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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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Archive for August, 2006

Caleb’s New Trick

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Caleb has learned a new trick this past week: high-pitched, ear-piercing squealing. It was pretty cute the first five or six times, but it started to get a little old after that!
There are some parents that think every thing their “little darling” does is just adorable. I guess it’s probably a [...]

Caleb’s Journal

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

A few months before Caleb was born, Mary Beth had a brilliant idea for me to start a journal for Caleb. Hopefully, it will be a place where I can write down some of God’s wisdom for him to read when he’s a young man someday.
I know there will be some teenage years when [...]

Great Expectations

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

As I sit at the computer, I can hear Caleb gurgling and cooing in the next room while Casey talks to him. I wrote the excerpt below while I was still pregnant with Caleb; rereading it reminds me once again of how wonderful it is to have expectations fulfilled.
March 21, 2006
Sometimes it seems that [...]