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 →
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 →
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 →
Softball photos
Hayley is playing softball and I’ll add the occasional photos through out the season to the pile I’m starting here. First at-bat of the year! See more photos from this set – there are some videos so make sure your sound isn’t blasting: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view.. read more →
Thirteen!
Hayley is officially a teenager and her birthday weekend was a lot of fun (we had family in the weekend before for Easter and her family birthday celebration, I’ll post about that asap). She wanted a new phone since we only gave a very simple starter phone for her first year. So we think we.. read more →