our collective digital self
Posted by Michelle on Jul 7, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle
A couple of the beach photos that Shooters took, more to come.
And no, my hair isn’t red these days, it is dirty blonde. I just could not get the color right from the proofs when I scanned them in.
Posted by Michelle on Jun 20, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle, pups & other pets
We had an incredibly restful week at the beach. The house had some faults (not enough living room furniture and small tv) but was roomy (four bedrooms, three bath, two wrap around decks and a hot tub). It was nice to have two master suites, one on each floor so when our friends arrived, we all felt like we had some privacy.
And this year, we had groceries delivered when we checked in, that was so nice – not fighting Seamark with the hordes on day one was such a gift!
Had some good food – mexican seafood at Don Gatos, chicken and ribs at Jockey’s Ribs, crab and shrimp at Dirty Dicks, fried seafood at Sam and Omies, burgers and shakes at Fatboyz, crab sandwiches at Quagmires and pizza…. and fudge… mmmm.
And of course, I shopped at my two favorite OBX stores. The KDH cooperative where I got some cute candles and ceramics (including a tooth fairy box). Then this great silver store where their business cards are shells, I got some more candles, two great prints, little s&p crab shakers and more stuff. I got shirts and such for the neighbors kids too.
We slept so much and read a lot. Jeff and I spent so much time on the deck, just reading. Watched a few DVDs and Jeff played some xbox. And a new movie theater opened so we went to Day after Tomorrow. Pretty good for a vacation movie.
Bryan and Tammy arrived Monday about 3am. He comes down almost every year and this was our first time meeting Tammy, who was a sweetheart. She and I had a good ole time shopping while Bryan and Jeff launched their traditional Axis and Allies fest – only a short 7 hours this time.
We managed to not get fried this trip nor lose any of the dogs, so thumbs up on that! However, no more queen beds. We just can’t sleep well with two of the dogs in bed in a queen – Jeff is too long and I’m too wide, and the dogs are too wiggly for a queen.
I actually didn’t take a lot of photos this trip – after five straight years at the same beach (and others before that when I was younger) you don’t really do the local shots thing anymore. Plus we had photos taken down on the beach that we’ll get the proofs from in three weeks.
Cute Jeff with his shades
Sam trying to find a way out
Buster loves to sleep in the sun
Molly and Buster took over the loveseat
Our friend Bryan and Jeff playing Axis and Allies on my computer – this year’s game was relatively short, only about seven hours
The guys hamming it up to get rid of me and the camera
Birds overhead
Bryan and his girlfriend Tammy.
The pink girls, Tammy and I return from our afternoon of shopping (in my defense, didn’t know i was going out for the full day and still have my swimsuit on underneath from my morning in the hot tub plus no makeup)
Jeff looking off into the distance
Bryan swinging Tammy around
Look close, you can see the puppies on the other side of the glass door wanting to get out
For the record… I had Bryan down 21-0 at the half of a UNC-UVA college fball game, I decided to quit so we could get to dinner and just drop the game. In Bryan’s defense, he was used to the Madden control scheme but later I found him practicing for a rematch – one I wouldn’t give him. hee hee
Sleepy buster
Posted by Michelle on May 20, 2004 in Jeff
Jeff got new glasses that came with really cool magnetic clipons shades. I wasn’t too thrilled with the idea of clipons but the new ones are really cool.
I have never seen him in seven years with shades on until the past few days – and he’s just too cute in them.
Posted by Michelle on Mar 13, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle
We are finally officially licensed foster parents with a completed home study for adoption.
This should have been done like six weeks ago but the FBI couldn’t read Jeff’s fingerprints. So he had to go through all of that a second time and wait. But we finally got the clearance which means every t is crossed and i is dotted for us.
We have already been looking at profiles of kids but this just means we could be ready to do something as soon as needed. Of course, we have specific things that we hope for in our child/children that will make our wait longer but hopefully it will be worth it.
Who knows how this will turn out – we are open to kids from 2-10, from here, from somewhere else in the US and we’d even consider international kids in the same age range. Keep us in your prayers!
Posted by Michelle on Jan 23, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle
As most of you know, Jeff & I are obsessive college sports fans. We love to collect UNC (me) and VT (Jeff) stuff – the pile got to be extensive enough where we devoted an entire room to it.
I’d say it is about 60% UNC stuff, 40% VT stuff. And since I took the photos, I’m highlighting some of my favorite UNC stuff.
Left side view: big wall of autographed photos and some of the stuff
Posted by Michelle on Dec 22, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle
The big news is we have started the process to adopt a foster child.
It is a long road but one we are sure will be worth all the effort. We had a lot of options to adopt but something felt very right about helping a child here in our state who really needed parents.
After doing some research we selecting an agency, Children’s Home Society and then met them at a county open house meeting.
Our initial application was approved and we were assigned a social worker, Janice. And we met with her last week to start the process officially.
So now, we’ve got tons of paperwork to do as well as 30 hours of classes to take that start this Tuesday! Also medical, fingerprint and fire inspections too. FHEW.
Basically they’ll match us to a child who will come to live with us as a foster child and then after a certain amount of time, we’ll start the adoption process. Could take a month after we are done with classes or could take a year.
We really excited and ask for everyone to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
love,
Michelle & Jeff
Posted by Michelle on Oct 28, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle
A few photos from up the mountains heading home from TN to NC after visiting our friends in Nashville and Memphis last week.
We should have had the camera on more but thanks to Dionne and Alexander for two fun nights in Nashville and Heather, Josh, Emily, Ben and Kate for brunch and cheerleading practice.
Posted by Michelle on Jun 22, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle, pups & other pets
No cute photo this year of the three pups – they were half wet, dirty and grumpy on the beach.
Very cool mosaic at this artist coop, the horses are all over the Outer Banks and the location they are at gets to decorate them accordingly:
Another cool horse
I’m driving along and at a red light, I see some complete dumbass who ended up hang gliding over a Holiday Inn – seriously, he was way far from the hand gliding area at Jockey’s Ridge:
The house had these sun light windows that drove us crazy but the dogs loved to sleep in the warmth of them:
Jeff out front of Cape Hatteras
Another shot from Pea Island preserve (most insect infested place ever)
Two cute kids sitting in the surf:
Posted by Michelle on Mar 21, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle
The make your own wallpaper experiment is done – and it looks great!
