Posted by Michelle on Dec 8, 2010 in Hayley, Michelle
Hayley and I made a fantastic cheesecake. It was the first time we made one completely from scratch and we didn’t even get any cracks. Hayley decided it was better than Cheesecake Factory!

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Posted by Michelle on Nov 24, 2010 in Hayley
Recently Hayley had a chance to hang out with one of her half-sisters from her first family. They went to Build-a-Bear, lunch and then goofed off in the mall riding their carousel and this cool bounce/jump thing. They had a lot of fun and it was a great afternoon for them to spend together.
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Posted by Michelle on Nov 24, 2010 in Hayley
We’ve been in a very arts & crafts sort of mood! I’ll add more over the Holidays…
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Posted by Michelle on Nov 10, 2010 in Hayley, Michelle
We went to Top of the Hill for the Butch Davis Radio Show on Wednesday night. Hayley got the man himself to sign her ‘I Support Butch’ shirt. (and no, Jeff didn’t come with us, hahaha)


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Posted by Michelle on Nov 6, 2010 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Know how you can tell Hayley is getting older? Less photos. She went to a costume party as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz on Friday night and I got no photos. Then on Halloween she had her friend Mia come over to trick or treat, I got one photo and *poof* they were off into the night.
The Hippie and Skeleton Witch

Although, we did do tons of fun Halloween stuff this year. Since we all loved to be scared silly, we watched stacks of horror movies and went to haunted houses. Jeff and Hayley went to a scary night time corn maze and got so spooked, she fell over and took him with her – haha. Then we did the Clayton Fear Farm, the hayride was lots of fun. Lordy this child loves anything scary and yes we’ve relented finally on some of her horror movie requests – still no extreme gore tho. Thank goodness Halloween is my favorite holiday!

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Posted by Michelle on Oct 17, 2010 in Hayley, Michelle
We headed to Williamsburg and spent a few days at Busch Gardens with my friend Nicole and her son Mason. We both remember going as kids and thought it would be a fun trip to do together since Mason is now in a year round school down in Wilmington. Halloween at Busch Gardens was fantastic – thank goodness we went up Thursday night so we hit it Friday morning when the crowds were light because by Saturday it was packed full of people. What was very cool was how it changed at 6pm from kid friendly Halloween to MOTHER OF GOD he has a chainsaw. Hayley, who like me loves all things scary and horrible, had me go to every scary haunted house they had but boy oh boy did she get spooked by one character as we were leaving the park.
I went on more rides than I thought I would – the log ride was the best and The Lochness Monster was intense. People were really friendly, Busch Gardens was amazingly clean and the prices were better than we expected. We stayed at a great condo and as always had a great time with Nicole and Mason. Twenty years since Nicole and I pledged together, still adore her.

Hayley in the front row center in blue UNC shirt with her little skinny legs sticking out on the Griffon!


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Posted by Michelle on Oct 5, 2010 in Hayley
I have more to post but the first photo just made me smile…
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 21, 2010 in Hayley

We were just so excited to get the news today: Grand Prize Winner of the Soul Fusion 2010 Tween Model Search is….. Hayley H. !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you to everyone who voted in the facebook popular vote part. Thank you to the judges on the expert panel. And most definitely thank you to Soul Fusion who ran the contest and took amazing photos of all the girls. If you are local, consider them for all of your photography needs – they do great work with families, kids of all ages and everything in between!
Hayley says, “thanks to everyone and all the girls did great. They looked really awesome so this is a really big honor.”
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 13, 2010 in Hayley
Hayley is in a Tween Model Search being done by Soul Fusion, a really cool local photography studio. The studio posts the pics on their facebook page for people to vote on them. A friend of Hayley’s did it last year and had so much fun, so we jumped at the chance to do it when it rolled around this year. If you have facebook, please vote for her!
To vote, just go to the main Soul Fusion fbook page, http://www.facebook.com/soulfusionnc and like them, then go to Hayley’s photo page, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4695186&id=105671077289&ref=fbx_album and you have to actually write ‘vote’ on her page, ‘likes’ won’t be counted. Thanks!
The voting counts for 50% of the competition and the other 50% is by a panel of industry experts.
Thanks!
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Posted by Michelle on Jul 31, 2010 in Hayley, More Family
We went to Castle McCulloch to pan for gem, gold and fossil last weekend. We met up with Hayley’s first/birthmom, sister Faith and her first/birthmom’s husband Scotty. Hayley had been dying to do it and this place was a fun little adventure. She also took my camera and took a bunch of photos of the castle and grounds.

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