Baby Jayden

Announcing the birth of Jayden Matthew Barker!

Jayden weighs 8 lbs. 4 ounces and is 21 inches long. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He was born at 10 a.m. on December 6th, 2006. Mom and baby are doing great.



To see more pictures click on this link below.

More Jayden Pictures

Hogs Win SEC Western Division!!!

For the fourth time since joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas’ football team has won the West after being picked to finish in the division’s lower half. The Razorbacks clinched the SEC West title outright by beating Mississippi State 28-14 on Saturday to improve to 10-1 overall and 7-0 in the conference. State stuffed the run most of the day, but McFadden still hurt them. He had a 100 yard kick off return for a touchdown, and some key runs in the fourth quarter. Go Hogs Go!!!

http://allythigpen.com/woo2.swf

McFadden ran all over the Vols on Saturday as the hogs beat them 31-14 in

front of a rowdy crowd and ESPN GameDay. ESPN GameDay made their first

visit ever to Fayetteville, AR. Hogs are now ranked 5th in the AP poll and 7th

in the BCS. They are still undefeated in the SEC and have a record of 9-1.

McFadden's stock in the Heisman race definetley increased after

the victory.

Vista RTM

Vista has RTM'd. I should be installing it soon. This guy's blog has some good tips for installation.

Vista Tips

Creepy jack-o!

Jack
Originally uploaded by AndyPhotos.

Andrew and I made this creepy jack-o-lantern for Halloween. Halloween was great this year, no rain, but a little chilly.

I love Halloween. I like setting up the cool decorations and taking Andrew out trick-or-treating.

Our Halloween display

Andrew was a scary Scream guy for Halloween

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Google video has "Night of the Living Dead"

Sounds of 1987

A video of a talent show that I was in my senior year of high school (1987)
has surfaced on the internet. It was called "Sounds of Now".


Can you hear the "Mandolin Rain"?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCXXAzGDt04


Check out all the wild hair!

Hogs whip #2 Auburn 27 - 10

WOW! What a great win the Hogs had on Saturday knocking off number 2 Auburn at their place 27 - 10. It was the biggest road win Arkansas has had since beating #1 Texas in 1964. The stars of the game were Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, Mitch Mustain, and Marcus Monk. The defense also played great.

Wooo Pig! Soooie! GO Hogs GO!

Frog Level Plantation

My great-great-great grandfather William A. Frazier built this house around 1850 in Columbia county Arkansas (about 7 miles from Magnolia, AR). This house was a plantation, and had a slave quarters in the back. I do not know how many slaves William had. After researching cemetery records for Frazier cemetery, I did find a slave buried there with the name Jessie Frazier who died in 1886. After the civil war ended in 1865, William was forced to sell the house and land due to financial issues. The house is now privately owned.

The house is also on the national register for historical places. If you click on the house you can look up the registry number.

The house was also the site of the first court house for Columbia county Arkansas; although the marker has been moved from the exact location.

William Frazier was married to Elizabeth Sarah Pullig whom he met in South Carolina where he was originally born.


Side View of home



Historic marker next to home



I took these photos while visiting my grandfather, who lives nearby, back in September.

Click here to see other photos

Frog Level Articles
I've updated the links to some other articles as the one I originally had was broken.

Frog Level story dated July 2007

William Frazier house - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

"Frog Level." Oldest House in Columbia County

This post has been updated on 4/21/2013 after some feedback. Thanks for the comments!

Hog Fan

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Originally uploaded by AndyPhotos.

Jennette and a happy hog fan (me) at Barkley lake.

Barkley Lake

Lake 024
Originally uploaded by AndyPhotos.

We made our annual trip to Barkley Lake in Kentucky this past July for Jennette's family reunion. It was a good relaxing week with lots of beautiful sunsets including this one. Andrew is in the lower right hand corner pointing out towards the lake.

Arkansas Razorbacks Football Season Approaching

Hogs have a very talented backfield this year. Some great young receivers coming in. A deep offensive and defensive line. The only question is quarterback, but with highly recruited Mitch Mustain on campus, things are looking good. I've got high hopes for this football season. Go Hogs Go!!!




Date Opponent Location Time (CST) Results Media
Sat, Sep 02 Southern California Fayetteville, Ark. 7:45 p.m. ESPN

Sat, Sep 09 Utah State Fayetteville, Ark. 6 p.m.
Sat, Sep 16 Vanderbilt* at Nashville, Tenn. TBA
Sat, Sep 23 Alabama* Fayetteville, Ark. 6 p.m.
Sat, Oct 07 Auburn* at Auburn, Ala. TBA
Sat, Oct 14 Southeast Missouri State (HC) Fayetteville, Ark. 1 p.m.
Sat, Oct 21 Ole Miss* Fayetteville, Ark. 1 p.m.
Sat, Oct 28 Louisiana-Monroe Little Rock, Ark. TBA ESPNU

Sat, Nov 04 South Carolina* at Columbia, S.C. TBA
Sat, Nov 11 Tennessee* Fayetteville, Ark. 1 p.m.
Sat, Nov 18 Mississippi State* at Starkville, Miss. TBA
Fri, Nov 24 LSU* Little Rock, Ark. 1:30 p.m. CBS

In Remembrance of Maggie Barker

My son's mother Maggie (my first wife) passed away on Friday May 19 2006 after a long battle with cancer. Maggie was a wonderful mother and a caring person. We will all miss you Maggie! I love you.

RIP

Mom and Andrew

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Originally uploaded by AndyPhotos.

Mom came up to visit with us on Easter weekend.

Jennette, Andrew, and I at Easter

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Originally uploaded by AndyPhotos.

We got our camera to take our picture of Easter Sunday.

Google is at it again

Google released another API for working with their new calendar application. Very cool stuff. I can think of many little apps I want to write with this.

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html

Techie Podcasts to look at

I need to check out these podcasts.

http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe
/archive/2006/03/30/565265.aspx

Andrew and I

My first post

Here is my first post to my new blog. It is Sunday night my son and I are spending spring break together starting tomorrow and we may get a snow storm!