Meeker Moments

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Max's Movie--"Someday"

Max got his first paying movie gig! He was hired to shoot a trailer for a feature film in hopes that funding will come for a full-length feature film.

He was cast as the 17 year son, Austin, of a police officer who gets involved in the wrong crowd and begins dealing drugs. As you can see from the pictures, he gets beat up AND arrested--DREAM.COME.TRUE! He was actually really excited to be the "bad boy" for once as he has most lately been the "nice/handsome guy."

It was a couple of LONG days on set but Max had the time of his life.

Kidnapped/ransom pics:

He's FINE!

On Set:

His "Dad" (Drew McCane) and bad guy "Alex" (Jose Rosete)

Initiation Scene from Buffie Meeker on Vimeo.

BIG argument scene

His on-screen brother "Tyler"

The girlfriend who tries to talk
him out of his life of crime:)

She's tiny or he's a GIANT:)

Camera Crew

So now we wait and see what happens with this. They are working hard to get this into production--and they cast Max young so that he can still be the lead even if it takes a year or two to get the funding. It was sure a great experience so even if nothing else comes of it, he had fun.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

My BIGGEST Rescue yet!

Chris and I minister to a family that lives in the area of Black Water on the Pima Indian Reservation--pretty much next to Coolidge, AZ. 3 momma dogs on this property had puppies all within the same week. The result: 25 unplanned/unwanted puppies.

Thank goodness for Lost Our Home Pet Rescue. If it weren't for them, there is NO WAY I could keep rescuing these sweet babies. With this large number of pups, I was allowed to use the official LOH van.

I'm SOOO OFFICIAL!!!

I loaded up with 17 of the 25 puppies and off to LOH they went for treatments/shots/surgeries. They were then split up into smaller groups and put into foster homes for 1-2 weeks where they could finally get some much needed one-on-one attention.

2 weeks later, I get another text asking me to take 4 more puppies because the people who were "supposed" to come get them never did. So I went out once again and gathered up these 4 handsome boys. In honor of President's Day coming up this month, I made these my "Presidential Pups." They go up for adoption this next week!

So 21 puppies off the Rez and on to their BEST LIVES! LOH ROCKS!

Roosevelt

Lincoln

Washington--"The General"

Jefferson

And just because you can't see a cute puppy video too many times:
https://vimeo.com/390363025

My Puppy is THE CUTEST EVER!!!

Yep! Sorry everyone! I got the CUTEST PUPPY EVER!!! No other puppy is as cute as my Lola Mae Sunshine New Moon Meeker:) . (That's her full Christian/Native American name:)

She's coming up on 4 months old and just LOOK AT HER:

Puppy PERFECTION

The time she got a half-full
red Gatorade bottle and punctured
it with her puppy teeth:)

It's just Gatorade thank goodness:)

6 weeks/9 weeks/12 weeks old

Here's some great videos of little Lola in action:

https://vimeo.com/390362533

https://vimeo.com/390363025

Max is 15!

Nothing really exciting happens when you turn 15 around here--this is when I let Carlie dye her hair red:) . But here is our Max. He's a 6 foot 15 year old man child:) . All he wanted this year was his home-cooked fried chicken dinner, Si Senor out-to-eat dinner, ice cream cake, and Air Jordan basketball shoes. (Oh and an all boy-campout that will happen this summer).

One of my favorite videos of him right here: (dang, he's SOOO handsome:)

Max-LAAA Audition from Buffie Meeker on Vimeo.

Young Women's Awards Night

Even though Carlie is no longer home, Tatum will NOT be out-done by her. So in true Tatum-fashion, she decided to finish her YW Medallion in a year because #1-it would be faster than when Carlie did it and #2-the Church has come out with a newer program and so this program is now over.

Whatever her reasons, Tatum Jane is AMAZING and we are crazy proud of her and her drive to exceed in everything she does. Here she is with the other Santan Branch girls who earned their YW Medallions as well.

