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Two Problems

Posted by Mary Beth on Monday, January 18th, 2010

So we’re finally settling in from our recent move over here at the Picker House.  We are feeling very happy and very blessed.   We love our new house; we have lots of room, lots of yard space, and even more toys.  In fact, there’s another thing we have lots of around here:  BOYS. BOY [...]

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REFERRAL!!!

Posted by Mary Beth on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We are overwhelmed, blessed, and absolutely overjoyed to announce that we have received our referral! Monday evening, I got a call from Holt telling us that they had a baby boy waiting for us. He is 2 1/2 months old and itty bitty, but absolutely precious! My arms are already aching for him! I got [...]

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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 sister from [...]

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Fore!

Monday, July 11th, 2005

This weekend was full of relaxation and golf. My wife and I went up to the cabin this weekend. Unfortunately, she had to go take a comprehensive exam for her master’s degree at Harding on Saturday, so my father-in-law and I decided to go brush up on our golf game. We played a round of [...]

Half the dog he used to be

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Well, Boo is back from the vet today. He had a little “operation” yesterday and seems to be doing well. I guess we won’t be seeing any little Boos running around any time soon!

War Eagle!

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

The Fourth of July weekend was a blast! Since some of our plans changed, we decided at the last minute to drive down to Auburn, AL and visit my wife’s grandparents. We had a great time! There was a lot of eating and fireworks involved, and we only had one close brush with death! (Billy [...]

I love long Weekends

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Alan with his Coach of the year award Well, this weekend was great! My friend, Alan, was driving through town on Saturday, so he stopped in and spent the night with us. We had a great night of eating and hours of ping pong. We also found out that he won coach of the year [...]

One Man’s Trash

Monday, May 9th, 2005

This weekend we had a garage sale. It was a HUGE success! We had people coming from near and far just to peruse through our junk. My wife and I have only been out of college for two years now, so when she suggested that we have a garage sale I was a little skeptical. [...]