Birthday Boy

My little boy turned five on Tuesday.  He got to take cupcakes to preschool on Monday and he had tumbling class on Tuesday.  He opened one present in the morning and his big present (a six car racetrack) at lunch-time when Daddy was home.  In the evening he got Spiderman bubblebath and new books from Nana Lisa.

Yesterday 11 of Jonah's friends came over for a Spiderman birthday party.  It was a lot of fun.

The gang about to have a "snowball" fight

Kids finding their bag of party favors in Spiderman's web

Presents!

Red velvet cupcakes (from a box) with cool whip and a blueberry on top.

After the kids left at four, Grammy & Papa came over.

Grammy made chocolate frosting for the coconut cake I made and Jonah helped her frost it.

Andy, Coach and Trey came over just before I finished making dinner and we chowed down on sweet pork salads & burritos.

Legos and so many Spidey gifts!

Trey and Jonah had fun racing each other across the room after finishing their cake.

More Sundancing

Will Forte!  One of the funniest men alive and also on my most recent Celebrity Crushes list.  SO sweet. Hugged me when I told him that he was my favorite SNL guy.

Anthony Anderson (loved him in the film and in person)

Graham Phillips - isn't he adorable?  Also an incredible actor.

David Duchovny

I'm a huge fan.  I watched all nine seasons of X-Files.  He proved himself to be funny without a script in the Q&A session after the film but certainly not especially friendly in person (but at least he took some time with fans).

Parker Posey took this photo of Cherolyn and I with her after the premier of her latest independent film, Price Check, which we enjoyed but didn't love.

Rena and I enjoyed Joseph Gordon-Leavitt's live and pre-recorded performances at the Hit RECord show (of which I have unimpressive video) but we waited 20 minutes after the show for him and then when we asked him for a photo with him he refused:(

Still cute after midnight

Goats was by far the best of the three shows I saw and was the best Sundance movie I've seen in three years.  Brandon, Linda, Alan, and I went to its premier last Tuesday night after having a delectable dinner at Silver.  Watch for it in theaters in a few months, I'm sure it found a big-name studio to buy it.  Touching and SO funny.

Sundance Server

Since you're going to ask which celebs I met at work, here's the rundown:

The stars of Black Rock

Kate Bosworth, Katie Aselton, and Lake Bell

Dave Karger (this year's official red carpet greeter for the Oscars)

So friendly.

The very talented Sarah Ramos

The charming David Moscow

I think that's pretty much it.  I worked four nights of the 10 day festival.  I watched shows three of the other nights.  And staying up late so many nights in a row leaves me with a hacking cough.

Sundance Begins

Tuesday night at work there were 43 people with reservations at the restaurant (on Park City's Main St.) and we only had three servers working.  My manager asked if I could work Wednesday night too.  I said yes and asked what we had in the way of reservations.  He said we had over 150.  That's what the Sundance Film Festival does to Park City.  It begins today.
So I worked last night and there was this guy at a table that I recognized and kept looking at and was sure I knew from somewhere.  He was really cute and looked about my age.  When he was leaving I was walking past and I said, "Are you a local?"
Guy: No.
Me: Do I know you from somewhere?
Guy: You might.
Me: (nothing)
Guy: I'm an actor.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry to have bothered you.
Guy: It's okay, people are always asking me if I went to high school with them.
Me: And do you say, "Um, no, I'm famous."
Guy: No!  I'm not really famous.

Coworker: What did you say to that guy?
Me: Just asked him if I knew him from somewhere.
Coworker: And do you?
Me: Maybe, he's an actor.
Coworker: Yeah, I thought I knew him from somewhere and then finally realized I used to watch him on Felicity.  I love him.

Scott Speedman

(looked him up on imdb and figured out that I'd seen him in Underworld)

Thanksgiving

Six of my co-workers, plus one wife, and one brother of co-workers joined us for Thanksgiving this year.  Also one of Alan's assistant's and her boyfriend.  It's nice to have a big group for the biggest meal of the year, especially when so many people don't have any relatives around.

Linda, Jamie, Colleen, Shawn, Me

Michi, Hartley, Josh?

Mitch, Durf, Me, Jamie, Michelle, Elora, Chad

Elora loved Michelle, Shawn, & Jamie

It was nice having Serge around for the preparations.  He is a chef at the restaurant I work at and Linda, Alan, and I had tons of questions for him.  He also introduced a new tradition: making onion rings as an appetizer before frying the turkey:)

We had four turkeys this year: inflatable, baked, smoked, and fried.  The last three were delicious.

Kiddie table

Elora trying out Chad's pumpkin chiffon pie and loving it!

After all the friends went home we enjoyed two days and nights of family time:

Battlegrounds

Elora, Trey, and Andy 

The kids and B sledding behind the 4-wheeler

Sledding

Elora heading out to the pond to help Grammy & Papa shovel snow off the ice

Extended J. Family Christmas Party

Catching up.

Dec. 3rd

Margene, Bonnie, Garff

Dennis, Sharlene, R'Lene, Bill

The pile of White Elephant gifts

Trey, Coach, Margo, JD

Carmel corn!

Vanessa, M'Lindsay, Matt