Talyn E., Tatum, Callie L., & Emery J.

"This is how we Rez Girls roll"

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Christmas 2019

Our first Christmas NOT having all our kids home--a bit sad but we survived. Carlie is doing amazing things in Canada and is so happy so how can I complain.

We made the most of our Christmas Eve by having the missionaries over for dinner and games. I got them each matching cactus ties, tie clips (that I made) and cactus socks. These guys are THE BEST!

We then did our annual traditional Christmas PJs, cookie-ditching, Christmas lights drive, and Sonic shakes:) . We got to talk to our missionary on Christmas morning--she called us first thing and we all opened presents together.

BEAGLE PJ PANTS!!!

My new engraved watch AND holding the phone
with Carlie FaceTiming:)

Zelda tie!!!

All the sharpies and highlighters
any girl could want or need...
what a nerd:)

Christmas is EXHAUSTING:)

We then headed out to see the new Star Wars movies at Harkins--REALLY GOOD!!! Then we did something a little different and headed up to a cabin in Pine. So we actually enjoyed a white Christmas this year!!! This cabin actually belongs to Chris's boss--Joel. He had lots of fun stuff up there for us. Our favorite part was driving around on the golf carts!!! The boys had snowball fights every chance they got--as a result, I stayed INSIDE the cabin:)

No, he's not pooping. He's
just showing off his pink cougar boots:)

Diamond Queen 12U Champs!!!

December ALMOST kills me...AGAIN:)

So this year, I really attempted to make December less stressful--no show for any of my kids. Which did make the stress a tad lower but that first week of December is ALWAYS like a punch in the stomach for me.

The first Saturday of December is alway my piano recitals--4 back to back 45 minute recitals starting at 9:00 am. Chris is always gone this time of year because the dang ol' Pearl Harbor Attack happened on December 7, 1941--ain't no way to rewrite that history. This Saturday (Dec. 7, 2019) just ALSO happened to be the Softball Championship game for the 2019 fall season.

The Championship is the best of 3 games. We lost the first game the Wednesday prior to this Saturday which meant we had to win back-to-back games on Saturday. We were up at 6:15 am to make sure Tatum had a good breakfast and then she was out the door at 7:00 to head up to the field with Coach Scott & Chloe.

2 minutes before my first recital began, I heard my poor dog YELP loudly and over and over again in the yard. I ran out there to check out what happened. It appeared that he blew out his knee and he was hobbling around. Great. I grabbed him some aspirin and a busy bone and then left the poor guy outside. So there I was, running recitals and getting text updates about the game AND worrying about my poor dog in the yard--I thought my head was going to EXPLODE!!! UGH!!!

We won the first game. Then won the coin toss which made us home team for the second game. Dog was fine. 2nd recital begins.

Play by play texts coming--Tatum made ALL 3 OUTS in ONE INNING by herself! Lots of other great plays made. 3 outs away from winning...THEY DID IT shutting the other team out 6-0!!! End of recital #2. Dog was fine.

Recitals 3 & 4 run smoothly. Dog is fine. Tatum and Chloe make it back from their Championship games in time to play for the 4th recital. All was good--minus my dog blowing out his knee (which he did but no surgery is needed and he will heal in 3-6 weeks).

After the game, we quickly loaded up in the car to get Max to his acting coaching in Phoenix. WHAT. A. DAY!

Way to go girls! The nice girls won this time! (Seriously, the other team had some SERIOUSLY SNOTTY girls! And the pitcher most likely hit one of our girls on purpose so it was really great that the DQ girls SHUT THEM OUT in game 2. Way to be passive aggressive and getting them back where it REALLY matters:) . And there is definitely no other Head Coach who deserved this win more. Good ol' Coach Scott has put his whole heart and soul into multiple seasons with these girls--couldn't even count how many hours of sleep this man has lost over planning drills, game strategies, etc...