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Posted by Michelle on Oct 8, 2006 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Last weekend, we headed over to Weaver Street Market in Carrboro because they were having a Dachshund Day Celebration on their front law. Hilarity abounded as Annabelle was the star of the day and even co-winner of the limbo contest!
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 26, 2006 in Hayley, Michelle
The end of the summer was nearing so we had to make one last trip to the beach – especially before the puppy arrived.
We didn’t even leave the hotel – thank you beachfront hotel with pool, room service, movie rentals and convenience store! Hayley made me watch some of the oddest shows – like The Contender and then Project Runway, back to back. Odd but I loved it because she is following her own beat despite what anyone thinks.
Photos from playing on the beach and at the aquarium. (These are from about 2 weeks ago).
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 22, 2006 in Hayley
Hayley has looked so cute several mornings before school this week that I’ve had to just grab the camera and snap a few shots before we head out to school.
Posted by Michelle on Sep 22, 2006 in Hayley, pups & other pets
More Annabelle puppy photos … can you tell we are hopelessly in love with this pup?!?! More cute photos from her third month including ones with Jeff, Hayley and Buster. Hayley found one of her stuffed animals was a twin to Annabelle, which was very funny!
A few of my favorites, link to the full gallery of photos below…
Tired from a long day of frolicking
Tag!
I am so cute and I know it.
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 21, 2006 in Hayley, More Family
Hayley’s school has a grandparents/special person breakfast as school twice a year. This year Jeff’s folks were coming down for the UNC-VT game that weekend, so they were able to go.
Hopefully next time they have this breakfast, Hayley will be able to bring even more people with her because the more love she gets, the better. And there is nothing better than grandparents!
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 15, 2006 in Hayley
Now that we have more and extended members of Hayley’s birth/first family visiting the site and emailing, I’m not going to be sending the regular letters and photos to everyone as I did before since all the photos are here.
Every other month or so, I’m going to do an update on her for everyone. It will be in adobe pdf format, so it can be easily printed and sent out to relatives without access to the site or computers, as well as put in life or memory books for others.
I’ll keep adding them to this page as new ones come out.
The updates are posted in pdf format (Portable Document Format), which looks and prints the same on any computer when opened with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. To view them you need the free adobe acrobat reader program, download Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Posted by Michelle on Aug 23, 2006 in Hayley, pups & other pets
Weighing in at 1 lb, 13 oz, Annabelle came home to drive us all insane! She is a playful feisty puppy who just so amazingly small we are paranoid about losing her! Hayley is being a great help and I’m proud of her.
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 11, 2006 in Hayley
Hayley breaking her first real wooden board on her first try and then graduating from white belt to orange belt.
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 10, 2006 in Hayley, pups & other pets
We went to visit the puppy Annabelle on Thursday at the absolutely wonderful breeder out in Zebulon. She is just adorable and it was love at first snuggle! We played with her for about an hour, the silly little thing is rather sweet but very fiesty! She loves chew on blankets, nibble on our fingers and flipflops and generally scamper around.
She is just so small – she can’t weight more than three pounds. We played with her littermate sister, saw her other littermates, mom and dad. Mom Daisy is a red mini-doxie, dad Levi is a black and tan like Sam and both are very attractive friendly dogs.
Just over eight weeks ago, Annabelle (or Belle for short) will be ready to come home next Friday!
I’m posting my favorites here but there is a link on the bottom to the full photo gallery.
Puppy kisses
Two cute girls
Please refrain from eating Hayley’s hair!
Puppy tummy!
Annabelle and her litter mates!
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 8, 2006 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle, pups & other pets
Today (08-08) is our 8th wedding anniversary. I know I know… all those eights (including the 8 year old sweetiepie Hayley), we need to go play the lottery with eights. Normally we like to buy a joint gift for the family. Imagine my surprise when there was a card from my adorable husband Jeff with a website address inside!
Inside the sweet card was a link to a powerpoint presentation that had photos of my (our) gift … a mini-dachshund puppy! She won’t be ready to come home until next week so Jeff made a cute little presentation with photos of her and funny quips (have I mentioned how much I love my silly sweet husband?). She is eight weeks old to boot – another eight!
She is so cute and tiny – she won’t get much bigger than 10 or 11 pounds full grown! She is red and smooth haired. We are going to visit her this week and then bring her home next week.
We haven’t picked out a name yet – Jeff wants to call her Petunia but that doesn’t really sit too well with me. Hayley wants Ivory after Ivory Latta or Matilda because she adores that movie. I like Betsy or Mia. Hayley and I like Annie as well also she likes Belle after one of the princesses. We’ll keep thinking until we can find something we all agree on.
UPDATE: Hayley has decide the puppy will be named Annabelle. We’ll decide when we meet her if she is an Annabelle, Annie or a Belle! She of course made me go to a pet store today and get a pink collar with rhinestones 🙂
I turned the powerpoint presentation into a pdf to put it on our server. Here it is: The cute presentation of the newest Hillison.
