My home town is Casper, Wyoming, where I lived for the first 28 years of my life. Well... actually 27 and a half, as I was born in Las Vegas and moved to Wyoming when I was just a few months old. Wyoming has the distinction of having the country's first National Park, Yellowstone; as well as the country's first national monument, Devils Tower. I graduated from Casper College, with a degree in drafting, and I am currently working for a structural and civil engineering firm in Anchorage, Alaska. In addition to technical drafting, I also create computer generated renderings like this one of a proposed ice arena in Wasilla, Alaska. Alaska turned out to be the perfect place for me to settle down as I enjoy spending time in the outdoors hiking, camping, riding my mountain bike, cross country and downhill skiing, and anything else that gets me outside. Here in Anchorage the wilderness is right out the front door... literally. Before meeting Kirt, life highlights included jumping out of a perfectly good airplane (with a parachute), getting a blackbelt in karate, and for a month in the summer of 1993 touring Rome, Venice and Florence, Italy. After meeting Kirt I'd have to say the hightlight so far was to be married to him on Whistler Mountain in Whistler, BC, Canada.