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Wicked: Part II

2012-01-04T23:40:00.000-08:00

We walked two blocks north, along Vine to get from the restaurant to the theater. I didn't realize the Walk of Fame included Vine but we got to see Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Desi Arnaz, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Marvin Gaye, Audrey Hepburn, Janet Jackson, The Jacksons, Smokey Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Temple, and The Three Stooges, to name a few, okay, a lot.

Now for the musical portion of the evening...

Oh hey, that's Adam... in front of the Pantages

Yep, that's me.

We stopped to take a couple snaps of just us before we flagged down a couple people to take a picture of the two of us together. I know there are a lot of pictures of us together in the two Wicked posts combined but pictures of just the two of us are incredibly rare. Soak it up.

The ceiling just outside the theater.

The ceiling inside the lobby.

another ceiling but this is in the theater

the stage before the show

the map

Although I really enjoyed the show, I'm sad to report, it wasn't as good as I'd hoped. It's definitely not my favorite musical I've seen. I thought the characters in the first act were too one-dimensional. (Why did Fiyero have to be so dumb in the scene with the lion cub?) All my disappointments were with the script and that was mainly just the first act. The second act definitely picked up and made the whole thing so much better. I thought the costumes, sets, and performances were great. Did anyone feel the same?

By far, my favorite part was hanging out with my Adam. We rarely go on dates and it was amazing to have an evening where we spent so much time together. It was even better to not have to worry about picking Aubrey up until the next morning. Seriously, sleepovers are amazing and I can't believe I didn't have more of them prior to middle school.

Wicked: Part I

2012-01-04T23:30:00.000-08:00

I have wanted to see Wicked since the Winter of 2005 while I was living in DC. I had heard about the musical and how good it was on Broadway. I was going to drive up to New York City to meet Sheryl, Jenny, and Dave for Jenny's sixteenth birthday. Sheryl had asked me for any suggestions for shows we should see. I only had one, Wicked. I believe I said, "I've never seen it, I don't know anyone who's seen it, but it's supposed to be really good. We should definitely try to see that one." By the time I drove up there that night (which on it's own is a bizarre thing to experience driving into New York City via the tunnel, through the streets with mostly cabs and very little traffic, getting pulled over by a cop with two minutes because I made a right hand turn on a red, pulling into the hotel parking garage a few minutes later, watching your car disappear on an elevator, and end up paying over $80 to park there for the night) Sheryl told me they could only get tickets to Wicked for that day's matinee. Ever since that trip, seeing Wicked went from "I think that's something I would like to see someday" to "oh, it's happening, baby".

Back in September, when my birthday rolled around, I heard a commercial on the radio that Wicked was coming into Los Angeles on tour. I decided Wicked would be the perfect birthday present. We bought the tickets right when they went on sale for a date in the future when Adam was out of school and then waited months for the day to finally arrive.

We dropped Aubrey off at a friends house for a sleepover. That's right, we were Aubrey-free for the next 15 hours. We went to a little restaurant, known as Off Vine, a friend recommended that was within walking distance to the theater in Hollywood. It is the cutest yellow, craftsman-style bungalow that I later found out was built in 1908. Even though it's January, it was warm enough to eat outside on the patio (decorated with vines and white lights) without a jacket or heat lamp.

I ordered the pecan encrusted chicken with a pear rosemary sauce. The sauce was disappointing and too sweet. The real winner was Adam's dish, the flat iron steak with a green pepper-corn sauce. My favorite dish was dessert we shared: the Chocolate Souffle.

Famous Chocolate Souffle

Adam with his souffle game face on.

Rob Lowe creeping in the background. Only in Hollywood!

Sometimes Aubrey Needs To Shave

2012-01-04T23:11:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

2011-12-31T22:44:00.000-08:00

I love Zooey but isn't Joseph Gordon-Levitt just the cutest?

