with trailers, tents, construction equipment, camera crew and other paraphenalia. The street was closed off except for security and authourized personel. We were driven right up to a private trailer and told that "This is Callie's trailer". It was exclusively for her and the family. I don't know if she fully understood what it meant to have a "Star Trailer". Mark and I just looked at each other with eyes wide open shaking our heads in awe. We had 3 different crew members at our beck and call. They came to get our signatures for employment, dissclosure, and "Braveheart". They took me to another trailer to load up with snacks and food. They were very concerned with what Callie could eat because of her Ciliac Disease. I took a whole grocery bag full of snacks food and water bottles back to the trailer. They came to put a mic on Callie and then would come back often to check on us and update us with schedule changes.Mark and Chad were able to participate in "Braveheart". It is the part of the show where you see the crowd of volunteers and builders walking towards the house. The kids could not be involved because you needed to be 18 or older to participate. Callie was being preped to join "Braveheart" as they arrived at the house. They filmed the crowd and introduced Callie as a special guest for this episode. She was kind of nervous but when they pulled out the TY cam, she loosened up a little. In between takes, Callie and Ty got into a snowball fight, it escalated to involve other cast members. It was COOL. It was fun to see that TY is just as friendly off camera as on. The whole staff was very good with Callie and I was impressed.
Following the take, they could tell that Callie was getting cold and immediately had crew take us to the VIP tent where Karla and the other kids were able to watch the whole take. The whole time all of this is going on it is like a blizzard. Snowing and blowing over a sheet of ICE. The builders, SIMMONS BUILDING, have included Callie as part of their team. They have asked her and the kids to attend a party for the Simmons Builders on Sunday. We waited in the VIP tent until demolition time. Callie and the rest of us were taken to the front of the crowd to watch the tear down. It was amazing how quickly they got the house down.
We then were taken to the dining area to have lunch with the crew. We met and talked personally with many of the "behind the scene" crew. Paulie came over to Callie at the table and told her some of his designing ideas and asked her opinion and told her to be thinking of more.
We were then told we could meet TY PENNINGTON. They took us out to THE BUS where we (the whole family) met TY. We were able to go in the BUS and talk with Ty. Callie gave him a Make A Wish hat and he was greatful to have her here to help. He seemed genuinely glad to meet her and excited to be working with her on this house. He asked her about her ideas for rooms for the house and told her she's got to find some "fish". We had our picture outside the bus with him and then headed back to the hotel. The ride was a nail biter. The roads were a sheet of ice with 6 inches of snow on top. We made it!
Most of the day we could not have a camera with us because of being filmed ourselves. Simmons Builders has a blog that they update hourly. You can keep up on the status of the home on: www.extremesimmons.com. Also it gives a background on the family and gives pictures. Also Callie will have an article in the Tulsa World paper tomorrow. There website is www.tulsaworld.com . There are many more suprises to come and a lot of go here, go there and Callie is up for the challenge. She is tired tonight. Tomorrow we don't start till 2:00. We are supposed to go to the hockey game tomorrow night we'll see how the taping goes. It might be a late blog tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out how to do a slide show of all days pictures. We'll see if it works.
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