Let's make a commercial

5.23.14

     One of the many benefits of social media is that you can network people that would normally have no way of meeting each other.
      There is a guy that goes to our church that has his own video production company, and one day I was posting about Hope Mommies and Hope boxes and he sent me a request for more information about the ministry. He wanted to do a free commercial for the group, he said, and I had seen him do a video for Amber Rhoads  (see her video here) so I was really excited to see what he would do for Hope Mommies.
       I hooked Devin up with Erin and we settled on shooting the commercial at our house since Erin would becoming from out of town and our house is relatively central to North Dallas. Erin had asked Elyse and I to help film it, and to prepare a short version of our testimony about Hope Mommies and our daughters.
       Another reason we decided to shoot the commercial at our house was because I still had Kaitlyn's nursery set up. I never took anything down because I was extremely hopeful that God would give us a second baby quickly. I had sorted through a few things that were distinctly hers- like the headband that Jenny had picked out for her that was beautifully vintage and a few onesies that people had decorated specifically for her at our baby shower. Other than that, though, the nursery was largely untouched. The diaper cake that a friend had given us was still sitting on the shelf, and the bed was still made and ready for its next (first?) inhabitant.
      After work that Friday, we all met at the house and got down to business. It was weird to have Devin and his wife film the nursery, mostly because the door has been kept shut the majority of the time. I didn't follow him in there or ask him to not video certain things, and I have to say that it still makes my heart smile to have some of Kaitlyn's things be so permanently documented.
      It took a few weeks, but here is a look at the final commercial:

By the way: that background music is also by Amber Rhoads!

        Devin also took the time to do short testimony videos for each of us. 

Elyse's story:

Erin's story:

     **Devin's production company is called Ethos Media, and he obviously does excellent work. Plus he has a big heart for giving back to different companies that are just getting started.