Jerry & Michelle - 1-800-923-6784

	Jerry	Michelle
Our Education	Bachelor's in Business Administration	Bachelor's of Science in Nursing
Our Professions	Disbursing Clerk, U.S. Navy	Registered Nurse
Stay-At-Home	No	No, but will change my schedule to be able to have more days off.
Our Racial Background	Caucasian	Caucasian
Some of Our Favorites
TV show	Outdoor channel	Lost
Food	Pizza	Thai green curry
Book	Where the Red Fern Grows	The Notebook
Music	Country	Top 40
Place to visit	Seychelles Islands	Australia
Dream vacation	Montana	Alaskan Cruise
More About Our Family
Our Special Interests	We love to travel and experience other countries, cultures and foods. We both love the outdoors: Jerry likes to fish and hunt and Michelle likes to walk the dogs and work in the garden. We also enjoy being at home with each other, working around the house.
Our Faith	We are a Christian family, although we do not attend a church. We live our lives with good values and morals and work hard to instill this in our children.
Our Musical Interest	Jerry loves anything country! Michelle is more into the top 40. We compromise in the car; whoever drives chooses the station!!! In school, Michelle played the recorder and clarinet. Jerry has a guitar and is slowly teaching himself to play. Corey was in school band when we lived in Japan and played the trombone. He did not enjoy the practice that went with playing an instrument, but did enjoy the exposure to music.
About Our Home	Our house is a new four bedroom, three bathroom, two-story brick home. It is set on a half acre lot and has a fully fenced back yard. We have plans to finish the games room and turn the huge attic into a theatre room. We have started working on decorating the nursery.
Our Children	We have an adopted son Corey. He is 14 and he became our son two years ago. Corey is Jerry’s nephew, and we are so grateful and blessed that Jerry’s sister entrusted us with him. He is outgoing, enjoys sports, fishing, hunting and helping his dad grill. He is a boy Scout and loves his camping trips. Jerry has two daughters, Alyssa and Erica, 10 and 13. They live in Japan with their mother. We were stationed in Japan for the last three years to enable us to see them often. Now we keep in touch with phone calls weekly, emails and pictures. They visit us every summer.
We Live in the State of...	Tennessee
Our Neighborhood	We live in a brand new neighborhood; only about 30% of the houses are finished being built. It is a quiet place and we have lovely neighborhood friends. We enjoy cookouts with the neighbors and the kids all enjoy playing in the front yards under sprinklers in the summer, or sledding after our occasional snow.

We Prefer a Child Who Is...

Age of Child An infant up to six months old

Twins We are most certainly open to twins.

Gender We have no preference; we feel that if we were able to have our own children we would not have this choice.

Ethnicity of Child We are open to any race.

Future Contact with Birth Family
We are willing to remain in contact with the birth family with pictures, letters and possibly visits.
Corey’s birth mother is Jerry’s sister, so he has contact with her. His birth father has been mostly absent from his life, but we do call him on occasion to keep in touch and we also let him know if we are near where he lives to give him ample opportunity to see Corey.

Our Promise to You We promise we will provide a home full of love, laughter, lots of hugs, encouragement and the opportunity to follow dreams. Your child will be assured that he or she is truly loved by us, and we will tell him or her their special adoption story and how you are an important part of that story.

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