UNC Football ladies clinic
We went to the UNC Football ladies clinic again and Hayley brought her friend Taeylor. Really fun night with lots of interesting speakers, great food and a behind the scenes view of things. They were happy to see Coach Fedora again … … but the real highlight was seeing Caleb Pressley** More from this album.. read more →
July 4th
We went up to Blacksburg again for the July 4th holiday. Jeff’s grandmother Faye is now living in Blacksburg full-time so it was nice to see her. Hayley took a selfie with Jay and her great-grandmother Faye that still cracks me up. Jeff, Hayley and his folks ran the Shawsville 5k again. They came in.. read more →
Spring Break
What a fun spring break we had. Took some of Hayley’s friends out to Winterpast Farm, went on a crazy dessert binge with Grandma Joanne and Grandpa Gordon then to the beach to the beach with our neighbors! Girls holding two day old bunnies Beach STOP FEEDING THEM lol See more from this set: Regular.. read more →
Easter
We had a great Easter! I’ll always make Hayley an Easter basket. The Hillisons came down for the weekend. Hello from us… read more →
Winter photos
Sort of a random catchall – Christmas, Hayley’s braces coming off, New Years Eve and the Winter storm in February. And about 60 more… Regular view Slideshow view read more →
Leslie & the Lys, 2014 edition
The first time I ever posted anything about Leslie Hall was almost six years ago when I found her Gem Sweater website and I could not stop laughing. This lady in Iowa had found all these bizarre gem sweaters and taken a photo in each, with the same hair and makeup. The absurdity killed me… read more →
The curious case of Helen Z. (or S.)
While I knew my great-grandfather when I was young, I never met his wife, my great-grandmother Helen. She died three years before I was born and I’ve never seen a photo of her (2015 update – I have now!). There are few family memories as the relationship between my grandfather and his parents was strained.. read more →
Genealogy note
This is one of my favorite genealogy finds. My grandfather’s senior yearbook photo and info. I really need to be logging my work for more efficient research so I’m going to be posting it all under the Genealogy section on the right side. I’m not going to have it show up on the front page.. read more →
Charles Calo and Fred Falconieri
I had quite an interesting development! In July I got the names of my grandfather’s godparents, Carl Calo and Josephine Jaskowiak. No luck finding them but I sent out a few feelers. A month later one of them responded and it turned out to be a match! His godfather was not Carl but Charles Calo.. read more →
End of October Genealogy
I’ve decided to start posting about my genealogy stuff in the hopes of keep better track of it and that someone else might come along and find it. –Reviewing Tyler PA 1910 census docs looking for Helen Zurawiec, my great-grandmother. –Reading this interesting Rutgers oral history transcript from John Pino whose father was born in.. read more →