Our Kolton is 9!!!!!

Hi everyone!! I know this is a blog about Keeton and his adventures in LA, but it is the weekend so not a lot is happening and more importantly our Kolton turned 9 today!!! Kolton, my athlete, the child with a heart of gold who would literally give you the shirt off of his back turned 9 years old today and like a grown up boy, understood that his mommy and big brother couldn't be there. We watched him open his present over a webcam, a shiny new bat for baseball season, and even take a few swings while almost taking out his baby brother and a few decorative plates hanging on the wall as well, LOL. Kolty is an amazing big brother and we know that he is helping to take care of his little brothers while we are gone. When we get back we are going to have a big birthday party with all of his friends, but today Rocky took him and some friends to play laser tag and then to dinner with Nanny & Paw Paw. We love and miss you Kolton and hope that you had a wonderful birthday!!! I can't wait to see all of the pictures from today and make all new memories when we get back! We love you!!!! XOXOXOXO

PS Rocky, Mom and Dad, thank you for making his birthday so special, we love and miss you all very much!!

My Model, My Hero!!!

Today was one of the slowest days we have had in a long while. We had to get up early and get ready because water was supposed to be turned off in our building for a water repair until 5pm. Then we headed to a go-see appointment for H&M Print. A Go-see is like an audition, but you go there and they take some "test shots" of you and there are people everywhere of all ages. It is pretty much a mad house. They will tell you that you can come certain days between the hours of this and this. Regular auditions will have a scheduled time, at least within an hour. After that, we had to find a phone store because I was needing a new charger for my phone so we went to this 8 story mall that our GPS took us to. We figured we would look around a little there and maybe take in a movie or something. So, while there, we decide to use the elevator. As the elevator comes to pick us up, the door won't open and there is a woman stuck inside!! We start talking to one another throught a tiny crack in between the doors and without hesitation, Keeton, struggles to pull the doors apart and frees the woman from certain death!!! LOL! The doors wouldn't close or open after, from the picture, you can see that they only opened as far as he pulled. She thanked and thanked him and went on her way and we proceeded to the nearest escalators!!! After that, Keeton swam for several hours with his friend Hunter and then we had dinner with friends that drove in for the weekend from Sacramento. So happy to see a friendly and familiar face! Thanks for coming to visit us, Joni and Mackenzie!!

Beveryly Hills 9021.....2???

Hi Everyone!! This is going to be as short and sweet as possible, lol, because we are TIRED! I am trying soo hard to be disciplined in writing this blog every night for all of you and as a keepsake for Keeton one day to look back on. TODAY, up early (DO ALL MY POSTS START THAT WAY???) and went straight to an "Audition" for an animated feature called the Legend of Santa Claus. Keeton had so much fun there because he went into a sound booth and got to talk into a "long skinny weenie mic!" They recorded his voice and sent it by audio file only to the next people in line to hear it. Other voices in this film include Richard Dreyfuss, Zooey Deschanel, and Sarah Silverman to list a few. So here, he is a voice, not a face and that is REALLY ALL THAT MATTERS. No headshot, no resume, nothing. From there we ran home for a private lesson with Patrick Malone for a half hour. He worked with Keeton on the Feature Film script Blindside that is set to star Sandra Bullock. Keeton would be playing her son, if he booked this! Looks like it is going to be a great movie from reading the script!! After he and Patrick worked out the "bugs," we headed to his management company, they wanted to give him any last minute tips and things for the same audition and were pleased with what they saw. From here, we headed to BEVERLY HILLS 90212 for the film audition!! All of this work and he was in there for 4 minutes!!! This character, SJ, is supposed to have a southern accent, which came easy for Keeton, so the casting agent made a comment that he had a great accent for the part! Straight from there we headed to his Thursday night acting class and then ended the night with an enormous piece of MAMMA'S PIZZA!! It was bigger than his chest!!!! What a way to end a great day! We are looking forward to a great night's sleep tonight and ready to see what God has in store for us the next few days.

Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

Hey guys! Well, we wanted to be busy and it has officially happend!! We barely have time to catch our breath! This morning we got up and got our early start, as usual here, and continued working on the TV pilot script. Keet had a private coaching lesson at noon. They worked strictly on the pilot. He had to learn 12 pages of dialogue for this audition. He amazes me!! After his coach left we ate a quick lunch and were off to his audition. Keeton and I met 2 actresses from The Young and the Restless that were also auditioning for this pilot. They were really nice and were both recently killed off, lol, so I guess they are looking for new jobs. Anyway, of the 12 pages that Keeton learned, they only had him do 1 scene, which was about 5 pages. You have to be ready, there is no way of knowing. They could have asked for the last scene. Anyway, we went straight home to work on his Feature Film audition material for tomorrow (I will tell you more about that later), but we walk in the door to the apartment and his print agent called and wanted him to come in and take a few snapshots for a submission for a Lands End catalog shoot. We did that and then found a place on the way home for him to get a haircut. While there, they call me again and tell me he has an audition for a voiceover for an animated film! LOL. I didn't even know he was doing voiceover! Everyone would be so proud of him, he is such a pro! He insists on getting everything done first and then play later. He is really turning into a mature little man! Until tomorrow!! Love to everyone!

WOW~ What a DAY!!!

Hey guys! Well, today was a great day!!! For starters, we got an early beginining on school and ate lunch. We had a great meeting with his Agent and headed straight from there to a Scott's Turf Builder Commercial audition (Santa Monica, lol). Keeton had to kick the soccer ball around with another little boy on, what would be, a "beautiful scott's lawn." We got word while at that audition that Keeton has another audition on Thursday for a feature film called Blindside. It is starring Sandra Bullock and will begin filming sometime in April in Atlanta, GA. He also finally got an audition for that television pilot that he has been working on!! That is tomorrow!! He has been a busy boy! I am so proud of him! He works so hard and is so amazing at this! I can't believe how easily he remembers 12 pages of dialogue! Blows my mind!! Smart, talented AND handsome!!! WOW! Things have finally started moving in high speed! Thanks for all of the SWEET thoughts and prayers! They are really helping! XOXOXOXO

Dunkin' Donuts and on screen classes

So this morning we woke early with no plans other than school, school and script. (The same pilot script that he is supposed to be familiarizing himself with). HOWEVER, we were called by his management company to go back to Santa Monica for the 3rd time in 4 days (no I am not complaining, just ironic) for a Dunkin' Donuts commercial audition. What's even more ironic is the fact that my cousin auditioned for this same commercial as the "Dad" on Friday! We were told to have him wear pajamas, and Keeton, at 11, wears shorts and a T-shirt most nights, so we went out and bought him a pair. He was paired with 2 other children who were about 5 or 6 years old and were wild INDIANS in the room. Keeton didn't feel like it went well in there at all because of that. To me, he was too old for the part compared to the other children that were there, but we shall see!

After that and heading home in traffic, he changed in the car, we grabbed a bite and headed to an on screen acting class that was in Sherman Oaks. This was also taught by Patrick Malone. He called today and invited Keeton to it because he felt that he could handle it, even though it was primarily for children 13 and up. It went very well and he invited him back to an even harder class next week!! He is really pushing him and challenging him to make him a stronger actor. Keeton already has an audition tomorrow but you will just have to tune into the blog tomorrow for more information or I may not have anything to write about then! Thanks again for all of your continued support and emails and comments! We love and miss you all! Keep us posted on all of you!

