New Commercial: Queen of the Road

Queen of the Road Commercial with Peter Pan

This was so much fun.  Check it out!  Will you be going to the show?  Enter for your chance to win!

Buy tickets to Peter Pan the Show here!

Queen of the Road Meets Peter Pan the Show

Sisters with the Cap'n

We just finished up production for the next  Chevy Traverse commerical.  This time we filmed on the streets of Boston in the rain!  I got to bring my big sister along for the ride and we had a lot of fun meeting some of the cast members from Peter Pan the Show.  Have you seen the big white tent on City Hall Plaza?  Have you purchased your tickets yet?  You can win some tickets by following @ChevyQOTR on Twitter and LIKING Queen of the Road on Facebook.  And keep an eye out for our new 30 second spot on WCVB 5!  This one promises a few good laughs!  We can't wait for it!

Some friends needed a ride

Is that Nana the Dog in my third row?

Buckle up Hook!

Swashbuckling trio!

Rain

Camera man Carl with the sisters

It's a cushy job, right Dave?

Post-production meet-up with the hubs at The Whiskey Priest

Chevy Traverse: Great on Gas!

Behind the Scenes of Our Next Chevy Commercial

We just finished up filming a series of spots for the Chevy Traverse which will soon be airing on WCVB Channel 5. Hadn't shot one since last November, so we were due!  Boy did we work hard!  First, we transformed my kitchen into a set.

Lights, Camera....

Wayne keeps us laughing!

That camera crew really works.  Everything has to be just so, and there's a ton of *stuff* to lug!  And then they have to deal with the likes of me, who can sound like a blubbering idiot at times!

Just about ready to roll!

Action!

After we finished up at the house and in the Traverse, we were lucky enough to shoot some really cool footage at the Franklin Park Zoo.  The folks there were SO good to us.  Thank you to Carol, who drove us around so we wouldn't have to schlepp in the heat.  She treated my kids like royalty.  We had a super fun day and can't wait to go back and visit all of the animals next time.  Those budgies we got to feed in the Aussie Aviary Exhibit were the kids favorite!  I liked meeting Azul up close and personal.  What an amazing time we had filming at the zoo! If you'd like to see more photos of our big day of filming, you can see them here.  Thank you to Tracy C, from WCVB, for sharing these awesome pictures with us!!

We got Gorillas!

I think she's a nursing Momma...

Meeting 14 year-old Azul.  He loved being outside!!

Can't wait to see the new spots!  

The Latest Commercial - A Year in the Traverse

Toys for Tots

Chevy's Giving Back Event

Oprah's Calling!!

Some lucky winner is headed to Chicago to see a live taping of the Oprah show! Don't forget to visit Annie's Traverse Travels and enter for your chance to win!

Annie's Traverse Travels Car Seat Safety

Here's our latest TV commercial!  Look for us on WCVB Channel 5!  I love my Traverse!

Who Wants to go to Story Land?

Next weekend, the five of us are headed up to North Conway, NH to check out Story Land!  We are so excited this year because Aidan will be able to enjoy a lot more rides!  And it'll be Owen's first trip, of course!  Packing up the Traverse and hitting the road bright and early Saturday morning-we can't wait!

We'll be staying at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort.  We've never stayed there before, but the kids are in for a real treat.  They have in indoor water park, called Kahuna Laguna!

So, for your own chance to win a Family 4 Pack to Story Land, please become a follower of my blog, stowedstuff.blogspot.com ---------> Follow us on facebook as well!  We will be picking one lucky winner at random between now and September. The Story Land passes will be good for this season, as well as the entire 2011 season!  Become a follower/fan today!  Your only chance to win is right here with us!  Good luck and stay tuned!

Chris's Debut

Follow Me?

Hi There Friends!

So, many of you mommies are having fun following me around on WCVB and here on the blog. Now it's time to REALLY start following me. You can become a follower by clicking the FOLLOW button over there -------> If you do, "YOU CAN BE A WINNER TOO!!" Just do it, start following me. It's sure to work out!

Speaking of becoming a winner...have you seen the latest and greatest Traverse Travels commercial on WCVB? You will receive a $25 SpaFinder gift card just for test driving a 2010 Chevy Traverse!!!! Isn't that awesome? The good weather is here, so you need to make that appointment for your manicure and pedicure! Put $25 towards it after test driving the Traverse! I promise, you'll love it! Then you can tell me what you thought of the test drive, right here on the blog! You won't be let down, mommies! It's an amazing ride, I promise!

So, all you have to do is this:

1) Start following my blog

2) Go to your local Chevy Dealer and test drive a 2010 Chevy Traverse-tell them Annie sent you!

3) Take home your $25.00 SpaFinder gift card!

Isn't that easy? Looking forward to hearing how the drive went! You'll LOVE it! Oh, and the Dads will LOVE it too!

The Latest Commercial - Drive to Disney

For those of you who haven't seen it yet...here's the latest commercial that recently aired:

Big Doin's

How Did This Happen?

One sunny day in May of 2004, while listening to MIX 98.5 on the way to work in Sudbury, I decided to call in and press my luck on a competition they were having. The 98th caller got the chance to say "MIX 98.5 IT'S MY MIX" as fast as they could in ten seconds. So I decided to call. As I sat and listened to them take the 98th caller, my cell phone was still ringing...and they lost the caller they were trying to speak with. The next thing I knew, I was talking to Lander and Kelly about my upcoming wedding and how I could use a few hundred to go toward the wedding expenses. So that's when I won $800. on the radio...

