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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 April, 2007

My Manhood Ceremony

Monday, April 30th, 2007

On Friday evening, we all went over to my in-laws’ house to celebrate Caleb’s birthday, or so I thought. We had a big shrimp dinner followed by dessert and then we moved into the living room to open Caleb’s birthday presents, or so I thought. I noticed that there was a single chair [...]

Choc-o-lack

Monday, April 9th, 2007

This year Casey and I observed Lent for the first time. Neither of us come from church traditions that observe Lent, so we weren’t really sure what to expect, but we hoped that it would be a way to prepare our hearts for Easter. I reluctantly decided to give up chocolate. If [...]