Grounded By The Oscars

Hey!! Well today, Sunday, was pretty uneventful! We went to a brunch served at our Apartments at 11am for starters. Then Morgan, my cousin watched Keeton swim with some friends while I went to an amazing seminar for 12-2:30. Following that, Keeton swam another hour or so and the sky was so gloomy it looked as though it would rain at any moment. We went back to the room and worked a little more on a script that was given to Keeton on Friday for a possible TV pilot audition that may be in the works for him. We watched the Oscars...did anyone see our neighbor, Robert Pattinson??? I DID! Anyway, I cooked some TACOS, at the boys request and then did the mound of dishes (no dishwasher here except for me!) After that, we went back to working on the script. It is 12 pages long so we are really trying to familiarize Keeton with it in case they call him in for it. It is really a cute script. If he gets called in for it, I will tell you more about it then. Anyway, we stayed around here all day for fear of sitting in traffic around town because of the Oscars. It is a mad house around there and has been for the last week!! Keeton is so tired from swimming and I am just tired, so another half hour or so, and we will turn in and be prepared for whatever this week may bring!! Hope all is well with all of you! Love and miss you all!!

Say CHEEEEESE!!! :)

Today was a gloomy Saturday in LA, but we woke up early and had some school time to start off our day to try and get a jump on the week. Then we got Keeton all primped and ready to head to Santa Monica for his headshots with Mitch Fields. He shot for a solid 2 hours with Keeton and I am DYING to see those pics!!!! I really think it is going to be hard to choose, which is a great problem to have! They were really playing off of one another and having fun and I am pretty sure that they are going to be GREAT! Did I mention that Keeton had a GREAT HAIR DAY??? LOL! I was so glad, the clothes were another story, but the hair was GOOD! Other than that, we checked out a few hotels for some friends that are coming into town next weekend from San Francisco to visit and went grocery shopping. Hope everything is well with all of you! Keep us posted on anything going on in your lives and we appreciate any comments because we miss everyone so very much!!! We don't want to miss anything going on back home!! XOXOXOXO

$5 Footlongs!!!

WOOHOO!! Keeton had his first audition!!! SUBWAY! 400 children also auditioned for the ONE spot, but he got his feet wet now and is ready to go! Things are done so differently here, it is so strange! It is shooting on March 4th and 5th so if he were to book, I would think that we would hear something fairly soon, but we know not to get our hopes up. Just glad to be going on something.
The rest of our day was shopping. Keeton was not excited, LOL. We had to go get him more clothes for his new headshots that are being taken tomorrow...This weekend should be fairly uneventful other than working on some sides (lines) that he was given to familiarize himself with, doing school for the upcoming week and having fun with friends. That's about it for today, love to you all, from both of us!

Acting Class

Hey guys! Well another day has passed and unfortunately no auditions have come Keeton's way...We had a meeting with a guy, Mitch Fields, he is going to be doing his headshots on Saturday, and we are excited and a little nervous about that. We really love the ones we have now and want to love the new ones equally as well. We also saw our first movie star, lol. Garrett Morris, from SNL. He actually lives where we live and was standing a foot from us!!! Keeton didn't have a clue but he came up next to me at the desk and asked if anyone had turned in a wallet because he had lost his!!! I almost fell out, lol. I bet he has some serious cash in it! Poor guy. If the name doesn't ring a bell, I know his face would, if you EVER watched the show back in the day when Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy were on. Anyway, we spoke a few words and then moved on. The man playing Edward, Robert Pattinson in the new Twilight movie also lives here, but I haven't been fortunate enough to run into him yet. He lives in our building though! So, Keeton went to his first acting class with Patrick Malone, who is also a famous actor who has been on A Different World, Desperate Housewives, Sister Act, Everybody Hates Chris just to name a few and just finished up a film called Legend of Hell's Gate. He is from Snyder, Texas, super nice man! He really saw something special in Keeton and doesn't feel like we will be leaving when we are scheduled to leave, LOL....not sure about all that, but his words after that were, "the kid's got something!" Keeton will be with him each Thursday night. That's about it for today, fingers crossed for tomorrow!!! XOXOXOXO

How about a little Salsa???