We celebrated New Year's Eve with a little Martinelli's and party poppers at 9pm EST while Aubrey was awake. It was fun to countdown with her there for the first time. I told her earlier in the day we would be counting down "10, 9, 8..." and when we got to "1" we would shout "Happy New Year" and clink our glasses. She totally got it and repeated the whole thing back to me.

When we try to get a picture of Aubrey, we either get the crazy smile...

or the crazy eyes. She thinks the crazy eyes are funny.

Aubrey Gathering the confetti from the party poppers.

Aubrey throwing the confetti from the party poppers up in the air over and over again.

Then we made fun of the lame Lady Gaga performance on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve (and couldn't believe we were still watching it), and celebrated properly on the couch at midnight PST.

We tried to get a good New Year's Eve picture of the two of us. This was our only try. I looked at it, saw it was blurry and ehh and I didn't care. Maybe 2012 will be the year of the ehh.

Blog Catch Up Part 1

2011-07-06T22:13:00.003-07:00

If you read the blog through the blogger website and not through Google Reader, you may have missed some posts I started but didn't post right away. They are finished now so if you (I'm talking to you, grandparents) want to see them, click on the links below:

Shampoo Bubbles

Disneyland

Random February Cuteness

Happy 93rd Aunt Esther

Welcome Home Ali

Hometown Fun

Berkeley Train Park

I should only being doing this one more time. Part 2 coming soon...

Cute Love Song

2011-07-06T22:13:00.001-07:00

I love my free Tuesday iTunes downloads but here's another one you may not know about. Sweet, simple song with Joshua Radin singing. Get it while you still can: Tiffany

New Blog Title

2011-06-10T16:43:00.000-07:00

This blog needs a new title. No more "Aubrey Loves Us". That was only supposed to be a temporary title but years, yes years, later, it's still there. That's a major writer's block. I have no clue what to call this blog so I'm asking you for suggestions (and no "Noakes Family" please).

The winner will get to name my next child. Please leave your name suggestions too because that might influence my decision. Oh, and I'm not pregnant folks. Jokes on you because that will never happen. Haha-ha-hum. Hmmm. Sad.

Moot Court

2011-03-10T19:43:00.000-08:00

Evan and Adam were Moot Court partners and here they are after they were done with Moot Court for the year. Both of them made it to Moot Court Honors which is very good since only about 15 people in the UCLA Law School get that honor. I'm very proud of them, especially Adam, since I don't really know Evan but he's probably a good guy since Adam was partners with him. The End.

Ellen

2011-03-09T23:20:00.000-08:00

Frances, Breanna, Brittany, and me

I got be in the audience at the Ellen DeGeneres Show in March for a second time but this time with some friends. (Last time, I went with Adam, James, and my mom.) You aren't allowed to bring cameras so we snapped a few pictures in the car and then one last cell phone picture in the garage waiting area before they made us turn off our cell phones.

The guests on the show were Tyra Banks, the cast from the TLC reality show "Sister Wives", and country singer Jerrod Niemann was the musical guest. Don't ask me who that last person is because I've never heard of them before and since. His performance was just fine but they gave out his CD to everyone in the audience (the only giveaway) and we tried to listen to it but we couldn't. It was just bad.

I find it highly interesting seeing the behind the scenes of the show and what goes on in between commercial breaks. Tyra Banks was gorgeous in person (and I don't know why that stood out to me) but she was on the show to promote this weird new website of hers: typef.com. You can check out the website for yourself to see what the heck she was talking about but it was confusing and I was there. Why couldn't she have just talked about America's Next Top Model? I've become less and less of a fan of Tyra's over the last few years. She seems more and more like someone just doing things to make money and it's very disingenuous. She was very on and friendly while the camera was rolling but as soon it went to commercial, she turned it off, didn't smile or really talk to Ellen at all, and walked off the stage without acknowledging the audience with even a wave. It was a little awkward

