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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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Archive for the ‘Work Life’ Category

Off to Orlando

Friday, November 5th, 2004

Well, I leave for Orlando on Sunday and I won’t be back until the 21st. That’s a very long time to be away from home. I’m going to be there for a two week Microsoft Certification course in .NET development. I’m training to be a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). This [...]

Bowling was great!!

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Well, on Wednesday last week, our department went bowling. It was a blast! I hadn’t been bowling for at least a year, so it took me a while to get the hang of it. In the first game I bowled a 121. In the next game we had to granny bowl [...]

Bowling today!!

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

Our group at work is going bowling today! At 2:00 we’re all stopping work, and driving to Millennium bowl to bowl for a few hours. It will be a nice break from work, and will help us to get to know some of the new people in our group.

I really enjoy working for [...]

Problem Solved

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Well, I did have to go back into work today, but only for a couple hours. I got the problem at work fixed, but I still only got to play 6 holes. Oh well…most people don’t even get any Fridays off!!

Golf Interrupted

Friday, June 18th, 2004

It was a lovely morning today. Allan and I went out to Longhills golf course for a round of 18 holes. We were on Hole #3 when I got the call… One of the websites I support went down and they needed me to come in…ON MY DAY OFF!!! So, that’s [...]