Our family has expanded from our six sons to eight grandsons, one little granddaughter (finally) plus 3 step-granddaughters and of course another boy (step-grandson). Sometimes it does get a little overwhelming when they all show up at our lakehome. It's funny how they're always hungry. My husband Ted and I celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary in Hawaii this year. We married one week after graduation because he was heading to Viet Nam. Since then the years have flown by. We now live in Linwood Township on Linwood Lake so I feel we are country folks. I recently drove down Hwy. 100 and felt totally lost...what happened? We still have our business, which was in video and video gaming, and have expanded to indoor tanning. We represent independent video stores and our goal is to help them diversify. It's been a lot of fun being in the entertainment industry. We've been very fortunate in being able to travel to every state except two (Utah and New Mexico) so hopefully we'll get there too. Our favorite was Alaska and we really want to get back there soon (before we get too old).

Wow...40 years. Hard to imagine but it's been quite a ride.