Exactly 14 years ago exactly, Sept 6, 2010, I went into labor – which was actually Labor Day that year! 😁 And a rather uncomfortable 36 hours later (I opted for the no drugs approach 😋), with the unyielding support of my mom, sister and his dad, I finally met Draco, and my life changed forever, in the best way possible. 🙏 Felt like a miracle then, and still does today. . . And to all mamas out there who might be struggling – just give love to your kids, as much as you can, as often as you can. As they grow up, you’ll see it’s the best investment in the whole wide world. ❤️❤️❤️
Exactly 14 years ago exactly, Sept 6, 2010, I went into labor – which was actually Labor Day that year! 😁 And a rather uncomfortable 36 hours later (I opted for the no drugs approach 😋), with the unyielding support of my mom, sister and his dad, I finally met Draco, and my life changed forever, in the best way possible. 🙏 Felt like a miracle then, and still does today. . . And to all mamas out there who might be struggling – just give love to your kids, as much as you can, as often as you can. As they grow up, you’ll see it’s the best investment in the whole wide world. ❤️❤️❤️
Exactly 14 years ago exactly, Sept 6, 2010, I went into labor – which was actually Labor Day that year! 😁 And a rather uncomfortable 36 hours later (I opted for the no drugs approach 😋), with the unyielding support of my mom, sister and his dad, I finally met Draco, and my life changed forever, in the best way possible. 🙏 Felt like a miracle then, and still does today. . . And to all mamas out there who might be struggling – just give love to your kids, as much as you can, as often as you can. As they grow up, you’ll see it’s the best investment in the whole wide world. ❤️❤️❤️
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
How is my little guy 14??? 😭❤️ Seriously, I mean – next year I’m supposed to let him drive the car? 😅 I mean he’ll be great at it, but still…!! This is wild. Yes, it’s taken me almost a week to post this (his birthday was the 7th 😋). It’s been a wonderful time of celebration with tons of family. Feeling SO blessed to be this young man’s mother…who still likes to cuddle (see last pic!) Draco, it’s my privilege to watch you grow and help you thrive. I love you so much!! 💗 . . The 3rd & 4th pic and the last 3 are all current day, including his birthday celebration. The others are not. 🥰
Today my grandmother, Emily Tello, would have been 114 years old! Born Sept 1st 1910, we were blessed to have her almost 100 years. So many beautiful memories, and she loved family gatherings more than anything. Feeling her this weekend with a house full of family and this morning at church (last pic). ❤️🙏 Happy heavenly birthday, Grammy!🕊 . . (And yes, that’s my sister Crystal in the first and last pics, who yes, played Becky Slater in #TheWonderYears.🤗)
Office Christmas party! Last night I had the joy of being my husband’s date at his law firm’s Christmas party. 🎄 It was so much fun to simply be in a supporting role, chatting with his coworkers and cutting a rug on the dance floor (no pics of that part 😂), for no reason other than to celebrate my man. 🥰 . . Fun fact – this is the dress I wore when we got engaged 11 years ago! (Swipe to see the full dress.) 🤗 . . Have you or will you attend an office Christmas party this year? Do you have any strategies for having fun but sort of in a work environment? 😁
Office Christmas party! Last night I had the joy of being my husband’s date at his law firm’s Christmas party. 🎄 It was so much fun to simply be in a supporting role, chatting with his coworkers and cutting a rug on the dance floor (no pics of that part 😂), for no reason other than to celebrate my man. 🥰 . . Fun fact – this is the dress I wore when we got engaged 11 years ago! (Swipe to see the full dress.) 🤗 . . Have you or will you attend an office Christmas party this year? Do you have any strategies for having fun but sort of in a work environment? 😁
Office Christmas party! Last night I had the joy of being my husband’s date at his law firm’s Christmas party. 🎄 It was so much fun to simply be in a supporting role, chatting with his coworkers and cutting a rug on the dance floor (no pics of that part 😂), for no reason other than to celebrate my man. 🥰 . . Fun fact – this is the dress I wore when we got engaged 11 years ago! (Swipe to see the full dress.) 🤗 . . Have you or will you attend an office Christmas party this year? Do you have any strategies for having fun but sort of in a work environment? 😁
