Nick rocks!

Saturday morning, with a day planned full of activities, Nick came in nearly doubled over in pain. He had been fighting whatever this is for a few days, but finally said he needed to go to the doctor. Laurie takes him to Baylor and the rest of us nervously await some news. We thought it might be some kind of kidney infection. Melanie said it sounded like appendicitis to her. Whatever it is, we all got a little nervous. After some blood work and whatever they do there for all that $$$, they concluded that he did not have appendicitis, but most likely kidney stones. For any of you whose lives have not included a run in either first hand or vicariously with kidney stones, those who have will tell you they are not your friends. If they are, they are very bad ones, ones that will cause you much pain and suffering! For now, we assume he has kidney stones that he will have to pass in the next week or so. If that does not happen, they want to do some kind of cat scan to narrow down further the possibilities. Bishop Ayres and I gave him a blessing. He can't be too bad off--he decided not to cancel his 18th birthday party we had scheduled for that night! So with his mind swimming in the morphine from the hospital and the codeine from the drugstore, we went ahead with the bash! Good thing--we counted over 50 people from school that came. No way we could have canceled that. It was wild but fun. I designated Dustin to be the official photographer. If any of you need a wedding photographer, (can you say BJ?!) Dustin might be the one. I have included some of his photos below. BJ & Katherine were there too, since, after all, it was actually BJ's 23rd! Nick's is not really til Monday. We had a bonfire in the back, heated the spa, put out the 100' slip n slide in the south pasture, played basketball and volleyball, had the ping pong table going as well as air hockey, ripstiks, green machine, and just about every contrivance we could come up with (except the motorized ones). It was great fun. Laurie cooked the weiners, I made rootbeer. All in all, quite a good night. 7--midnight or so. Thank goodness for church at 1 PM!

Earlier we went to the MacDonnell's fundraiser for cancer at Applebee's. Then we went to the gun show and wathched every kind of person buy, sell, and carry around weapons of all kinds. It gave us pause and cause for thought for sure.

Get ready for some football posts! Zac is No. 40. Tuesday night was his first game. He is on the 'A' team. He got one near sack and caused the QB to miss his toss. Way to go, Zac!