The next weekend we were back in Orange County. We were invited by Greg’s brother to go to “Pumpkin City” with his family.

A little less “farm” a lot more “activity”

Brit and Chez have pumpkin face!

Piles o’ pumpkins

Aren’t we cute?

Ride ‘em cowboy

As I was standing in line to buy a ticket for the boats, a guy gave me a bunch of them his family wasn’t going to use. Yay! I love free. Brit had a fun time driving the boats…for about the first few minutes. Then as it dragged on for at least 5-6 he started to look a little sick. Up and down, round and round not too good.

And he got to ride the train. He’s loving them at the moment, so I think this was the highlight of his time there. Couldn’t really have cared less about the pumpkins. Except for the Jack o’ Lantern balloon we had to have at the end.

It was interesting going to both kinds this year. I’m not sure which is better. This one was more “exciting” for sure. But I like the simpleness of the farm too. I guess we’re lucky we could enjoy both!

A couple of weeks ago we were home and got to go to Rock Creek Farm about 20 miles away in Broomfield.

It was a real pumpkin farm with acres of orange and green spread out before us.

Brit loved looking at all the pumpkins and trying to find the right one.

Yes, we actually cut them from the vine! Brit was a good helper.

Our pumpkin selection

How Kaia spent the day…all wrapped up in her carrier.

It was a lot of fun to pick our pumpkins at the source. Brit also ran around the hay maze and looked at some animals. Their pumpkin cake was delicious too!

That’s one of Britton’s favorite sayings these days. Today we’re talking about why I keep talking about being back in LA. Some have asked, others already know…but since we’re not really sure who knows and who doesn’t at this point, I figured I’d just get it out there.

Britton is in a tv show. He plays Ian on All My Children. Mark just asked if this post was hard for me to write…yes it is. Don’t get me wrong, we’re very proud of him, but I’m not really into bragging about it.

He got the role back in March just before his birthday. He has had an agent since he was about 9 months old, but has only done 3 things…including this. First was his movie Growth–which is out now by the way–the pilot of Cougartown, and AMC. He got the role primarily because he looked like the boy they cast as his older brother. They brought him in, the casting director had him follow a few simple directions and thought he was really cute, so he was hired.

We had just 2 shoot dates then…one on his Birthday. Then the next one wasn’t until July! He didn’t do so well for the 2nd two. He was tired since they don’t really work with nap times, and didn’t know these people so he got a bit whiny and cried. He didn’t make the shots.

Then we moved. We figured it would stay about the same, so we would just had a few trips here and there back to LA and visit people. But no, he suddenly had TONS of shoot dates. We knew about the first couple well in advance. September 22nd. That’s why we were really hoping Kaia would come early so that she’d be a little older before we had to get back to LA.

Why didn’t we quit? I mean, we never planned on this being a career for him. It was just something for fun while we lived there. I was happy he didn’t get lots of auditions and work. I didn’t have time for that. But, we’d just paid big bucks to get him in the union (required) and so he hadn’t even started building up his college fund yet.

So, anyway, we went to LA thinking it would be for a month. But it’s now pushed to the end of November. There have been 1-3 shoot dates a week, and they change a lot, so we have only had a couple of chances to come home. Luckily we’ve been able to stay with family, and my mom has been able to take him (and I’ve come too, most of the time) to the set. He makes sure he does what he needs to do and he acts a lot better for her than for me anyway. We couldn’t have done it without her.

It’s been rough, especially since Kaia’s so new and Mark hasn’t been able to see her much. And, it’s hard not being at your own house for so long–even though our hosts are amazing. But, we’ll see how it goes till the end of the year, and after that we’ll have to see.

So, there it is–way longer than I planned. If anyone wants to know when his episodes will air let me know.

We had Kaia’s baby blessing the first weekend in October because Mark was in town with us, and we didn’t know how our schedule would go for a while. (We–Me, Britton and Kaia) are in LA for an extended stay…I’ll go into that in another post)

Our amazing friends Adam and Erin let us have it at their new house and it was fabulous!

There were a few hiccups along the way–her dress that I ordered never came, so I had to buy one in Downtown LA at the last minute. It was WAY too big, and not exactly what I wanted, but she looked beautiful.

Blessing prep

Our family…

The rest of the family…Mom and Chez

Adam, Mark, Happy Kaia, Bro. Jasinski–her “circle”

Kaia and Erin

Mav the entertainment!

Sleeping girl

Chezney and Mom with Kaia

Our delicious spread…Fruit, homemade by Greg salsa, mint lemonade, homemade by Mom pasta salad and SO super delicious desserts of lemon cookie bars and shortbread with “K” in chocolate, also made by Mom. We ate well!

Mom, Greg and Kaia

Thank you to our great friends and very supportive family who came and for all your help. It was a great day and we’re happy you could share it with us.