Reed Christopher Cooksey was born at 1:41pm (Pacific) on November 8th. He weighed 10 pounds and is 21 inches long. He has 7 excited siblings and a very beautiful mom. Thank you for your prayers and support. Reed – Reed is the 4th generation “R” Cooksey – All of our other children have Bible names Read more …
Category Archives: Cooksey Kiddos
Article on Hannah in Our Local Paper
This is a link to the story in our paper on Hannah teaching music lessons – click here.
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Congratulations, Micah!
The reason for this post is to praise the Lord for letting us find out about college at home. Micah recently completed his final test necessary to receive his Bachelor’s Degree. It is not final, but everything looks right for his official graduation from Thomas Edison State College to occur on June 4, 2010 (although Read more …
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That Our Boys Will Become Men
I want to recommend two good resources. One is a book titled, “Boyhood and Beyond.” We are not finished reading it yet, but I have been reading a chapter at a time to our family after our family devotions. It is very well written, interesting, and challenging. The second resource is the sermon below. The Read more …
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Micah’s Winning Essay
Allow a moment of personal privilege here today. Micah, our oldest, received word recently that he won a statewide essay contest. The contest was sponsored by the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. I have included his essay below. The formatting and footnotes messed up when I copied and pasted it into this blog window. But you Read more …
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