Happy Halloween!

Today is my absolute favorite holiday - Halloween! It just so happened we were filming on stage today which made it a bit fun for Halloween. Not only did several people on the shooting crew dress up in costume, some of the office guys dressed up too. The craft service girls all wore mustaches and mustache shirts. The wardrobe girls all dressed as gangsters and Tyler in the office dressed up as Dan the office PA. I wore my Halloween pregnant skeleton shirt and got some good laughs from it. I had bought the shirt last October when I was pregnant with Nolan.



On Halloween of last year I was 13 weeks pregnant and through with my first trimester. We had decided that once we were passed the 1st trimester we would tell people so I wore the shirt and we went to a pumpkin patch and Marshall had taken pictures of me in the shirt. We then used one of the pictures to announce via email and Facebook that we were pregnant with Nolan. This year I'm already 20 weeks pregnant and we announced some time ago that we were pregnant again, so the shirt was really just a Halloween getup. At least I got two uses out of the shirt! At least several people got kicks out of taking a picture of my T-shirt, including Claire who not only snapped a shot of me but posted it on her instagram.


The craft service girls had decorated their table with pumpkins in honor of the holiday and they served my favorite - taco bar! Happy Halloween to me! I love taco bar days at crafty. We all also received from Showtime personalized certificates for our contribution to Homeland's Emmy for Best Drama. It was nice to be personally recognized for all our hard work and long hours.

We were about to delve into a really big scene with Claire and Damian when Damian's back went out. He was barely able to move, so they sent him to the doctor. Unable to shoot anything with Claire while Damian was gone, we moved to another set and shot with the Brody family in the interim. Eventually, Damian came back all shot up with some pain killers and we finished the scene with him and Claire. You could tell he was in a lot of pain still though. He was truly a trouper to come back and muster through it so we could finish our day.

We wrapped some more characters today as we said farewell to Morena, Morgan, Jackson and Diego for the season. We should see them all at some point next season, so I guess it is really only goodbye for a few months. Morena and Morgan both told me to keep instagramming so they could keep up with the pregnancy through pictures and eventually see the baby when he gets here. It was great working with all of them as they are so much fun. I always look forward to working with all of them as they are always prompt and professional and make my job so easy. They never give me the run around when I go in to correct them about something and they always listen and fix whatever continuity note or dialogue change I give them. It's truly refreshing to be working with so many great and talented and easy to work with actors.

Due to the shifting around of scenes and the visual effect shots we had to do, the day ended up being a long one. Although fun, I was exhausted. We went in at 9am but didn't wrap until 11:30pm. Marshall is in Macon, GA, filming on the pilot Witches of East End that he's been working on. They had to shut down for a few days while their director had surgery on his shoulder after he fell on set. Fortunately for Marshall, they are only in Macon a couple of days as there apparently is nothing to do there.