FiRsT dAy oF sChoOl! 2010-2011

Nolan, 2nd grade & Ben, 5th grade at Westlake Academy

Nolan and Lily Hansen were so happy they were in the same class!

My patient boys...waiting while Baylie was throwing up in the bushes. :(

Baylie told me absolutely no photos...

I guess a mom with a camera + 8th graders = uncool.

I am glad I ignored her and snapped this right before flag ceremony.

Ben with his 5th grade teacher Ms. Sullivan

Watch out world...here come the Jeppesen's!

July 4th 2010 at Vaquero

This year we went to our neighborhood club house for a July 4th party. Ben of course HAD to ride on the pink pony intended for 3 year old little girls. He THOUGHT he was funny.

Ben and Nolan's pie faces...gotta love pie eating contests. Ben actually threw up in his pie half way through and re-ate it. DIS. GUST. ING.

Chris got his face painted! awwwwe. (no, he was not drinking)

Nolan running full force in the egg-on-a-spoon race.

Ben and Dalon in the sack race!

Jill & Nate with Sean & Virginia

This photo makes me laugh every time I see it!!

We love you Nate, Jill, Dalon, Claire, Virginia & Sean!!

tower of cousins...Baylie at the bottom, Nolan sandwiched in between and the cherry on top is cutie, Claire.

We love to have family come visit. This year for July 4th, Jill, Nathan, Dalon & Claire drove all the way from Chicago to come see us! Uncle Sean and his friend Virginia flew from Georgia to hang out. We are lucky! :)

Happy Father's Day

We're so happy that your our dad

And so we want to say

We love you dad, and hope you have a

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

welcome salmonella?

The boys found and captured a turtle in the backyard...

Just focus and look at the turtle...not the tummy! :D

Hopefully we will not contract a raging case of salmonella from this reptile

On our way back to the mainland...

~ Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard

In the airport on the way home, we ran into a friend who just so happened to be the pilot for our flight home! Weird how small the world really is sometimes. He gave the kids a tour of the cockpit and gave them a special welcome message at take off. How cool!!

couldn't resist it

Visiting Pearl Harbor

The Polynesian Culture Center

On a canoe ride through the PCC

Even Ben was captivated by the shows! They were great!!

Nolan & his poi balls he HAD to buy with his own money.

Lu'au!

Kalua pig

Baylie cracked open an oyster and found a pearl while shopping.