Posted by Michelle on May 17, 2008 in Hayley
I love traditions and for the fourth year in a row, we’ve decorated eggs with our next door neighbors and done a big hunt in the morning across our front yards for the kids. It’s so fun to do this with them each time and watch our kids grow up together.
A few days before the big hunt, we had more friends join us for decorating so it was a lot of fun – and a lot of mess but that’s part of the fun!
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Posted by Michelle on May 17, 2008 in Hayley, pups & other pets
This might have been the longest party circuit ever! Cupcakes at school, big cookie at soccer, family party at home and then big party with friends at WiiBounce. WiiBounce is half flat screens and Wiis and half bouncy inflatables.
It was SO FUN. We didn’t take a ton of photos because we were having so much fun. The idea of having her friends bring pet items for the shelter instead of gifts was a huge success. Kids had fun getting them, parents didn’t have to worry about wrapping and getting the right stuff and we didn’t have to worry about unwrapping so the kids played longer. We’ll take all the stuff to the SCPA soon too!
The family party was fun too, she got her Wii and all sorts of goodies to go with it. Everyone joined in playing the Wii, even the grandparents!
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Posted by Michelle on May 17, 2008 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle, More Family
These are just random spring photos – Hayley’s surgery, Annabelle on Jeff’s head, dinner with mom and dad and my friend Michele and her daughter Ava.
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Posted by Michelle on May 13, 2008 in Hayley
My college roommate Nicole and her son Mason came to visit in April and we had a great time. We went to the Museum of Life and Science and then Monkey Joes.
Nicole is always great fun to hang out with because she loves to do cool stuff with the kids – not to mention I just adore her and her son too!
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Posted by Michelle on May 3, 2008 in Hayley
Hayley had a chance to see some of her bdad’s family at a soccer game in late March.
I love this photo, this is Hayley with her half-brother Dalton, they were both so tired.
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Posted by Michelle on Apr 3, 2008 in Hayley
I’m posting this now since we’ve already had some questions about what to get for Hayley for her big 10th birthday. Also Hayley is having her friends bring special items for the animal shelter at her party – how cool is that! Feel free to help with that if you want.
Hayley is getting a Wii for her birthday (it is a surprise so please don’t spill the beans) and we’d love it if you all wanted to help get her some additional stuff for the Wii. Items range from $15 to $50.
You can use the links I have here or get the items elsewhere – they are available pretty much everywhere!
Also Hayley is asking all her friends to get gifts for the animal shelter instead of giving her gifts at her birthday party. If you want to get a few dog/cat toys to help her total, I know she’d love that.
The story behind this is that ASPCA commercial with Sarah Mclachlan singing? It kills me and it has been getting to Hayley and some of her friends too. She asked to give her allowance which was very cute and was upset over it. When the ASPCA stuff started up, we went their local website to look at it and they had a needs list. So … she and I decided to have her friends bring gifts for the ASPCA animals instead of gifts for her. I thought she might balk at the idea but she was through the roof excited about it.
She is always showered with gifts from family so she knows she going to get a ton anyway. She loves animals so much and it is a great chance for her to learn about helping others. She is so excited to get all the stuff and bring it to the shelter – I think that is what is making her the most excited. She’s told some of her friends and they are all excited about going to PetSmart to get dog and cat items – and especially the nursing bottles. I’m so happy her friends got on board with this, it made her happy. Have I mentioned how much I love this kid and I’m so proud of her?
So if you want to help … here is the list
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Posted by Michelle on Mar 7, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle, More Family
Some cute photos from Hayley’s camera (and many by her) at the UNC-FSU men’s basketball game this week. It was senior night and the final home game of the season.
This photo is so adorable – she was screaming after a huge dunk on a breakaway by Tyler Hansbrough, off an assist from Quentin Thomas. Jeff says it is one of his favorite photos ever of Hayley and I think I agree.
Another I love, Cheering her little heart out in her #50 (Hansbrough) jersey with Hillison on the back.
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Posted by Michelle on Mar 3, 2008 in Hayley
Photos from the UNC women’s lacrosse game where Hayley was a ballgirl and got some tips from players after the game. She’ll be a ballgirl for them a few more times this spring.
On duty:
Catch with player:
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 24, 2008 in Hayley, Humor, Michelle
First, we have signed a contract to move our webkinz blog to a network where we’ll be paid for our work. We are fairly excited about this and I’m thrilled to be able to let someone else handle the technical/server issues, as well as stop losing money on our blog, lol! Jeff says I have the golden online touch but mostly I just do what seems fun to me – and this time it was a great chance to do it with Hayley!
We are even paying Hayley to help on the blog now. It was too cute, we made her
interview for the job like a real job interview – Jeff wanted to get her teacher to write a recommendation. (I told her teacher and she laughed at it too and said she would have). Of course, she’ll make less than her allowance per post and will have to post over 70 words to actually make anymore so cross your fingers to see that actually happen!
Hayley is just thrilled that someone is going to pay her for “working”. It is a great early lesson in how this new economy works and how you can create something of value.
Second, on Wednesday before the UNC – NC State game we were listening to 850 the Buzz, the local sports talk radio station, on the way to soccer practice. Well some State fan insulted Tyler Hansbrough and Hayley got so angry. She demanded my cell phone and their number. I told her I didn’t now the number, hoping that would end it. Well next time the station ran the numbers, she wrote them down and demanded the phone yet again. I said I’ll give it to you if you know what you are going to say – and she was very clear about it.
So I called the station and talked to them. They said they’d consider putting her on the air but wanted to talk to her first. After a few minutes, they told her to hold on because they would put her on the radio right after the break. I had to remind her to be polite and not to curse (she is allowed to say ‘go to hell duke and state’ at home), as well as I didn’t want her to say ‘sucks’ but stinks was ok. I had this fear of her just going off!
She was a bit flustered at first but she got rolling like a pro and talked about how great Tyler is, how UNC is going to beat State and that they would win by 20. They LOVED her. They asked who do you watch sports and listen to the station with, your mom or your dad – she says, ‘my mom’. I loved that! They said it was the first time a nine year old girl called in to talk on the air.
I know the host of the program in passing and dropped him an email the day after. He said it was a great call and they enjoyed her doing it. Some posters on IC heard it too and loved it.
I’m just so proud of her – she has no fear of being out front of the pack.
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 20, 2008 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
I swear I’ll get around to posting the backlog of photos but here are two cute ones. Oh yeah, I went back to pink hair for awhile.
Multiplying love frog webkinz – ahhhh
Some day we’ll take a photo without someone cracking up!
Nope, still goofing
More goofing
Still more silliness…
well that’s about as close as I think we’ll get to not laughing
Tags: family, fun, holiday, photos
