The Baby Furniture!

Look at our nursery!

The Shower in Absentia (or, Happy Birthday Mom!)

Last Saturday, Mama Elms and Pepa teamed up to throw a huge baby shower for Shawna and the baby. It also happened to be Mama Elms' birthday. Unfortunately, Shawna's being on bedrest prevented us from straying that far from the UCLA hospital to attend. So they soldiered on, with Pepa opening the gifts for Shawna, since Pepa was unable to open presents at her first shower prior to Goo's birth.

In addition, Shawna and I also decided to reveal the name we have chosen for the baby (something we've been keeping under wraps). So Amy and Britney Clemmons came down here last week and Shawna, as part of a video she made to thank those in attendance, revealed the name...Elizabeth Ryan Elms, named after Mama Elms. We figured that would be pretty apropos since it was her birthday

Check out pics here .

Andrew Creates ElmLeaf

To sell and showcase his t-shirts and designs, Andrew has created "ElmLeaf". Check it out on our first sister blog!

Uncle John comes to town

Shawna's brother John came to Burbank on his way home from San Diego last Thursday and stayed through Sunday, and his visit really lifted our spirits. He made us dinners, chilled with us, and even made a couple of trips to Labor and Delivery with us!
Unfortunately, our only pic of him is here, on the far right end of the couch the other night. But we wanted to say thank you.

Weird Kansas City BBQ with the Daines

So several weeks ago, when out with the Daines, we decided to go to this BBQ place on San Fernando here in Burbank. It seemed like a cool place, with a cool atmosphere and everything. That night they were having live music, and they asked us if we wanted to sit right in front of the band. But when we said yes, we were told we had to sit at a table with complete strangers.
So we sat somewhere else, and that's when the weirdness continued. Appetizers were WEIRD--they brought us strange breadsticks, oils, and weird veggies. Here are some shots.

Pepa's Family Reunion with the Pepos

On July 27, Shawna and I were able to go to Bakersfield to attend Papa and Pepa's long-planned family reunion. A good time was had by all, and it perfectly coincided with Uncle Pepo and Aunt Oshwyn's visit with Baby Rachie and Baby Jakey. Here are some pics of the guys.

Baby Jakey, Aunt Rosalyn, Shawna, and Rachel

Baby Jacob

Challa, Pepo, and Papa

Papa Bill and Jacob

Baby Furniture!

Despite claiming to deliver between 1-4pm and not arriving until 7:35, the delivery men at least beat the stork to our house. So check out the pics of our brand new crib and changing table (courtesy of Mom and Dad and Grandpa Bill and Grandma Lois, respectively). So thanks again, and thanks to future Uncle John Russell for helping putting them together.

Andrew to Cafepress: "No premium for you"

So Andrew closed his 110 Freeway shop on cafepress.com. His premium shop carried a monthly charge of $7, and after only selling and making only five bucks in commission last month, he decided to close his premium shop and open several smaller shops. These are free, but only offer products for one individual design per shop. So here are some new URLs to look for:
cafepress.com/110miker, cafepress.com/110jesse, cafepress.com/110moland, cafepress.com/110david, cafepress.com/110mitt, 110mitt2, and 110mitt3. If there were designs you used to like and want a specialty item, let Andrew know and he'll post it up.
Thanks!

More Famous Peeps

Just like we thought, we forgot to include some celebrities in our last post. And, fortuitously, we happened to see a famous person the other day...Joey McIntyre (from NKOTB fame). He happened to be in Babies 'R' Us in Van Nuys the other day when we were buying the baby's crib. Which got us to thinking-why would a former boy bander be in a Babies 'R' Us in Van NUYS???

Here Joey is from his days on "Dancing with the Stars" with our friend, Ashley DelGrosso. It's funny--Ashley's old Banana Republic jacket is Shawna's lab jacket at school.

We saw Jeffrey Jones at the Grove on the day Shawna graduated from Loyola Marymount. You know him for antagonizing Ferris Bueller while simultaneously inspiring the name for Amy's favorite band, Rooney!

Wow. Here's another "Ferris" alum. This was the guy at the garage who goes joy riding in Cameron's dad's sweet ride. But, in addition to also looking like Chris Jackson, he also (really) happens to be the original drummer for Sonic Youth. We saw him at Pete's in Downtown LA.

Famous Peeps

Just the other day we figured we better finally write down all the actors/musicians/pseudocelebrities we've seen in our time in LA. So if there are some celebrities we may have mentioned to you that aren't listed, let us know. And look from throughout the list--it goes from A-list to the truly obscure (Andrew has a knack for recognizing faces). So here goes!

THE A-LIST

Halle Berry. Andrew said "hi" to her when she was filming "Lackawanna Blues" near his old apartment near USC when he was single.

