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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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Meet George

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 - Home Life & Family
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For Caleb’s birthday, Uncle Allan and Aunt Lindsay gave him a Curious George doll. Caleb has been infatuated with Curious George ever since a friend gave him one of the books last fall, and he loves to watch the Curious George movie. When he opened the present, it was love at first sight. [...]

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Birthday Boy!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 - Home Life & Family, Parenthood
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Today my sweet little Caleb is two years old! I cannot believe that two years ago today I was holding him for the first time. He was born at 3:43 in the morning after over twenty hours of labor followed by a c-section, but he was worth every second of it. He [...]

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England Trip: Days 5 & 6

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 - Travel
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We started day five of our trip by sleeping in, which was very nice, and then we caught a noon train to Windsor. I have always wanted to see an old castle, so I heard that Windsor was the place to go.
The Windsor Castle was amazing and everything I had imagined a castle to [...]

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Day 4:  Oxford

Monday, April 21st, 2008 - Literature, Spiritual, Travel
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On Saturday, we took a one hour train ride from London to Oxford. The trains in England were so convenient and turned out to be a wonderful way to travel around the country. I wish we had such a good rail system back here in the U.S.
Our day in Oxford was [...]

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Day 3:  Bath

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 - Literature, Travel
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On the third day of our trip, we took a train from Paddington Station in London to the town of Bath. I was really excited about seeing Bath; I had read so much about it in Jane Austen’s novels, so I couldn’t wait to see it for myself.
We started at the Roman Baths. [...]

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