Leslie & the Lys, 2012 super fan edition
In 2008 I posted about how funny I thought Leslie Hall was. She’d been an internet sensation with her hysterical Gem Sweaters Museum. CNN, Wired and others did stories on her fantastic band, Leslie & the Lys and their videos. (Now the humor of Leslie reaches even further that she’s regularly on the popular kids.. read more →
Regional Science Fair WINNER!
Today was the Regional Science Fair at Wakefield in Raleigh. Hayley’s school is in the Central 3A regional which is comprised of the 12 counties around here and the kids compete on the elementary, junior (middle school kids) and senior (high school kids). We are so excited to share that Hayley won First Place in.. read more →
Science Fair
We are so proud of Hayley for all her work on her Science Fair project for school. She decided on testing several beach areas at local lakes to see if they were safe to swim in. We were out at local lakes collecting samples in the cold and then running lots of test on then… read more →
Clef Hangers!
We found out the Clef Hangers were coming to Raleigh for a show and we had to get tickets for us and some of Hayley’s friends! The Clef Hangers are one of the most recognized and honored collegiate a cappella groups in the county (you might remember Anoop from American Idol a few years ago.. read more →
Roy Williams Live with the new football staff
Hayley and I went to Roy Williams Live when we heard new UNC football coach Larry Fedora would be making a surprise appearance a few weeks ago. Coach Fedora and his entire new staff showed up, just days after arriving in Chapel Hill. Hayley lucked out and got Coach Fedora plus Coach Williams, new AD.. read more →
Holiday Invitational photos
For a number of years I was the media director for the Holiday Invitational Basketball tournament. It’s a great event but eventually it was too taxing on me because the event was three to four days nonstop between Christmas and New Years – just too much work to manage a family Christmas and whatever UNC.. read more →
Hayley the photographer!
Tuesday night Hayley got the chance to shoot the Carolina men’s basketball game against Tennessee State sitting down on the baseline with the professional photographers. It was an amazing night, Jeff and I were just excited for her to have such a cool experience. Watching her down there was really fantastic. She took my Nikon.. read more →
Busy weekend!
Friday night was the opening night of Twilight Breaking Dawn part I so I took Hayley and a bunch of her friends. Then Saturday was the last home bout of the year for the Carolina Roller Girls so we headed out to roller derby and brought Mason along with us. More photos from this set:.. read more →
Photos of Hayley by Graham Morrison
Several years ago we met a fantastic young photographer named Graham Morrison through our love of Leslie and the Lys. And by fantastic I mean gifted and creative – a legit talent. We’ve been kicking around having him take some photos of Hayley and we finally managed to get that together over the summer. We’ve.. 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 →