Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow the Knight family is headed south to Texas. Belinda's family and my grandmother do not know we are coming, so we are springing a surprise this year, and this also represents our first road trip to Texas since we moved to West Virginia in 2003.

We'll be spending Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house with the rest of the Higgins clan, and el gato loco de Naples Tejas. I can't wait.

Blogging activity will be most likely more sporadic than usual, so I'll take this chance to wish everyone a wonderful, Christ filled Christmas!

Best High School Basketball in the Country is in West Virginia

State Senator Vic Sprouse has a great post about this year's Huntington High basketball team. The team has already won back to back state titles with Patrick Patterson, and now has national phenom (Huntington native) OJ Mayo in the mix. The best team in the nation this year resides in the big WV.

You can read more about it here.

Ridge Stone Church on Hannity and Colmes

Gary Lamb did it again. Unbelievable.

Top Ten Campsites in WV (Continued)

David Letterman only wishes his top ten lists were this suspenseful...picking up from where we left off on September 30th...

#6 - Red Creek Campground - Dolly Sods Wilderness, WV

Red Creek Campground is another Monongahela National Forest campground perched high on the Allegheny Front at 4,000 feet. The weather is unpredictable and snow can be expected any time from September through late April. Red Creek is small, with only 12 sites. If it is full, there are several undeveloped sites within 300 yards of Forest Road 75 which I will discuss in more detail later in the top ten. There are no showers (sorry ladies), but hiking opportunities are abundant with several trailheads within one mile of the campground. These trails pass through open plains, spruce thickets, northern hardwoods, across beautiful mountain streams, and generally offer some of the best unspoiled scenery WV has to offer. Red Creek would also probably rank #1 in stargazing potential out of all the places we have visited in WV.

Jerry's New House of Bling

I'm pumped. The Cowboys are getting a new stadium soon, complete with 1/4 mile long steel arches, seating for 100,000, a retractible roof, field level suites, and a 60 yard long video screen. For more on the NEW Texas Stadium, check it out here.

Vision Glimpse

Sunday was a great day. Our church called an audible on the planned service and threw some love toward Jason and me. They honored us with lavish gifts, an iPod for Jason, and a Mossberg 500 12 guage shotgun for myself (bad news for turkeys in WV). For more regarding the day, you can read Jason's post which accurately reflects my sentiments here.

Maybe the highlight of the day occurred when one of our twentysomethings came out after the service and shared this with me, "I have never been a part of a church like this, where I can be honest and open with others about the things I'm dealing with in my life. I love this church! Thank you for all you do."

Good stuff. Way to go God!

Christmas Party #1

Last night I attended my first Christmas party of 2006. Several StoneBridge collegians got together and organized a gathering last night at David and Manny's place. We all had a good time eating, singing and requesting tunes to be sung by David, playing cards, and other assorted activities. Good times.