Congrats to my cousin Alissa and Richie! They were married on September 8th!
I just finished burning the dvd of their wedding for them. Well, I still have to design a dvd box cover and dvd label... but soon Cousin, you'll have your wedding documentary! Yes, I said documentary. I tend to get a little carried away. :)

I had such a great trip back home. Here I am with my cousins, Charlotte, Ryann, and Jana. At one point I was talking with Charlotte and I started to tell her about my neices coming over for a sleep over:

Charlotte: Yes, I know.

Angie: You know?

Charlotte: Yeah, it was on your blog.

I forget some people actually read this thing! haha. Next time I see Charlotte I plan on telling her all about the time I blogged about me telling her a story she already read about on my blog-- and then I'm going to blog about it. :D

And of course it was great to see my parental units again!

My brother turned 28 while I was home. Happy birthday John!! And no, I didn't just get him florescent light bulbs (hey, those are a great gift!). I also bought him:

Firefly and Serenity! I turned him into a big Firefly fan like me. We both avoided the show for the same reasons when it was on-- the twangy cowboy music. haha. It's a fantastically written show though. It's a shame it was cancelled so soon!


John and Olivia just moved into their new home! Their living room resembles the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D bridge!


Oh, and Newman sat on my lap--which, apparently, does not happen to anybody--EVER. Hello, Newman!

Another trip highlight-- the most incredibly awesome BBQ EVER at Uncle John's!

I cannot even begin to describe to you how delicious the ribs were. Songs will be sung of those ribs.

I got to meet the newest additions to our family! Here is one of Sara's newborn twins! I think this is LJ, but there is a 50% chance of it being AJ. :) Keep the pictures coming, Cuz!

This is Logan, Jana and Billy's son! He's 4, but I hadn't met him until now. My Dad loves to kid Logan. At the reception, Dad asked him if he wanted to dance. "NO!!". haha, he's a cutie. Jana, I'll be sending you a dvd very soon.

I'm being sent out of town for work tomorrow. I won't be back until Monday! Viva Las Vegas!

In my last post when I mentioned my Panda buddy, Cara, was probably going to visit soon-- I didn't realize she was going to call me that evening to announce she was in town! We met up at a bar in Hollywood and caught up on life over a box of "hello panda" cookies and drinks. Ok. Drink, not drinks. I don't really drink so much. I'm a total lightweight. If I have just 20% of a beer I'm be a goner!
I promised the Panda story when she visited. It's probably not nearly as hillarious to others as it is to us, but here goes!:
We were working together in Vegas one day, driving down Sahara.
Cara: Do you want to grab some lunch?
Angie: Sure, sounds good.
Cara: What do you want to eat?
Angie: Oh, I don't know. I like pretty much anything. What's good near here?
Cara: Do you eat Panda?

You have to understand, I was new to Vegas and I didn't know Cara. My eyes went wide. Was she really talking about eating an endangered fluffy bear? I know what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but----
Cara started laughing as she realized I didn't know about:
Cara: Panda Express! haha! It's a chinese place!
From then on we became Panda buddies for life. lol! Ok, so next time I see Cara I'll tell you all the story about the day it rained Hooter fries on us.Also at the bar that night was Johah Hill (left) from SuperBad! (thumbs up on that movie, btw!) He was letting people take pictures with him. Too bad all I had was my cell camera! It wouldn't have turned out, it was so dark in the bar. The pic with my Panda buddy was taken after they turned the lights to kick everybody out. :)

In other news:


Sawyer and Cydney had a sleep over at our place last weekend! We took them to see the Simpsons movie (Thumbs up), went to the grocery store and performed a spontaneous musical about our search for a missing man who ended up being inside a pineapple. The man ate his way out of the pineapple which then caused a massive search for a missing pineapple. Had to be there! And Dave taught the girls to play Blackjack. The cutest thing of all is Hartman slept with Cyd on the couch all night! awww!

My prize for my winning Stargate video arrived Friday! I'll be sure and post a picture of it when I get back home. Right now I'm in:


Kansas! I'm back home for my cousin's wedding. I'm about to head over to Uncle John's for a bbq, so that's all for now!

