Behind again, insert frowny face

I’m so behind in posting photos again. Then I actually looked at the pages here and lordy those are way behind too. Hayley’s in seventh grade and some places still reference fourth grade – oops. Two of our pups on our dogs page have passed away, Buster our beagle last month. I’ve got to update.. read more →

Movie Makers Camp: Maximum Judgment

Outside the premiere! from the opening nightmare scene) scene coming out of the woods ending credits!!! The moviemaking camp Hayley was in this summer had their big screen premiere for their films at the Varsity Theatre, a real theater in Chapel Hill this afternoon. The theater is one I went to a kid so it.. read more →

21 Aug 2011
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CAM Art+Design camp

A fabulous new modern art museum, the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) just opened downtown Raleigh this year. I’d been looking for a good art camp, one that offered more than the average ones seemed to and I found CAM, in conjunction with the N.C. State School of Design, had these small group art+design camps for.. read more →

19 Jul 2011
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Some cool pics from the NC Proam tonight

The photos are a bit blurry as Hayley took them in the NCCU gym (and gyms always have terrible light) but they are pretty awesome photos of Hayley and her friend with some very cool folks at NC ProAm basketball tonight. They were excited to watch some summer basketball and get autographs from a bunch.. read more →

Visit with Mawmaw, Pawpaw and Aunt Regina

Hayley’s grandmother, grandfather and aunt on her birthdad’s side were in town for a doctor’s appt so we met them for lunch. Hayley got to meet Jordan, Regina’s grandson and we all enjoyed a relaxing lunch and a chance to catch up until the ugliest, darkest storm clouds rolled in. I swear we all took.. read more →

Riding

Few snaps from riding this week. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) read more →

10 Jul 2011
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Fourth of July

We went up to Blacksburg for a Fourth of July vacation. Blacksburg is so lovely in the summer when it is just sweltering down here. I know Jeff was happy to visit Virginia Tech’s campus as well since it had been a few years. The big news was that Jeff and his folks ran the.. read more →

Meet Italee and Ivory, Hayley’s new piggies

Word to the wise: don’t ever make outlandish bets with your kid over grades. I bet Hayley if she substantially raised her math grade, I’d have a limo get her at school. Of course she did it. While I would have actually had the limo get her, I did sort of think it was a.. read more →

42, Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

The Ultimate Question of course is what age did Jeff turn this weekend. (i’ll assume the geeks amongst us have enjoyed my bit of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy humor) I decided to get all fancypants and make him a homemade birthday cake. I did the inside in his beloved Virginia Tech.. read more →

Messing around with cupcakes

We’ve been playing with fondant and cupcake decorating. Little snake: Collection of things we made drying: First cupcake we decorated (a lovely homemade almond cupcake with cream cheese frosting) Softball: flower: The batch: read more →