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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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Moth & Rust

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Casey’s dad forwarded these links to us. He never sends forwards, so I thought it would be worth my time to check it out. It will take you about 20 minutes to watch all of these videos, but I thought this lady had some really interesting insight into our consumption patterns as Americans. [...]

Game Night

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

One of the best things that we did over the Christmas break was a game night with some of our very good friends. My family grew up with the Dell family, and it was so wonderful for all of the “kids” to get together. We ate chili and spent hours playing games like [...]

Six Years

Friday, December 21st, 2007

This week Casey and I will celebrate our SIXTH wedding anniversary. I can’t believe that we have been married for six years; sure it’s not sixteen, or sixty, but six is a substantial amount of time, and we’re proud of it. We’ve both changed so much over the last six years. As [...]

Wake Up, Momma!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

I woke up the other morning to find that a toddler has moved into our house! One night I put my sweet baby to bed, and he woke up the next day a very active and very independent little boy. It really happened so fast. It seems like it was just [...]

Thanksgiving 2007

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

This year we stayed home for Thanksgiving and had dinner with Mary Beth’s family. We had such a wonderful time spending the day with family and laughing together. There was some amazing food, and even more amazing desserts!
Mary Beth made a really neat centerpiece. She took a bare tree branch, cut out [...]