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL


As Johnny D pointed out in the comments section of the last post, it's been a while since I've blogged. Almost a month has gone by. Why haven't I blogged? Well, not because it's been an uneventful month. I think because it's been TOO eventful. With so much to blog about it almost seems like a chore. You know, I've seen so many old friends and so many visits with family, I wouldn't want to leave anybody out. But I've decided...I'm leaving some of you out! ;) You know I love ya, but if I blogged about every single one of you I'd be here all week.


So, why is Alexander Grahm Bell at the top of this blog? Have I spent the last month celebrating the invention of the telefono? Not exactly, but close! Well, ok, not even close. But let's start with:

...............................ALEXANDER............................

Uhm, wrong Alexander. Let's try this again:

ALEXANDER! Alex is the little guy in the middle, along with Dad, Chris, and Mom, Julie. These are our friends in Columbus, OH. Yes, we went to Ohio for a week. I think one of the funniest moments of the trip happened here with little Alex. It was his bed time, and Julie said:
JULIE: Alex, are you ready for some milk?
ALEX: Milk! Milk!
Julie opens the fridge and--
JULIE: Oh no, Chris, we're out of milk.
Alex's eyes go wide.
ALEX: Miiiiiiiiiilk? Miiiiiiiiilk! MIIIIIIIIIILK!!
The baby is crying and repeating Milk. Milk. Milk. Milk. Milk. Milk.
Julie: Ok, I'm going to goto the store and get you milk.
Chris: Dave, Angie, I have to go do 'X', Would you watch Alex for a minute.
Yeah. Dave and I know absolutely nothing about kids. Now we have 2 year old standing before us, balling his eyes out, saying



"miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilk!"
Must. Improvise. Must. Find. Way. To. Make. Happy. I spot the small American flag Alex was playing with earlier. I grab it, begin waving it around, and belt out my best "Stars and Stripes Forever". Dave joins in with some percussion and woodwinds.
Angie and Dave: Do doo do do doo do do doooo...
We perform this elaborate John Phillip Sousa routine. It's working! Alex is stunned in to silence, his little mind trying to wrap around this bizzarre turn of events.
Finally, the grand finale with cymbol crashes and all!! We were so into the routing we're a little out of breath. There is a beat of silence....

Alex:........Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilk? Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilk!

I know this is so wrong, but the comedic timing was so perfect, Dave and I burst into laughter. This is, of course, when Chris walked back in. He walked in to find his son crying his eyes out and us crying with laughter. Yup, we're going to be outstanding parents some day. :)

GRAHAM

The primary reason for the Ohio trip was to attend the Graham's wedding.

Dave was the best man!

BELL


Prior to going to Ohio, we were in San Francisco for Christine and Bevan Bell's wedding! We know Christine from when we worked in Vegas.

In fact, many we knew from Vegas was there! We made so many awesome, lifelong friends during our 3 years there. The last time we saw them all was 2 years ago-- at our own wedding! The gang now has to travel from all over the country to get together.


Ha, for this picture I said "hey, everybody look off in a different direction". 3 our of the 5 of us looked in the exact same direction. hehe. Guess that needed more planning. Oh yeah, and summertime in San Fran was chilly as usual!! But wow, was the Boba tea delicious!

Turned out Christines father is Captain Picard. That was really cool! (I stole that bit from her. I know, I know, I'm a 'bit stealer')

Now that we live in LA, I imagine we'll see these guys more often! Many of the Vegas mafia ended up in San Francisco.


Of course, my Panda buddy lives in Phoenix, but she may be in LA soon for a visit! And no, I never explained 'Panda buddy' at any point on this blog. I'll save that story for Cara's visit. :)


Check out my photog tan. It's not just for farmers, ya know. We loved seeing you all again!! I hope somebody in our group gets married again soon! All I can say is:


ENGAGE!
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A couple other bits of news. My Stargate video won 2nd place. I'll show you all what I won when it arrives!

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday I shot my brother-in-laws short. I have pictures on my phone (crappy quality) but haven't sent them to flickr yet. I'm real proud of him! He was a fine director and the shoot went great.

