david and i lived in henderson, ky for 3 years. it's where we were married and began our life together. there isn't much there other than some special friends of ours - the owen family. we hadn't seen them in a long while and finally we were able to find a date on the calendar that worked for all of us and make a weekend visit. for us, it happened to be the beginning of david's 2-week vacation so we just decided, "why not just stop in henderson on our way to florida?" and that's what we did.
brian and cindy have 3 boys so it was an all-boy weekend to say the least. we arrived just in time for grilled out burgers and delicious beers. we sat on the patio and caught up while the boys got acquainted and sweaty.
really sweaty.
so, of course a bath was in order...
saturday morning, davidrussell and big O made super yummy and fattening breakfast. big O makes scratch gravy now. impressive.
we hung out and hung out and hung out some more. the boys did... well, boy stuff.
will and i bonded over our macbooks...
big O and cindy had arranged for a sitter to come saturday evening so we could go out. (awesome.) we payed a visit to henderson's newest attraction, ruby moon vineyard and winery. after that, we grabbed dinner at hacienda. if you know evansville or henderson, then you know hacienda. if you don't, well, insert your own favorite mexican chain.
after an evening of good cocktails and conversation, we headed home to find what we expected - a bunch of sweaty super heroes. it was unbelievable at this point that we'd only been in their home for about 29 hours. between the 4 of us, we had roasted marshmallows on the fire pit, ate a ton of food, went for a long walk, ate some more, got in the Word (c'mon), laid in the hammock (cindy is a good snuggle friend), enjoyed a leisure wine-tasting, cut out laminated cards for cindy's kindergarten class, ate more food - this time, mexican, and even found some shoes at stein mart.
sunday morning came early, bringing a special surprise - did you know they make these breakfast corn dog things made of sausage and pancakes?! cindy had one ready for each boy, it looked like a sunday morning carnival. we paid a visit to good 'ole First Baptist of Henderson (where we were married) and listened to brian speak some words from the Lord. it was time to say goodbye, so there was only one thing left to do... cracker barrel, of course.
great friends, great family. we love these people.
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