May the Force Be With Us.

We went down to Houston to visit Rich's family the weekend of July 9th and decided to visit the Houston Health Museum where they were showing a special Star Wars exhibit of actual costumes and models from George Lucas's collection. It was pretty cool! Needless to say, Rich was in heaven.

Daddy and Ellie with Yoda (definitely the girls' favorite!)

Nana strikes a pose like Padme

Julesy got up close and personal with the Wampa

Mommy and Chewbacca

Darth Vader

Stormtrooper

With Leia, R2-D2, and C-3PO

"Naked" C-3PO

The view from inside of Vader's helmet

Anakin's prosthetic hand

Luke's prosthetic hand

Obi-Wan and Count Dooku's Lightsabers

Rich with Han and Chewie costumes

Ellie playing with a robot demonstrating the difficulties of robotic walking

Luke's actual landspeeder

Actual Millennium Falcon model

Actual X-Wing model

Anakin and Obi-Wan costumes

Water Balloon Fun (July 5, 2011)

Mike and Melinda brought over some water balloons and so we decided to have some fun and get wet! My new camera has a burst setting so I was able to get some pictures of the balloons in the air and the water splashing on the ground. Good fun!

U-S-A, U-S-A!!

Our 4th of July was a great one, as usual. We went swimming as a family at our neighborhood pool, then had a delicious barbeque at the Walker home. We capped off the evening by watching the Plano city fireworks. It was a wonderful day! Happy birthday, America!

Riding the Gator at the Walker's

Cute June Candids

Julesy loves to wear Mommy's shoes...


...and talk on the phone!


Everyone on the phone with each other


Cute sisters

Cute sisters again!

At the Zoo, Part 2

We went back to the zoo on June 18th with Daddy so he could have some fun seeing the animals, too.