Christmas Concert!! 🎄🎵 Had a blast at the @opry seeing @forkingandcountry’s beautiful A Drummer Boy Christmas show – including performances by @joelsmallbone’s wife @holamoriah & @nbcthevoice’s kid sensation @jaukeem_fortson! 🤯 . . What an incredible family the Smallbones are, wildly talented and steeped in faith, and we are proud to now call them friends! ❤️ . . Swipe for some backstage pics and also a taste of the amazing laser show that accompanied the music – such a fun and inspiring night. 🎄✝️🥰
Christmas Concert!! 🎄🎵 Had a blast at the @opry seeing @forkingandcountry’s beautiful A Drummer Boy Christmas show – including performances by @joelsmallbone’s wife @holamoriah & @nbcthevoice’s kid sensation @jaukeem_fortson! 🤯 . . What an incredible family the Smallbones are, wildly talented and steeped in faith, and we are proud to now call them friends! ❤️ . . Swipe for some backstage pics and also a taste of the amazing laser show that accompanied the music – such a fun and inspiring night. 🎄✝️🥰
Just a small sampling of the Christmas Joy from this weekend at @thats4ent ‘s #ChristmasCon2024! 🎄 . . Always such a blast to reunite with fellow actors I might not normally get to see, and of course meeting all of YOU is amazing! Hearing your stories of how much my movies have comforted you and your families means more than you know. 🙏 . . And thank you to everyone for your sweet words about my new movie #ACinderellaChristmasBall (which reairs in a few minutes on @greatamericanfamily, BTW!) You have all filled my heart and I’m always so grateful for the experience! 🥰🎄
Enjoy this Christmas DAD JOKE with me and the master himself, @coachsaysjokes 😂 (Plus a shameless plug for my math books! 😁) Enjoy! . . What’s your favorite Christmas joke?? Tell me below!
As promised, here’s the Viennese Waltz I performed with @glebsavchenkoofficial that aired on @accesshollywood last week! 💃🕺 Was so much fun to chat with dream team @mariolopez & @kithoover and relive my @dancingwiththestars days – even though they changed the music on us *right before* we performed, omg. 😂 Gleb was fine – I was *freaked out.* 😁 . . And here’s a 3-min edit of our interview, where we discussed both movies that Gleb & I have worked on together: #ACinderellaChristmasBall (which encores tomorrow at 12pmET and Friday at 6pmET on @greatamericanfamily) and #SwingIntoRomance – which is now streaming on @greatamericanpureflix ! . . Did you catch our episode of Access Hollywood last Friday? How about #ACinderellaChristmasBall? #SwingIntoRomance? 💃🥰
Happy day after Thanksgiving! Enjoy this trailer for my new movie, #ACinderellaChristmasBall, and then after you’ve finished your Black Friday shopping 😁, relax on your couch with some hot cocoa and tune in to the premiere TONIGHT at 8pmET on @greatamericanfamily to experience the magic and truly get into the Christmas spirit!! 🥰🎄👑💃🕺 . . What are you the most looking forward to? The dancing? The Royalty? The Christmas? All of it? 🥰 See you tonight! . . . P.S. Can you spot the frame in this trailer with @olivermrice ‘s dance double, @saamuel.rammo ? (You’ll never spot him in the movie because we only needed to use one bird’s-eye shot with him.) But they’re a great match, right??
Thank you to all who watched and commented here – I’m thrilled with the response!! 👑🥰❤️🎄🎬 . . Original post: . Ok, so… anybody’s Christmas decorations up yet? 😋 Some wait until the *day after* Thanksgiving… and that’s exactly when #ACinderellaChristmasBall premieres! 👑🎄❤️🎬 . . Mark your calendars, and plan to snuggle up & get carried away in the magic of #ACinderellaChristmasBall, Friday November 29th at 8pmET on @greatamericanfamily. 😎 And yes, there’s a big Cinderella-style ball, and yes, there’s romantic ballroom dancing! 🕺💃 . . Shout-out to @dancingwiththestars ‘s uber-talented @glebsavchenko for choreographing the waltzes, and to my amazing British costar @olivermrice for being such a quick dance study the month leading up to our shoot! I cannot wait for you all to see this exciting, royal, romantic movie!! 💃🎄🎬❤️ . . So… back to my original question – when do your Christmas decorations go up? Have they gone up already? (I may have started… a little.. !) 🤗
