26.

i have officially been 26 for one week now. to be honest, i was not excited about turning 26. every birthday thus far, i have embraced it and treated it as an accomplishment but 26, i just was not excited about. i pictured my life to be a little different by now, and i also have to start paying for health insurance...but i have accepted 26 ( since i obviously can't stop it from coming).  i feel like the older you get, the weirder birthdays feel. it's not like i had a bad day on my birthday...it just felt weird. why are birthdays weird?! anyway, after being 26 for a week now, i have welcomed 26. bring it on. let's make it a good year!

waiting for the taping.

for my birthday, ant got an email from The Chew and how they had last minute tickets on the 21st..so we went. i've gone to a taping of The Chew before but i was super excited to experience it with ant. i love when we can experience things together. he's never been to taping of a show before. it was a good time and i enjoyed it.

creepin pics of daphne. she's so gorg.

 the weather wasn't too great though, so we just saw the taping and grabbed some lunch from this cafe called peace food. we had delicious chickpea fries with a raw pizza, followed by a gluten free vegan dessert. ant approved. 

ant approved!

on sunday night we celebrated ilissa's birthday. she had two big cakes..and i brought my small vegan gluten free one my mom bought me. i thought the pic of them was quite humorous. 

something awesome

last thursday i had one of the best days that i experienced in awhile. i got to attend a taping of LIVE! with kelly & michael and the chew. months ago, my mom said that she wanted to go to a show taping for her birthday. i put in for a bunch of shows and heard nothing. my boss said she was going to request tickets for the chew and asked if i would be interested. well! my boss heard back from the chew and our date was 12/13. a couple of days later i got our confirmation letter in the mail from live for...yes you've guessed it..12/13. i laughed out loud and decided that on that thursday, my job would be to clap, cheer and be a seat filler for both of these tapings. mom, sam and i took a car into the city since we had to be in so early and waited on line for live. everyone who was waiting was just so friendly and excited. we met these adorable ladies from nashville who loved our accents they even asked us to sing happy birthday to one of their sons via phone. they also took a picture of us to remember us by. at 8:45am, they let you into the studio and you can sit wherever you want. the studio is so different looking from TV. it was so awesome. i love productions and how things are run...obviously i do..i went to school for it..but i just love sets and i love being a part of a production, even if it is just part of an audience. kelly and michael were super awesome. such genuine people, during segment breaks they would talk and hangout with the crowd. it's exactly how i wanted them to be. when the taping ended, i planned on walking down the block to wait on line for the chew. well, gelman, the producer of LIVE, told us to stay put, they had more filming to do. well, a bunch of people got up and left and we stayed put because mom and sam had nothing  to do and i had time to kill before the chew. well, they announced that big stars were coming out and they were john travolta and olivia newton john. my mom and sam screamed so loud hahaha. it was pretty amusing. i got to stay to see them film a cooking segment with the love chef, but didn't get to see john and olivia. i had to leave to see the chew.

oh look! there we are ;)

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