Auntie Beth is Coming to CT for the Holidays!

I will be arriving in CT at noonish on Wednesday December 22nd, and leaving at 5:45 am on Tuesday morning January 4th.

Brendan with Auntie Beth=Bliss on Sunday night 9/6

This is the very first night Auntie Meg let me keep Brendan while she went home with Lila to try and get some sleep. Yeah, I begged.
Brendan and I walked outside around the cul-de-sac, watched the stars, sang silly songs and rocked until he fell asleep. It didn't last long but I was so in love that I needed to take our self-potrait to commemorate the moments. It is not as easy as it looks to take good photos of yourself with a sleeping baby whom you must ensure is not jostled lest he become upset...

My first truly pathetic unsuccessful shot of the night---because the baby is the important part of the photo and all... but my available arm was not good with aiming the camera. I was trying to get a photo of Brendan's facial angles that make him most seem like himself to me.

I thought he looked more like Lila in this photo above. I think I was looking for more of a photo that would captured his "Birdie" appeal.

I was still getting a Lila feel, and my arm was now stuck at a very specific angle...

so I decided to try a shot from the front, and lost the baby entirely...oops!

Wait, he reminds me of Lila even more from the front...so now I was thinking that perhaps Brendan looks like his sister, dork, and that's why all the photos remind you of her...

I then decided to try to get my face closer to Brendan and use the flash...it kind of worked to get a bit of the birdie appeal in the photo...even if I look like his scary ghost aunt.

Finally, my Brendan photo with birdie appeal...which look strangely like the first photo of this blog entry...shouldn't have messed with a good thing:-)

And last but not least my fave photo from our session...Brendan is so gorgeous, so tiny, so amazing...it is a night I will never forget!!! Thanks Megalegs for entrusting me with your little pumpkin.

I love you lots, and I miss you more-

xoxoAuntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

Annie's 3!!!

I had the awesome privilege of spending a good chunk of Annie's 3rd Birthday with her.
Annie, Lizzie, Molly & I went ou to the Buckland Hills Mall for Build-A-Bear and then to the carousel. It was painfully obvious that we had to go on the carousel 3 times because it was Annie's 3rd Birthday. Lizzie was absolutely thrilled to share in the repeat rides, and seemed very happy that Annie was turning 3, and not 2!

I took alot of photos, not all are great, but delightful chaos was the order of the day so it feels right to just let the photos speak for themselves.

Hapy Birthday, Annie

MY GIRLS ARE GORGEOUS!!!!

I love you lots, and I miss you more-

xoxoAuntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

My Birthday on August 4th in Los Angeles

This is the first year I spent my birthday in Los Angeles in over 5 years, and probably the last time I ever will given that Lila and Brendan now share the 3rd with everyone...but I had planned my trip to CT for two weeks at the end of August in case those babies decided to wait to pop out...
Mommy was, as always, stellar at making me feel special on a "holiday" we spent apart. She sent me a care package with 4 different outfits, one dress---pictured above--and a tiara to wear on my big day...

Here's my best beauty queen, Princess of Genovia wave...

I stopped by Ben's house to tuck him into bed before I went out for dinner with Bridget...he really was happy to see me but for some reason, he was REALLY not in a picture mood...which is weird because he usually indulges me if I beg for one good smile...

I kind of got a small smile out of Ben because of his stuffed animals which he immediately turned his gaze toward, thus giving me a halfsmile while not looking into the camera...yeah, every effort can't be a winner:-P

I had an awesome birthday, made even more awesome by the birth of Lila & Brendan the day before complete with their photo in front of sign wishing me a Happy Birthday. Life is good!

I love you lots and I miss you more-

xoxo Auntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

Hair is Tough For An Actor-June 25th

I had a career consultation and one of the suggestions from my gal was that I consider making my haircut softer when I style it. I tend to push my hair off my face and without bangs my forehead is a bit high and lengthens my face. Truth be told, I was already really annoyed by my haircut. The bob was cute but definitely did not reflect "me"...I cut my hair off last week...but I found these older photos in my camera from when I was trying to figure out how to solve what I affectionately referred to as my "forehead problem".
Yeah, it would take a miracle to keep my hair in this position above all day long...and it would of course fall in my eyes. I could handle that for about 5 seconds in the name of beauty.

and as soon as we move the hair enough to the side to avoid vision issues, we have the forehead problem again:-)

I personally like this way of wearing the style the best, with the side blown forward...but it's exactly like it was at Meg and Tim's wedding, and would not survive any wear and tear beyond a special occasion.

I kept trying though...I did not want to admit defeat. Having to try so hard should probably have given me a clue that it took too much effort to maintain.

Yeah, just because you mess up the hair and have strands sticking out everywhere does not mean it is better in hiding the forehead problem.

Alas, I think I knew I was going to cut it off in frustration eventually, so I took a photo of my fave part of style, and why I kept it around for 14 months of problems...doesn't it look cool? Yeah, I still cut it all off...

