I often have people who are both parents, and not parents, ask “why would you want to go spend a week walking around Disney World, fighting the crowds?”

The answer is simple. My kids love it!

Being a parent is all about love & sacrifice. That doesn’t mean you have to give up your life as an adult, but your frame of mind changes after having kids. It’s no longer JUST about you.

A few years ago when Natalie’s grandmother died, one of her friends from work came to the funeral home for visitation. The kids asked why did that person come when they never knew “Momaw Crystal.” We told them it was because she came to see Mommy, and because she cared about Mommy.

That story made a really good moral. Too many times in life we do what’s convenient for us instead of doing what’s right for the people around us.

I feel like I’m blessed with the greatest job in the world, or at least Kentucky. I’ll be shooting the Sweet 16 next week when I get back and doing what I enjoy, so taking off a week to do something that makes my kids happy is more than worth it.

Here are a few more shots from the UK-Florida game and the UK-Vandy game. I shot both games for the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Each year I cover The All-A Classic in Richmond for Touchstone Energy. I run my own little Photo Agency by providing images to newspapers across Kentucky. On any given day during the tournament I’ll have photos published from Paducah to Pikeville, and several points in between. It’s pretty much a photographer’s marathon with 30 games in 5 days. I knew I was going to be in trouble this year by trying to do it one month after surgery. So I recruited the help of my friends Jim Osborn and Chris Radcliffe. By Friday evening I found myself sitting in a stupor watching the game instead of shooting it, and decided it was time to turn it over to better eyes and go home. I was sound asleep by 8:45. I left my son Cameron there to watch the games with Jim, and after the last game was a thriller in overtime, they got home at 1:30. We left the door unlocked but Cameron didn’t know, and he thought it would be funny to  ring the door bell several hundred times. At first I jumped up and hit the alarm clock, then I tried to answer my phone. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper when I opened the door.

The Owensboro Catholic Lady Aces win the girls championship

The 15th Region captures the boys title three years in a row, as Betsy Layne beats Louisville DeSales for the title.

Remember this name, Rebecca Greenwell of Owensboro Catholic is a sophomore who averages over 30 points a game!

Lexington Christian double-teamed Greenwell the entire game and she still scored 16 points.

Laura Kathryn, my onsite editor

The doorbell ringer himself

Jimmy Oz saves me and my shoulder by filling in for me for several games.