My anniversary gift!
Today (08-08) is our 8th wedding anniversary. I know I know… all those eights (including the 8 year old sweetiepie Hayley), we need to go play the lottery with eights. Normally we like to buy a joint gift for the family. Imagine my surprise when there was a card from my adorable husband Jeff with.. read more →
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: 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 →
Photo Gallery: A ‘Green Machine’ Christmas
Hayley got a very wicked Green Machine for Christmas that she JUST loves. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) I even posted some of these photos on amazon.com (click on See Customer Images) 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: Santa
We visited Santa and checked out the Celebration of Lights Tuesday night. Best kept secret in the area – almost no waiting for Santa. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see them all) read more →
Stuff Hayley wants for 2005 Christmas
I’m posting this list mostly to keep track of what she wants but I figure it will be of some help to the rest of the family too! If you do end up getting her something from this list, let me know so I can mark it off. Hayley’s Xmas list (a work in progress).. read more →
Photos: Halloween 2005
We went nuts for Halloween. Strobe light, fog machine, tons of sensor things (you walk by and they scream), bloody doors, spider webs everywhere, ghost in the trees, luminaries in the yard. I missed a lot of cool things to get photos of – mostly the glowing light/sensor stuff but oh well! Hayley and her.. read more →
Great photo from Jeff’s birthday
Jeff’s Aunt Kathy took this photo in Illinois on Jeff’s birthday. read more →