The Sister Wives portion was also very interesting. I should preface this by telling you that the staff makes everyone stand, clap, and dance during every commercial break so you're standing when Ellen comes out, you're standing and the end of guest's segments, etc. When the cast of the Sister Wives came out, people in the audience wouldn't clap and there was major whispering going on. When we went to commercial break, everyone stood, but not everyone was clapping and/or cheering. I guess a lot of people don't like polygamy. The Sister Wives portion had a commercial break in the middle so everyone, including Ellen and the guests, stood and danced. In the middle of the commercial break, I guess the fourth and newest sister wife thought we were standing and dancing for them so she started motioning "thank you" for us to sit down. I felt kinda bad and embarrassed for her that she thought we were all doing that for them. I thought it was pretty obvious that the staff is on their mics having dancing contests, telling us to keep dancing, and counting down to the end of the commercial break.

I feel like I'm being so cynical but the show was a lot of fun. I only had two complaints. The first time I was in the audience with my family, we were on camera maybe a dozen times as they panned the audience. None of them were close up but I knew where we were sitting and could find us pretty easily. It was fun to watch the show on tv the next day and go "there we are", "there we are", "there we..." I think you get the picture. This time, they focused on two audience members since the first one was a previous audience member who was entertaining to watch and was being brought back to get a car. The second audience member was the wife of the truck driver for their segment called Big Truckin' Deal that was ending that day and the truck driver was coming home. Because of these two people, every time they panned the audience it was mostly close ups of these people.I didn't see us at all. Stupid complaint, I know, but watching the show again had no excitement.

My second complaint is about the pictures below. Someone walks up and down the aisles taking pictures of everyone there. Then they post them on the internet for you to download. It's nice since you can't take pictures with your own camera or phone that you at least have a picture of you there, even if it is so low quality, you can't ever print it and expect it to turn out good. The first time, I didn't realize you could look at the camera and smile. It looked like they were trying to only get candids. They took two pictures of us. The first picture, Adam had turned around at the last second and was dancing with his butt sticking out towards the camera. After she took the picture, she started laughing and ran down to show one of the other staff members. Of course, when I looked at all the pictures on the internet, they didn't post the one of Adam's butt but they did post the one of us in the middle of singing to the song. I look stupid and Adam looks like my special friend. You will never see that picture. This time, I was prepared. I knew what to expect and we were going to get a cute picture, dang it. What does the photographer do? She takes a picture at the base of the stairs then proceeds to walk right past us and take a picture of the people in the back and walks back on down past us taking pictures of everyone else on the other side of the aisle. I wanted to flag her down to get a quick picture but I felt like an idiot doing that so this is what we have. Can you find us?

I didn't think you be able to so I've draw an arrow pointing to Frances in the first picture and the side of my face in the second.

After the show, we drove around for what seemed like forever trying to find a place to eat. That's what happens when you don't plan ahead folks and no one knows the area. We ended up in the Studio City neighborhood and drove right past Casa Vega. Does it sound familiar? If you watch the show Flipping Out, it should. Jeff was remodeling the restaurant on the show and they were always talking about how good the food was so we decided to check it out. This may sound surprising to those who haven't lived in the Los Angeles area but there aren't really a lot of good Mexican places to eat. I thought the food was great but I have to say the decor did not look like something he designed. It didn't look bad but it wasn't even slightly modern.

This is just a clip from the show if you want to watch:

Friends

2011-03-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

Friends: Aubrey, Kieran, and Grace.

San Francisco

2011-03-05T19:43:00.001-08:00

We had to do a family trip to San Francisco. First stop, Chinatown, one of my favorite places in San Francisco and by far the best Chinatown in the US. That's my mom and I above and my dad and James below.

We walked around, browsed the shops and got a tip for a great place to eat. R&G Lounge. If you're in Chinatown, I would recommend eating there. I guess their known for their salt and pepper crab. Poor Adam missed out. To get there, walk along Grant until you see the Banksy on the wall (below) and go down that block.

