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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 December, 2006

A Major Milestone

Monday, December 18th, 2006

My brother-in-law, Allan, graduated from college with a BA in Psychology on Saturday. It was a proud moment for all of our family as we watched him accept his diploma and walk across the stage.
When I first met Allan he was 15 years old and on the brink of rebellion. Over the next [...]

Christmas Thievery

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Imagine that you are an average man or woman living on a fairly busy street. As it is Christmas you have decided to celebrate the season by displaying on your lawn the plastic light up Nativity scene that you have exhibited every year for the last decade.
Now perhaps you are somewhat attached to this [...]

Celebrating Advent

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Our family has decided to celebrate the season of Advent this year. I had heard of Advent before, but we didn’t officially celebrate it when I was a child.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Advent, I found a brief description on Wikipedia:
“Advent (from the Latin Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, “the coming of the [...]