Photo Gallery: Jonas Brothers & Avril Lavigne

The last night of July, we piled up everyone for the nearly sold out massive Avril Lavigne & Jonas Brothers concert. It was INSANE but the girls had so much fun. We found their friends and had a group of ten girls from our neighborhood mostly of them on the swim team together. Great concert.. read more →

27 Sep 2008
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Report card

In Hayley’s school, their grading scale is 4 – 1. It’s very odd but the grades go 1, 2, 3, 3* or 4. Scores of 1 or 2 indicate performance below grade level. 3 indicates performance at grade level and 3* means performance at grade level with evidence of application and 4 indicates performance above.. read more →

26 Sep 2008
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Photo Gallery: Snuggly girl and her pup

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26 Sep 2008
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Changes…

As you may notice, I’m making some massive changes to hillison.com – to the site itself and how we store photos. The photos will all be on flickr now which is quicker than our old server and easier for us all to use. You should enjoy having access to all the photos there b/c you.. read more →

25 Sep 2008
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Visit from some of Hayley’s bmom’s family

See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) We had some of Hayley’s first family members up to the house for a nice visit. Her sister Faith, grandparents and great grandparents all came. We relaxed, went to lunch and took.. read more →

Ten years ago today…

On August 8th, 1998 we said ‘I do’ in a lovely wedding in Chapel Hill at the Chapel of the Cross with a reception at the Horace Williams House. Those were the smartest two words I ever said. 10 years later and we are still very much in love and best friends. read more →

New living room furniture on the way

Hooray, we finally ordered our new living room furniture! I finally twisted Jeff’s arm into it by making it be my anniversary gift. [10 years tomorrow in fact, I love you more now sweetie than I did even then.] We got the couch, love seat and ottoman in that dark brown leather. The ottoman will.. read more →

Photo Gallery: Swim season 2008 (complete)

Hayley is on the neighborhood swim team, the Devil Rays, for the third season. I take photos for the team of each meet but I’m adding just the photos of her to the album here as the meets happen. Update: The Devil Rays went undefeated this season and won their league title. See the rest.. read more →

22 Jul 2008
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Photo Gallery: Hayley at the SPCA

As many of you know, Hayley had her friends give her donations for the SPCA instead of gifts for her 10th birthday party. They all had great fun getting gifts and we didn’t feel guilty about throwing a huge party again. We got in touch with the volunteer education coordinator at our local SPCA in.. read more →

Photo Gallery: Misc Photos from May-July

Just some random photos I took: Regular View Slideshow View read more →