Photo Gallery & Video: Hayley’s birthday weekend
Great eight, Hayley is eight! Photos from family celebration and her big party at Pump It Up where Ramses showed up as a surprise! See more photos from this set of the party photos: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) See more photos from.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Easter stuff
This year we combined not only dyeing the eggs with Mason and Ethan next door but the hunt too. We had eggs spread out across both yards. Don’t you love having great neighbors just next door? Then there was the neighborhood hunt too! See more photos from dyeing eggs: Regular view (easiest to find one.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Grandpa John’s retirement
Jeff’s Dad and Hayley’s Grandpa John, otherwise known as Dr. John Hillison in the real world, is retiring from VT this summer and since he told them not to give him a party, they used an annual dinner to surprise him. He didn’t know we were coming as well as his brother Rory from Ill… read more →
Bradford Township and Oman Hillison
From the Dixon Evening Telegraph October 29, 1948 Bradford township is another subdivision of Inlet and it was in this township that the best and sturdiest of Lee county’s population was started – the Norwegians, now so populous and prosperous; the Germans too started in Bradford. John Hotzell came here about 1842, and he and.. read more →
Catherine (Reinhart) Hillison Aschenbrenner Biography
From the 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record Lee Co Pg 224 Catherine (Reinhart) Hillison Aschenbrenner, Brandford Township This lady, who is the owner of one of the finest places in Bradford Township, and which is situated on section 30, is an old settler in this county, and is highly esteemed in the community in which.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Old family photos from Michelle
I spent hours and hours scanning in photos from my mom’s photo albums for a print project for her birthday – which is today (Happy Birthday Mom!). After I finished it, I uploaded them all here. Link to the full gallery on the bottom of the page. Some of my favorites… Photo from when I.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Blacksburg trip for UNC-VT women’s game
Of course my mighty Heels won the women’s basketball game but that was just part of the fun trip up to Blacksburg. Ton of photos from the game, before the game and playing in the snow. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Christmas Eve & Christmas
Photos from Christmas Eve next door at the Renfroes. This is the second year we’ve done this. Everyone just brings over some food and we snack away! The kids are Hayley, Mason and Ethan, who are Wes and Jen’s, Joel who is John and Dawn’s son and Oleg who is Nancy and Mike’s son. See.. read more →
Photos: Gingerbread House bites the dust
My brother-in-law Jay and I established a new family holiday tradition with gingerbread. Hayley and I got a gingerbread kit and on Christmas Eve, we put it all together. It was fun but mostly because we did it together. We nibbled some on it that night and Christmas day but we realized most of us.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Aunt Angie & cousin Clair visit
Hayley was blessed to have a wonderful foster family who we welcome now as part of our family. Her now ‘Aunt’ Angie and cousin Clair came down to visit and to go see the Polar Express on the IMAX screen in 3D. We had a great time and hope this is the first of many.. read more →