call 1-800-supper-shoses!

"Super Shoes" by Nolan Jeppesen

These shoes are not normal. They are super shoes you can blast off!!! They come in purple, yellow, red, green, and pink, blue, orange, brown, white, black. And no batteries included. Call this number 1-800-supper-shoses. So get one today

How is that for a plethora of colors?

2009-2010 W.A. School Photos

Okay...Poor Ben! The photography company LOST his whole entire packet!! They do not even have the proofs. So, this is what they sent him home with. A measly, goofy looking I.D. card. What's with the face, I don't know. Maybe it is a good thing his photos were lost! Yes, I did get a refund but to me 4th grade photos are priceless! :(

Baylie 7th grade

Nolan 1st grade w/ Mrs DeMoss

Nolan's 1st grade class photo

Baylie's 7th grade class photo

In both Nolan and Baylie's class photos, they are in the back row, 2nd from the left.

Watch out Obama!

I loved Nolan's paper he brought home from school on Friday.

"If I were the president I would be the best president I can. I will teach to be nice. I will save people from danger. I will give the left overs. I will be awesome."

Saturday

Took the boys to build "stuff" at Home Depot with their friends, Nathan & Matthew. Then had a picnic at the park!

Ben is learning to use his left hand alot more!

sOmEtHiN sMeLLs LiKe....

My car smells like poop.

Baylie has had dentist appointments every 3 months that I have had to drag the boys to. It is torture to sit in the waiting room for a whole 30 minutes. Today the weather was fabulous, 70 degrees and sunny! The dentist office is all windows, the scenery is a big open field backing up to a Lifetime Fitness club. Of course I let my little gremlin boys out to play in the big open field where I could see them at all times if I were watching. In the short time Baylie had her teeth cleaned, the boys had filled the back of my truck with rejected tennis balls that have had a home in the mud for months. Maybe it isn't mud...my car smells SO bad!

15 years of wedded bliss

March 11th, 1995

I am so lucky...I LOVE every second we get together. (most of the time :) Chris surprised me and had 18 roses delivered. I love when I am not expecting anything!

Thanks Dad!

Ben went to one baseball practice. He was SO excited to play again this season after taking a break last season. Before the 2nd practice, Chris and Ben went outside to play catch. Chris said, "I want you to catch some heat" They were outside maybe 5 minutes when Ben came in crying. Thanks for the fast ball ...it broke Ben's thumb. Out another season! :(

He is so sad he will miss cello practice/class as well, can you tell?

Volleyball

Go Tejas!

Hope, Baylie & Annie taking a break outside before the next game.

The Dallas Cowboys

Our friend Steve Ritter from Georgia

The screen in the new stadium is amazing

WEBELO

Ben is now a Webelo. I am so clueless when it comes to boy scouts. I thought that Ben had to pass off every requirement in the Wolf book. Once again I should have read the directions...he needed 3 or 4 of every 6-8 options. He earned LOTS of arrow points because we did the entire book.

Double Digits

wow...Ben is 10. He started off his day with his once a year cereal, Cookie Crisp. Healthy eh?

Westlake Academy Around the World Feast

Parents from all around the world came to share traditions, stories and samples from many different countries.

Cairnes Australia

Every night millions of bats swarmed the city, it was freakish

Great Barrier Reef from prop plane

face to face with a kangeroo! (yes it is real! ummm, yes it is stuffed)

We chartered a twin engine plane w/ Daintree to fly us an hour to Lizard Island. We flew over the Great Barrier Reef and snorkeled the entire day. It was amazing. This doesn't even compare!

getting fitted for snorkel gear

Kuranda Australia

Christian and Christian

Shopping in the village, Chris is trying out a dijidong...yikes

Chris with an Aborigine artist who painted his boomerang

1/2 way on the train

On the scenic skyrail with the Svendsens on the way up to Kuranda...this is what happens when you don't focus before you push the button down 1/2 way.