Next stop, Ghirardelli. Probably Aubrey's favorite stop. She wishes we gave her a sundae of her own but we were all so stuffed with Chinese food, she shared with Ali and I.

Aubrey thought my mom's nose wiggle was pretty cool but showed us she can do it too. Watch the video and you'll see she can move everything on her face except for her nose.

What is San Francisco without a little drizzle. I love how Aubrey, and most kids, can make anything fun. She loved being able to hold the umbrella like a big kid. She also think s every street with a small incline is a theme park ride. That makes San Francisco a major them park for her with lots of drops. Every time we went down a hill, she would put her arms up in the air and yell "Splash Mountain!" Sometimes she would make us do the same.

Berkeley Train Park

2011-03-05T19:43:00.000-08:00

John and Tamra picked Aubrey up on a Saturday afternoon and took her out for some fun at Tilden Park in Berkeley. I had never heard of this place before but they have a steam train, gardens, carousel, farm and more. It is the strangest experience for me to see pictures of Aubrey doing things I didn't witness with my own eyes. She's pretty much with me all the time and when she's not, she's usually just at the house. When Aubrey came back home she wouldn't tell me anything. Thank goodness for pictures. Looks like she had fun.

Hometown Fun

2011-03-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

Abner

Aubrey has so much fun when we're at my parents house. She's getting more and more comfortable with Abner. She was fine with him for a long time. It was maybe a year or two ago that she was scared of him and I think it was mainly his barking that scared her. Loud noises scare her. She always thought he was funny but when he would get close, she didn't like it. Now, she likes to follow him around the house and he likes to follow her since she's the most likely person to drop food. Aubrey's favorite thing is to take Abner on walks.

These two snapshots are taken by Aubrey while she was following Abner around the house with the camera and using the flash. Poor guy. There we a few more pictures going from room to room and he was trying to escape from the paparazzi.

School

My mom insisted that Ali and Aubrey visit her 2nd grade class that she teaches. I did not want to go. I kind of hate going really. I sit at the back of the classroom in those little kid chairs while the Aubrey sits in the class and the kids will ask her questions. It's boring. Then, after an hour or so, Aubrey doesn't want to leave and I have to be the bad guy dragging her away from something she likes. I told my mom that I already went to school and graduated. I'm done. Because my mom really wanted us to go this time, I agreed but I made James come with us. If we have to go, then he has to go too. I never sign in when we go. I hoping they'll get mad at me and ban me from the school. Nobody noticed yet. (Note to mom: I'm not going back for a couple of years.)

Aubrey loves going to school. She fits right in. The first time we went, we arrived when the kids were coming back from something so they were all outside. My mom then let them into the classroom and Aubrey followed right in with the sea of kids and sat down with everyone else. My mom didn't even notice Aubrey walked in until she saw me at the back of the pack. This time, we were there just before lunch so Aubrey went to the cafeteria with the kids and ate her lunch and then went out to the playground with them too.

There were about 5 girls that basically followed Aubrey around the playground. I kept hearing them yelling "Aubrey, come over here", "Aubrey, let's do this", etc. It was pretty funny to see these girls who are much older, obsessed with a little kid. In the pictures below, Aubrey is the one in black in white at the top of the ladder and the first head going down the slide. At first Aubrey loved it but after awhile, it actually started to scare her and she starting running away from them.

With Grandma Lil. I promised Aubrey we'd get ice cream after visiting my Grandma. I love seeing the flavor little kids pick out. It has nothing to do with taste and everything to do with color. Aubrey picked out the ice cream with the most colors in Baskin Robbins, Wild n' Reckless Sherbert.

She thought it was really funny that her tongue turned blue-green so I told her we'd take a picture of it. I knew she wasn't going to stick out her tongue of long so I took a couple of pictures really fast. When I reviewed them, I was totally freaked out. How on earth did she do that with her tongue (the second picture). Creepy.

Wearing Grandpa Burt's reading glasses and trying to walk around the house. Pretty entertaining.

