Team Campbell

I saw this sign on a trail less than a half a mile from our house... Allow me to draw your attention to the very bottom: Gulp! I didn't sign up for this....

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Shortly after we arrived in Washington, it was time for Bethany to try solid foods. We started with baby rice cereal . In spite of my worries that she wasn’t ready, everything went well. As it turns out, Bethany is… wait for it… a spoon prodigy . Very quickly, she managed to swallow...

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Many of you already know that I’m a lover of blue cheese. In fact, my lust for fungus-ridden old milk goes so far as to prefer consuming it directly from the brick . It’s really quite disgusting. Today at work , the cafeteria ran out of blue cheese dressing. Normally, this wouldn’t...

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I can’t believe it! Bethany is six months old. Every parent I know tells me to enjoy the first year, that it goes by so quickly. I always nod in agreement, but it never seems to sink in. Until now… I knew she would grow quickly, but I never thought she’d be noticeably taller this week...

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My delicate flower. Sigh…...

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The best of intentions. I know it’s cliché, but we had the best of intentions to keep our family and friends updated with the day-to-day details of our move to the Pacific Northwest. We even had aspirations to blog our trials and tribulations in near real time , allowing our loved ones to...

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First, let me give all of our family and friends a big fuzzy "Thank you!" Your help and support over the weeks since we've decided to accept Dustin's job offer at Microsoft has meant so much to us. Our parents labored with paint brushes, hammers and cans of Pledge to prepare our house for sale...

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Alas! While exciting, moving to Seattle isn't necessarily a total win. Allow me to highlight a few unique features of the Northwest Ohio area that we'll be leaving behind (with my tongue placed firmly in cheek, of course). Tony Packo's Tony Packo's : home of the greatest Hungarian hot dogs known to man...

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On Sunday, May 11, we will be participating in the baby dedication at CedarCreek Church . During the 12:30 service, Dustin and I will stand in front of the congregation to promise to raise Bethany to know God and to ask for guidance in our duties as parents. The pastor will pray for us and each of the...

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Grandma and Grandpa Campbell (and Maggie, too) come to visit Bethany on a regular basis. On these visits, we do all sorts of fun things, like going out to dinner and mending fences. In between activities, there's lots of time for cuddling. And Bethany is looking forward to the day when she's big enough...

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