The Con Day 2

Just a reminder, there are alot of pictures :)

Day 2: Pat on the trolley

Me and Karri (on the trolley)
Pat with a life sized Jabba the Hutt
The first panel that we went to was for Battlestar Galactica. Usually you have to wait in line for a long time to even get into the rooms, so we went early, got in, and watched part of a panel discussion about a new TV show called "KINGS". It sounded interesting. But the best part was that Greg Grunberg from "Heroes" was the moderator!! (picture #1) Then picture #2 are people from BSG!! R-L: Dr. Kevin Grazier (scientific advisor for the show), Tom DeSanto (he was going to make a BSG of his own!), Richard Hatch (actor on the original BSG, now on the new one also. And whom I got my picture with that I already posted), and Bear McCreary (composer for the show, I have some of his music in my playlist)

Afterwards, Karri and I ran downstairs and outside and got in line for the "Twilight" panel. We waited for at least 30 minutes or longer to get in. But we made it!! There were so many crazy girls there with home made Twilight shirts, it was funny!

(This is us in line) (We were sharing my iPod, listening to "Dr. Horrible's Sing A-Long Blog")

We got in for the panel and "Twilight" was grouped in with 2 other movies. "Push" that is starring Djimon Hounsou, Chris Evans (from Fantastic 4), Camilla Belle (from 10,000 BC) and Dakota Fanning, she was stuck in traffic and missed the panel. The first picture gives a sense of how big the room is, the middle bottom of the picture is the actual stage, then there are5 big screens so we could see what was going on on the stage. I think that room held 1500 people. There was another movie that they talked about called "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage, but no actors from the movie were there.

Then it was "Twilight" time / Group picture

(Catherine Hardwicke (the director), Stephenie Meyer, Edward, Bella, James, Victoria, Laurent, Jacob)

Stephenie Meyer / Taylor Lautner "Jacob"

Kristen Stewart "Bella" / group shot of "Edward" "Bella" and "James"

Robert Pattinson "Edward"

Afterwards there was a panel for "Race to Witch Mountain" that has Carla Gugino and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It looked fun. I remember watching the original movies when I was younger, so it will be fun to see the new one. When they were done we got to see a trailer for "TRON 2". It was totally amazing!! I am so excited, but it won't come out for at least another year :(

Are you tired of my post yet????

Afterwards we went to the floor and I found a display for the upcoming Indiana Jones toys!! I am so jazzed about it! So Karri took my picture with the toys :) They are doing 3 sets from "Temple of Doom"(in september) and 3 sets from "Last Crusade" (in october)

Indy & Willie Scott / Short Round & Temple Thug

Mola Ram & Temple Priest / Indy & Elsa Schneider

Indy & Henry Jones / Grail Knight & Col. Vogel

This is the front of the Mattel booth. A giant Castle Grayskull. Needless to say, Pat was very excited about it.

Here is Pat with the Cylon.
And us horsing around.
There was a fun Star Trek booth that had a replica of Captain Kirk's chair. So we each took a turn in it.

And that's it for day 2. Stay tuned to more pictures from days 3 and 4!

Comic Con Trip Day 1

Ok, so I'm realizing that I have a ton of pictures from the trip. I would make a bunch of slide shows but Pat has requested that I post the pictures. So there will be a different post for each day of the Con, so bare with me.

We got to San Diego on Wednesday afternoon, checked in, and headed to the convention center. Our hotel was in a prime spot with the trolley station right across the street and a mall just behind that!! So we got tickets and rode the trolley all weekend. We went to the convention center for the Pre-View Night. So pretty much we could get on the exhibit floor and buy stuff, but there weren't any pannels going on.

Me and Pat on our first trolley ride.

Just a glimpse of the convention center. It's about 4 times bigger then the picture lets on.

This is a taste of the crowd. We were in line to go inside and get our badges for the duration. They filter everyone upstairs and over to the next building to get badges, then you have to go back over, and wait in line to go back downstairs to get to the exhibit floor. It's crazy.

Me and Karri waiting to go to the exhibit floor.

Me and Pat in line. (I love this picture, we are such a cute couple)

The exhibit floor is full of booths that are all promotional for different things. This is on the corner of the LEGO booth. Indiana Jones completely made from LEGOs!!!
Pat with a huge statue of King Grayskull from He-Man. This was outside of the Mattel booth.
A life sized Centurion Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

News from Comic Con

It's been a Galactically Horrible Day at the Con :)

Me and Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica

Me & Karri with Felicia Day from Dr. Horrible's Sing A-Long Blog!! (Red Heads Unite)

I Love My Sister

Today is my sister Karri's Birthday! I just wanted to let her know how much I love her. She is my best friend and I'm so glad that we get along and that we are able to vacation together. Right now we (Pat, Karri and I) are on our way to San Diego for Comic Con! I am so excited! It's going to be alot of fun.

(These are all pictures from our Girls Disneyland trip last year)

Anyway, I love you Karri!

Happy Birthday!

I Give In..

I just signed up for Facebook. You happy JD???????

So if anyone is on facebook, look me up :)

My Mara Girl

I know that I probably blog about Mara more then I do Xander, Pat or even myself, but my little girl has just captured my heart. And c'mon what child doesn't! So here are just a few of my favorite pics of the last week or so.

We went to our friends house for dinner last week with a big group of friend from High School, and of course I took my camera. But dumb me, I only took pics of my kids! We should have gotten a group shot of all of us together, but we didn't :( Thanks again Tashina for hosting the party! Can't wait until the next one.

But here is Mara in an awesome Banana Chair, she had picked up a mini book of "The Children's Song Book" and told me that she was reading a story! So cute!!

Last Tuesday me and the kids went to lunch with Pat's sisters and mom for his mom's birthday. It was fun to have a girls lunch (plus 8 kids), afterwards my loving sister Lana took Xander for the afternoon to give me a break and let him play with Noah. And Tammy (my mom in law) brought him home for me, which was another treat, not to have to go get him. Anyway, Xander was upset that he had to go home, so Lana gave him a dumdum sucker for him and one for Mara. So when he got home he gave Mara her sucker, and of course it was blue. When she was done her whole mouth was blue and even her lips. I got a good pic of my blue girl!
After much thinking, I cut Mara's hair. I really want her to have long hair, so I hate to cut it, but it just looked so weird when I did piggy tails. The top layer of her hair is really straight, and the bottom of her hair curls, so it just looks funny pulled up. So I decided to trim it up a bit, and it looks really cute!! Here is the before -
And the after -
And then when it's dry. I have yet to pull it up, so I hope that it looks okay, if not, Oh Well!! I'm not cutting it again for another 6 months, or until I have to!
This was last night: We were celebrating my sister's birthday and she wanted pictures with all the nieces and nephews. Afterwards Mara had to make her funny face! She has perfected this one!
And this is just barely: She picked up the camera and wanted to "say cheese"!
Oh how I love my little girl!