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  • December31st

    Farewell 2010

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Home Life & Family

    The year of 2010 has been a year of incredible blessings for our family, but it’s also been a whirlwind of activity and change. It’s amazing to think that a year ago, we had not decided for certain if we were ready to pursue our second adoption. We didn’t even click “send” on our application to Holt until January 7, and here we are, less than a year later, with our baby girl who’s been home for nearly five months. What a completely unpredictable blessing!

    We are so thankful for Evelyn. We know that God hand-picked her for our family, and her beautiful smile and precious giggle bring us so much joy. And while, the process was not at all what we expected, we see God’s hand in it, providing for both her and us.
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  • December30th

    Christmas with the Pickers

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Home Life & Family

    Our Christmas was beautiful, loud, fun, crazy, sweet, overwhelming, and slightly out-of-control, all the things we’ve come to expect from life here at the Picker house.

    One of my favorite new traditions that we began this year was our Jesse Tree. The Jesse Tree was a great way to celebrate Advent with young children. Every night we read a story from our Jesus Storybook Bible . . . Read More | Comments

  • December23rd

    No Room

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Adoption, Living Radically

    “And she gave birth to her firstborn son

    and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger,

    because there was no room for them in the inn.”

    No room. I’ve been thinking of that lately. God reaches down and takes on flesh. The author of life wraps himself in skin and bones and becomes a baby because of His great love and mercy for us, but we didn’t have room. There was no room in Bethlehem, no room at the inn.

    It speeds past like a line from a children’s nursery rhyme. Sometimes I don’t even hear it . . . “no room.” On to the shepherds, on to the angels, we march, forgetting that there was a whole town sleeping nearby. A whole town, and not one room available.

    And I’m sure their lives were filled with good things, those people in Bethlehem. Cooking and cleaning, and raising a family. Earning an income, providing for their children. And yet there was no room, no time for what God was doing just around the corner.
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  • December22nd

    Nine Years

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Home Life & Family

    Nine years ago, three days before Christmas, I said “I do,” to an amazing man. People said we were crazy to get married that close to Christmas, only the first of a series of times that we would be told we were crazy. I hope we never quit hearing it.

    Our Christmas wedding was beautiful. It was chilly outside, but inside the church we were surrounded with love and warmth. My daddy gave me away, and Casey’s dad pronounced us “husband and wife.”
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  • December20th

    It’s a Wonderful Life

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Home Life & Family, Inspiration

    Last weekend my family came over to watch It’s a Wonderful Life together. It’s a family tradition to watch it every year. We’ve watched it so many times that we can quote almost every line, and we know all kinds of trivia, like which ear George was deaf in, what Annie is actually saying in her last line, whose portrait hangs in George’s study, and the name of Uncle Billy’s wife.

    So we piled in our living room and snuggled in to watch the movie, quite a challenge with five kids under five running around. It’s one of my favorite moments of the year. I love sitting close to my dad while we watch, since I’ve watched it so many times from his lap. He and this movie are so intertwined in my heart that I could never pull them apart.
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  • December18th

    Fresh Look for Picker Point!

    Author: Casey | Posted in: Projects

    We’ve been needing an overhaul on our site for a while, but it’s so hard to find the time between work and life with three kids! We had our previous design on the site for almost two years, so it was definitely time for a change. Thanks to my friend, Zach Cheatham, for the amazing family photos that we’re using throughout the site.
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  • December7th

    Well FUNDED!

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Living Radically

    This a little late, but in case you didn’t hear . . . OUR WELL IS FUNDED! Go on over to our Charity:Water page and check it out! We had 3 months to raise $5,000, but we did it in just TWO MONTHS! Thank you, thank you to everyone who helped us. We were amazed at the response.

    Because of your help, we will now be able to provide clean water to a community of 250 people for at least 20 years. In the next year or so, Charity:Water will contact us with the location and coordinates of our well. We should also get pictures. We’ll be sure to share with you as soon as we hear.

    Now we’re moving on to bigger and even-more-exciting plans. More to come on how we’re continuing our quest to never be “normal” again!

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