An Overly Exciting Day

Today was a very exciting day for Xander. First, at school he had a field trip to Discovery Park in Pleasant Grove (which I helped out at). He loved being able to run around and play with friends for about 2 hours! Thanks again Karri for watching Mara for me, I really appreciate it! Then this afternoon Karri came back over to the house with her friend Billy. He brought Xander a little surprise, or should I say BIG surprise. Last week I had talked to Billy and told him that Xander is becoming a huge Pokemon fan. Billy had mentioned that he had a shoe box full of cards that he didn't want anymore, and that he would bring them over for Xander. Of course, I was thinking that there would be maybe 100 cards or so, just Billy's extras. But no. The box was FULL of cards!! They were Billy's entire collection of cards!! He has been collecting them for about 10 years and gave them all to Xander! It was so great to see Xander's face when he saw them. I was just laughing at him and didn't think to grab the camera until later. We spent a good hour, sorting all the cards and dividing up all the extras. Here is the extra's box, after organizing:

Another shot of the size of the piles:

Here is a side shot of the pile of cards that are all singles. A total of 360!! It's so awesome of Billy to give all of these to Xander.

THANK YOU BILLY!!!!!!!!!

Pat & I were going to get Xander a little Pokemon book that holds 4 cards to a page for his birthday (because he only had 26 cards), but it looks like we have to get him a big binder now!!!! I guess he's going to get his present early. And I almost bought the Pokemon book at ToysRUs yesterday, but they were all out. It's a good thing they were! LOL

Then my brother JD told me that for the release of the new Star Wars the Force Unleashed Video Game, they were going to have Star Wars people from the 501st Legion at FYE that you could get your picture with! So after dinner the kids and I went over and Pat was able to take a break from work and meet us at FYE!! Xander was in heaven but a little upset that he forgot his lightsaber (I didn't tell him why we were going to the store). Mara was excited at first, when she saw them from far away, but then freaked out when we got closer. It's a good thing Daddy was there to protect her!
Xander had to get his picture with everyone there!

Xander & Boba Fett Xan even got to fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi!!

(Watch the video too! He's so cute!)

The whole family with the group. Mara really hated being that close to people in masks, she was really freaked out about the Trooper right behind me! It was so funny :) Xander & Storm Trooper. Which I think is really a Sand Trooper, but I could be wrong. I'll have to ask Pat later.

Xander was even wearing his Yoda shirt today, so it worked out great! The girl that was taking pictures for the Star Wars group even got pictures of Xan & his shirt. The front says "Judge me by my size do you?" and the back has a pic of Yoda with Mickey ears on and even then he is too short to go on the rides at Disneyland. (This is one of my favorite shirts of his) See pic at right.

And a good one of Xander & Darth Vader as we were leaving.

Here is the video of Jedi Master Tolman 'aka' Pat doing a lightsaber fight :)