My Husband the Actor, Tobias Funke eat your heart out!

So last week I got an e-mail from Red Lobster (We are on the e-mail list because of Chris and is love for seafood especially shrimp).  When I first looked at it, I'm pretty sure it was after Cortney had gone to bed and I guess I was a little bored because I thought to myself, why not?

The contest was to say why you are the Ultimate Shrimp Fan and then say how you "sea" food differently.  Like I said I was just bored and wanted something to do, in fact I didn't even tell Chris I had done it.  But here is what I sent in:

Endless shrimp at Red Lobster is an annual tradition in our family, mainly because of me.  I really cannot get enough of it, refill after refill after refill!  Best thing ever!  We also love how endless shrimp is always around our anniversary, we go every year to celebrate.  Recently Sept 1 of this year we celebrated our fifth year together at Red Lobster!  As far as "seaing" food differently I wrote a poem about the way I feel:

How do I love shrimp,
Let me "sea"
If they have a word
good enough for me

Adore, devoted, or love,
Passion, gusto or fondness,
Mania, or infatuation,
Oh where is that Thesaurus?

After diligently searching,
I have come to a conclusion
There has not yet been invented
A word that describes this obsession

 If I ever come across
A word that might come close
I will most assuredly
To the word disclose

How do I love shrimp
Let me "sea"
If they have a word
Good enough for me!

My Name Chris Nield
Medford Oregon
(208)206-5526

Please find a photo of me and my wife attached to this e-mail!




Seriously I sent about 5 minutes writing the poem, and all I did was look at a thesaurus online.  Really I just wanted something to do.  I mean come on, totally not my best work - some of the rhymes are not even that good.  Plus people can send in videos so I thought for sure nothing would happen...that is until yesterday.

I got on to check my e-mail and said I had been selected for an interview with the casting director at Red Lobster.  After about 5 minutes of laughing I was able to call up Chris on the phone and tell him...

"By the way honey tomorrow you have a skype audition with the Casting Director for Red Lobster to possibly be in a commercial."  Kind of an awkward situation especially because he had no idea I had done it in the first place!  But don't worry Chris was super excited!  Bascially this was his response...

I'm going to be an Actor!

So Chris had his interview today - was not really that big of a deal, and to be honest we are not expecting a call back or anything, it is just kind of fun to talk about.  In the interview they just asked Chris questions about Shrimp, it was only 10/15 minutes long.  But now Chris can say he has had his offical first audition as an actor. Oh, and don't worry his isn't quitting his day job or anything!

  

Cortney's First Day of School

Oh my goodness!  What torn feelings I have had about this day!  I have wanted her to go to school for so long, basically since the day she was born, but I cannot believe she is finally old enough.  She was so excited, and has been loving school so much!

The day started off with her favorite breakfast French Toast with homemade Strawberry topping.  She was so excited about it, and ate as much as Chris and I combined!  Hungry little girl!

 When went to a park before school and were able to get some super cute pictures of her!  First - I cannot believe how big she is!  And Second - I cannot believe how much she looks like me - it is so crazy!

 I did some pictures of her favorite things!  PS - Like my chalkboard I made?!  I made it from a picture frame - awesomeness!  Her favorite toy is Honey Bear - basically the fourth member of our family.

 This one almost made me tear up a little!  I asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up - a doctor or a teacher.  And she said, "No, I just want to be a mom, just like my mom!"

 This was her front door shot!  Love how she popped her hips out, she is so cute!

These are her favorite books at the moment, they change every couple weeks or so, but right now these three are at the top of the list!

Her favorite movies are Little Mermaid and Tangled!

 One of my favorite shots!

The first day of school I got to go with her!  Here are a couple pictures of the things we did!
First Cortney wanted to play outside, I didn't take pictures of the whole outside area, but just a couple of different areas.  Such a cute little playground area!

 They had this little fairy set up on the bottom of a tree, Cortney loved it!

 Inside the classroom - this is actually from the back of the classroom - the lady with the yellow shirt is one of the teachers, Jana.  How cute is this room?!

 This is a little magnifying glass connected to the board full of things to look at.

 Cortney looking at the snake.

 Cortney and the fish - they also had Toby the turtle and Thumper the Bunny!

 Here is the little snack table

 A picture of different "works" - it is a Montessori school so they are big on teaching practical life skills - but to the kids they are kind of just lots of fun games to play that teach them skills they can use in real life - we played with at least 5 of them and she loved it!

 The light table is her favorite thing so far, she loves it!

The first week is a little different than all the other ones, so instead of MWF she went on tues, thr, and fri.  Thursday was the first day I left her alone at school - but don't worry I didn't cry...kind of wanted to but I was just too excited for her!  She loved her first day, and she also went to school today.  The teachers are amazing - I think Jana has been a teacher there for close to 20 years, if not more than that.  And you can really tell she is awesome with the kids.  My baby is growing up, love it!

Happy Birthday Audrey!

The other day we went to the park to celebrate Audrey's birthday!  She turned 4!  She wanted to show me how hold she was

 So of course Cortney had to show me she was 3.

 After these pictures they promptly told me they were done taking pictures and ran off!  Haha!

 Later we all sat down (There were a lot of people there) and had these yummy blackberry cupcakes her mom made!  FYI - they tasted better than they looked!

Mmmmmm!  All in all it was a fun day!