Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Story Behind the Picture

Imagine being 5-years old, building Lego Star Wars Battleships, playing Lego Star Wars on the Wii, watching Luke Skywalker discover his father is Darth Vader over and over again, and re-enacting Jedi Knight light saber fight scenes with your 3-year old brother.

Then, one day, your Graphic Design father realizes he has the greatest idea in the world...design a Star Wars family Christmas card. All you can think is...COOL!!!

Now you just have to convince mom...hmmm...

Mom is very skeptical about the idea and not sure if it is "Christmas" appropriate, but is eventually convinced when dad tells her he will do the light saber colors in red and green.

You had always wondered what it would be like to live in space, fight with a real glowing light saber, and be friends with a talking robot.

Once the card is finished, you spend hours looking at the card and imagining your life as a real Jedi Knight.

Mom still can't believe we sent them out to our friends and family, for real, but deep down thinks it's pretty cool too!

You have the coolest dad in the entire world!

12 comments:

Liz said...

Love this! What a cool, fun family!

Lisa said...

You better make sure you keep a copy for him to show him when he's older :)

Shirley said...

I thought this was weird at first when I saw it at gma and gpa's, but after only ONE second, I was in love with it! Very cool, and your kids will remember it forever!

SuburbiaMom said...

I love it!!! SO original and fun!

Jim & Emily said...

You guys are seriously too cool!!! Miss hanging out with our pre-marriage cool married friends/family. ;)

I will say I was seriously jealous of this Christmas card.
That and not having boys to tip the scale in favor of such a card.

Jim

Melissa said...

By far my favorite Christmas card. You look so beautiful in it too. It's perfect.

Michael said...

You know, this just means we're all expecting something EVEN BETTER for next year.

Hiller Family said...

What a neat idea! My son would love that, however the princess of the family well.....maybe not so much lol.:)

Annakaisa said...

What a neat picture!! :)

Darci said...

Not very Christmasy but oh so fun!!! We cracked up when we got it! Love Taylor's hair.

Diane said...

I just laughed when we got it!! We'll all definitely remember this one!

Unknown said...

Parker wouldn't let me keep your card on the fridge because he thought it was so cool, so it ended up all crinkled and destroyed. I need a new one! Love it!