I won some door prizes at teacher conferences along the way, I won a few bucks on some scratch tickets, but never more than $40. I won a Movie Night Basket at a staff Christmas Party once, and let's not forget this year's BIT Auction at Gillette Stadium where I won the Kids' Reading Nook Raffle, an infant travel system and some cute picture frames!

One lovely fall afternoon, while wasting some precious time on Facebook, I saw that some of my friends recently became fans of WCVB. So I said to myself, "hey, I go to their site every day for news updates, I should be their friend." After clicking "Become A Fan", I clicked on over to another favorite website of mine, bostonchannel.com. Now this is where I see a big blue advertisement saying, "Win A Trip to the Ellen Show! Click Here!" Hell ya, she's funny as hell-I'd love to go see Ellen. So I fill out my name, email address, phone numbers, etc., thinking nothing of it. "Like, ya Anne, how many people do you think filled this form out? Get on with your life and get off the computer!"

So I remember lying in bed one night, probably watching Dancing with the Stars, or some other favorite ABC show, and a commercial comes on saying, "Would you like to win a trip to Los Angeles to see a live taping of the Ellen Show?" Go to bostonchannel.com for your chance to win!" I remember turning to Chris and saying, "Oh I did that! I'm gonna win!" He didn't even acknowledge me I'm sure, and kept on reading his book while I blabbered on ....

So around about September 24th or so, I come home from work as usual. I picked up the house line (a rare occurrence in our house) and hear that beeping sound telling me I have a message. Hmmm, who could it be? So I call into my messages and heard some lovely woman stating something about WCVB.....and something about a trip to L.A. to see Ellen! Well, I just about lost it. COMPLETELY. I was like, "NO, I didn't hear any of that right.....maybe I won some Red Sox tickets? Let me listen again." Nope, she said it as clear as a bell...."You've won a trip to see the Ellen Degeneres Show in L.A........please call me back at......"

I went bonkers. Are you SH*TT*NG ME? I WON? I was screaming, jumping up and down with Emily and Aidan both watching me. Emily starts jumping up and down too (one of her favorite past times for those of you who know her), and she continues to jump and scream with me until she pees her pants on the kitchen floor! I'm screaming, "I won a trip to L.A!" and she's just jumping along with me!

I called Chris, Mom, Kath, Derek and Lynne and proceeded to tell them all that I won a trip to see Ellen! The funny part is that no one believed me! "Did you read the fine print?, Are you sure it's not a hoax?" Hilarious. I'm telling everyone, "YES, I spoke with Andrea from channel 5 and she's going to book everything for us and we have to go SOON!"

We finalized dates, headed out to CA. on Oct. 16th for a 5 day trip to L.A. Chris and I had the time of our lives! We had a limo waiting for us at LAX who took us to West Hollywood to stay with my dear friend Rye for 2 nights. We had a blast. He showed us the sites, took us to Santa Monica, Rodeo Drive, Pinkberry - you name it - we did it! It was awesome. Then we spent the following 2 nights at Sheraton Universal, which was awesome! We saw Tyra Banks walking through the lobby one evening with her entourage from America's Next Top Model. We also saw the 4 year old hip hop dancer who appeared as a guest on our Ellen taping. We went up to Universal, rented a Mustang and drove up to Malibu and enjoyed the 88 degree weather. We had such good times, good food and good wine! It was the best weekend ever. Not to mention the front row seats and star treatment at the Ellen Show!

So when we got back from L.A., I was contacted again by WCVB. "So how was your trip? Would you be interested in the possible opportunity of a new car?" I was like, "huh?" Did I just hear that right? I'm like "YES!" So we kept in touch and I looked back at all my L.A. trip paperwork. The top says, "The Chevy Equinox Ellen Sweepstakes" I had always wondered what Chevy had to do with it, but when Ellen didn't give me a car, I thought my chances were over. Well, they weren't. Different people started contacting me about some commercials and online vignettes of me in a Chevy. Am I really going to get a new car? So then a meeting was set for the end of November at WCVB. "Bring the kids, let's sit down and talk about this, etc." A lot of the people I told had doubts-"they're NOT gonna give you a car too, Anne!"

So we chatted, the marketing people spoke about their ideas and asked if I would be interested. "Hmmm, let me think about this again....YES!" So I went ahead and asked the bold question, "Will there be compensation for appearing on t.v. and blogging and doing all this work?" My new friend Randy replies, "That's something the legal department at Chevy is trying to figure out and it would probably be a vehicle of some sort!" BRING IT ON! We chatted some more and I spoke about my family. I even explained to them all that a few days after returning from my Ellen trip I learned I was EXPECTING #3! (I got lucky again folks! I swear!) So then we chatted about how the Traverse - Chevy's new crossover vehicle - would be perfect for our growing family.

So there ya have it. That is how it all happened. Keep an eye out for me on bostonchannel.com and my big debut this Sunday, March 7th, 2010, as my first Chevy commercial airs on WCVB during the Oscars.

And just in case you missed it, here's our very first Chevy Commercial!