Ok, sorry for the later blog on this one, we moved yesterday and I couldn't get our internet working until this morning!! This place is a BILLION times better for Keeton!! He is sooo happy! He could meet anyone, anywhere, so, while moving in, he was making friends right and left. So during our down time, he is going to have fun! So about 45 minutes after we actually roll our suitcases into our room, we are told that in the main clubhouse they are having ballroom dancing for the kids (they have something almost nightly). It was being taught by Brian Fortuna from Dancing with the Stars!!! For all you fans, like me, he is even cuter in person!!! The pics, and yes, I even got video are in my actual camera, not phone, so I won't be able to post those, sorry. A friend sent me a few so I will post these. Anyway, in the beginning, Keeton was dead set against it...NO! I encouraged him to go for fun and to meet some people and he was SOOOO HAPPY HE DID! There were 21 girls and 6 boys! LOL :) He did really great and even thanked me for enouraging him!! I have to tell you the funniest story...Keeton has a friend here named, Hunter. He is with the Dallas agency. After the class, we took them swimming and they met 2 "Meagan's in the pool...After "flirting awhile, the 11 year old Meagan asked Keeton, "what do you like to do?" Keeton said, " well, I play baseball, sing, and act and tonight, I learned to do the SPICE, LMAO!!!! (He meant the SALSA) The girls had been in the class with him and just giggled!!

The new place is great and we have a meeting today at 2pm...I will write again tonight late with all of today's highlights...Thanks for reading!

Santa Monica Pier

So, up this morning for a meeting with Keeton's management company to discuss several things to get the ball rolling. New headshots, (his are 16 months old), his new agents, changes to his resume, and various different things that I had on my list. It was a great meeting, they, again were on their toes, making calls and sending emails and getting things done right and left...Keeton's new agents had to get his pictures to place them online with their other talent to start putting them out there, so that was one of the things that was done while we were in the office. ANYWAY...
We found a better place since we got out to LA that we really wanted to move to because Keeton has NO CHILDREN to play with here. There are more like welders and union workers staying where we are, lol. Although, Keeton can make friends with anyone, we found a place that has tons of actor children and a heated pool and acting classes on site, etc, so with our week ending tomorrow, we check out tomorrow and move from Burbank to LA...only about 12 minutes or so, about 3 minutes from Warner Brothers Studios. After that was decided, Morgan picked us up and we took Keeton to Santa Monica pier. It is really pretty there, with a few rides and restaurants (ie., Bubba Gump Shrimp, see picture attached!!) and fun things to do. Keeton actually rode this ENORMOUS Ferris wheel (Keeton is afraid of heights, so this was a BIG step). HE LOVED IT...LOL, but didn't want to do it again, hee hee... That was about all for today....Except for SKIPBO of course :)

Monday....Finally made it through a RAINY WEEKEND!!!

Hey everyone, still not a lot going on here. Being President's day, just about everything was closed that had to do with acting...HOWEVER, I did hear back from a famous actor/coach named Patrick Malone. He played in Sister Act and A Different World, just to name a few of my favorites. I was given his name by Keeton's agent to enroll him in some acting classes for fun while we were here. He is sooo nice...A TEXAN...go figure! Keeton starts this Thursday night, so he is looking forward to that. Anyway, we went grocery shopping in the pouring down rain, which was interesting. Then my cousin joined us for some much needed Tex-Mex and a hilarious movie called Mall Cop. Just a side note, if you haven't been here before, the malls are CRAZY!! They are like regular malls, but I was freezing and realized that there was no roof!! It was completely open!! SO WEIRD!! Would be nice in the sunshine, but when it started sprinkling and it's cold, not so cool. We came back after that and played skipbo, then Keeton crashed, as I sit and look at him while I type this blog. I hope you all had a wonderful extended weekend and hopefully something more interesting then SKIPBO will happen this week...Love to you all!! XOXOXO

Sunday...Friends and Fun

After yesterday, Keeton and I knew that we HAD to get out of this place or we would go nuts! We were lucky to have some mutual friends call us and ask us over for dinner! Carrie (the mom) has a 12 year old son, Tre' in the business that are here for the same reasons. After we did 2 days worth of school, that put us really ahead, we headed over for dinner and games and visiting. Keeton and Tre' really seemed to hit it off and even went swimming in a heated pool!! IT WAS 40 DEGREES OUTSIDE...I DON'T CARE HOW HEATED!!! It was really nice for Keet to have another kiddo to play with and me an adult to talk to. We stayed really late playing games...fairly uneventful, but I promised to write as often as possible...EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE WEEK BRINGS....

