For more fun....as we all need it.

Jordan - 26 - Welder, married with two kids- building a new home a mile down the road from us
Krista - 22 - she's a paramedic in STL (1.5 hours away)
Ethan - 19 - mechanic working with his dad in our shop - moved out about a month ago (30 minutes away)

Daughter is 26, she is married and teaches fourth grade. She is also getting her masters degree in counseling.
Matthew is 23, he has a degree in Emergency Management, he works for our county.

Ds is 34 and is a sheetmetal worker. He has been dating his gf for 7 yrs. He is buying his first house and has turned the oversized garage into a music studio. He has local musicians there a few nights a month. 

Dd is 27 and works in collections. She has been dating her bf for 2 yrs. They are a very good couple and seem very happy.

Youngest dd is 17 and still lives at home. She will be a senior in high school this year. She is very involved in 4-H, decca and GSA. She has been dating her 1st bf for 1 yr. They are very active and always doing something, from going to the movies to hikes or snowboarding. 

Jared-is turning 16 in a few weeks. He will be in the 10th grade this year (home schooled). He plays a lot of video games and will be taking some community college classes on video game programming this fall. Since he has Asperger's and a few other issues, we are taking it very slow getting his learners permit and such. Since he is home schooled, I have to do paperwork to be a legit Drivers Ed teacher, which is going slow as I have a hard time getting off work in order to get to the DMV.

Emmy-is 13.5 years old. She is an "old Soul", very nurturing, very caring. She is entering the 8th grade this year (home schooled). She loves to bake, and would love to have a bakery as an adult. Her schooling is focused on culinary arts. She is also learning mechanic skills as she wants to learn to drive my old Jeep, which always seems to need to be tinkered with, lol.

DS is 17, and very into power lifting (won the National championships a while back), and with that and school he doesn't have time for much else.

DD is 10, loves horses, dogs, cats and especially her four pet bunnies, drama school and her friends. She thrives at school and wants to be a vet or an actress when she grows up.

Will is 18 and headed to college at the end of the summer to study clarinet performance. He wants to work in classical music -- be it performance, library, business, or whatever. He's in Western Mass with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute youth wind ensemble for July.
Jane is 21, just graduated from college, and started work as a software engineer a few weeks ago. So far, she really likes it. This weekend she and her boyfriend are moving into their first apartment.

Dd 20 will be a college senior in August (ack! how did that happen?). And actually I should give her age as "almost 21" because she's counting the days till Aug. 12 when she will be 21. lol At the moment she's doing nothing but laying on the couch recovering from knee surgery. She's been occupying her time between physical therapy appointments by watching TV, Netflix, surfing around online, doing things on her phone, coloring, and enjoying visits from friends.

Ds 24 will be starting college in August. He took several years off, worked, did an internship, etc. and we're thrilled that he's decided to go to school. He lives in Georgia but he's here for the summer, working as director of a camp that he's worked for since he was 14. He was a camper, then hired as an unpaid counselor-in-training, then as counselor, now as director of this camp (while the owner directs a camp in the next county over). 

I'm enjoying having them both home, although waiting on dd is starting to get old for both of us. She is SO ready for the orthopedist to unlock the knee of her brace so she can bend it a little bit! And to give her permission to put weight on that foot. Our appointment is this coming Friday so we will see....

I have a 15-year old son going into 10th grade. When not glued to his phone, he is mountain biking.

J

Emma, age 17, is in the process of getting her driver's licence ... her test is on Friday ... hopefully she passes   

She spends most of her time with her long term boyfriend and her best friend and texting and taking selfies   

Molly, age 13, is also into texting and taking selfies   

She also competes in cattle penning ... a rodeo sport where a team of three riders separate certain calves from a herd and pen them ... it is a timed event but she often wins money even this is her first year   

Both dd's danced for years but decided a couple of years ago that it just wasn't for them anymore ....

DS#1 is almost 27. He is a senior account manager for a small software developer. He lives in Philadelphia and loves movies, live music, and hanging out with his friends.

DS#2 just turned 23. He is student teaching in the fall and then he is hoping to find a job as a high school social studies teacher. He would like to move out west somewhere. I am hoping it works out for him and hoping it doesn't for me, all at the same time. He enjoys reading, computers, and travel and does home micro-brewing in his free time.

Great picture of beautiful sisters!

DD is 34, has a very well paying job, recently married to a wonderful man and they are updating her house to get it ready for sale. She is also a Pea who rarely posts but does lurk on here.

DS, 36 - works for Heath Ceramics forming dishes and bowls and stuff. In his off time he volunteer teaches sailing to wounded veterans in San Francisco Bay
DD, 33 - works for a plant nursery, is a certified massage therapist and mom to dgs age 7
DD, 30 - is a Medical Assistant in the Urology office at a hospital

DD1 is 12 almost 13 and she spends her time reading, playing video games, drawing, writing stories, and she dances. She loves ballet and has just changed dance studios so she can focus completely on ballet.

DS is 10 and he spends his days playing video games, watching Star Trek, and playing golf. He recently started taking golf lessons and he loves it. DH hasn't played in years but DS got him out on the course yesterday. They had a blast.

DD2 is 7 and she is constantly moving. She never sits still unless it is to watch My Little Pony or Casper on Netflix. She also dances but she really wants to try basketball. Her Tball coach from the spring is friends with the high school basketball coach and he told the basketball coach to keep an eye out for my dd. I guess that means we get to add something else to our busy schedules.