One more funny Ohio story. Well, I'm not going to really tell a full blown story here. I don't think I need to. All I need to do is explain who is in the following picture:


Left to Right: My husbands ex-girlfriend from college, Ronni, her son, Aiden, my husband, Dave, my husbands ex-girlfriend from college's gay ex-husband who is the father of her son and former roomate of my husband, Chris. haha, they were a lot of fun, it's just weird to explain who we spent the day with. lol.

Aiden is a doll! He loved me. hehe.

Okay, I have to go. I finished my cousin's reception video for her upcoming wedding and need to mail it to her. Yes, I have another wedding to go to! I'm soooo looking forward to going home to Kansas and seeing everybody!

THE LENGTHS A STARGATE FAN WILL GO TO:


Some of you may have noticed when I like a sci-fi show--I LIKE a sci-fi show! When I heard that nearly the entire casts of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis were going to be at Comic Con in San Diego-- oh yes, I immediately bought my ticket online!


I got up at 3AM yesterday, downed some (ok, a lot of) caffeine, and drove myself to the:




"Best.Comic Con. Ever.". Why did I leave at 3AM? Because I was determined to get a good seat for the Stargate panels! And the sacrifice of sleep and hours of standing in line paid off!




I was in the 2nd row center! After waiting hours just to get in, I had to sit in that seat for 3 and a half hours to wait for the panels to begin. Many interesting conversations took place in those front rows. A lot were regarding the Sci-fi channel's "unforgivable" misspelling Col Sheppard's name on a promo. Most were regarding *spoiler alert* the killing of Scottish Stargate Atlantis character Dr. Carson Beckett. Man, I liked Carson just fine... but these fans actually had:

Kilts and bagpipes and banners referring to Carson as "The Scot in the sky"!
And that's certainly not all! But more about that later. The next most popular topic was Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) who was scheduled to be at the con. I have to admit, if I could only meet one actor from the Gates I would want to meet Shanks. Daniel, in my opinion, is the heart of Stargate. Even more so than Jack O'Neill.

Finally the time arrived! Christopher Judge took the stage! Amanda Tapping took the stage! Ben Browder took the stage! Michael Shanks---didn't show up... for unspecified reasons... D'oh! That was a tad dissapointing. Then-- the first fan to ask a question recieved an autographed copy of the 200th episode script. The crowd, green with envy, went wild: "Oh WOW!! WOW!!!! AWESOME!!! OH MY GOD!!!!"

...Ahem, You may recall, I won a Stargate video contest 9 months ago and the prize was an autographed copy of the 200th episode script. They still haven't sent it to me. I have a bizzare sense of humor so I couldn't help but shake my head and laugh: I woke up hours before the crack of dawn to find my favorite character actor was a no show for unknown reasons and then they give away an autographed 200 script like they have these things just lying around taking up space --while I've been trying nearly a year to get my beloved prize from them.

Then, it happened:

One of the Save Carsonites posed a question to the panel:

"WHY DID YOU KILL CARSON! WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST DOCTORS?!"

The crowd ROARED as they waved their Scotland flags!

They CHEERED in their Scottish hats!


They SCREAMED as the bagpiper piped!
And Stagate Producer Robert Cooper responded:


"It's not that I have anything against doctors... it's just that I hate Scottish people."

Oh.My.God. I think I blew a funny fuse. I do not believe there was anything funnier that could have possibly been uttered at that moment. The rabidity of the fans mixed with the innapropriateness of the comment= FUNNIEST MOMENT EVER.

From then on it was non stop laughter! These guys are a riot! This is Christopher Judge who plays Teal'c on SG1.


Amanda Tapping who plays Col Sam Carter on SG1 and now Atlantis.

Ben Browder who plays Col Cameron Mitchell on SG1

Joe Flanigan who plays Col John Sheppard on Atlantis.

David Hewlett who plays Dr. Rodney McKay on Atlantis (and who is putting on the current Stargate video contest. here's my entry!)

Jewel Staite (of Firefly fame) who will play Dr. Jennifer Keller

There's so much more to tell. But Dave's parents are in town and I must depart! I had a blast at comic con and enjoyed meeting fans who are as obcessed (many of them more so... MUCH more so...) with Stargate as me. ;)