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Evelyn’s Gotcha Slideshow

Posted by Mary Beth on Friday, August 27th, 2010

Here are some of our pictures from our trip. We still plan on writing more very soon, hopefully next week. Special thanks to Zach Cheatham for the airport pictures.

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Josiah’s Gotcha Slideshow

Posted by Mary Beth on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

I can’t believe we get to do this again. Even though this is our second adoption, it’s still frightening, as I assume it would be the third, fourth, or fifth time. It’s always scary to step out in faith into the unknown. But what we DO know is that God is, has been, and will [...]

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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 a little [...]

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From Disobedience to Donuts

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Mary Beth and I have been struggling to come up with incentives to help Caleb obey. It seemed like whatever punishment or reward we would try, he just wasn’t interested in being obedient. After thinking on the matter for a while, we decided to come up with a “Behavior Chart.” For every day he is [...]

Sunday’s Coming…

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Praise the Lord that Friday wasn’t the end!

No TV?!?

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Mary Beth and I have always tried to carefully limit the amount of TV that Caleb watches, but still too often find ourselves using the TV to give us a break from parenting. I recently read a blog post about some parents who found themselves too far down that road and how they struggled to [...]

Imagine the Potential

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I love this video: What are your thoughts?

Caleb’s Christmas Story

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Merry Christmas from the Pickers! Watch the Video