My little hula girls

I took these in Hawaii, obviously. Looking at them gives me pangs of homesickness! I miss it. To see more, go to my new photo blog: Jamiliajean.com

Photo Blog

I started a photo blog! I know, everyone is a photographer these days. I'm not claiming to be a pro, but I do take a lot of pictures, and I wanted a place to display them. Also the Announcements and invites I do. Come take a look! (and only say nice things....)
www.Jamiliajean.com

Betsy and the Piercing Pagoda

Sorta sounds like a adventure novel! Anyway, Betsy has reached the age of becoming a lady. It was definitely time to pierce those cute little earlobes. I find little girl babies with pierced ears so cute and feminine. If you are contemplating doing it, just do it. We went down to the Meadows ("Ghetto") mall and stopped at the Piercing Pagoda for some "fun". Britney and Jaren Jensen brought Clara along for some torture too! (I'll let her blog about that.) I know it may look like child abuse from the pictures, but honestly, she was only crying while Jake was holding her head still and stopped the second it was all over. Glad it's done.                                                                                     

                                                                                          So unsuspecting...

                                                                              

                                                                                    ...Like it never happened!

                                                                                                         So "Studly"

Lone Mountain

Lone Mountain is a smaller mountain near our house in Vegas. One day, Jake decided to take the kids, including the dog, on a little hike! I didn't even know he took the camera until the other day I was uploading some pics to the computer and found these. It made me laugh really hard, and I thought I'd share them.

The Sea Life Park

A few days before we left the island for good, we visited the Sea Life Park. We had told Lily that it was like Sea World, only smaller. She just HAD to go, and wouldn't stop talking about it. It's a fun place for kids, and one of the nice things about it is it's small and personal, and you get an up close look  at all the animals. Plus, they house the one and only "Wholphin" in the whole word. (Yes, it's a dolphin and a Whale mixed, but it really just looks like a giant dolphin with a little bit of killer whale in it.) Jake and Lily paid to feed the Sea Lions, but then Lily got a little stage fright when it came to touching the little dead fish to feed them. She was NOT having it! We really enjoyed ourselves though and we thought it was very worth it!

Honolulu Aquarium

The Honolulu Aquarium is a nice little place to visit in Waikiki. It's pretty small, but fun and worth the trip, especially since it's only like $8 or something like that. They have a Sea Dragon which was really amazing and hard to explain. The pic I posted of it doesn't do it justice!

When Eric and Jessica came to visit...

We did a ton of fun stuff--

                                    

                                                    Like eating at Ted's Bakery. (FYI--I could eat mountains of chocolate Haupia pie and 

                                                    Melona bars)...

                                                                 And we walked to the point...

                                                   And we snorkeled at Sharks Cove....

                                                

                                                 And We went to the Dharma village from LOST....

                                               And hiked in the Jungle.