Drag Bingo

We posted in February of last year about Hayley and I having an awesome time at Drag Bingo. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it is Drag Queens and Bingo, joined together as a fantastic fundraiser for the Alliance of AIDS Services. They alternate drag performances with a round of bingo. We had.. read more →

Great Wolf Lodge!

We are back from a fun-filled trip to Great Wolf Lodge with our next-door neighbors and their two kids. Jeff had to be at work so he kindly took care of Annabelle and our neighbor’s pup too while we all goofed off for three days. The kids spent lots of time at the waterpark –.. read more →

Our brush with fame – aka tweeting with Raising Hope’s creator!

So last week Jeff figured out a mistake in the show Raising Hope – something in an episode conflicted with another episode. On a whim, I tweeted Greg Garcia, the guy who created the show to ask him about it. Amazingly he tweeted me back and confirmed they screwed up. I told him that made.. read more →

Getting older wasn’t too awful

It’s hard to dislike birthdays when you have these two loves to celebrate with. read more →

Behind again, insert frowny face

I’m so behind in posting photos again. Then I actually looked at the pages here and lordy those are way behind too. Hayley’s in seventh grade and some places still reference fourth grade – oops. Two of our pups on our dogs page have passed away, Buster our beagle last month. I’ve got to update.. 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 →

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 →

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 →