exactly the same in this photo, i love how their smiles are. yeessss. (spoken in my best yoda voice)

okay, yes...i'm star wars crazy at the moment. we've been watching star wars for the past three days and loving it--watching them in the order of the series and not in chronological release date order. we watched star wars I, II and III so far. i had never seen them. it's been so much fun and nice to have some family movie time. now i can't wait to watch the ones i saw when i was a kid (IV, V and VI).

and can you believe that it's been 30 years since the first start wars movie was released. yikes. i clearly remember going to the first star wars (i don't remember much from the movie but i remember the movie outing. :-) some of you know i have some crazy childhood stories; well here's one more for you...the star wars movie adventure. so, i was eight years old and my sister was six. we were going to see star wars with my mom. i'm not sure if it was on the day it was released but the theatre was packed. we arrived to the theatre late (the movie had already started) and we had to sit in the very first row. can you imagine being eight and watching star wars in the first row? needless to say, it was quite an experience. the movie ended and we get in our car and began driving out of the parking lot. all of a sudden, some things hit our car. those things ended up being rocks. my mom saw the boys who threw the rocks at our car and off we went, chasing after the two boys in our car (they were on foot). we chased them into a neighborhood. once my mom got close enough to them, she hopped out of the car and tackled one of the boys. i remember her bringing him into our car and inquiring as to where he lived but i'm not positive what happened after that. i think the police might have gotten involved. hmmmm....i'll have to ask my mom what ended up happening i just can't remember. i'll have to ask her and then add it to the post at a later date. too funny, huh? my mom was (and still is) one tough cookie.

so i'm excited to watch star wars four (the star wars that released in 1977) tomorrow.

the photo was taken in the doctor's office. we were there getting the little ones' shot records reviewed, in preparation for the start of preschool (sky's second year and ryder's first, which will be another bitter sweet moment for me).

ETA (2 sep): i spoke with my mom today and she shared the rest of the star wars movie adventure story with me. yes, my mom tackled the boy and brought him into our car. lucky michelle, my sister, got to sit in the back seat with him. i was oldest so i got to sit in the front seat. my mom didn't call the police but she did drive the boy to his house and told his mom what had happened. how did you know where the boy lived, i asked my mom. well, he didn't have a choice, he was stuck in my car until he told me, she said. cracks me up. the poor boy was probably scared out of his mind. he was out doing a mindless prank with three of his friends (mom told me there were four boys) and he got caught by a 30-something woman determined to catch one of the pranksters. mom said that she found the slowest boy and that's the one she went after. she giggled that i remembered the story and then we went on to discuss a few other crazy stories from my childhood, like the babysitter who had friends over, spiked our kool-aid, cut her foot open, left us alone while she went to the hospital and my parents came home to footprints of blood leading up to our bedrooms (and no babysitter). i guess that story's for another post someday.