FIRST DAY OF MY BLOG
Today is Friday, January 14, 2011. I am beginning a new blog, one that I hope all will be able to get to and enjoy. First I want to tell you a little about myself. I was born in Washington, D.C. 57 years ago this past May. I have lived in Landover and Wheaton, Md., Gatesville, Killeen, and Ft. Hood Texas, Miami, Fla., Stuttgart and Wiesbaden, West Germany, American Fork, Tooele, and Pleasant Grove, Utah. I am the mother of 8 living children, I have a son and a daughter from a previous marriage that lives in Gatesville, Texas. They both are married and still living in Gatesville . I had a son Cody that died 21 and a half hours after birth. And I have 4 sons, and 2 daughters that live here in Utah My four sons here in Utah are all married. And I have 2 gorgeous grandsons- Rylan (who will be 5 in February), Jaden (that will turn 3 in August), and two very beautiful granddaughters- Kambria (will be turning 3 in May) and Zoe was just born the 29th of this past October. I hope as you follow my blog that you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together for you.
After we moved back to Texas, my sister and I lived in Gatesville. My sister and her family still live in Gatesville to this day, but I have been lucky enough to see some more of the country. I did graduate from Gatesville High School in May of 1971 and worked for a year until I married my high school sweetheart David Miller on May 19, 1972. David and I were married for 6 years and had two beautiful children in that marriage. Christopher Michael Miller was born on Saturday, August 10, 1974, and Crystal Michelle Miller was born on Wednesday, May 19, 1976. Crystal was actually born on her daddy's and my fourth wedding anniversary. David worked and still does work for the Texas Highway Dept. as an engineer. And I was a homemaker. And even though my kids are both grown now and Crystal is married I still like to look at this picture of the four of us that was taken when Crystal and I came home from the hospital.
MY ADULT LIFE 
When I was a teenager and shortly after my father remarried, my sister Robin and I went to live with him, my brother and stepmother. Things were not so good as far as my dad finding a job, so my aunt and uncle that lived in Miami talked my dad into coming down there and giving it a try. So the five of us loaded up in the car and headed from Gatesville, Texas to Miami, Fla. At the time I did not want to go because I was at that age where I liked boys and at the time I had a boyfriend. So it was really hard for me to go, but I did and eventually I found out that I really enjoyed living there. And even though it was not for very long it was one of the amazing adventures that I had ever had. While we were there I did attend the Jr. High there and was really enjoying it and making lots of new friends. We also were able to live through a Hurricane while we were there. Luckily it was not a very bad one. But after about 6 weeks my dad was not having any luck and the weather there was too much on my stepmother's asthma, so we headed back to Texas. Once we arrived my sister Robin and I stayed with my grandparents and Reggie my brother went to live in Temple, Texas with my dad and stepmother.
Here it is! As you are going down the hill you will see the town where I grew up. This is Gatesville, Texas. On the right side you can see the courthouse. I can remember the first time that I came to Gatesville from Maryland, I could not believe my eyes. I was so use to things being the way they are here in Utah. Lots and lots of different streets, and where most of the time you have to go from one street to another in your car to get where you want to go. That is unless you are going to the mall and able to find everything there. But in this small town where I grew up most of the major stores were around the courthouse. They call it the town square. Because on each side of the court house there would be little shops and offices. They even had an old western saloon. This was owned by my first husband's uncle, he had this old western saloon that he made into a museum, and also next to it was a Pawn Shop. Since that time things have really changed. My exes uncle is deceased and there no longer is a pawn shop or a museum standing there. One of my favorite things on the square was when Gatesville turned 100 years old and we had a shiveree. There was so much activity around the courthouse as well as other places in Gatesville. Everyone dressed up like in the frontier days and they had booths set up selling stuff like food, crafts and they even had a fiddlers contest on a stage right there in front of the courthouse. Than on Saturday night they had a live band and street dancing. It was so much fun, because it did not cost anyone anything to come and enjoy their selves. Also I remember my grandfather had built a beautiful star that he would go up on the very top of the courthouse every year at Christmas and put it for everyone to see all over the territory. You could see that star for miles and miles, and I remember how proud I was of my grandfather for doing that. Not only had he designed and built it but to go up there being as dangerous as it was and place it on top of the court house. I lived there and went to school from the seventh grade to the twelfth. I married my high school sweetheart there and lived there until I eventually moved away. It is where my family is buried and that includes my son Cody. I will always have very fond memories and love this town. It had become my roots.