Reunited: a Grandpa with all his grand-kids and a mom with all her kids. didn't happen for a year and a half which is a long time for my poor mom. (We still love my dad but he was at work or church. Can't remember.)

Welcome Home Ali

2011-03-02T19:42:00.000-08:00

We had to get up and leave super early to pick Ali up from the airport. I don't know why they put the missionaries on the earliest flight possible to send them home. I think poor Ali had to get up at 4am just to make her flight and since home is such a short flight from SLC, she got there early too. I think that's kind of a sad way to leave the mission. Wouldn't it be fun to have a nice breakfast that morning? Take it easy for once instead of making them leave at earliest they possibly can. I understand some people have international flights and I'm sure the missionaries don't mind. It's just me probably. Anyway, I don't normally get to sit next to Aubrey in the car but we had fun making faces at each other.

We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare since we were worried there would be traffic and would miss watching her walk out of the terminal. Fortunately, there wasn't any traffic but we had to wait at the airport for awhile before her plane landed. There was this silly poster on the wall with a silhouette outline. You're supposed to pose in front of it. (Some genius decided to put it up high and behind the chairs so you had to stand on the chairs to take a picture.) I was taking a picture of James and told Aubrey to get out of the way. I love that I caught her in midair, jumping of the chairs. Then Aubrey wanted a turn and since it's so high, my dad and James had to hold her up. Worked really well.

We were waiting right next to the snack/gift shop. Aubrey really wanted to go see the big M&M. I told her we could but there was no way we were buying any candy. I'm sure you can guess what the first words were out her mouth. I made her take a picture with it. You can tell she was really happy about doing that instead of buying candy. Next thing I know, she's walking down the hallway towards my Grandpa Burt. He had just arrived and before he even got to say hi to anyway, she had led him into the gift show and what do Grandfathers do best? Spoil their grandchild (great-grandchild in this case) with a bag of M&Ms at 8 in the morning. I have to say, Aubrey's pretty smart. She went to the one person who would do that for her. There's no way my parents were going to buy that for her.

More passing the time activities. Look how flexible kids are! Amazing.

Aubrey was really excited we let her hold the poster.

And finally, here she comes. I swear she was the last of the plane. Poor Ali was probably really embarrassed. There were a ton of us there with a sign and flowers. She had been crying before she saw us. I was videotaping her walking out and I was very excited to be the first one to hug her.

It was my mom or dad that made her pose next to the sign. My sister commented how the amount of flowers were just like a ballet performance. My mom had said the same thing before she got off the plane. Our family gave her the smallest bouquet. I don't even think you can see them. Aubrey picked out the balloon while we were still in L.A. and we brought it up with us.

Grandpa Burt, me, Aubrey, mom, Alison, dad, Aunt Esther, and James.

Mary, Alison, Laura, and Janelle.

My Grandpa was so excited! It was so cute.

Welcome Home Ali!

Happy 93rd Aunt Esther

2011-03-01T19:42:00.000-08:00

I went home to welcome my little sister back from her mission to Salt Lake City Temple Square. I was lucky enough to be there the night before she came home to celebrate my Aunt Esther's 93rd birthday. 93! Isn't she amazing. Wanna know a secret. She's never dyed her hair. Yep, that pretty red color you see there is al natural.

She's a pretty amazing lady. Esther's the oldest girl of 12 children, one of them being my Grandpa Burt. As you can imagine, she took care of her siblings a lot, even when they all lived in an army tent. She married my Uncle Friz back in the day but never had children of her own. She's incredibly talented. She paints, loves those word games like Scrabble and Boggle but expect to lose if you play with her, bakes the best goodies (I love her breads), reads, and always has a crossword puzzle on hand (you know, the kind of things smart people do). She may be my Aunt but she's like a Grandma to me.

Random February Cuteness

2011-02-28T19:41:00.000-08:00

...in the middle of a tickle fest...

