Halloween 2009

Nolan at our neighbors Halloween party.
Nolan trick or treating with the girls in his 1st grade class, Fallon & Lily.

Ben and Nathan Goode...the things!

Neighbors Halloween bash! It was a ton of fun with perfect weather.

Nolan creating a caramel popcorn skeleton hand

What a hoot!

For the fall festival at school, Nolan decorated black cat cupcakes! Here is his finished project.

I made 42 owl lollipops for the 4th graders. They turned out pretty cute & was easy! I took a moon pie for the face, added oreo cookie eyes with m&m's, a candy corn beak, and sprinkles for the head feathers. I skewered them, bagged them, and added a ribbon!

mOnSteR mAsH 2oo9

My little Benjamin BumbleBee! (watch out, he has a wicked stinger though)

Ahoy there matey! Nolan was a pirate.
Baylie is the color blue. Baylie, Annie (yellow), and Delaney(red), decided to be the primary colors for the school's fall festival, Monster Mash.

Texas State Fair

4th grade with Big Tex

Mrs Setford & Mr McMahon's 4th grade classes on state fair field trip.

E3000 Flying Disc

Nolan's 1st grade class had to come up with a mode of transportation for the future. Here is his E3000 Flying Disc that holds hundreds of people and uses grass instead of gasoline.

Where is Nolan?

I was 'lucky' & got to go on Nolan's 1st grade transportation field trip. I took bunches of pictures and could not find Nolan in any of them. I started thinking maybe he was standing by my side while I was snapping away and did not even notice. (you can click on the photo to enlarge it) But I finally found him! He had taken his 3D glasses from the movie theatre and popped out the lenses and wore them around the whole day. He sure does look different with 'glasses' on! ;) In his parent teacher conference the teacher asked me if I was constantly laughing with him. Um, yep! Yesterday Chris, Ben & Nolan were talking about a man that had been in a coma. Chris was explaining that he was still alive but couldn't move or talk etc.

Nolan says "yeah, that's a state you can go in."

Chris questions, "wha??"

Nolan says, "Oklacoma"

Chris then explains "you mean Oklahoma...the state"

:D

What a bass!

Nolan caught a big bass on his 'kid' fishing pole!

Sean Jr's Football Game

Chris and I went to Georgia to watch Sean Jr play in one of his senior year football games. Jill and Nathan met us there from Chicago. Aunt Marni stayed with our kids for the weekend. Sean and Virgina made all of us shirts that said "do what you can" (a Jeppesen brother saying) with Sean Jr's #28 on the back. We definitely stood out in the crowd.

Chris and Nate at the Harris County High School football game in Georgia.
Uncle Sean, Katie our niece, and Christian

Sean and Virgina

Nate and Christian

Nate, Chris, Jill, Sean Jr, Virgina, Sean Sr, DeeAnn, Bill & Holly (Sean's neighbors)

Little Sean is an awesome football player and we were so proud of him and grateful for the chance to see our nephew play!

back view

Jill & Nate

How gross are boys?!

We stopped at Sonic to get a drink and boys hopped out onto the hood and put their mouths on the yucky bug-smashed infested windshield. It is amazing that they have not contracted swine flu yet. gross.

Ice cream in town square with the Ricketts! After this photo Hannah got swine flu and did not even lick the windshield. Poor Hannah.

Soccer games

The boys wanted to play something different this year, soccer. (I miss watching them play baseball.)