After I was born I lived in Maryland until I was twelve years old. That is when my parents divorced and my brother, sister, and I went to Texas to live with my dad's mom and step-father. I really do not remember much about living in Maryland. I do remember going to visit my mom's parents a lot and spending a lot of time with them. We would love going to spend nights with my grandparents. My cousin and I would both love to go and stay there together. We would go into my grandparents room and our grandmother would let us play dress up with her jewelry, and I would love wearing her emerald/diamond ring and some of her pearl necklaces. When we were there our grandparents would take us out to eat Chinese and than we would go bowling. Our grandmother bowled several times a week on a league. But in Maryland they mainly bowled what we called "duck pins". These are small pins with small balls. We would have so much fun when we would go to our grandparents house. I remember my favorite memory of going to my grandparents, was when my grandma would get up early in the mornings and fix us breakfast. She would always squeeze me fresh orange juice, pouched eggs, toast, bacon or sausage. No matter what we wanted at mealtime she would fix it for us. It was almost like eating at a buffet at mealtimes.
Yes, actually I was born in our nation's capital...Washington, D.C. It has been over 50 years ago, since I was born in this fabulous place. I grew up in Wheaton, Md. until I turned the age of 12. I remember growing up and going to school in Maryland, and of the many school field trips that we took to Washington, D.C. I think our school visited every where in the nation's capital that was of interest. This is a picture of our 12th President Mr. Abraham Lincoln at a Memorial that was build for him in his honor. We also visited places like Smithsonian Institute, The Art Museums, and also have been to the White House on tour. These times will go with me through out my life and I will always remember how wonderful all of these places were to see.
Hi Everyone, I guess you could say that I have gotten this itch that I want to do something different with my blog. I hope that each and everyone of you will be patient with me while I am trying to work out the bugs and get it the way that I want. I am trying to go back and start from the beginning of my life and work my way to the present. I know that most of the dates will be from the past year or so, but it is because I am coping the posts from one blog to the other.And you will notice that most of the posts have the same and more recent dates on them. That is because I am going through and translating them from one blog to another. I hope that all of you that I have invited to view this will enjoy and let me know what you think. The reason that I have chosen to do this is because some of my children were alittle worried that just anyone could come on here and see this. So in the past I have had to erase all that I had on them. I hope that I have finally figured it out to put it to private. So read on and enjoy.
Today is Friday, January 14, 2011. I am beginning a new blog, one that I hope all will be able to get to and enjoy. First I want to tell you a little about myself. I was born in Washington, D.C. 57 years ago this past May. I have lived in Landover and Wheaton, Md., Gatesville, Killeen, and Ft. Hood Texas, Miami, Fla., Stuttgart and Wiesbaden, West Germany, American Fork, Tooele, and Pleasant Grove, Utah. I am the mother of 8 living children, I have a son and a daughter from a previous marriage that lives in Gatesville, Texas. They both are married and still living in Gatesville . I had a son Cody that died 21 and a half hours after birth. And I have 4 sons, and 2 daughters that live here in Utah My four sons here in Utah are all married. And I have 2 gorgeous grandsons- Rylan (who will be 5 in February), Jaden (that will turn 3 in August), and two very beautiful granddaughters- Kambria (will be turning 3 in May) and Zoe was just born the 29th of this past October. I hope as you follow my blog that you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together for you.
