our collective digital self
Posted by Michelle on Sep 30, 2008 in Humor, Michelle
I love Leslie Hall and her Gem Sweaters. If you don’t know the story, she collects and models horrible bedazzled sweaters. She also has a website that will crack you up – plus it highlights her band Leslie and the Lys that sings about sweaters and other important midwest diva issues.
Her CD made me snort with laughter. I didn’t know she had a video online for the band’s song about Gem Sweaters:
Posted by Michelle on Sep 29, 2008 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Tonight we went to Chili’s because they were giving all the profits to St. Jude’s Childrens Hospital. A very good cause of course!
We all went to celebrate Hayley’s awesome report card as well as ‘Nice to meet you day’, the anniversary of the first day we ever met Hayley. We had such fun – silly toasts, sharing a gooey dessert, sharing our feelings of love and happiness over our family. It was one of those nights all is right with our world. I won’t forget it for a long time.
Posted by Michelle on Sep 27, 2008 in Hayley
Another win for the Rockets, undefeated and a 3-1 winner. Hayley played really well! These photos are just Hayley ones.
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 27, 2008 in Hayley
A few photos from Hayley’s second soccer game of the season. She is playing for the U11 Rockets this season.
They won this game – they are undefeated actually. I’ll post photos from the game today (3-1 win) tomorrow probably. These galleries here will be just the ones of Hayley.
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 27, 2008 in Hayley
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 and such well-behaved kids.
I had posted a few photos right after the concert but here are all of them:
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Posted by Michelle on Sep 26, 2008 in Hayley
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 grade level. The 3 means you are right where you are supposed to be and doing fine, 3* means you did really well but 4 means WOW.
For the first time ever on a report card, Hayley got a 4!! Overall she got 4, 3*, 3, 3, and 3. We are SO proud of her. It’s been great to see her not just learn but share and get excited over things.
On the conduct/work habits (ie behavior) section – all checks. She’s normally got a few missing there, haha. And under ‘interventions’ which are extra things the school will do/offer to help her, for the first time ever there is nothing listed.
Please don’t think I’m being a braggart over this. She’s just never done this well and it took a lot of work from all of us to get to this point (mostly her of course!). We made some tough decisions about her academics a few years ago and we finally are getting some real confirmation we made the right moves.
And YES, my political science/history major self is thrilled the 4 came in social studies!
Posted by Michelle on Sep 26, 2008 in Hayley
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Posted by admin on Sep 25, 2008 in Michelle
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 can do fun stuff with print them.
Bear with us as I move 20,000 photos and nearly 500 stories over!
Posted by Michelle on Sep 1, 2008 in Hayley, More Family
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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 the kids to the pool.
