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Big News . . .

Posted by Mary Beth on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

We’ve been waiting for weeks to share our big news, and the time has finally come. After tons of prayer and thought, and sharing and praying with the people closest to us, we have decided to adopt a baby boy from Ethiopia.
Ever since I went with my parents to adopt my little [...]

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Caleb the Worship Leader

Posted by Mary Beth on Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Caleb is crazy about all kinds of music, he loves to play his guitar and drum. If there were a Guitar Hero or Rock Band game for toddlers, he would be a pro. But his favorite music is worship music. He runs around the house singing worship songs all day, and he [...]

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Our Family Mission

Posted by Casey on Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Mary Beth and I sat down last night to design our Family Mission Statement together. It took us a while to come up with an idea, but Mary Beth was the one who decided to use verbs to define how we wanted our family to be. We both sat at the computer for [...]

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Zeit-what?

Posted by Casey on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
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Google Zeitgeist

I’m not exactly sure what the word “Zeitgeist” means, but I thought this was pretty cool. Google has posted all of their year-end search trends with their corresponding dates to show exactly what people were searching for and when. At first glance, this doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal, but when you take a look at what events were occurring when people were searching on certain topics, it becomes pretty interesting.

I don’t have much more to say about it, but you can check it out for yourself…if you want.

Posted in: Cool Sites, Tech.

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  1. Zeit·geist Audio pronunciation of “zeitgeist” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tstgst, zt-)
    n.

    The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation: “It’s easy to see how a student… in the 1940’s could imbibe such notions. The Zeitgeist encouraged Philosopher-Kingsâ€? (James Atlas).

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