Category Archives: Family

Things I Want to Remember, Vol. 22

The night Abby Kate got to play goalie.

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Things I Want to Remember: Vol 21 (Super Tiger to the Rescue)

Joshua wrote this short story the other day for Jackson. It’s called Super Tiger to the Rescue. I’m preserving it here, spelling and all, with my translation notes in parentheses. I smell another Hollywood blockbuster superhero-origin-story here. Once ther lived … Continue reading

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All Things New

And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” — Revelation 21:5 A few weeks ago, we decided to get away for a short vacation. On the heels of an extremely busy summer, … Continue reading

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Finish Strong

A few years ago, I wrote about my respect and appreciation for my father-in-law, Alan Shates. In that blog post, I recounted the story of our twins who spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after being born … Continue reading

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Nine

Today is a special day around the Bybee home: we are celebrating Abby Kate and Joshua’s birthday! It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since these two were born. We used to joke that most people get to … Continue reading

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Things I Want to Remember, Vol. 20

It’s been a while since I’ve made one of these posts. I hope I can remember everything I wanted to post here! I really want to remember the prayers Joshua leads. Tonight at dinner, he thanked God for our nation, … Continue reading

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The Story: Given to the Lord

There was a ceratin man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, and Ephraimite. He had two wives; … Continue reading

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April Showers…

…brought these to our little part of the world.

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The Greatest Day

Last Friday, I took the boys camping. Ever since our Disney camping trip back in the fall, they’ve been begging to go again. Of course, it’s been much too cold to seriously consider it, but with spring time weather finally … Continue reading

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My card

Here is the card I found on my desk this morning from my kids.

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