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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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Allan

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

I’ve found that these family posts are more difficult than I imagined. But, in my attempt to be the kind of person who says the things that should be said, I’ve finally decided to tackle this post about my brother Allan.
I have only a handful of memories of my life before Allan; [...]

Billy Boy

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I have been avoiding this post for several days because it is extremely overwhelming to think of how to sum up Billy in a blog post. As I mentioned in my post about Mihaela, my relationship with Billy had a slightly rocky start. I really did not want to believe that he was [...]

Caleb’s First Masterpiece

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Caleb recently created his first masterpiece with his new crayons.
His new favorite past time is talking on the “phone.” He uses anything from a remote control to a teddy graham as a telephone and walks around the house talking to his imaginary friends. Sometimes he even laughs as if they have [...]

A Little Sister

Monday, September 24th, 2007

My buddy Sam recently inspired me with his series of posts about the members of his family. I thought I would steal his idea and write about the people that make up my family, beyond Casey and Caleb, whom I write about often; if this works out well, maybe we can convince Casey to [...]

Hilton Head 2007

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Last week our family took the long drive to Hilton Head, SC for our summer vacation. We had a blast! We went with my parents and my sister’s family and were fortunate enough to be able to stay at a friend’s house that was right on the beach.
We arrived on Saturday afternoon and [...]