Photos: Castle McCulloch
We went to Castle McCulloch to pan for gem, gold and fossil last weekend. We met up with Hayley’s first/birthmom, sister Faith and her first/birthmom’s husband Scotty. Hayley had been dying to do it and this place was a fun little adventure. She also took my camera and took a bunch of photos of the.. read more →
Photos: Chicago
I have to add my notes still but our trip to Illinois was fantastic! Here are most of our Chicago pictures- from the W hotel on Lakeshore, Art Institute of Chicago, Gino’s East for deep dish pizza, fireworks cruise on Lake Michigan, Shedd Aquarium, mani/pedis with Grandma Sharen, Ryan & Jill’s wedding, family hanging out.. read more →
Photos: 2010 Swim Team
Photos of Hayley from swim team this season, her fifth year on the team. See more photos and videos this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) read more →
Photos: NCMA and Rent
It’s been a busy week! Hayley wanted to go to the NC Museum of Art so we headed over there to wander around since we hadn’t been since the renovations. She took lots of photos of her favorite stuff, mostly Egyptian and modern stuff. Good warmup for our big Chicago trip and visit to the.. read more →
Fifth grade graduation!
Hayley with her diploma and fantastic teacher Miss Fowler Hayley graduated from Salem Elementary last Wednesday and it was such an adorable ceremony. My folks and Aunt Cathie came, as well as Hayley’s first/birthmom, her husband and one of Hayley’s sisters. The kids did most of the ceremony themselves and I think it was almost.. read more →
Soccer tournament in Wilmington (added more pix)
See more photos this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) Hayley had a soccer tournament down in Wilmington this weekend in May and we had such a great time!! I’ll post more photos later! We stayed down on Wrightsville at the Blockade Runner.. read more →
Jeff’s birthday rainbow cake
We made Jeff a great rainbow cake for his birthday a few weeks ago. Super fun to make, it turned out cute and tasted awesome. We had some good Chinese at Red Bowl that night too so I randomly took some photos of that. What can I say, I like pretty food. See more photos.. read more →
Spring soccer photos
As most of you know, I tend to shoot almost every sporting event Hayley plays in and share the pictures with the team. Of course spring soccer, playing for the Triangle United U12 Sting, was no exception. For this set, I pulled out the shots of just Hayley. Her team did really well in the.. read more →
Hayley turns 12!
As usual Hayley had many birthday celebrations – what can I say, we like to have fun. We had pizza with our neighbors on her actual birthday and then ice cream sundaes. Then Jeff’s folks came down and we went out with family to our favorite place Ginza that Saturday night and a cute cake.. read more →
Photos: UNC Alumni Games, 2nd version
Forgot to post these! These are from the second part of the UNC 100 years of Basketball celebration Alumni game, the part in February. This very well could be the last public appearance of legendary UNC Coach Dean Smith and I’m so glad Hayley was able to see it. That was the highlight of course.. read more →

