time???

To those who follow our blog? IS there anyone out there? Sorry that I have not written for such a long time. Let me catch you up. We finished January with a wonderful surprise party for Kolby's 18th birthday. We had a good turn out and the kids all seemed to have a good time. The week after that we had a Steelers Super Bowl Party with our friends. Sooooooooooooo happy that the Steelers won!!! Yea!! Kolby and Tae also invited a bunch of friends in for a last minute super bowl party. Then I opened up our home to ? ladies to celebrate the upcoming birth of a baby girl due any day now to Amanda and Sean. We had a nice turn out and I am thankful for Julie and her giving heart. Thanks for all the help!!! We also had the pleasure to watch Kolby wrestle his last high school match :-( The good news was he pinned his guy. Great job Kolby, I hope you heard your little sister yelling go Koooly and your older brother yell "that's my brother!!" We also got to see Tate wrestle and he won actually pinned his guy too!! What a night for the Holdren brothers. The pride we all had for those moments will stay in my heart. I am proud of both of you and I am proud at how your older brother and younger sisters yelled and cheered you both on!! Next I shed some tears as I saw my 2 youngest sons don tux's and clean up for Queen of Hearts dance. How handsome they both looked and how grown up too!! Now girls where were your turtle neck sweaters?? Just kidding. The girls were beautiful and I am glad that my friend Carolyn was able to shere in this special moment. Her sweet daughter Katie was stunning. So now I am getting ready to drive to Pennsylvania to spend some time with my mom. I think Mazie and I will leave Monday or Tuesday if the weather holds out. I sure do miss mom and I am anxious to see her and my grandma. If you think about it please pray for Mazie and I as we travel 9 1/2 hours. "story girl" doesn't mind riding but like her mom she can talk nonstop. I will fill you in later. blessings

Happy belated Kolby and Dru!!!!

Dear Kolby and Dru, I messed up, at least on the blog I did. Last week on Kolby's 18th birthday I thought I had posted some pictures but it turns out I did not. So happy belated birthday Kolby. It is very hard to fathom that my little red headed son is already 18. I am so proud of the man you are becoming. Dru, you turned 23 yesterday!! That is hard to believe too. Thank you for all you have done these past 9 months. I am glad you are here and I am proud of the Godly man you are!! Hope that you both enjoyed you pata and shimp(Mazie's words!!) last night.
On another note please pray for a sweet little boy named Cade. He is special to our family and he is very, very sick right now!! We love you Cade and know that God is already doing great things in your young life and your families!!
bye for now!! Sharry

some photos!!

Mazie makes us wear smiles 99% of the time. Don't get me wrong she does have moments of not being good but the bad is so out weighed by our smiles. Evie too is having fun and prayfully REALLY enjoying her new life. She is often quiet outside the home but here with all her brothers around she "jumps" right in!!

Tomorrow Jay and I celebrate 26 years of marriage!! We are soooo blessed! Thank you Lord!!

chilly!!

Mazie says she is chilly!! I know she is because her little fingers are cold!! We were laying down together to take a nap. After putting all of her favorite stuffed animals on my bed she crawled under the blanket with me. We were cozy together, she sleeps on and I have laundry to do!! The life of a mom. So do we ever catch up?? Kolby and Tate are off to wrestling practice and Evie is with daddy and Dru is with sweet Emily. Time to get back to folding, sorting and hanging clothes!!

our six

This was taken on Christmas day. Britt came home Monday evening and we had a good week together. The girls seemed to enjoy all the activity and we all looked back to last year and when they were not here. It is hard to believe it has been 8 1/2 months already. There have been some tough days but over all the joy sure out weighs those bad moments. We are so blessed to have not only 4 wonderful sons but also 2 sweet, darling girls. Evie and I shopped for her brothers and she had a good time picking out different things for each of them.(Dollar Store!!) Now as we just enjoy some slow days at home we have time to thank the Lord for the laughter the girls have brought to us. We always have been a goofy kind of family but adding Mazie and Evie and their "antics" have just brought out the best in all of us. Mazie will steal your heart. She loves to call her self our "baby girl", something J has said to her from day one. I know that we are "older" parents but I think what our ages make us realize is that time moves on so quickly that you need to grab a hold and go with it!! We are smiling and loving each day and we pray that as the girls grow they will realize just how much they were prayed for and wanted by not only their parents but their 4 older brothers too. Evie finally got her ears pierced yesterday and she looks so sweet. She is coming along in school at a good pace and learning that knowledge is not easy. She has her "moods" because she is a perfectionist but on a whole she is moving forward. Her world has changed so much and she has had a lot to deal with. She does know we all love her and feels good about that so I know the Lord will help her and us with the rest of "it". As a family we have all experienced changes and I hope that you will all pray for us as we continue to work through these changes. We know that this is what God wanted for our family and we pray that others will also reach out to children across the globe that just need to know that someone cares for them and will teach them about the love of our Lord.

December 11th???

Can it all ready be December 11th? Can you believe I have done no shopping at all!! I know what I want to pick up for the boys and the girls but just haven't had the time. I hope to get to it next week. Mazie might be hard though? She wants a hippotumas for Christmas!! HAHA!! Have any of you heard that old Christmas song? It is from 1953. A girl sang it at the concert a couple weeks ago and Mazie loves singing it. She likes the Christmas music and called one of the Santa's "Santa Baby". We are all really enjoying watching the girls as they experience their first Christmas season in the USA.