Beth meets Peyton Manning!!!

Beth had a brush with greatness on June 17 when she met Peyton Manning, Quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, at a special event she helped plan at Capital One. Capital One recently signed a global issuance agreement with MasterCard and Beth was part of a team that planned a celebration event which featured MasterCard spokesman, Peyton Manning. Peyton was very nice, gracious and down-to-earth. He participated in a 30 minute Q&A with the audience and met 7 lucky associates in a Meet & Greet.

In true Hardy fashion, Beth acted appropriately blase' - like this kind of thing happens to her everyday. In truth, she was very excited to meet him!

Sara graduates!

Sara graduated from Randolph Elementary School on June 3, 2008. She had a wonderful run at Randolph and stayed on honor roll the whole time. After the graduation ceremony, students and family enjoyed a nice reception in the media center. And the next day, the 5th graders enjoyed a graduation party at the YMCA pool.

Congrats Sara! We are so proud of you! ...Off to middle school.

Native son returns with history lesson in the Old Masters

Native son returns with history lesson in the Old Masters
By Eric Beidel -The Winchester Star
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Winchester — A city native returned on Sunday to share his knowledge of the art world, its sometimes shady past, and how Americans came to appreciate the British masters.

The crowd for Christopher Apostle’s lecture, "Trading Faces: Collecting British Portraits in America from the Gilded Age to the Present Day," was standing room only at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on Amherst Street.....

Read the entire article:

http://www.winchesterstar.com/article_details.php?ArticleID=7557

Father's Day Weekend

We had a great Father's Day weekend. We started out Friday night at the end of year Goochland Little League picnic. The boys both received their trophies and James even won an autographed baseball. The awards ceremony could have been a bit shorter but...

Saturday the boys played in their final t-ball game while Bert took a foursome to Ford’s Colony in Williamsburg to play golf. Everyone played well but the round of the day goes to Jon Hood for shooting a 69! Good thing he was Bert’s partner! Saturday evening we had a great cookout with the Potts, Stuarts and Raines. It was a meat-fest...Everyone brought “a lot of meat”! We had steaks, chicken, pork tenderloin. Lots of fun. We watched in awe Tiger’s incredible round at the US Open. I think even the women were converted to golf fans.

Sunday we wrapped things up by having another cookout at the Potts’s house along with a pool party. The day was capped of with Tiger’s amazing putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff. Happy Father’s Day!

Our new pet

Sara P's piano recital

Adrianna gets some press!

Adrianna was featured in the local paper...the Goochland Gazette! They almost spelled her name correctly...at least it wasn't spelled 3 different ways in the same article like "Herb Handy"!

"Second place went to Goochland’s Adriana Hardy. Hardy was locked in a shoulder to shoulder duel with Amelia’s Kim Richardson for the entire race. Richardson’s kick put her in front as the two turned the final curve. Hardy found overdrive and retook the lead in the final 30 yards and barely outkicked Richardson in a sprinter’s finish."

See the full article:

http://www.goochlandgazette.com/index.php/sports/article/cold_wet_weather_does_not_slow_goochland_girls/

Camping Trip

The whole Hardy Clan went camping on Saturday, May 17th. The kids have been pleading for quite a while and we finally took them. Even momma came! She did stop by Target on the way and bought an inflatable mattress. We met Dave, Cindy and the rest of the Farnor gang. They came out Friday evening. Adrianna brought a friend and set up their gazebo tent to sleep in. We could keep an eye on them as there were only mesh sides to it! Beth, Bert and the boys set up the big Hardy tent. Sara had her own mini-tent that was great until she had a bad dream. We even brought Rosie who had a blast playing with Willis.

We set up camp Saturday afternoon, mowed the grass, went for a hike, played games, etc. The weather was perfect...mid 70s during the day and down in the low 50s at night. We cooked burgers and dogs over the campfire, had smores and banana boats for desert. After a great nights sleep, we woke up and had a big camp breakfast of pancakes, bacon and camp eggs (cooked in bacon grease).

It started raining on the way home. Now THAT is perfect timing!

Dancing Daddy:

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Adrianna is a track star!

Adrianna has been doing great in track setting personal bests in the mile and 2 mile. Here she is running the 2 mile at a home meet last Wednesday against her arch nemesis.