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Evelyn’s Gotcha Slideshow

Posted by Mary Beth on Friday, August 27th, 2010

Here are some of our pictures from our trip. We still plan on writing more very soon, hopefully next week. Special thanks to Zach Cheatham for the airport pictures.

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Josiah’s Gotcha Slideshow

Posted by Mary Beth on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

I can’t believe we get to do this again. Even though this is our second adoption, it’s still frightening, as I assume it would be the third, fourth, or fifth time. It’s always scary to step out in faith into the unknown. But what we DO know is that God is, has been, and will [...]

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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 a little [...]

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Leaving on a jet plane!

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 - Adoption, Travel
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Just found out that we need to be in Ethiopia in four weeks to bring our little girl home.  Yep, we still got a bit of a wait, but I’m so happy to finally have some dates.  Our agency has a huge back log of families waiting to travel, thus the incredible wait. The cool [...]

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Vacation

Vacation

Saturday, June 19th, 2010 - Adoption, Home Life & Family, Travel
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We just got home from our Florida vacation with the Cheathams.  We had a wonderful time with some of our very best friends.  We LOVE the Cheathams and can’t wait to plan another trip with them when Evelyn and Olivia can be part of the group!  I highly recommend becoming best friends with a photographer, [...]

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At the Beach!

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 - Home Life & Family, Travel
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We’re having a great time! No oil to speak of, and the boys have been having lots of fun playing in the water. We’re about half-way through our vacation, so there’s still lots of fun to be had! We’ll post more pics when we get home. Yesterday we went on a dolphin cruise and Josiah [...]

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Giveaway Winners

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 - Adoption
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Thanks to all that have blogged, facebooked, tweeted, and retweeted about our t-shirt fundraiser.  At this point, we’ve sold roughly 150 shirts, which means about $1800 for our travel fund.  THANK YOU! If you would like to order one, please do so NOW, as we are placing our last order with the printer on Wednesday. [...]

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We Passed!

We Passed!

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 - Adoption
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Have you heard the news?  We passed court!  Evelyn Amenech Picker is officially, and forever, our daughter!  We are so thankful to our God who redeems the orphaned and sets the lonely in families. We are hoping to travel to Ethiopia sometime in July or early August to bring Evelyn home. So . . . [...]

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