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Hello everyone.
Just an update about Kolby and Tate they arrived safely home on Sunday. They had a wonderful summer at Triple R and we are thankful for that opportunity for both of them.
Evie visits her school on Friday and we will meet her new teacher. Kolby and Tate both have their schedules now but Kolby's is missing a couple classes. He is off to Broughton tomorrow to get it fixed.
It is sad to see our summer gone but we are thankful for all the special times we have had.
Thank you to all of you reading this "every day, umdrum stuff" about our family. We are a family trying to live for the Lord each day. We aren't perfect but we are saved!!! God bless you tonight. Now go get some chocolate ice cream and put chocolate syrup on it. That's Evie's favorite!! :-)

pizza night

Hi all, It is raining outside and the girls are inside keeping busy. Evie has her doll house set up in her room and she is listening to her new worship cd very loudly!! Mazie is singing in the sunroom. She thinks noone is listening but I can hear her sweet voice.
Kolby and Tate are coming home this week-end. I have really missed them but I am glad that they have had this experience at Triple R this summer.
Nothing new going on here. It's pizza night which is Evie's favorite. She had a shot this morning and is done for a little while. It was cool to talk with the nurse. She has been her in NC for a year and is a sweet Christian. She commented that she thinks that it is neat to see so many adopting families here in the south.
Dru interviewed for an assistant manager job yesterday. He is still on God's "waiting" list. I have been thankful to have him here with us and his sisters. I know that there will be a time that God calls him in a different direction.
I have had a week where I have really missed my mom. I know that God's plan is for us to be here but the distance from mom, Grandma and the rest of my family is something I still really have not gotten used to.
Thank you for your friendship and your support. I love you all!! Hey Ellen, I am praying for you. Consider yourself"kicked in the butt!!"

excuse me!!

Please excuse the last post. I was trying to enter a contest to win a very cute outfit for Mazie. I am so computer "dumb".
All is well here. Today is 4 months in America with our beauties!! They are both wonderful girls and it has been basically a joy!! Evie is doing well with her English and she is looking forward to 3rd grade starting in a couple weeks. She has been working on her letters and words and we have fun rearranging her sentences. She stayed up and cheered for the USA team to walk into the Olympics and was about to say her prayers when I called her back down to watch the Ethiopian team walk in. We have enjoyed watching the events together and like most girls loves the gymnastics. It has been a busy summer but a good one too. What did we do last summer? There have been so many firsts for our new daughters. I continue to pray that I will be the mom they need not only today but tomorrow and as they grow. Kolby has his camera at Triple R so we do not have the memory card to post updated pictures. We will try to do that next week. Mazie what a sweetie. Her and I have been walking together or at least I have been walking and she gets to ride in the stroller. We love to sing very very loud and she only once in a while says" be quiet". Each morning she looks for her poople! Let me explain poople is people and she eats Cheerios for breakfast and there are people on the back of the box. At camp she was fascinated with all the poople coming to camp. Now she has noticed that there are poople every where.
Kolby and Tate return home on Friday or Saturday and I have really missed them. Mazie has been wanting to ugg them ever since they left. Please pray for them as they travel. They drove out there themselves in the Neon. (it is 13 years old)
Hey, by the way no one has sent me their email addresses. Please email me at jayandsharry@nc.rr.com so that I can start my new address book. Take care blessings to all of you. I hope that you have as good of a day as I will have!! Sharry

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So sorry that it has been so long since my last update. What a wonderful time we had at Mahaffey. The girls were dedicated by my brother and all of my family was there except my brother Dan. The girls looked beautiful in their Ethiopian dresses and Jay and I also wore our clothes that we bought in Ethiopia. Evie is doing very well and we are happy to say that she seems pretty settled into the family. She has begun to test more but this is common. As an 8 year old she is mature but she has a silly, playful side too. She loves any type of game but she does not like to lose. At camp we met a CWA family that adopted 3 children in Jan. 07. Evie liked talking to their oldest daughter and the family only lives about 3 1/2 hours away so possibly we can get together with them again. My brother David is in that area too. Mazie is still the bright sunshine that shines so brightly. What a tug to my heart when that sweet voice says "I love you mama!" She usually gets up in the morning ready to go (just like her mama). I pray that Jay and I are the parents these girls need and that our family is the family they need too. We know that with out a doubt that God placed these girls with us. As their language improves we look forward to teaching them about God's love for them and us. I will update again soon but need to run to see why Mazie is calling me. Blessings