Austin Film Festival

Pics from our weekend in Austin. Tim and I had a great time at the Apollo 13 Screening. It was a great panel discussion after the movie. Ron Howard and Jim Lovell stole the show!

We got stopped on the way in and Michael Barnes from the Austin American Statesman took our picture, then noticed Tim's badge said NASA, then after a brief convo whipped out a tape recorder and started interviewing him! Here's a link to the blog post of the event and our photo. (Yep, TOM and Jamie Hinson had a great weekend)

Link to Blog Post at austin360.com/outandabout

We got to hang out with some good friends after the screening, and while we were grabbing a bite in the Stephen F Lounge...in walks Woody Harrelson. He was there to promote his new film "The Messenger". Here's a really bad picture--he's in the center in the background with the tan coat!Thanks to Kelly Williams for hooking us up with fantastic passes! I would love to go back every year. It was a blast!

Ballunar Festival at NASA

We took the kids out to NASA to see all the hot air balloons Friday night. They enjoyed watching them get filled up and then "glowing". I forgot my camera, so these are all taken with my phone. Sorry if they're not super great quality!

Painting Pumpkins

They kids really love to paint. So, after having our patients at work paint pumpkins and seeing how they enjoyed it, I decided to get Ethan and Chelsea some to paint at home. They had a great time going out to the farmer's market and picking out their pumpkins, then bringing them home to decorate.

The kids chillin after school one day

Lake LBJ Trip-Day 4

The river in front of our house is shallow enough to walk across to the sand bar. Perfect for all the kiddos to swim. I'm standing in the middle of the river taking this pic!

We ate at Storm's Burgers that night. It was yumm-o!

This is about the time of day when the bats came out! they were cool to watch fly around the river bank!

lake LBJ trip-Day 3

We didn't do too much today (which was awesome). We headed over to the big city of Llano to check things out. The kiddos loved the big red caboose.

We stopped at the cool bridge and waterfall for some pictures. Ethan saw a big gray crane and started shouting "LOOK Mommy--an Ostrich an Ostrich".

After that we just headed home and did some floatin' and swimmin' in the river. It was nice after being out in the hot sun all day.

Ethan in front of the waterfall

The "ostrich" Ethan was so excited about ;)

Tim and the kiddos by the waterfall

Ethan driving the caboose

They are so sweet!

Lake LBJ Trip-Day 2

We headed down to the lake (or river, whatever) today for a swim. After growing up going to Toledo bend, it's a fantastic change to be able to see your feet when you get into the water. It's borderline too warm of water, but awesome! Down from our house it's shallow enough to wade over to the other side to the sand bar to play on the "beach". Didn't bring the camera out for a swim today, but got some great sunset photos.

The Great Ping Pong Match of '09

Beautiful Sunset Across the River

Some tired babies after a fun dayMe and my baby girl just a swingin'

Lake LBJ Trip-Day 1

We got to our house around 5:00 pm. We went out to eat in Marble Falls at the Blue Bonnet Cafe--they have pie happy hour!! When we got back to the house the sprinklers were on and the babies jumped right in....great start to the week!

Ethan with his shark hat on backwards, throwin' gang signs.

view out the back porch of our house.

They jumped right in fully clothed and started playing.

I was so proud of Chelsea for playing in "spraying" water!

Wedding Day!

pretty sailboat on Clear Lake

Steph and Kelly

Mimi and Pawpaw

Tim and Jamie

OK, not ours, but we had two weddings to go to this Saturday. Luckily one was in the morning and one was in the evening so we could attend both. Tim's cousin Daniel got married on the Spirit of Texas Paddlewheeler in Seabrook. It wasn't too hot with the breeze and once the sun went down. It was a nice evening for a cruise!

My "Cella-wella"

Chelsea pretty much wouldn't get out of her Cinderella outfit on Friday. For a while, she was even jedi Cinderella carrying around Ethan's light saber part of the day...couldn't find my camera fast enough for that one!

Just Playin'

Ethan and Chelsea were playing in the back yard. The water hose was the choice toy of the day...and Ethan was trying to get Mommy and Sissy. Needless to say they ended the evening soaked from head to toe.

Grands & Great Grands

Babies crawling all over Mimi

Chelsea had a ball Bouncing with Pop!

Ethan and Paw Paw

From Left to right--Mom Ems (of the Castille Clan), then Ethan and Chelsea's great-grandmothers on my side "Al" and "Girl Grape"

Cousins (& Uncle Kelly)

This was the closest we could get Ethan to making a normal face in a picture that morning. But, who are we kidding...he's just like daddy in that sense.

All the cousins sitting on the stairs.

Sprinkler fun

We were pretty pumped that our new house came with a sprinkler system for the front and back yard, we just didn't know it would be so much fun for the kiddies to play in, too!

Not real sure what they're looking at here...who knows.

Soakin' wet cousins!

My baby boy turns FOUR!

Time sure flies when you're having fun. I can't believe my sweet baby boy is already 4! Since his b-day was the weekend we were moving, it was a little difficult to find all my baking supplies, etc....you can't really even tell that the candle on his cake is a number 2! He didn't seem to mind once he saw the sprinkles.

A few more pics

First Family Pic in the new house

Kiddos making "snow angels" in the carpet!