Who knew an acting career could require such tedious girlie concerns? UGH!

I love you lots, and I miss you more-

xoxo Auntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

Shopping Trip on June 10th...and Look What I Bought!

Auntie Beth went out on her first grocery shopping trip in almost 2 years on June 10th...yes, that was correct and not a typo...TWO YEARS...sure, sure I've gone in and gotten cases of water, or 10 yogurts for a long tax week, but a full stock the fridge trip? Two years...and I have not missed it! I found it very unfulfilling and quite frankly boring...so I had to make it more interesting...

So I found a natural salad dressing named after our Annieboo...I think the other shoppers thought I was crazy because when I saw this bottle, I started giggling and jumping around with glee. Hey, as far as I'm concerned, I was the only person having any fun in that store anyway...they should take a lesson:-)

A closer look at the joyful reminder for the day that I have beloved babies in CT waiting for me...so sad that I am just now using photos on the blog from June 10th...not sure I can catch up at this point so we may just pretend I lost my camera for 6-8 weeks...

I love you lots, and I miss you more-

Auntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

Lisa & Adam's wedding reception Sunday June 13th

On a gorgeous Sunday in June in a very posh part of Los Angeles, my friend Lisa had her wedding reception. Lisa & Adam had already gotten married back in March in a small ceremony so Lisa's ailing Grandmother could attend.
Auntie Beth had no idea what to wear & how to prettify herself because she definitely does not have 98 cool dresses like Auntie KK.

Lisa & Adam's invitation to the reception. They included Clyde the Cat as family on the invite because Adam raised Clyde since he was a kitten 14 years ago.

Doesn't Lisa look gorgeous in her wedding veil? She's got beautiful dark hair like our Miss Molly!

Here's the dress I finally settled on for the reception. I felt very girlie and did my best to style my hair and put on the makeup to match!

Here's a close up of my final product just before I entered the estate neighborhood where the house for the reception was located...I did say it was posh!

Here is the new manicure/pedicure I got just before the celebration. The flower on my big toe is a plumeria like the flower from Hawaii. I had to fight with the woman so she didn't put any sparklies or bedazzlings on my toe...she really did not want me to keep it simple! I also don't sit still very well.

It's much more impressive in person, but here is the gate you have to go through to get into the neighborhood for the reception. There is 24 hour guard service and they take photos of your license plate coming and going and check your ID.

That big gate is thick wrought iron and you would kill your car if you tried to drive through it, promise!

Auntie Beth had so much fun she forgot to take photos during the actual party, but here are the reception favors...Lisa's Grandmother loved butterflies so the placecards for our table were in butterfly frames, and we all got chocolate butterflies to take home as well--well the body in gold was chocolate, the wings were just cardboard...

The reception was on a clifftop overlooking the water---with quite a bit of breeze-total craziness with hair whippin everywhere...

The home belonged to Adam's parents who threw quite a bash with a huge fruit bar, mimosa bar, chocolate bar, omelet stations, barbeque station, salad station--and some food I know I'm forgetting.

There was also a cool area just for the kids, with juiceboxes & minibags of cheetos and doritos.

There was oa gorgeous dance floor underneath an open air tent.

AND a temporaray tattoo artist for everyone to use! I chose this tattoo from disney and...

...a flower tattoo where Auntie Meg has hers, on the back of my neck. It was fun to pretend for a few days!

The day was alot of fun and it's always nice to celebrate love. I am now only 2 months and 3 days behind with this blog...ughhhhhhh:-P

I love you lots and I miss you more-

Auntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS

Auntie Beth is NOT Sleeping Well!

After Auntie Beth got back to Los Angeles, I had sooooo much to do with my taxes and acting.

I also decide I needed to get healthier...so Auntie Beth stopped eating cookies, cakes and candy...and she went from drinking four diet cokes a day to one diet coke a day...and she started noticing all the unhealthy foods she wanted to eat and stopped herself...it was a HARD week:-)
I also started exercising twice a week for an hour, and trying to fall asleep at a normal time...it was a very HARD week...
I started all this new healthy stuff on June 6th and here is what my bed looked like on June 7th when I woke up!

I tossed and turned all night, I twisted the covers every which way, I flopped back and forth...I undid the sheets from the bottom of the bed...it was not pretty!
and Auntie Beth also went to bed with wet hair...so I woke up with Lizzie bedhead...I could get a good shot of the back but from the front you can see I was a bit messy!

I still look tired...I wonder why????

I was actually kind of digging the added volume. Of course, I can never get this much volume in my hair when I try for a hour with all kinds of devices and product...pishawww...

This brings us up to date through June 7th...

More to follow soon, but I just could not leave us way back at May 22nd any longer...yikes!!!

I love you lots, and miss you more-

xoxoAuntie Beth/Bethie/Beppy GBAKYS