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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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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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Our England Trip: Days 1 & 2

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 - Travel
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Mary Beth and I just returned from a week-long trip to England! Having never been outside the U.S., I was extremely excited to see everything that England had to offer. After seeing so many amazing things we couldn’t possibly combine it all into one post, so we’re going to split up our trip [...]

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Fresh Design

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 - Hobbies, Random Thoughts
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I’ve decided to freshen up our site for spring. The weather is starting to get warmer and I wanted the site to reflect that. I’ve always thought that my last name is quite unique, so I wanted to make a play off of that by changing the site name to “Pick*nic.”
The new theme’s [...]

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Fifth in State!

Monday, March 17th, 2008 - Home Life & Family
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This weekend we all went to see Billy wrestle in the State Tournament. This was only his first year in wrestling, but he did amazingly well! I was blown away by all of the huge guys he was wrestling and beating!
Since his school can only have one wrestler per weight class, [...]

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