Hiking at Arkabutla Lake

The kids and I like to go hiking whenever we can and sometimes we're lucky enough to drag Tammy around. One of our favorite places to go is Arkabutla Lake, which is about 20 minutes from our home in Mississippi. There are a lot of good trails that we like to walk while we look for wild life.

One of reasons Tammy doesn't like to come is because of the fear of snakes. And it's funny that the only time we see them is when she's walking in front of the group and she about walks over them. On this trip, she almost ran into the snake below sun bathing in the middle of the trail.

Halloween 2008

For Halloween this year, Shelby wanted to be a vampire and Noah wanted to be a Thomas Train. However, when Shelby got her vampire teeth and makeup, Noah wanted some too. So we made him into a monster Thomas Train.

I was in charge of getting the costumes together and getting them ready on Halloween morning. Shelby could wear her costume to school, so of course Noah had too. I guess you can kind of tell they were put together by me by how freaky they look. I'm sure Tammy would have made them nice and adorable, but I was going for scary.

Later that night, Tammy took the kids to the ward's Trunk or Treat where they got a lot of candy and had a hay ride. I had to work that night and couldn't attend, but they all had a lot of fun.

2008 C-USA Volleyball Championship

We hosted the Conference USA Volleyball Championship last week, and I was thrilled to work all four days of the tournament. The photos above are taken in the fourth game of the first round after I had already been at the tournament for about 10 hours that day. Obviously, I was getting tired of volleyball. I produced the program for the tournament and served as the tournament's media relations director.