Category Archives: Family
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Sara Groves and us
One of the first places of commonality that Jen and I found was in music. We were both passionate about it and managed to talk for a couple hours on the topic during our first date. It was an amazing thing for me to find someone that shared — so closely — my taste in [...]
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Home Study
Coming into our first home study day we had very little idea what to expect. We knew that there would be lots of personal questions, but that’s about the extent of it. Well it turned out that we were right about the personal questions, though we were unaware of just how personal the questions would [...]
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The process continues
It’s been a long time since anything has been written about the adoption, so in this post I’ll try to update you with everything that has happened since I last wrote about it. The PRIDE weekend was good. I went in feeling a little nervous about what kind of people would be in the group. [...]
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The process begins
For a while now Jen and I have known that we wanted to adopt a child someday. A little less than a year ago we decided that it was time for us to start pursuing that goal. We looked around at several agencies, Jen read a couple of books and finally we ended up settling [...]
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Year #2 and a bit
We then spent four days driving through Jackson Hole, Teton National Park and Yellowstone. It was a wonderful time where Sean got to take tons of photos and we, among hundreds of other tourists, were able to see amazing views of nature and creation. We ended our road trip in Twin Falls, Idaho to visit [...]
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Wide Open Spaces
On Wednesday we headed out to Yellowstone National Park. We went up to the west entrance from our place in Victor. Along the way we stopped at Mesa Falls, which is a beautiful set of waterfalls a little south and west of Yellowstone. There are a couple of walkways that lead you down to a [...]
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Into the Mountains
On Tuesday we headed out to Grand Teton National Park. We are staying in Victor, ID, which is about 45 minutes from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which is at the south tip of the GTNP. In between Jackson and Victor are a bunch of mountains, so we had to go over one of the more difficult [...]
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Pingree
On day two of our journey we traveled to Pingree, Idaho. Pingree is a small farming community – there are more cattle than people in the town. Wide open spaces abound, much of which are covered with potato plants. Yes, this is the part of Idaho where the world famous Idaho Russet Potato comes from [...]
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Vacation Rush
It’s odd how vacations, which are supposed to be these terribly relaxing times, always start with a mad rush to get out of the house. From what I understand, once you have kids that rush never ends, but alas I don’t have kids yet. We left last night to go on our summer vacation and [...]
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Our Year in Review
So, here we are at one year, sixteen days, and three and a half hours of marriage. It’s been a great year of changes, adjustments and learning for us. Especially that learning part! What—you don’t like it when I ask you to pick up your shoes four times in one hour? Tell me again the [...]
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