about me


Yes, that's me!


baby pic
frame by Deah

Wasn't I cute! And no, that's not a tin type. That's my great aunt Kate there along with me. I was her "Little Sunshine" and she was probably the most influentual person in my early life. I lived with her for awhile when I was about 2 or 3 yrs. old, and then the whole family on and off through most of my school years.

I didn't arrive in this world the usual way. They tell me I got in a hurry and was born in the car just outside the hospital. I was going to be the first in the family to be born in a hospital. I had two older sisters and later a brother and two more sisters. The youngest Deah, is the one that got me started on PSP and now....HTML lessons with Budding Gurus...right now I'm not sure if I want to thank her or kick her!!! Really, she has been a great help and inspiration to me.

Guess I was born with wheels in my blood. I spent 32 yrs. driving a school bus, and 17 of those years I also was transportation supervisor for our school. I not only drove a route, but also did activity trips with classes and teams. I Also did minor repairs on the buses. I retired 8 years ago and still do some sub. work.



bus

plaque






50th. anniversary picture

our wedding

We celebrated our 50th wedding Anniversary March 27th. 2010. We had a wonderful time. We renewed our vows with our grandkids, Katie, Erica, Stephanie and Joshua providing music for the ceremony.
Our girls organized the whole celegration including a catered dinner afterwords.


Our whole family together at our Anniversary celebration


family picture


We had five children. The oldest Ronnie (1960-61) and the youngest Jason (1972-99) have passed away

. Laurie is our oldest daughter and Lives in Las Vegas and is a RN, She is married to Dan who is very involved in the insurance business.

Laurie and Dan


Katie is 26 years old and a RN. She will soon become a nurse practioner.

Katie

Joshua is 21 and studying at the International Academy of Technolozy. He is planning on marrying Megan in the fall.


josh and megan


Brianna is Dan's daughter and our no. 8 granddaughter. She is still in High School.


Brianna


Terresa is our second daughter. She has a degree in Education and is now teaching in the juvenal detention school and loves it.
She is also a reserve officer for the sheriffs department and the mother of five children.


Terresa


Stephanie, her oldest (22) Will soon graduate from Clearwater Christian Collage and will be teaching elementery education.
She is very talented on the piano also.

stephanie


Erica is 19 and has a beautiful voice and has gotten 1 ratings at state level. She is now working at Walmart. She is interested
in getting into the medical field.


Erica


And last but not least is the three younger ones. Andrew(15), Hannah(13) and Samuel (11)
They keep life interesting...that's their jobs. We enjoy their trips here for the summer.
Love hiking and trips to the park and zoo. Hannah is becoming a good cook,Andrew likes cross country running
and Samuel likes creating action video moves.

Andrew, hannah, samuel


Our Lisa, She is doing so well and we're seeing little new awareness all the time.


Lisa



Lisa is our youngest and she has Rett Syndrome. Rett Syndrome is a disorder of the nervous system caused by a sporatic mutation in the Mcp2 gene. Lisa's mutation is 754DelG. It occurs almost always in girls. Normal developement to the age of 6 to 18 months is followed by regression, lost of motor skills, speech, and hand use. Lisa now has her own page. Please visit it. She is now 42 yrs. old and requires complete care. We have modified our home so we can care for her. She is immobile, non-verbal, seizure disorder and all feeding and medications are by G-tube. She is a joy to have around and we are blessed to have her even if it does limit our activities now.

We have always enjoyed traveling and I have visited all but 7 of the states. Actually I was in Hawaii when it became a state.
Camping and hiking are other outdoor activities I enjoy. We have some friends that we camp with and it's always a lot of fun. Getting Lisa in the RV is a challenge! But we've figured a way.
I also enjoy gardening, PSP, Taking pictures of most anything, Scart (you'll learn what that is if you go to the next page. And I must not forget HTML, It will be a lot more fun when I finish this final assignment!
I have a collection of bells, I've lost track of how many. I would guess there are over 600 now! I'm running out of room for them. My first was a bell given to me by my oldest daughter,Laurie. I remember it quite well because she had bought it for me for Christmas. She was only 9yrs. old at the time and she broke it while wrapping it. She didn't know what to do, so she told me and I glued it back together and told her to wrap it and I would forget what it was by Christmas time.

Our church is an important part of our lives. It celebrated it's 50th. year in 2009. We had a great time. I have taught a Sunday School class for 46 yrs. One of my favorite things is singing, Always with someone else. Never had the nerve to sing by myself, but since I sing alto, that's alright. When our kids were home we did a lot of family specials together. I play around with the piano, organ, guitar and dulcimer, but never quite mastered any of them. I never had the opportunity to take lessons.

I've always liked to have some sort of critters running around. We have 6 acres so there is plenty of room for them to roam. We don't have as many as we used to, but still have a dog,Tessie, 6 cats and 7 chickens. There's also all kinds of wild life around. Snakes, skunks,oppossum, raccoons, deer, bobcats, fox, armadillo only to name a few.

I like the challenge of learning to do something new. I usually teach myself mostly. I've done some workworking, helped build 2 decks, lay carpet and flooring, work on cars and most anything that would need to be done around the house. Summer garden is always a big project and I used to can 100's of qts. of vegetables each summer. I don't do that anymore.

Well that should give you a pretty good idea "About Me". Enjoy the rest of your journey.



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