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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 Jul 22, 2008 in Hayley
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.
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Posted by Michelle on May 22, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle
I’m running behind on photos as always! These are from when Hayley’s team played in the Julian Brown soccer tournament in Charlotte in April.
I took Hayley and her teammate Gabbie down early on the train down since they were tracked out, we went to Discovery Place and goofed off! It was a great trip and we loved the new Hyatt Place hotel in Charlotte.
There are four chunks in the gallery – train trip, discovery place, hotel room and action shots from the tournament.
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Posted by Michelle on Mar 7, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle, More Family
Some cute photos from Hayley’s camera (and many by her) at the UNC-FSU men’s basketball game this week. It was senior night and the final home game of the season.
This photo is so adorable – she was screaming after a huge dunk on a breakaway by Tyler Hansbrough, off an assist from Quentin Thomas. Jeff says it is one of his favorite photos ever of Hayley and I think I agree.
Another I love, Cheering her little heart out in her #50 (Hansbrough) jersey with Hillison on the back.
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Posted by Michelle on Mar 3, 2008 in Hayley
Photos from the UNC women’s lacrosse game where Hayley was a ballgirl and got some tips from players after the game. She’ll be a ballgirl for them a few more times this spring.
On duty:
Catch with player:
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 24, 2008 in Hayley, Humor, Michelle
First, we have signed a contract to move our webkinz blog to a network where we’ll be paid for our work. We are fairly excited about this and I’m thrilled to be able to let someone else handle the technical/server issues, as well as stop losing money on our blog, lol! Jeff says I have the golden online touch but mostly I just do what seems fun to me – and this time it was a great chance to do it with Hayley!
We are even paying Hayley to help on the blog now. It was too cute, we made her
interview for the job like a real job interview – Jeff wanted to get her teacher to write a recommendation. (I told her teacher and she laughed at it too and said she would have). Of course, she’ll make less than her allowance per post and will have to post over 70 words to actually make anymore so cross your fingers to see that actually happen!
Hayley is just thrilled that someone is going to pay her for “working”. It is a great early lesson in how this new economy works and how you can create something of value.
Second, on Wednesday before the UNC – NC State game we were listening to 850 the Buzz, the local sports talk radio station, on the way to soccer practice. Well some State fan insulted Tyler Hansbrough and Hayley got so angry. She demanded my cell phone and their number. I told her I didn’t now the number, hoping that would end it. Well next time the station ran the numbers, she wrote them down and demanded the phone yet again. I said I’ll give it to you if you know what you are going to say – and she was very clear about it.
So I called the station and talked to them. They said they’d consider putting her on the air but wanted to talk to her first. After a few minutes, they told her to hold on because they would put her on the radio right after the break. I had to remind her to be polite and not to curse (she is allowed to say ‘go to hell duke and state’ at home), as well as I didn’t want her to say ‘sucks’ but stinks was ok. I had this fear of her just going off!
She was a bit flustered at first but she got rolling like a pro and talked about how great Tyler is, how UNC is going to beat State and that they would win by 20. They LOVED her. They asked who do you watch sports and listen to the station with, your mom or your dad – she says, ‘my mom’. I loved that! They said it was the first time a nine year old girl called in to talk on the air.
I know the host of the program in passing and dropped him an email the day after. He said it was a great call and they enjoyed her doing it. Some posters on IC heard it too and loved it.
I’m just so proud of her – she has no fear of being out front of the pack.
Posted by Michelle on Feb 15, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle
We’ve got a pile of photos from the Baltimore trip! Check out them for shots of the soccer games, National Aquarium, Dolphin Show, misc ones and ones from Hayley’s camera.
We had so much fun! Our hotel was right down from the Ravens stadium and the hotel ran a free shuttle to downtown Baltimore. We went downtown with friends and had a blast. Hayley was tracked out so we stayed an extra day to do the museum.
Soccer was pretty rough though. They moved up our team of U10 girls to the U11 division which meant much bigger and stronger kids. But they worked hard and had fun!
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 3, 2008 in Hayley
UNC women’s basketball played Elon and Hayley was a ballgirl. Nice blow out win.
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Posted by Michelle on Dec 22, 2007 in Hayley
Photo from the exhibition game where the UNC women’s basketball team played the Chinese National Basketball team and Hayley was a ballgirl.
The game went down to the wire and Erlana Larkins won it with a free throw in the final seconds. Incredibly exciting!
game winner
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Posted by Michelle on Dec 8, 2007 in Hayley
The Holly Springs Sun had an article on Hayley’s soccer team making to the finals in their first big-time away tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. I finally got around to scanning it in.
It was lovely to see an article on them since we had such a great time down there and the girls played so well. I was a bit astonished to be going five hours to play but it really was lots of fun.
The file is a pdf so you can read and print it easily:
Read the Holly Springs Sun article: Great Carolina Shootout Finalist.
