The Allisons

Our commercial flights were not not great. Both kids were fussy for the first few hours, but decided to sleep for the last few hours. Yea! We had a 4 hours layover in Frankfurt, Germany which was wayyyy too long, but was justified by the fact that I had an ever so brief converstation with Natalie Portman. We were waiting by our gate when she got off the plane. She was sneezing when I saw her the first time, and I said to Mike, "That chick looks like Natalie Portman". I always see people that look like someone else to me, so Mike was like, "Yeah, yeah..." She was dressed very casually, big carpet bag, no make-up, etc. This first picture of her was taken at the Venice Film Festival and must have been as she was arriving in Venice from the airport, because this is exactly how she looked when I saw her. I also included a nicer picture of her that's a little more recognizable. Anyway, as she walked away from the gate, I saw her face and I said, "Mike that's Natalie Portman". He was like, "Probably not..." and I said, "I'm like 98% sure that's Natalie Portman". She walked away and I thought she was leaving the area, but Mike said she just went in the restroom. Sure enough she came out and sat across the hallway from the gate. There was no crowd or anything and Mike said I should go over there. I said that I didn't want to be like that, but deep down I really did! So I got my camera ready and walked over to where she was sitting. I leaned down next to her and she was digging through her giant bag. I said, "Are you Natalie Portman?" and she said, "Yeah. Hi. How are you?". I asked if she was coming back from the Venice Film Festival and she said, "No, I'm actually on my way there." I asked if I could get a picture and she said, "No, I'd really rather not". So I said, "Oh, ok" and then walked away dejectedly". Both she and her bodyguard (?), that's in the picture with her both said "Thank you". I guess they were appreciative that I was willing to just drop it and walk away. She ended up being on our flight to Venice. As we got off the plane Mike said, "I bet Natalie Portman doesn't have to wait for her bags...". But sure enough, there she was at the carasousel with all the rest of us. Mike had Ezra and stood right by her to wait for our bags. I was behind them both so I saw her smiling at Ezra a few times. One of her bags even got lost and her assistant had to make a claim at lost and found. We know, because we were in line behind her to claim our carseats. But meeting a movie star almost made the plane ride worth it. :)

The boys did really great with the jet lag. As in, it was almost non-existant. Yea!

On to more important things. Pictures of my boys. Jonas is 12 weeks old. When he's not crying he likes to smile. :) That's sounds worse than it is, but the last two evenings he was VERY fussy. He's still cute though. He's down to 1 feeding at night. I need to get him in for a check to see how much he's grown.

Ezra is doing ok. That boy LOVES to be outside. He's getting 4 teeth, so some days are pretty rough. Going outside makes everything better though. It's coming in that makes him mad.

I'm still planning for a ladies retreat with my church next weekend. Organizing the whole thing sure is a LOT of work. It'll be fun though. Then, I get to focus on moving. Ahhh! I'm mostly looking forward to it, but it's not going to be easy. Just about 5 more weeks to go....