Love & Other Drugs

When I saw the trailer for Love & Other Drugs, I wanted to see it, but little did I know that my brother was actually in it. A little back story...more than 15 years ago David worked as an usher at the Galleria cinemas. With this awesome high school job, family & friends got to see movies like Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Dumb & Dumber for free. As an usher, responsibilities include everything from tearing ticket stubs and directing people in the right movie direction, to cleaning up empty popcorn containers and finding people seats in a packed house. What isn't a responsibility of an usher is to memorize movie lines and act them out. David knew the exact times a specific scene would play and make sure he was in the movie at that time to study the lines and how the actor delivered them. He would then practice these scenes at home over and over again. While acting isn't his day job, his hobby is getting into Pittsburgh-based films as extras or stand ins. He may spend a few days on a set for a nanosecond in a movie. So when we were in town for Thanksgiving and Dave asked if we wanted to go see a movie (which Brian and I haven't done in probably years), we thought it would be fun. But when he told us he may be in it, we just had to go see it on the big screen. It was a very good movie - pharmaceutical sales rep meets girl with early-onset Parkinson's disease and they fall in love. David was in a scene for about 2 seconds. He was a pharmaceutical sales rep in a waiting room with Jake Gyllenhaal. You see David's head first of the three guys sitting down before Jake gets a page and leaves the office. He apparently was in a bar scene too, but unless you knew where he was, it goes by too fast to pick him out of the crowd. Congratulations Dave - you will always be our movie star.

ELMO

We played a little Sesame Street one day on YouTube and as soon as Elmo started to talk, Colton started to laugh out loud. Not sure what it is about this bright red, high-pitched puppet, but he sure captivates Colton and every other kid on the face of this earth. Our nanny got him a Hokie Pokie Elmo one day and that seems to save the day when needing to turn a frown upside down. We were at the mall attending Gymboree with Gavin & Alexa and ran into the furry guy. We couldn't resist a photo opportunity.

Thankgiving 2010

We went in to the Burgh for the big feast. It was delicious as always and we enjoyed the family tradition in my parents' new kitchen and family room. Pictured above are the great grandchildren with great grandma and my parents with their grandchildren (sorry mom, this was the best one I had). My dad did the math and calculated that there was a total of 38 people who were at our house for either appetizers, dinner, or dessert. And by the way, we are very thankful this year for a wonderful little man in our lives.

Visits

Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh is filled with lots of visits, but a must everytime is to see Godparents Jessie and Craig.

Eating. Teething. Rolling Over.

At 5 months, Colton has rolled over from stomach to back (he won't do it the other way), he has two bottom teeth coming in, and is eating rice cereal and loving it. He laughs lots (especially with his dad), talks a ton, and weighed in at almost 20 lbs. We go to his 6 month appointment this week.

Triple Date at the Shanachie

We have been going out to dinner every weekend and bringing the little guy. We figure Colton better get used to it now. The crowd is very different from when we used to go out on the weekend, it's more of an early bird special kind of crowd. This past weekend we went out with our good friends and their daughter. It was a triple date. We went to an irish spot in Ambler called Shanachie. We go there now for the irish potato boxty du jour. It is so tasty. Colton enjoyed his date - he did all the talking since Keira slept the entire time until we captured this photo.

fish.

It was a girls' night out last Thursday and we tried another restaurant in the city. We still tried to pull one off even though Devon is in Boston for her residency and Jamie is leaving us to move to North Carolina with her soul mate. So it was Kelli, Katie, and I, and we tried a super tiny little place called Fish on 17th & Lombard. While the place was tiny in size, the flavors were anything but small. We had rock shrimp as an appetizer, skate, cod, and mahi mahi for our meals. We finished our meal with a pumpkin tart. Fantastic seafood. I want to go back. Great time with the girls.

A Beary Happy Halloween

I remember last year's Halloween. I was laying on the couch trying to stop the room from spinning. While we knew we were prego, we had no clue what we were going to have and what he/she would be for Halloween this year. It was WAY more fun this year - dressing up Colton in his bear costume and enjoying multiple bottles of wine with Brian, Pat, and Mr. Kenney. If the room was going to spin this year - I was going to be in control of it this time. Colton didn't love his costume like we did. He was in it for about 20 minutes before he cried his way out of it. It was a happy Halloween and so much fun having Colton in our lives. Best Halloween EVER.

Cinderella Bride

Ava had planned on being Alice from Alice in Wonderland and then the night before her school Halloween music show, she changed her mind and wanted to be bride - more specifically Cinderella in a wedding dress. Luckily Toys R Us had one left so she could fulfill her dream at her Halloween play. Colton and I decided to take advantage of my day off and came out to her school to see her perform. No words could describe how it made me feel to see her face light up when she saw me in the auditorium. It was such a great time and she did a fabulous job singing and dancing. There was one other Cinderella bride in the crowd, but Ava was the most beautiful one in the group.