Aubrey and Amelia playing dress-up at Amelia's house. I love little girls and their dress-up clothes.

Disneyland

2011-02-23T19:41:00.000-08:00

Aubrey's best AstroBlaster's score yet. She is awesome.

Aubrey loves her friends so much. She's incredibly empathetic towards them. If one of them is hurt or sad, she tears up and sometimes cries too.

Shampoo Bubbles

2011-02-22T19:41:00.000-08:00

I put of ton of shampoo in her hair to make a lot of bubbles, piled it on her head, and she thought it was hilarious. Then I went to grab the camera and by the time I got back, the bubbles weren't as, uh, bubbly but I still took a picture, and I'm still posting it because I think she's cute.

Buttons

2011-02-19T19:41:00.000-08:00

Aubrey figured out how to use buttons all by herself. I tried showing her a few months prior but she wouldn't listen to me so I gave up after 30 seconds of instruction. I'm dedicated. She came up to me with her jacket on and no pants to show me she could button her jacket all by herself. I have no idea if she was practicing on her own or just decided to actually try. I immediately pulled out the camera to take a video and, of course, Aubrey had to make faces. You have to watch the video at the bottom. She's just so dang cute, it kills me.

Above: She calls this pose "Kieran" because her friend Kieran does this, I think, to stretch. It comes with a stretching noise as well.

Cougar

2011-02-17T20:32:00.000-08:00

That's right, you're seeing this correctly. That's me and Courtney (and Ian) and no, this is not Photoshopped. I really met her. How awesome is my life? Wait, do you need to see it a little closer? Here it is:

I know there's a couple of people who want the details so I'll give them to you. (I'm one of them because I'm worried I'll forget them all if I don't write it down now.) My friend lives on the street in Culver City where they film the outside the house scenes for the show. She invited me over to watch them film the last time this season at their house. When I drove up, she told me security would probably stop me from walking on set so I was a little nervous knowing everyone knew each other and them thinking "who is this joker and what do they think they're doing just watching us." She was going to meet me at the corner but I just walked right by security and they didn't say a word. (Security is a few police officers and cars with other private security.) They probably didn't care so much since the talent wasn't on set yet but my friend seemed really surprised they didn't do anything.

We sat there and talked with the crew for maybe an hour before the all the talent showed up in a van with a make-up/hair person for each actor. I have to say the crew made me feel super comfortable. They were incredibly nice and I loved them. We mainly talked to the head lighting guy (I don't remember his name or official title) and the digital set designer. The following week, everyone was going to Hawaii to film for the show. We asked the digital set designer if he was taking his family with him and he said no because he took his family there while he was the crew for Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Crazy. The crew told me to come back anytime. Ya, can I meet you guys in Hawaii next week too? If only.

I watched them film a scene in the You're Gonna Get It episode that aired last week, over and over, putting energy into the hat. It took maybe two hours to film the 30 second spot starting at the 1:12 mark. As soon as they arrived, they went straight over to start filming. They filmed the same thing over and over again without stopping. The director (you know him from MADtv), would just say things like, "that was great, let's do it again." The most direction I saw him give was telling Josh (Grayson) not to look up in the air when they were standing on the curb. Which take ended up on the episode? One of the ones where he was looking up in the air. We were sitting right next to the director and were invited into the black tent to watch the moniters they were watching. All the cast director's chairs were in the tent. Surprisingly, I can't remember whose chair I sat in. We only stayed in the tent for maybe one or two takes. Being in the tent was just like watching tv and I wanted to see them preform live.

