Our great friends the Stranathan Family and Lighthouse Baptist Churchare throwing an adoption party for the Hines Clan. If you haven’t heard, we are adopting Collin, Abbigail and Ethan Thursday the 17th in Mississippi.
WHOOT!!!!
Date:
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Time:
11:00-3:00
Location:
Lighthouse Church
5735 Dixie River Road
Charlotte, NC 28278
What to Bring:
A covered dish, dessert or drinks to share. Main Course is provided.
Who to Call:
You can contact Us via email
Please RSVP by Wednesday August 24th if you will make it.
We sincerely...
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Tommy cracks me up … but that is a nice picture. For those of you who can’t quite read the text, click on the image to enlarge it....
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When Tracey and I married back in 1991, it didn’t take me long to come to the conclusion that she can’t cook. I mean, she’s a third generation German raised by Italians; and while you might expect some good cooking to come out of that, Macaroni and Cheese is her specialty – six meals out of seven. I cook the seventh meal.
Tracey’s mom works for Kraft, and Tracey loves Kraft Macaroni and Cheese – so you can see how we arrived at this situation. Perhaps I’m being a wee bit unfair here; however, for the first seven years of our marriage I only experienced my wife boiling water,...
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You would think it to be a rather simple thing, an email here, a phone call there, and perhaps a visit. Unfortunately, we find it difficult to maintain the lines of communication that keep us all in touch. Thankfully, there is a slew of technological options to assist in this. For example, we have Twitter for micro-blogging (or mini-updates) throughout a given day, then we have the H57 Blog for more structured updates. The H57 Photo Album attempts to capture and archive those significant (and perhaps not so significant) events that occur in our lives. We can all be found on Facebook in some form...
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One year ago, today (Dec 17th), our family of four exploded into a family of seven. In one fell swoop, we added three additional young ones to the fold. I became a father of five Tracey became a mother of five Samantha suddenly had two younger sisters and brothers Bethany suddenly had two younger sisters and brothers The F150 turned into an E350 All the bedrooms were populated The brief moment of more toilets than necessary returned to dreamland
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We have been struggling against complacency for some time now in an attempt to move from Dreamhost to Mosso (thanks to Joseph Szobody) and are finally making some progress. You will notice that we have now added this site (blog.hines57.com) to Mosso as well as our Photo Album (photos.hines57.com) which means we have two out of three up (we still need to get the wiki set up) and running.
We are happy with the green look and feel, so we will be sticking with that for some time to come. Bear with us while we continue to get our act together!
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Here are some pictures to help sort out which name belongs to which kid, how they are related to each other, and ultimately how they are related to me. I suggest you keep this email handy so that when you read the others you can easily refer back to it and sort out who is who.
We celebrated Beth’s 12th Birthday last Saturday! I’ve uploaded the pictures from the party to the H57 Photo Album, and you can see them here: Beth’s 12th Birthday Party.
Samantha
She’s 14, in the 8th grade, loves to sing (Honors Chorus at school, Adult Choir at church) makes good grades,...
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Whoot! We did it - we completed the 30 hour training to become foster parents! Yeehaaaa!
You would think that after three hours a week for ten weeks they would give you a certificate of something - but no, they just gave us a list of paperwork that we will need to fill out now in order to get our license. :-)
Seriously though, we can now start that application process and sometime in the next 90-days we should get our license and then some children to start living with us!
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How cool is that? She is now the "Executive Administrative Assistent" to Chris Minnix and Paul Greinar (Owners) at Cedar Management Group - reportind directly to Chris Minnix.
She starts on Monday the 2nd of July! Whooot! Go Tracey!!!!
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Tracey has been called back for a second interview today with a small company that manages Home Owner Associations. She's really excited about the opportunity and is hopeful that a second interview is indicative of a promising opportunity.
Her interview is for 11:30am today - about 15 minutes from the time of this writing. So hopefully we will know more this afternoon!
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