Jim Carrey. He was on the red carpet at "The Number 23" premiere we attended. He was on the carpet with Jenny McCarthy.

Jon Heder. I guess this is cheating. He was in the LA 1st Ward with us.

Aaron Eckhart. He showed up a couple of times to the LA 1st Ward. Andrew wanted to invite him to lunch, but it ended awkwardly, with him walking off on us.

"You should listen to your friend Billy Zane. He's a cool guy." Andrew saw him at the theatre at the Grove (a hotspot for seeing celebrities).

TV STARS

Ethan Suplee and Jason Lee--"My Name is Earl." We saw these two separately--Suplee at the Grove, and Lee at a Beck concert. We liked that Suplee didn't valet his car.

Giovanni Ribisi. He was at the Beck concert, too, standing next to Jason Lee. He's been around forever (I think he played Phoebe's brother in "Friends") but he's now doing a great job on "My Name is Earl."

Donald Faison. He plays Turk on "Scrubs" and played Murray on "Clueless." He was keepin' it real at the Grove.

Adam Carolla. He was the featured guest at the "Hollywood Covered" party the Daines invited us to.

Joshua Jackson. He was filming something across the street from us when we lived at the Santa Fe lofts on 6th and Main.

Nick Cannon. He's not hiLARious, but he did bump into Shawna at the Hollywood Covered party.

Kenny Johnson. He played the late Det. Curtis Lemansky on "The Shield." We saw him at the Grove.

MUSIC

Jeff Tweedy. He's the lead singer of Wilco. We saw him at the theatre at the Grove.

Meg White, the White Stripes. She was at the Apple Store in the Grove with her baby the same day we saw Hilton/Connolly.

Gene Simmons. He was driving down Sunset Blvd in a Lambo on Andrew's birthday a couple of years ago.

JC Chasez, former member of NSync. We saw him shopping at Crate and Barrell at the Grove. He's also dear to us for reminding us that some girls dance with women.

SPORTS

Matt Leinart. He used to live down the street from Andrew's bachelor pad. Andrew actually has quite a few funny Matt Leinart stories.

Rodney Peete, ex-USC QB. We saw him on-campus before the USC-UCLA game a couple of years ago.

Reggie Bush. Andrew would run into him all the time.

Tyson Chandler, C New Orleans Hornets. Andrew yelled "Tyson" to him when we saw him on the 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica.

The Boz, Brian Bosworth. Andrew asked him for his autograph at the Grove, only to be rebuffed (he thought it would've been awesome to send to Challa on his mish). Maybe Boz was still upset about a bust and having Bo Jackson run over his ace repeatedly.

MOVIES

Crispin Glover. Hollywood Covered party. Weirdo.

Alan Tudyk. He played "Steve the Pirate" on "Dodgeball" and was the basis for the robots on "I, Robot." He was filming somehting with Joshua Jackson.

Virginia Madsen. She was on the red carpet at premiere of "The Number 23."

Robbie Coltrane. Most would recognize him as "Hagrid" from the Harry Potter movies. But since Andrew doesn't watch that stuff, he prefers to point out that he plays Matsui in "Ocean's Twelve" (Matt Damon quotes LedZep's "Kashmir" to him).

Paul Willson. Andrew saw him in a greasy burger joint near USC. He played one of the Bobs, the consultants in "Office Space." He also appeared on several episodes of "Malcolm in the Middle."

SOCIETY

Nicky Hilton and Kevin Connolly. This was a while ago, back when they were still together. We saw them coming out of the movie theatre at the Grove. He's in "Entourage," if you didn't know.

Cacee Cobb (but no Jessica Simpson). Jessica Simpson's friend and assistant and sometimes "Newlyweds" appearer was at the Grove with her squeeze, Donald Faison.

THE TRULY OBSCURE

Whit Hertford. Mike Daines actually spotted this guy at the Kwik-E-Mart in Burbank. He is actually the little kid Dr. Grant scares with the raptor claw at the very beginning of the first "Jurassic Park." And check out his imdb.com page--he was actually born in Provo and is LDS.

This guy's name is Michael J. Anderson, and to true cineastes, you'll recognize him from several of David Lynch's weirdnesses. But he's famous for playing the midget, backwards-talking, Arm of the Devil in "Twin Peaks." After seeing him at the Arclight theatre, Andrew thought it was a bad omen.

The dude in the back seat is named Geoffrey Arend, and this is him in "Super Troopers". We saw him in the theatre at the Grove, where Andrew quoted him: "The schnozberries taste like schnozberries", a line from the aforementioned movie, eliciting a smile from this guy.

Bobby Trendy. The flaming designer of the late Anna Nicole was at the Hollywood Covered party.