As most of you know, Hayley was adopted and we have a pretty open adoption with her first family. Hayley’s sisters, bmom and her husband, grandmother and granddad visited us here in November for a nice Sunday of lunch and goofing off.
I was taking photos with three cameras and for some reason didn’t end up taking the last couple of photos they posted for with my camera but we got a lot of cute ones.
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For our 11th wedding anniversary, we went to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner – The Melting Pot. It was amazingly good and we were stuffed! Someone went a bit chocolate crazy at the end…
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Video: She said she wasn’t taping but I knew out she was. I thought she’d deleted it but of course she didn’t.
and ps Jeff, I love you more today than I did when I said I do 11 years ago or even when we started dating 13 years ago. Thank you for a wonderful life, for always believing in me and supporting me. I have no idea how I got this lucky!
We had a great visit with Hayley’s bdad Derek, his wife, parents, sister and sons. We got some sun at the pool and ate pizza, then relaxed and played at home. Hayley loved to spend time with her brothers!
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We went to the Carolina Rollergirls Roller Derby and it was such fun to watch.
Hayley was in love with watching them race around and thump each other – I fear she’ll run away to join them. She was so energetic early on but since she had a swim meet this morning, she eventually hit the wall and crawled up in Daddy’s lap (note the mugging for the camera).
Carolina lost to the NYC Gotham team but it was a good time anyway! A tip – horrible hard seats in Dorton Arena so if you go, bring your own bag chairs and sit down on the floor.
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Jeff turned the big 4-0 on Thursday and he wished for a nice quiet night and dinner at home. So we made his favorite dinner and even made one of his favorite desserts creme brulee for dessert – I do love my culinary torch after all. I took Hayley to swim team practice so he even got some video game time.
We gave him several presents he wanted of books, games and movies but the big gift was a real ‘old man’ gift – a really cool pillow from the Sleep Number store. I suppose I shouldn’t tease him too much since I’m only 15 months behind him.
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