Days 1, 2, 3 & 4 in a nutshell...(a large one)

Hey everyone!! I am new to blogging, so this first entry will be lengthy until I catch up and for that I am sorry. With the outpouring of interest in what we are doing and how things are going day to day, I thought this would be a great way to share a little each day or so. Thank you again for everything, without all of your love and support being here in LA would be very hard for Keeton and I without the rest of our family. Again, thank you all, Rocky, Keeton and I appreciate each and every call and thought and prayer from you. Love to you all!!

Day 1 Feb 11th Wednesday-Leaving that curb from the airport was about the hardest thing I think I have ever had to do....I wanted to do this for Keeton, but I also didn't want to leave my kiddos or my hubby there...bitter sweet, I suppose. A luggage man pretty much took us under his wing and got us checked in. After getting on the plane, there was NO turning back and I was feeling better and excited and nervous too. I haven't ever done anything like this without Rocky. After arriving, we got our rental car, something just a tad larger than a go cart and headed to Burbank towards our temporary home. We had a meeting scheduled later that day at 4:30 with his management company. My cousin, Morgan, who lives here, picked us up just after throwing our bags into the room and we headed to the meeting. We loved the managers, again, and it just made us feel better about signing with them. We signed all of the contracts and paperwork and they were really on their toes. They gave Keeton a script for a pilot to start looking over for a future audition. After wrapping up there we went for a nice dinner and bought some groceries (expensive ones, lol) and much needed cleaning supplies. Went home and cleaned and pretty much turned in for the night!

Day 2 Feb12 Thursday
Headed straight to the work permit office to get Keeton's work permit, fed the parking meter several dollars, only to find they were closed. WITHOUT THAT PERMIT>>>We might as well come on home. Nobody knew why they were closed so we headed downtown and paid another parking meter $3 for an hour to find a note stating that they were also closed for Lincoln's 200th birhtday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINCOLN! However that messed up several of our plans, lol. IS THAT NOT WHAT WE HAVE PRESIDENT'S DAY FOR??? Anyway...we headed home to wait for a commercial agent meeting at 5. Things apparently are opened much later here. The meeting was good, we waited longer than he was actually in there, but he seemed to be impressed with Keeton. Now we wait to hear from the managers for their decision. Dinner, skipbo, bedtime.

Day3 Friday Feb13
Headed (Again) straight to the work permit office WOOHOO! GOT IT! Then to a meeting with a Print Agent which I really liked. Again we wait for word. Then we went to set up a meeting at a place called SAG/Aftra credit union which is sooooo coool. This is called a Coogan account. It was started by Jackie Coogan. He played Uncle Fester on The Adams Family. As a child Actor, his parents took and spent all of his money! So this is for CA law. I wish it was everywhere. Anything that is SAG/AFTRA that Keeton makes 15% off of the top goes into this account before the check ever even comes to him. I wish it was higher, but we can send more. He nor we or anyone can touch it until he is 18 years old. Not sure 18 is old enough, but that is the age on the law. Later that day, we were given word that Keeton was signed by both agents and that was great news! He now offically has 3 agents and a team of managers!! OK...That about catches us up to today!

Feb 14th Day 4 VALENTINES DAY
BORED, lol, watched TV, Got way ahead on schoolwork. I am homesick because we aren't busy and I made this blog. I will try to write each day now so that there isn't so much writing. Again, thanks for caring!!