We're pooped. Our bodies ache. Our fingers are raw. Our eyes are heavy and our knees are weak. It truly has been an amazing & exhausting adventure.
Where did the summer go? Though you wouldn't know it by the blazing heat of the past week here in Calgary, it is now officially fall and October is less than a week away. In our minds it still feels like it should still be the last week of August but the leaves on our front lawn in Bowness and the chilly mornings confirm that another month has actually come and gone.
From the day in June when we submitted our audition application until yesterday, when we officially completed the construction of our future home, it is has been an amazing 103 days that will forever change our lives. In 250 hours of labor spread over 17 days of filming during this past month, we took a house from studs and Tyvek wrap to completion right down to furnishing and decorating. Yesterday, under a scorching 34 degree sun, we completed the 9th episode; the landscaping and deck episode. Though we were elated to be done with the construction, a small sadness creeped into our thoughts as we said goodbye to the production team, the other family and our team of professionals. The house is now locked up and we said goodbye to it as well until the finale in early December. One day later it is already feeling like it was all a dream.
Nicola and I would like to thank the following people for their appearance and help on various episodes of the show: (We could not have done it without you!)
- Jordan Clark (Bedrooms, Basement & Siding)
- Kari Clark (Bedrooms, Basement & Landscaping)
- Josh Mooney (Dining Room, Mud Room & Laundry Room)
- Jeff Holmgren (Living Room, Front Entry & Stairwells)
- Darrin Pawlak (Siding/Facing)
- Jill Pawlak (Siding/Facing)
- Colin Hattrick (Siding/Facing)
- Dad - Jack Mooney (Siding/Facing)
- Jason Holmgren (Landscaping/Deck)
- Mike McKinney (Landscaping/Deck)
- James Savage (Landscaping/Deck)
- Aly's Jason (Siding/Facing & Landscaping/Deck)
- Greg (Wolverine) Dudar (Our General Contractor)
- Dean (The Most Amazing Deck in Calgary) (Our Framer-Carpenter / Handyman)
- Mike (The Magician) (Our Carpenter / Handyman)
- Aly ("Work it Out") Velji (Our Fabulous Designer)
- Jenn (Sweat Blossom) Avis (Our Manager)
- Patti Clark (Grammie) Thank-you for supporting Becky with the girls.
- Judy Mooney (Grandma) Thank-you for supporting Becky with the girls and thank-you for the amazing meals on the nights we crawled through the door exhausted and hungry.
- Rebecca (Bucky) Hammond (Amazing Friend & Temporary Live-In Nanny) Thank-you "Bucky" for putting your life on hold to come live at our house for 5 weeks and love and care for Maggie & Lyla as though they were your very own. Thank-you for doing the laundry, cleaning the house, making our meals and allowing us to spend our precious time at home with the girls and sleeping. We could not have survived this without you. Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you!!!
Now begins the big push to get the word out. We need you and everyone you know and everyone they know to watch the show and vote.
We are the YELLOW TEAM.
The premiere of the show is:
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 2009 - 8PM MT/CT 9PM ET/PT ON CITY TV. (The show will be aired from coast to coast on CITY TV. In Calgary, CITY TV is channel 8)
The show will air every Sunday evening for 10 weeks and we need everyone to vote each week. (I have heard that they will be re-airing the previous Sunday's episode on the following Saturday night but I haven't officially confirmed that yet.)
They have begun airing commercials for the show on City TV.
The show is called My RONA Home.
To Vote each week, see clips from the show, see the bios and photo galleries for both families go to: http://www.myronahome.ca/
I tried to create a link to our first commercial but it didn't work. If you go to the above website, you can view the commerical there. You may actually see it on TV in the days leading up to the premiere.
*** Feel free to share our blog with your friends and family. We would love to know how far this reaches so please leave a quick comment and/or sign our guestbook at the top left corner of our blog page to show your support.***
We can't speak much about the show until it airs but I will see if we can get permission to show our photo's and share our thoughts on each room each week after it airs on TV.
Thanks everyone for your support in this once in a lifetime experience for our family.
All our love,
James, Nicola, Maggie & Lyla
JRM 9/24/2009
