U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Alabama

Yesterday we took a side trip to Hot Alabama! Whew! We went to the U.S.Space and Rocket Museum in Alabama thanks to Sue who told us that there was a Star Wars exhibit going on there for a couple of months.
The GS loves Star Wars so what else could we do?
The exhibit was great, but you couldn't use flash for the exhibit so my pictures were all dark. Any how - we all had a great time.















Happy Birthday to Paula Michelle - wikipedia (slim pickings)

Paula Michelle Devicq (born July 7, 1965; Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Kirsten Bennett Thomas Salinger on the television drama Party of Five, a role she played from 1994 to 2000. Devicq was also in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed A&E network series 100 Centre Street starring Alan Arkin. She starred in the tv movie "Wounded Heart", an emotional drama set in Texas, where her role as a grownup daughter finding love on her return to her hometown to see her ailing father saw her give a strong performance as a woman struggling between two worlds of city and country. As a native of Edmonton and Vancouver, she was a fan of curling and used to practice figure skating two hours before and after school each day.

STAR WARS

My little Jedi's bedroom!

Notice the little Darth Vader Pug

I have been waiting for a couple days to write this - I'm so excited.

My grandson is an avid, did I say AVID Star Wars lover. To the point of OCD maybe like his grandma.

His uncle, my son, lives out of town and he's such a great role model for my grandson, his nephew. I try to keep them close without either of them knowing what I am up to. I am a sneaky grandma too - but a person has to do what a person has to do - you know what I mean?

My son loved Star Wars growing up. He still has his originally 'stuff'. (He loves it so much he didn't want grandson to have it - quite understandably.)

So over the last couple of year we have bought the six movies so my grandson knows Star Wars. Whenever we do connect with my son - the two of them - they play Star Wars (yep) and grandma has known to play too - in fact we were just playing with the light sabers the other day and I broke his being overly zealous - lol.

This is the X-wing fighter he made out of notebook paper!

So through Ebay, Wal Mart, and Toys are us - we have THE COLLECTION. The Millennium Falcon, The X-Wing Fighter, the Tie-fighter, and the Land Speeder - plus about a hundred figures.

I made a Star War rug about 25+ years ago which is now in my grandson's room. When I went to LA my sister bought him a huge R2D2 that speaks and works with a remote. I bought him a huge talking Yoda (my favorite guy - not hard to guess that is it?) for his birthday.

We have sticker books and coloring books. We have posters and sticky's for his room. He has changed it from Ben Ten to Star Wars.

We even did Star Wars Valentine's.

Notice how serious he is.

Okay now for the exciting part - I have a blogger - (doesn't God work in mysterious ways) who just happened to be the voice of Wedge/Red 2. David Ankrum is my angel - probably unaware of how much this has REALLY meant to us. Let's just say we needed something positive right now and here it was. . .

When I blogged about my grandson loving Star Wars - do you know what he did? He wrote me for his address and send my grandson an autographed copy of two pictures. One of the X-Wing Fighter he was in and one of himself. He wrote on one, "I'm hit." And on the other his speaking part, "Red 2 standing by."

Here he is opening it - notice the light sabers he drew on the paper I let him put up on the wall! He's learning the big difference between good and bad.

He's so excited.

He's so happy.

Isn't he cute! (Well, actually both 'he's' are cute - lol).

Is this cool or what? Now tell me how this happened? One thing happened, then another, then another - if it didn't make all the twists and turns - this would not have happened. God works in mysterious ways.

Okay - check out this wonderful (angel) man's website at
http://speakingofhollywood.blogspot.com/

I believe we have his action figure that came in the X-wing fighter - see him on the left.

These photograph's are going on his Star Wars wall! After he takes it to school and shows his Star Wars Club that he is head of!

Of course we both thanked him privately, but THANK YOU David - we love it!

Anyone old enough to remember him?

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a "Schnozzola", and the word became his nickname.

Blue Belt and Star Wars

Beware of the Force -

Well at first I was embarrassed of all this 'stuff' but how can I have a Darth Vader and not have stuff? Right?


This is how creative he is - he has made every ship out of paper. This is the ex-wing fighter. Isn't that great?


So what did the old family do when I was gone? Andy got his blue belt in Choi Kwang Do - I missed it, but I'll see his next ones. He's over half way to black belt - about another year and a half!



It's official he's a blue belt!



Andy's dad is into Star Wars. His uncle is into Star Wars and since he was coming home for Christmas I decided to get Andy into Star Wars. And boy have I succeeded. My daughter and I bought the movies and we watched Star Wars all that week. He has been saving his money and buying figures. We got some planes for Christmas and his birthday.

I think when he does his martial arts he is thinking Star Wars (not sure that is good or not). So we are into Star Wars - everything. And yes - he and his uncle bonded. And you know what I like about Star Wars - I understand it. It's not like Pokemon or Bakugons. And the truth is - everyone understands Star Wars and it is like a universal language everyone knows and can relate too.

And the best part about Star Wars - it is about good and evil and good wins out - just like it SHOULD!

So when I was gone he decorated his room with Star Wars - we need some more things, but the Star Wars room has started. I had made some pictures of the internet and my daughter laminated them.

My daughter bought stickers for his room - glo in the dark.


His room is busy - the towels are up on the windows because the sun comes in his room too early!


And here is a new picture of my niece. Cutie pie.
Isn't she a doll - she looks just like her aunt!!!!!!!!! Just kidding she looks like her mom.

Allan Alda - Wikipedia - Happy BIrthday -

"I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?"

I didn't know this about him myself.

Does anyone remember the movie Same Time Next Year? With Ellen Burstyn. It was kind of cute.

Love, Chatty