XC Meet
One of the recent bigger meets had a photographer shooting, so we got some great action shots (thanks Jeff Sides!) and I tossed in a few of my own. Hayley had a great race, she had a PR by over a minute on the Beeson Park course in Kernersville. Stretching out Race start Milkshake time.. read more →
High School!
Hayley started high school and cross country. read more →
Science Fair
Hayley won her school science fair and advanced to the state regionals again this year. She tested how effectively antibacterial/antibiotic bandaids were vs regular bandaids. Short version – antibacterial/antibiotic are MUCH better. Her teacher said One of the EPA judges got his PhD in microbiology and was extremely impressed with Hayley’s project. He was a.. read more →
RTHS Class of 2017
Release the white smoke – Hayley finally picked a HS. In the end while she had a great year at Kestrel, she couldn’t turn down the spot at the STEM charter HS in RTP, Research Triangle HS. Getting a slot there was hard and they only take kids as 9th graders. Needless to say, Jeff.. read more →
Middle school basketball
Hayley made the middle school basketball team at Kestrel. I’ll add more photos from the season. The journalism/yearbook kids at Kestrel did this for 8th graders. So cute! read more →
Kestrel Heights School
With Hayley in 8th grade, we knew we had some choices to make about HS for her coming up soon. We didn’t feel like the super big Apex or Green Hope high schools were a good fit for her so we had already begun looking at other options. While Salem Middle had a lot of.. read more →
Summer and start of school
Since Hayley is in a year-round school, our summer was short and she’s been back at Salem for two weeks now – her last year there! This year Mason from next door has joined her. First day! With Mason It was a good summer though. Hayley was at moviemaking camp again and we await their.. read more →
Onward to eighth grade!
It was a tough but really good year for Hayley. She made honor roll both the third and fourth quarter (so 2nd semester too), she had her science fair wins and she got a Math award for having the 2nd highest math EOG improvement in her grade/track. She’s having friends over tomorrow (the final day.. read more →
Catching up on my photo backlog
I love this shot of Hayley riding: Hayley and Peyton made treats for the dogs at the SPCA: (see more from this set) Guinea Pig bath photos! (see more from this set) They had to carry about fake ‘sugar babies’ at school: (see more from this set) read more →
N.C. Science and Engineering Fair update
No awards today at the state science fair for Hayley but it was a really great experience! During one of her five judges’ interviews, a judge told her that she swam regularly at the lake beach that Hayley’s research showed was contaminated and that she didn’t think she’d go back there. I told Hayley that’s.. read more →