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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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Fifth in State!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

This weekend we all went to see Billy wrestle in the State Tournament. This was only his first year in wrestling, but he did amazingly well! I was blown away by all of the huge guys he was wrestling and beating!
Since his school can only have one wrestler per weight class, [...]

Week of Snow

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

This week we have had some very interesting weather. We woke up on Tuesday morning to a blanket of snow on the ground, which melted by Tuesday afternoon. Then on Wednesday, the temperatures were in the 60s. Finally, yesterday it snowed all day! It didn’t being to stick on the ground [...]

A Caleb to English Dictionary

Monday, February 18th, 2008

For those of you who may find yourselves attempting to converse with a toddler in the near future, here are Caleb’s translations of our own English words and names:

Ma-ma = “Momma”
Da-da = “Daddy”
Be-ew = “Boo”
Da-dad = “Granddad”
A-na = “Allan”
In-cee = “Lindsay”
Bi-bee = [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

To all our wonderful friends and family: We love you and thank God for you!
Happy Valentine’s Day!

Billy the Monster

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Here is a video clip of Billy at his wrestling match last weekend. He made the sports segment of the news! To be honest, wrestling isn’t too big in the south, so I don’t know much about it, but this clip is amazing to me! I can’t believe that that blue and [...]