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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 October, 2007

Allan

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

I’ve found that these family posts are more difficult than I imagined. But, in my attempt to be the kind of person who says the things that should be said, I’ve finally decided to tackle this post about my brother Allan.
I have only a handful of memories of my life before Allan; [...]

Praying for Rain

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

This has been a hot, dry summer for those who live in the state of Georgia. My parents and sister live in the Atlanta area and have mentioned on several occasions just how little rain they have received this summer. Everyone in North Georgia has even been banned from watering their lawns since [...]

Billy Boy

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I have been avoiding this post for several days because it is extremely overwhelming to think of how to sum up Billy in a blog post. As I mentioned in my post about Mihaela, my relationship with Billy had a slightly rocky start. I really did not want to believe that he was [...]