Photos: Christmas gifts opening (link fixed)
We had a great Christmas day. Hayley was so excited about her big gifts of the iPod Nano and the electric guitar and amp. She got lots of other wonderful gifts too and was spoiled as always. Then we had a big ole Christmas lunch with my family, Jeff’s family and our friends Mike, Sara.. read more →
Photos: New Years Eve
We had a low key New Years Eve with our dear friends Mike, Sara and Landon. UNC had a game at 10pm so I had to actually work some but considering our game plan was to just hang out, play games and let the kids be silly, it didn’t matter too much. I love Hayley.. read more →
Photos: 4th annual Gingerbread Demo Derby
For the fourth year, we charged up the remote cars and carefully carried out the lovely gingerbread creations to the bottom of our steep driveway in the cul de sac. We summoned our friends next door and then the GINGERBREAD DEMOLITION DERBY commenced. Four-time competitor Purple car was joined by three-time participant Silver and a.. read more →
Photos: Gingerbread houses
We continued our family tradition of making gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. Obviously you can’t destroy them if you don’t make them but of course that’s for Xmas day. We started about 10pm after being next door for the annual Christmas Eve celebration at the Renfroes. Good times was had by all and I love.. read more →
Photos: UNC vs Evansville; Tyler Hansbrough becomes UNC’s all-time leading scorer
Tonight was amazing! I took Hayley to the UNC game to see Tyler Hansbrough become UNC’s all-time leading scorer. My dad got us seats four rows behind the UNC bench. Not only did we get to see a fun game and see Tyler break UNC legend Phil Ford’s scoring record set 30 years ago but.. read more →
Photos & Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Bark
I love Peppermint Bark and I had a good version of it not long ago so I tried to find a way to duplicate it. We started with a recipe for double chocolate peppermint bark that I found at the fabulous instructables.com. The version I’d had not long ago had some small cookie pieces in.. read more →
Photos: Making our Christmas wreath
We had so much fun making the Halloween wreath we decided to make a Christmas wreath. Joann’s was having a huge sale so we hit them up and grabbed a light up wreath and supplies. Hayley picked all the items, I love wandering through stores with her. We got out our hot glue gun and.. read more →
Photos: Day after Thanksgiving at the stable
I didn’t have time to take photos during Thanksgiving because I was cooking (and eating, watching football, sleeping, eating, you get the idea) but I took some the next day at the house and stable before Jeff’s family left. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print).. read more →
Hayley’s photo selected a school winner!
Salem Students and Parents, We were thrilled with this year’s Reflections Submissions. WOW, we received a record number of entries (more than 6 times what we got last year). It is so fun to see our Salem Students’ talent and creativity. Thank you for entering. All of you will be invited to a special breakfast.. read more →
2008 Christmas list
I’ve just started this and will be adding more soon. Back by popular demand, the Xmas list for the family. Please let me know if you get something for Hayley on this list so we can mark it off (which means that things with the strike through them are already taken). Call or email me.. read more →