Busy weekend

It was another busy weekend at the house of Hicks in Hendersonville. On Friday night, we celebrated the birthday (I'm not sure which one....maybe 49?) of our good friend Doug Owen. Carter made it halfway down the slide. He's about to run out of summer to go all the way down! Good food and good fellowship. But the evening was about to get more crazy than Doug as we hosted our final IBC Surrender Weekend. We had 10 boys and it was all out chaos. Dale, didn't you start this?? Late nights of swimming, early mornings of eating, losing things, and general overall displeasure to our dog Jack.
Yesterday after church, we went to my brother's house for a cookout and swim with one of my cousins. We got home late last night and it is back to work this morning. Oh, and Kevin's mom had minor surgery on Friday and we made a trip to Nashville to visit her in the hospital on Saturday as well. This weekend will be busy also because I am going to hear Pricilla Shirer speak at Long Hollow Baptist Church on Friday night and Saturday morning.

This is how the rich roll ya'll

The company that I work for Rogers Group, Inc has a luxury suite at LP field where the Titans play. Last night was the first preseason game and I was given two tickets to sit in the suite. It is a little nicer than the nose bleed section that we normally sit in. As my guest, I took Nick, the nephew.

Leaving IBC

This is our last month at IBC. We will be leaving at the end of August to find a church to serve and worship closer to home. We have driven to Inglewood from Hendersonville since 2002 but we feel the timing is right for us now to be closer to home. We have so many good friends and it is going to be hard to say goodbye, but we feel really strong that God is leading us elsewhere.

Swim in it if you got it.

Last weekend we had a plethora of friends at our house to swim. Debbie, Dakota & Duncan Gowins started the Saturday off by swimming in the morning. In the afternoon, Erin Wilson had her birthday party at our house. She had a big crowd and a really good Hannah Montana white cake with white icing.

On Sunday after church, the Owen family came over and we swam for most of the afternoon. It was a big pool day for the Owen children. Claire spent all afternoon jumping in the deep end and Carter advanced from dipping his toe to full fledged underwater jumping in. My buddy Cooper is like me...he prefers to take it nice and slow and just move around the edge of the pool.

I will NOT spare Kristi Wilson the embarassment of posting her picture wearing the blond Hannah Montana wig. We will sure miss all of these folks when we leave IBC but hope that we will continue to see them often.

I love these children.

The Braswells were in town for Sarah Shrum & Keith Beck's wedding week before last and on Sunday we invited them up for a swim. Kevin also invited his 5 & 6th grade Sunday School class . Poor Dale got the brunt of the boys in the pool. They jumped all over him and made him throw them in the pool. This is normally done by Kevin, but he was glad that Dale was here to do the honors. We also had the Hollans, Mr. Eddie & Mrs. Brenda and Tina's parents. It was a lot of fun and I got to love on Kaitlyn and Hannah a little bit more.

Cause I'm older and I have more insurance.

I fried up a mess (does anybody under 50 know what that means?) of green tomatoes last night and yes maam, they were good. I was in such a hurry to eat them that I didn't want to go upstairs and get the camera. Trust me though, they were pretty.

Bellantes in the house

The Bellantes made their way up yesterday from Franklin. I believe the pictures say it all. Sorry Nick....I didn't get you on the slide.