Live with Regis & Kelly

This is me with our tickets!

Brian and I in the show
Do you think they were really that happy to see us? Nope. This was their 2nd taping in a row that day and the last one for the week. They were happy that they were almost done with us!
Jimmy Kimmel

Josh Kelly - married to Kathryn Heigel
This doesn't really go with the show except that on the way home we were sitting at a stop light and I really thought this view was interesting because I saw the palm trees on an 80 degree day with snow-capped mountains in the background. We live in one of the best places!

So, Brian and I got to go to a taping of "Live" with Regis and Kelly. I watch it quite a bit and saw that they were coming to L.A., so I thought it might be fun. We went yesterday afternoon for the taping of Friday's show - so I guess it's not quite as Live as we thought. We had to sit way in the back, of course, because of the traffic on the 5 freeway, and we couldn't use the flash on our cameras while the cameras were rolling, so here are the pictures that I got. Regis and Kelly hung out with the audience a little bit during the breaks, but never made it far enough for us to get to really "see" them. It was an experience and a bit more staged than I imagined it would be. I told Brian that being there made me realize that we are all just people. That's it. People. Josh Kelly and Jimmy Kimmel were guests. Courtney Cox was supposed to be there, but they taped her interview before and she wasn't there live. Anyway, maybe you'll see Brian and I in the top right corner of the audience when they pan the crowd (ha ha) - again, we're all just people, so does it really matter if we get seen on t.v.? Nope.

I promise to have pictures of the little Sade-ster soon!

What a Week!

I didn't realize so much could happen in one week. If I would have blinked my eyes, I would have missed Sadie learning how to wave bye-bye, clap her hands, and put the ball in the right place in her toy. I would have also missed 2 new teeth that came in. All of this happened since my last post on Thursday! Everyone said that things would happen fast, but good grief! I need to make sure to get the baby book out and record it all! Here are pictures of Sadie clapping (she looks pretty proud of herself in the last one or maybe more like she's conducting a choir). The first one is of her new teeth on the bottom - if you look really close, you can see them on either side of the middle teeth.

Won't You Be My Valentine?

Here are a couple of shots from Sadie's Valentine's "photo shoot". A lady from church, Cindy, got Mersadie the cute heart outfit! Thanks Miss Cindy!! Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day - we're sending love your way!

8 Months Old and Life Couldn't be Better!

I took Sadie to the park on Friday for the first time to see if she would like to swing, and boy did she ever. She had a blast. Bet you couldn't tell from the first picture! Don't have much time to write a lot....but can you believe it's been 8 months? Ahhhh!

"This Little Piggy" - Photoshop Fun

I was talking to my mom today on the phone while I was eating lunch and sitting at the computer. (Don't know why I added all the detail, but I just realized how much of a multi-tasker I really am. I still can't talk and write at the same time, though.) Nothing like chasing rabbits. I must be all hyped from my workout this morning - 1st one in 2 months!!

Anyway, my mom was telling me about a picture of Sadie's toes that I emailed her. She told me that her friend at work, Paula, said I should do a scrapbook page that says "Tickle Me Pink" using the picture - GREAT, CUTE idea I thought. Well, I haven't given myself much time for scrapbooking lately and I was sitting at the computer, so I thought "why not play in photoshop"? So, here is what I made. Playtime is over now because I have SOOO many things to get done today. I'll start with finishing my now cold mac -n-cheese. Yes, I do know that my workout is now neggated. But, my mac-n-cheese is oh, so yummy!

My Bundle of Joy

I was getting ready to take Mersadie upstairs after her bath the other night when I realized that I needed to take a basket of laundry upstairs too. Since Brian wasn't home I couldn't ask him to help me and of course, I wasn't going to make 2 trips - way too much exercise, so I just put Sadie on top of the clothes and carried them both together. She was so cute the way she was looking at me like "what in the world are you doing". I probably did make the trip back downstairs to grab the camera though. I will exercise in order to get pictures, but not for laundry.

Gone, Baby, Gone Before

Here are some before pictures before my recent hair cut. One of my goals this year is to get up and get ready before Mersadie gets up. Well, I wanted to cut down on my time getting ready because I was getting up way too early. So...I got my hair chopped off. Let me know what you think - good and bad comments alike!

Gone, Baby, Gone After

12 whole inches cut off! I'm sending my hair into the Pantene Beautiful Lengths so it can be used to make wigs for cancer patients. Even though that wasn't my first motivation for cutting my hair, I figured, why not?

Who Knew?

Who knew that this little suction device could take a perfectly happy child with snot running down her face from this...
to this in a mere matter of seconds...

Oh well, the job has to be done and Mersadie seems to still love me after the whole process, but it does take everything I've got to hold her down!