Just a quick update on where we are in the process -

The producers will have received our application packet and tape earlier this week.

We taped our video not once, but twice...

The first one was a great professionally shot piece done up in CLE on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It looked great but we realized as we were assembling our packet (less than a week before Steve left for a month in Asia) that it violated a couple of the guidelines - it ran slightly over three minutes in length (instructions in bold said NO MORE THAN THREE MINUTES), it consisted mostly of single shots of us individually on camera - close ups or pans (instructions were that we were to appear on camera together for the video), and while we captured the essense of being a FTer, we neglected to talk much about why we wanted to actually be on the show.

At a critical juncture, we booked Steve a mileage award down to Dallas. In one days time, he (still in CLE) found a local videographer who was willing to shoot at midnight (the only time I had available on my calendar that close to Steve's departure) and I picked him up at the airport at 11 pm after a cram-packed day. Our young videographer set us up in my living room at midnight and shot almost an hour of film - some of which was pre-conceived, but much of which was "we forgot the camera was rolling banter".

In the end, I think we have an application packet (apps, headshots, video, etc.) that reflects the personalities of both of us that you guys who have met us have come to know.

So now we wait... the applications are to be screened in late July/early August and we hope to hear before Labor Day that we have been scheduled for a casting interview in Austin.

(Not sure how much we will be able to share at/beyond that point - all of the pre-reading I've done suggests that before/at the Austin casting interview, we would be asked to sign a nondisclosure/confidentiality agreement - and if that is the case, that will likely be the last you hear from us about TAR until we either don't get picked - or until before the show airs if we are picked!)