The Tonight Show with Jay Leno!

This is where the Tonight show is filmed and our ticket to get in.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno!

On Thursday, April 16 we were able to get tickets to the Tonight show with Jay Leno. Taylor has a customer who has a friend who works for Leno. We had to go down to the NBC studios at guest relations and wait in line for our tickets. We then were seated in the studio. It was really cool. We sat there for a few minutes and then Jay Leno came out and talked to us about how the show was going to work. They tape the show live and then just put in a couple commericals. The show started filming at 4:00 p.m. so they can have it ready for Eastern time zones. The show is exactly one hour. Some people got to go take pictures with Jay Leno if you were sitting close. We had farely good seats but were up high. They gave away t-shirts, footballs, frizbee's, etc. The producer threw them out to the audience. The show was funny. Jessica Alba from Fantastic Four was there and Bob Saggett was promoting his new show. It was cool to see them in real life. Jessica Alba is gorgeous. She had on this strapless dress she kept pulling up entire show; it was funny. Bob Sagget was a little weird. They also had a singer there called Johnny Lang. He wasn't very good. Overall it was a fun experience. Here are a bunch of pictures outside the studio, of course you can't take any inside.

Easter Egg Hunt

We just had a little Easter egg hunt in our backyard. Callie collected all the eggs. We couldn't get Preston to pick any up. They had fun. It was a nice Easter weekend. We had some friends over for dinner on Sunday and talked with Callie about Easter and the resurrection. She really listened.

Two Yummy recipes

These two recipes are from both my sisters. The tortilla soup is from my sister Heather and the pasta is from my sister Britney. These are really good. I hope you like them as much as we did. I only have a picture of the pasta, sorry.

Tortilla Soup

makes about 4-5 servings

1 can cream of chicken soup
2 chicken breasts boiled and shredded
1 can chicken broth
1 cup salsa
1 teaspoon taco seasoning(or to your taste)
1 tbs. cilantro
1/2-3/4 cup corn (can use frozen or canned(drained))

Boil chicken until tests done. Can use chicken broth from chicken or a can. Shredd chicken. Combine all ingredients together and stir. Heat through. Serve with tortilla chips, shredded cheddar cheese, and sour cream. It is so good.

Sun-Dried Tomato and chicken pasta

1 tablespoon butter
2 cloves garlic chopped
1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes cut into pieces(dried or in oil) easy to find
1 cup chicken broth divided
1 cup cream
2 chicken breasts (shredded or chopped)
1 tablespoon exta virgin olive oil
4 leaves basil chopped(or dried to your liking)
1 1/2 cups bowtie or penne pasta

Cook pasta , drain and set aside. Meanwhile melt butter, add garlic, and cook for 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and 3/4 cup chicken broth. Turn heat to medium and boil. Reduce heat after boiling and simmer for 10 minutes until the tomatoes are tender. Add the cream and bring to a boil, stirring until thickens up. Season chicken with salt and pepper and warm the oil and saute the chicken until cooked and brown. Set chicken aside. In the same pan used for the chicken, bring the other 1/4 cup chicken broth to a boil and scrap the pan juices from chicken. Add this to the cream sauce and stir in the basil. Toss the pasta, sauce and chicken together. I added parmesan cheese because I had some shredded up in the fridge. It was delicious.

You gotta watch this

Taylor saw this on Yahoo news and we both were amazed. This woman will blow you away. Copy and paste the following address in your web browser.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92464?fp=1

Lesson Learned

Last night after dinner we told the kids we would take them out to McDonalds for ice cream. They played at the play place and then we came home. Taylor and I went to bed and I woke up at midnight and wondered where is my cell phone. I remembered I left my purse under the table at McDonalds. I stared panicking. I ran downstairs and called and someone answered and said someone turned it in about 9:30. The store managers verified in front of their cameras that there was no cash in it. I had $20 bucks in my wallet. So the person stole the money and then decided to be nice and turn it in. At least it was not a lot of money. I tried to go back to bed but just kept thinking about my credit cards. I tossed and turned for about an hour. I finally fell asleep and the kids woke up at 6:00 am so we went and picked it up. All my credit cards and license was still there. Oh, and luckily my cell phone was still in my purse. I have only had this one for about 6 months. We just wonder if the person wrote any of my information down. So I will be more careful of where I set my purse and make sure I don't walk away from my grocery cart at the store.

American Idol!

My brother-in-law, Chase, signed up for tickets to American Idol a year ago. They told him he had 4 tickets available for Tuesday, April 7th. He was going to be out of town so he gave them to me. Isn't he so nice! So yesterday we left Yucaipa at 10:30 a.m. with my friend Jenni, her daughter and her friends daughter. They are huge fans of the show. And of course, so am I. We drove down to Chase's work to pick up the tickets and got there about 11:30. He works in Orange. From there we proceeded to Hollywood. We had to be in line no later than 1:15 p.m. It took us 2 hours just to get to Hollywood which put us arriving at 1:45. We were so sure we wouldn't get in to see the show. We were so bumbed. We found some people waiting to see if there was anymore room in the audience. While in line I saw Derek Huff from Dancing with the Stars pulling into CBS televison city. So cool. He drives a black Audi. About 20 minutes later the producer came out and said come this way. I was like no way. We start to walk up the stairs into the American Idol theatre. The experience was so unreal. Surprisingly, it is very small. The cameras make it look so much bigger. We actaully went to the dress rehearsal part, not the live performance. But it was pretty much the same. All the idols came out and sang and even Ryan Seacrest was there. He was standing like 3 feet from us. It was so cool. All the idols sang so good, even though the judges didn't think so that night. They had pretend Judges filling in. The pretend Simon looked for real. They all immitated Simon, Paula, Cara, and Randy extremely well. My friends daughter and her friend got to be up in the maush pit. They touched Danny Gokey and Chris Allen. They were so excited. I thought Adam Lambert did so good and Matt Gurad too. Also Sinbad was sitting across the aisle too. It was really cool. We had such a great time too. I am sorry I don't have any pictures. They wouldn't allow cell phones or cameras. They wouldn't even let us take pictures outside of the building either. So Dumb! We did get some pics with a cell phone of my friends daughters, friend. I will hopefully get those soon. Thanks Chase for the tickets. It was a great day.

Friends!

These are the girls I went swimming with yesterday, Jenni and Liana. The other picture is of Preston helping himself to Jenni's chips.

Palm Springs!

We went to Palm Springs yesterday with a friend to go swimming. We left our house and it was breezy and a little chilly. But in Palm Springs it was great. The water wasn't too cold either. The kids had so much fun and Callie got more brave in the pool as the day went on. She even went under water. They didn't want to leave. We were all very tired at the end of the day.

All dressed up!