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Hello!


Welcome to my page! I'd tell you that you're in for all sorts of excitement, entertainment, enlightenment, and other "E"words that inspire interest and fascination.... but I'd be lying. On a good note, if you stick around, I'm fairly certain you'll find at least a dozen indications that your family is more normal than mine is.

Steve and I recently kicked the World of Warcraft habit (much to Sarah's dismay) and we've gotten back into other hobbies. My cross stitch page is finally getting some love again, so you'll be able to see what I'm keeping busy with when not playing with the rugrats. For the next few months the Work In Progress page will probably be the only one that sees updates, though.

Steve's working harder than ever these days. When he's not doing the Spec Ops thing with his unit, we're out and about giving presentations for our business. What's cool about it is that, even though he's working more than before, he's having a ton of fun with it. As soon as the weather warms up again, he'll be back out in the garage doing his woodworking stuff. You should hear him talk about all the things he's planning to build. When he finally gets started on that stuff, I'll be snapping photos and actually adding some content to his page.

I've decided that sometime this summer or coming fall I'm going to take Steve up on his offer and go back to school with his GI Bill. I'm going to see about taking a formal class on webpage building and some business courses, I think. Nothing overly impressive, I know, but it's stuff I've always been interested in, so why not? Someone told me I'll have to take some academic courses first, but I'll probably just clep that if I can get away with it. *grin* Wish me luck!!

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First warning to all...my page is extremely graphics heavy, so if you've got a slow machine or a slow connection, please be prepared to wait just a little bit.



I took the very old pictures of the kids off the front page here. At some point, I'll replace them with some more recent ones, but until I do that, follow the link to studio pics taken in July! Thisaway!! ----->



This is us!


This portrait was taken on Hunter's first birthday back in May of 2009. (We still don't know why Hunter was so fond of trying to choke on his hands.) Sarah was 10 and Heather was 2½ in this shot. Believe it or not, I was 33 and Steve was 32. It's the most recent family picture we have and I have no idea when anyone will be able to coax Steve and me into another picture, so enjoy this while it's here!


Well, we can't leave out the furry members of the family......



This is Sarah's cat, Calli. Born January 24th of 2006, she was a nightmare as a small kitten and I really wasn't sure we were going to be able to keep her. But, she's finally stopped the hourly howling and turned into a very sweet cat. Unless of course, there's a strange animal near any of the windows. Then she reverts back to her banshee days and has the tendency to frighten people a county away. The only time she didn't literally attack the window in an attempt to get through it was back in Washington when Ft Lewis had a mountain lion roaming the housing area. We never saw anything, but by the time we got to the window to see what the noise outside was all about, Calli was crouched under Sarah's bed and shaking so badly she was losing fur.







Here's Lea, otherwise known as "roadkill". Bet you'll never figure out why we'd call her something like that!! Lea was born around April 15th of 2006 and is the poster child for aloof. She can be very affectionate as long as it's on her terms and only on her terms. She's very vocal about not having her stomach touched or being picked up. She's now too large to blend in with the carpet but when she was a kitten no toe was safe! (Oh, and I swear her legs AREN'T broken!!)