After they filmed for maybe 30 minutes straight, stepping on and off the curb, they took a break. It wasn't until Courtney took off her high heels, put on slippers, and hobbled over to the chairs, that I realized she was injured. She said she hurt her knee and had surgery. I wanted to get a picture with the whole cast but I really didn't want to impose so my friend and I walked up to Courtney. My friend told her I was a fan and was wondering if I could get a picture with her. She said, "Oh, of course," and reached out her arm which, at the time, I wasn't sure if she was doing it for a hug or a hand shake so I went with the least embarrassing gesture if I was wrong and stretched out my arm to shake her hand, "it's really nice to meet you." I realized later that she was probably just doing that so I would stand next to her for the picture. I said something like "thank you so much for doing this." "Sure." As my friend was about to take the picture, Ian jumped in, and probably making fun on the fact that I'm tall, squatted down almost a foot (you can see his bent knees in the wide shot. She took the picture and Courtney started laughing so hard at him asking what he was doing. As she was walking away laughing, she turned around and said "it was really nice to meet you." She was incredibly nice, which I already knew, but it was great to experience it for myself.

After another set of takes, we went inside my friend's house so she could feed her kids lunch. We talked for awhile and then when I decided I should probably go and pick Aubrey up from her friends house. We walked outside and had to jump right back in because they had switched the camera angle and were shooting towards her house. We had to peek through the windows until we could tell they weren't filming so I could leave.

I didn't take any other pictures while on set. One, I didn't know if I was allowed to and, two, I didn't want to draw any attention. When I jumped back in my car, I took the picture below of the whole street. That's Josh on the right, on the phone. Jules' house is on the right side of the end of the street, the only side they filmed this episode. It's right where that crane thing is that's holding a humongous sheet for shade. I think the shade cover was a big as a swimming pool. My friend's house is the house next door, to the left, of Jules' house and is also blocked by the crane. The black tent is where the director was sitting and the actor's chairs. The little white tent in front of it is where the digital set designer was. We sat off the the left. Not in the shot is a truck with the foliage they bring for the house every single time and the security/police cars. There was also a moving truck which might have been for two cars in the episode. I don't know if they just drive those over though. I guess today was a light day because there is usually craft services (the food) and a lot more foliage which takes up a whole truck. This was a seriously cool day. One down, five more to go.

P.S. If this post does not get a comment from at least ten different people, I am suspending any future posting on this blog because, frankly, I don't know what to post to get a response from you people. I know my blog is on the boring side but, come on, it's not that horrible. Also, if you are going to comment, don't say full names or the name of the show. I don't want Google to direct people to this blog if they're searching for this information.

Valentine's Day Preschool Party

2011-02-15T20:32:00.000-08:00

Left Field Comedy

2011-02-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

I know I just talked about Left Field Comedy's billboard but you get to hear about the group one more time. Aren't you a bunch of luck ducks. After their big Salt Lake City shows, four of the members came down to Orange County for one show so Adam and I got a little taste of what their Salt Lake show was like. Even my Grandpa Burt and Aunt Esther drove down from the Bay Area to attend with some of their siblings. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. They threw out t-shirts to the audience and James threw one right to Adam and not even on purpose. Lucky for me, it's just my size. Sorry Adam. There's nothing like an evening of laughing to make your weekend. Can't wait for the DVD.

Superman

2011-02-11T20:32:00.000-08:00

Aubrey, I mean Superman, not Supergirl (a very important distinction).

Faster than a speeding bullet...

...more powerful than a locomotive...

...and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound

Cuter than a wittle-itty-bitty puppy.

"Oh hey, what's up mom? Just chillin' with my fellow superhero friends."

Superman or Super-Aubrey?

Super-Aubrey with Batman and Gold-Girl.

Disneyland

2011-02-01T20:32:00.000-08:00

Mickey AND Pluto!

Teacups!

I told the girls to make the face of Zurg, Buzz Lightyear's evil enemy, with me. Grace had no idea what I meant but Aubrey did. Check out Aubrey's score (Space Ranger 2). Not too shabby. Grace didn't really get 15,200 on her own. I helped her for part of the ride.

Tiana!

A rare ride on Space Mountain, my favorite ride at Disneyland.

Autopia!

And Pluto Again!

January Cuteness

2011-01-31T20:31:00.000-08:00

Everything not always peachy around here. This still happens every once and awhile.