I finally have a minute to write a post! My life started to spiral out of control a little over a week ago when I found out that my friend had gotten last minute tickets to the Oprah Show. We have been trying to get tickets for over a year now. One of the ways to do it is to send emails when they list on their website that they have some last minute openings. So anyway, we had only a few days to get everything in order and we were off! We left on Tuesday night around 6 when me and one other girl got done working. Fortunately Tom had finals (as did the other husbands, 4 of us went together) so we were able to leave our children home and we only needed a babysitter for a few hours on Wednesday morning.
We arrived in Chicago around midnight and checked into a really nice Intercontinental Hotel on the Millionaire Mile. We got a great last minute deal on the hotel through Hotwire. We had a hard time settling down to go to sleep because everyone was so excited but I think we finally fell asleep around 1:30. The alarm went off at 4:30 and we began getting ready! We caught a cab at 5:45 and arrived at Harpo Studios at 6am. We had to stand outside for an hour waiting for the doors to open, we wanted to be early to get good seats! I was the 25th person in line. We then went through a long screening process and such, and then waited and waited and finally got seated and the show started at 10:00am. I was shocked at how small the studio was! There were only about 225 people in the audience and we were all really close to the front because it was so small. The whole stage was was about the size of the average living room!
Anyway, it was very exciting to just be there and to see everything. We got to see Ty Pennington, Clay Aiken and James Denton (the plumber on Desperate Housewives) as well as the people whose dreams were coming true. It is a Wildest Dreams Episodes; it will actually be airing tomorrow so check it out if you can. I doubt that I will be on TV because they don’t show the audience very often but you never know! It was awesome to see Ty, he was so “normal” and just seemed so relaxed and kept joking around when they had to re-shoot a few scenes. It was so strange to be so close to Oprah as well. We ended up on the second row; I could have practically touched her if I tried! You really felt like part of the show! On the episode there is a boy who had his legs amputated, we were able to meet him after the show and get our pictures taken with him. We didn’t get any cools prizes but we were all given a box of Kleenex tissues because Kleenex sponsored some portion of the episode. Overall it was really exciting to be there and we had a great time. After the show we drove back home and I got here just in time to go get my mom at the airport!
I had a great time with my mom here and my brother Ryan and his family came for Saturday and Sunday. We went to the zoo and just had a fun time being together. I dropped my mom off at the airport this afternoon and then Hayden and I took a nap. I am trying to get the energy to get off the couch to get the house cleaned… oh maybe I’ll get it done tomorrow! I’m still feeling very nauseas all the time and I’m pretty tired but it’s all to be expected! We have an ultrasound next week, I can’t wait! Tom has been gone all day to a golf tournament, I’m sure he’ll give you an update about that later. Happy Mother’s Day a little late, I hope you all had a wonderful day. I had a fabulous Mother’s Day. Dave and Adina thanks for the great pajamas for my birthday, I was wearing them this morning and Hayden came up to me and pointed at my pants and said “Mommy, you look pretty”. I don’t know where he learned to say that but I liked it! And Kenn and Barb thanks for the gift card, I used some of it to get a new shirt to wear to Oprah because I didn’t have anything to wear! And thanks again to everyone for the birthday wishes!
Brooke I just read the update about Dayne, it made me cry, I hope things improve soon. If you could please send me the address of the Provo house I would love to send them something. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing all the fun memories, it is great to read! Take care and have a great night!
Tracey