Resident President

The weekend before last, something special happened.  First of all, my parents came up.  This girl loves her parents so that in itself was special.  We had a weekend of woo piggin' planned - Hog baseball and basketball followed by a horse show for Alli.  Alli, Ryan, and Dad went to the Razorback game.  Alli saw Ribby, almost caught a foul ball, and continued to improve her seed spitting.  She's going to be quite the softball player this spring.  Ryan worked on getting a wicked tan.

To make a special weekend even more special, my boss let Ryan and Dad use his father-in-law's courtside seats for the basketball game.

And it was Riley's first basketball game and the whole family got to be there.

And oh by the way, my favorite former president was there, sitting just rows behind us.

Can't tell who it is?  Let's get a better shot, shall we?  Here he is with the two greatest coaches in Arkansas basketball history, Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson.

Can you tell now?  No?  How about now?

That's right, Bill Clinton came to Riley's first Razorback basketball game, along with Eddie and Nolan.  Oh, and the Razorback final four teams.

I was Alli's age when these two were hooping, and I had posters of them both on my walls.  My parents even took me downtown to see the parade after we won the National Championship in 1994.  So being in Bud Walton with them being honored was a little surreal.  So Riley attended her first basketball game with some of the greatest players, coaches, and presidents to ever grace the University of Arkansas.  And we got a Hog win out of the deal, too.

Sunday we went to Alli's horse show, and on the way home the last special thing happened.  We had been telling the family about the park right off of Garland and how some people use it for LARP'ing on occasion.  What's LARP'ing you ask?  It's Live Action Role Playing, and it means in this case that a group of people don actual armor and have fake sword fights.  Well lucky us, LARP'ing was going on right as we passed.  Ryan turned right and we slowed down to watch someone actually have to get carried off from a sword fight.  Talk about capping off a perfect weekend!