My Birthday

I turned 28 on Jan. 7th...and had a really good birthday. A cool coincidence I realized that day, was that it was also the day I turned 28 weeks pregnant...kinda cool, huh? Anyways, I decided to go to my acting class on my birthday...it is a class I've been taking for a year and a half in Hollywood every Monday. It turned out when I got there they had a power outage and class was canceled, so me and some of my friends from the class went out to lunch at Wahoo's. It was really fun...oh, and we saw Sean Hayes (the actor from Will and Grace). Now I, being the teeny bopper I still am and will probably always be, still get very excited about any celebrity sighting...but when one of the other girls started to take a picture with her camera phone...the others got on her for acting like a fan and not a fellow actor...I thought it was really funny...so then I had to play it cool...so, no picture to show of Sean Hayes...but here we are at Wahoo's:

Marc and I went out to dinner at Lucille's later that night. I can't even put into words how good it was...course everything is extra delicious to me right now:)

Then we went to Build-a-Bear. Yes, I realize I was in a line surrounded by kids that were 4-8 years old...Going to Build-a-Bear is sort of a tradition that Marc and I have done on most of my birthdays. The year we got married I made a bride bear...its super cute...and this year I'd hoped to make a pregnant bear. But it turns out they don't have anyway to really make the bear look pregnant:( So, I went with the next best thing and made a bear for our baby boy...a Dodger bear so he can get associated with the right team early on...

I take all the parts of building the bear very seriously.

What a husband I have! He made me breakfast in bed that morning and there were roses waiting for me when I got home from Hollywood that day.

Happy New Year 2008!!

For New Years every year the entire Shaw clan (my mom's side of the family) gets together at my Grandma's house and we do a reunion/Christmas party/New Years party all in that night. This is the whole pack:

The Richardson fam:

My Grandma and her 5 kids (My mom, and my aunts and uncles)

Marc was sick and not feeling well at all on New Years Eve...but I managed to get him to fake a smile for the blog shot:)

The photog wanted me to show off my beer belly:)...

It was a fun one...I always look forward to hanging out with my cousins every year and all being together. It's funny cuz as a group me and my cousins are still called "the teenagers" even though we are all in our mid to late 20's, married, and having kids. But whenever we all get together it does feel like we are still just teenagers...it's crazy how time flies and that we really are grown ups with families! But I am excited that it is 2008 because it is bringing some fun changes to my little family with Marc:) Happy New Year! Hope you had a good one too!

Christmas

I am happy to announce, this is my first slide show posted on my blog...aren't you proud I've figured it out months after all of you have? :)

We had a great Christmas in Utah with Marc's family...we were there for a week and had lots of time to hang around and do nothing (which is always nice), hang out with the fam, go shopping, cook, bake, have a Rueckert side family reunion (that's the pics you see where we had an airplane throwing contest & pinata), play with our nephews Ben & Owen, and just enjoy Christmas.

For Christmas Marc gave me a really cool new cell phone...called the Treo. It's kinda like a Blackberry--it has so many cool features on it, I've been constantly playing around with it ever since. But my favorite present that he got me was 4 baby outfits...I LOVE that he went to the store and picked out clothes for our baby by himself...I don't know why I love this so much, but I just do...he got 2 basketball outfits and 2 outfits that have frogs (cuz I'm decorating the nursery with a frog theme).

I gave Marc a few things, but one was Guitar Hero 3...and that was quite the success...I don't think I saw Marc for 2 solid days after he opened that on Christmas. He was down in the basement where the t.v. is, playing it SOLIDLY. I was glad cuz I wanted to give him a present he could play with.

We are back home from Utah now and getting ready for our annual New Years party with my family...hope you have a Happy New Year!