Vacation, Celebrities, and Life In General

So sorry to go almost two weeks without a blog update. After returning from Denver and the Cherry Hills Church (which was great by the way and good times with old college buddy, Tim Coan and his family), I spent a day in the office and then we headed to SC to spend 9 days away from all things work related.

What a great vacation we had. We loaded up, drove to Florence, SC and stayed with our friends, Tom and Georgina Carringer. He is a big muckety muck at data company and we have known them for 20 years. Great folks who were very kind to let us hang at their place Fri-Sun before we headed down to Murrell's Inlet for vacation. Their place is like a resort (pool, wonderful food, and a great worship service on Sunday) and we were treated like royalty. We stayed with them a night on the way back to Nashville at the end of the trip too.

Sunday afternoon we headed to the beach and stayed through Friday. We played at the beach, read, rode bikes, ran, ate, saw movies, and just all around had a great time. No internet service and limited cell service at times. Great to be unplugged I have to admit. I did tweet a few times but that is about it. Morgan invited a friend, Cheech (Chelsea) who fit right into our family. (Shelbi was unable to go since she is working this summer.) They watched boys most of the week. See the picture above.

Many celebrities died while we were gone and a couple of them were pretty influential in my growing up years but overall brought very little value to the things that really matter. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson were good entertainers but unfortunately lived very sad lives in many ways. Billy Mayes died and OxyClean commercials will never be the same. Steve McNair, a very good football player, but not a good husband was murdered on Sat. am and has dominated the local news here in Nashville. As a Titans player he was so fun to watch. He did many good things to help others in the community, but obviously struggled in his personal life with making good decisions. A very sad story indeed.

This week is a week in the office. Been awhile for that but it is much needed. Next week I head back to Glorieta to be with the FUGE team one more week. Morgan is at FUGE in Panama City Beach, FL with our church youth group this week. Praying they have a great time.
Got to preach at New Hope yesterday and it was good to be able to share with our folks. Preached out of Psalm 95. Wonderful psalm reminding us who God is.

I also will be participating tomorrow night in a memorial service for a man in our church who died on Sat. Pray for his three kids; Hayley, Chase and Chandler Grace.