Woof, Tyler, Rick, Williams, at the Beach

Woof, Tyler, Rick, Williams, at the Beach.

This was our last family reunion of this exact chemistry and size. This was during the summer of the year 2002. Almost every year, our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim "The Woof" Williams, would pick a lucky member or two or more of the Arnold family and take them off to their house in Warrenton, Oregon, United States, which is near the Pacific Ocean, the beach, Seaside, Astoria, Tillamook.

We have some of this recorded on my then camcorder. I let Tyler play with my frog. Tyler is the son of my cousin, Nathan Williams. My Aunt Karen Williams is the sister of my mom. My dad played basketball with my Uncle Jim "The Woof" Williams in high school in southern Oregon and at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon United States. Nathan and Alan Williams are the two only sons of Karen and Jim.


4th of July, 2002
Warrenton, Seaside, the beach, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

Rediscovering Tiffany

Rediscovering Tiffany.

In 2001, when I was 16 years old, me and Bill Bailey decided to look for our childhood friend, Tiffany Cumbo. I first met her in 1990. We have not seen her since she and her family moved some years back. We looked in the yellow pages which has last names, addresses, and phone numbers. It may have taken a few days but we found her during the 2nd or so week of August 2001 I think.

I had my camcorder. I recorded our time that day, since it was an interesting reunion that I will not forget. It was the last time I caught her on my camcorder, but it turned out that the video was not working, and so you cannot see her or anyone on those VHS video-cassette tapes from 2001, since the camcorder had a broken video door. I would use duct tape to keep it close.

I was 16 years old when I found her again.

She was 16 when I lost her again, that is when she died in 2003.


August 2001
16 years
Cornelius, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Valentines Day 2000

When I was 15 years old in the year 2000, for Valentines Day, which was on Monday, the 14th of February 2000, I recorded our church party at our church, the Cornelius Community Baptist Church, with my new smaller VHS-C compatible camcorder that came from my father.

The party went from around 5 - 7 PM. I tried recording those 2 hours. It may have lasted longer, if you count waiting for the children to be picked up by their parents. The party was designed to allow parents to drop off their kids on their way to a romantic dinner or whatever that they want to do as parents or as a couple in need of rekindled intimacy.

Only a few children and teens attended. There was a total of around 20 people, including youth group leader Rich Libby who was married in our church, Stephanie and Brian Bishop, Christina Beaty, two twin brothers who like Pokemon, the neighborhood (from the Rose Grove where I was raised at) girls who are friends with my younger sister who was also there, a baby, and there may have been a few others.

We had a few snacks, games, a cartoon movie to watch, drinks, and there was me with my camcorder. In another room was the like temporary secretary or accountant Tom Bamford or I forget his exact last name, and I surprised and caught him on camera in the church office. I recorded Crystal, me, and the neighborhood girls in the church playground running around and some basketball. I recorded Stephanie drawing a picture of the baby. I recorded myself making slam dunks with a ball into the carpet and ground of our church. I recorded the twins talk about Pokemon. I made a balloon talk like my guinea pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto.

Little Crystal Riding Hood

My older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, got me to play the big bad wolf in a bear mask from cousin Alan Williams (or at least he recognized it once), my younger sister Crystal to play the little red riding hood, and Lisa Evers as the mother and grandma of the little red riding hood, during the day after our dad came home with a camcorder for my brother's birthday which is on the 5th of February 1996.

We made the Little Crystal Riding Hood in the afternoon of Friday, the 2nd of February 2013.