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Two Problems

Posted by Mary Beth on Monday, January 18th, 2010

So we’re finally settling in from our recent move over here at the Picker House.  We are feeling very happy and very blessed.   We love our new house; we have lots of room, lots of yard space, and even more toys.  In fact, there’s another thing we have lots of around here:  BOYS. BOY [...]

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REFERRAL!!!

Posted by Mary Beth on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We are overwhelmed, blessed, and absolutely overjoyed to announce that we have received our referral! Monday evening, I got a call from Holt telling us that they had a baby boy waiting for us. He is 2 1/2 months old and itty bitty, but absolutely precious! My arms are already aching for him! I got [...]

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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 sister from [...]

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Hard work finally pays off!

Hard work finally pays off!

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005 - Work Life
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The new Grace Chapel church of Christ website has finally gone live! This marks the end of a lot of hard work and many hours spent tweaking the site to get it just right. Of all the sites I’ve developed, I’m most proud of this one. I really feel like my design and programming skills [...]

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Xbox 360 Specs Video

Xbox 360 Specs Video

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 - Tech
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I’m sure most of you have heard about the new Xbox 360 that will be coming out sometime this year (maybe by Thanksgiving?). I stumbled across this video today and it cleared up some of the fuzziness surrounding the Xbox 360′s specs. I’m not much of a gamer, but I do like to keep up [...]

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I love long Weekends

I love long Weekends

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 - Home Life & Family
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Alan with his Coach of the year award Well, this weekend was great! My friend, Alan, was driving through town on Saturday, so he stopped in and spent the night with us. We had a great night of eating and hours of ping pong. We also found out that he won coach of the year [...]

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Store Wars!

Store Wars!

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - Cool Sites
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This is hilarious! It’s a Star Wars parody that takes place in a super market. I thought this post would be appropriate today, considering Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith came out last night at midnight. The movie has gotten great reviews so far, and is supposedly the best movie of the three [...]

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One Man’s Trash

One Man’s Trash

Monday, May 9th, 2005 - Home Life & Family
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This weekend we had a garage sale. It was a HUGE success! We had people coming from near and far just to peruse through our junk. My wife and I have only been out of college for two years now, so when she suggested that we have a garage sale I was a little skeptical. [...]

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