Lament of the Highborne: Getting Natalie Ready

The first scenes we shot were the night scenes of Natalie as Sylvanas Windrunner.

Mom helping Natalie with her costume

 Tiffanie fixing Natalie's hair

 Well, hello there stunning girl!

 Christina cutting holes in the hood for Natalie's elf ears

Lament of the Highborne: Behind the Scenes

First day of video shooting: dinner time!

Helping Natalie get ready

 Filming and helpers

Epic Adventure: The Big Reveal

We're having an incredible weekend filming "Lament of the Highborne"!!! It's a song from Blizzard's World of Warcraft online game. We recorded the song last March and have spent months preparing to shoot the music video.

Here's the story behind Natalie's character, Sylvanas Windrunner. It's quite sad. Her eldest sister, Alleria Windrunner, is played by Tanya; youngest sister Vereesa Windrunner is played by Tiffany. We made our own interpretation of the story and added the Mother Windrunner character, played by Christina.

Here's the link to the original song/video by Blizzard: Lament of the Highborne

We've got an amazing group of people here at the Cabin: Mom and Dad, Keith and Christina (and their 4 children), Tanya, Tiffany, Natalie, Samuel Gale-Hess (our sweet cousin), Michael Coones (our friend and awesome videographer/producer), Tiffanie and Alvaro Zilleruelo (Tiffanie is doing a fantastic job with our hair and makeup), and Doug (who made Natalie's stunning bow).

We plan to submit our music video to Blizzard (the company behind World of Warcraft). Wahoo!

Here are a few teasers of our favorite shots from this weekend. We'll post more next week.

Natalie in the woods

Tanya, Natalie, Tiffany, and Christina

Natalie as Sylvanas during a bluescreen shot

Epic Adventure: Last Clue

Welcome to the Cabin! We have quite the group up here preparing for our big project.

Here's the last clue: our friend Tiffanie is doing Tiffany's makeup and Natalie (makeup finished) is brushing out her wig...

Epic Adventure: Another Clue

Natalie finished these today; aren't they incredible?!!

Epic Adventure: Jewelled Necklaces

Our necklaces arrived today from England! They look perfect.

Any idea what project we're working on?

Epic Adventure: Second Hint

Another costume idea:

Join us for an Epic Adventure!!!

The past few months have been busy ones for us! We're working on something exciting. Something cool. Something, a bit, um, geeky even.

Over the next few days we'll post teaser pictures, with the big reveal next week!

Can you guess what we're doing?

Sharing a Special Day with Natalie

We had a wonderful day today celebrating with Natalie. We're members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and went with Nat to the Temple today. What a beautiful, memorable day.

All of the siblings: Christina, David, Tanya, Tamara, Tiffany, and Natalie

In other exciting news, two of our group members are expecting babies late spring/early summer! Christina is pregnant with her 4th child; Tamara is pregnant with her 1st.

Together Again

We're so glad for the whole group to be together again. Most of us live in Utah but Tamara is a school teacher in Idaho (about a 4-hour drive) so we don't see her as often as we wish we could.

Together for a special Sunday Dinner at Mom and Dad's house