"Everything I Do, I do it for you"
Bryan Adams
What can I say about my guys? That I love them with all my heart? That I'm so glad I've been blessed with such a wonderful husband and two precious children? That, despite the ups and downs, and the hard times, I wouldn't trade my life for anything? Words seem so inadequate to describe the happiness I've had from helping to make this little family. I hope you'll enjoy seeing a little slice of our life so far. |
| I had been working as a data entry operator at Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, MN, and Jim was in the Coast Guard, when we decided to get married. We were married in my hometown of Ramsay, Michigan, on April 30, 1983. Hopefully you saw my wedding album a few pages earlier. We lived in the San Francisco area from May to September of 1983. Then Jim went to a Coast Guard school in New York and I stayed with my parents in Michigan. In March 1984 we went to Morehead City, North Carolina, where Jim was stationed on a bouy tender, the Gentian, at Fort Macon in Atlantic Beach. A year later Jim went to another Coast Guard school, this time in Yorktown, Virginia. We moved to Newport News, Virginia, for the summer of 1985 while he was in school. Then it was back to Morehead City and the Gentian until June of 1986, when Jim was dischared from the Coast Guard. He got a job in southern Maryland, and we moved to King George, Virginia, a small town on the Potomac River. We lived there until September of 1989. |
 Candy, pre-marriage Christmas 1982 |
 Jim in his Coast Guard uniform late 1982 (I think) |
I hope you saw Jeremy's pages.
We still lived in Virginia.
 Candy, Jim, Jeremy, and Howlie In Virginia, May 1988 |
 Candy, Jim, Jeremy Jeremy's first birthday December 1988 |
| Wanting to move closer to our parents, so they could see Jeremy grow up, Jim got a job in a copper mine in the town of White Pine, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula. It was within one hour of each of our parents. We made some very good friends there, and had a lot of good times. |
 Packing the U-Haul, Sep 1989 Moving from Virginia to Michigan |
 Candy, Jim Jeremy, and Howlie Michigan, Oct 1989 |
 Candy, Jim, Jeremy, June 1990 At Jim's brother's wedding |
 Jim and Jeremy, June 1992 While camping at our favorite place Norway Lake, near Jim's parents house |
| Unfortunately, the copper mine closed it's doors in the summer of 1996. Knowing what was in the wind, Jim had taken a job in a lumber mill farther north. He had been driving to and from White Pine for several months, but that was getting tiring, and dangerous. Several times he narrowly missed hitting deer, bear, and coyote. We moved north, to the middle of the Keweenaw Peninsula, at the end of December 1995. We bought a house in an old mining town, as so many towns here are. The house was built around the turn of the century and had been a duplex, as most of the houses in town were. The previous owners had taken out the center wall, and done quite a bit of remodelling. The original siding was cedar shake. The first thing we did was put up new vinyl siding, and new window. That second winter, the house was a lot warmer. We did all the work ourselves. I even climbed up on the scaffolding and put up siding by myself, which I'm very proud of. We still have a lot of work to do inside. |
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August 1996 |
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 Candy and Jeremy, Christmas 1997 |
 Candy, Jim and Jeremy at Jim's other brother's wedding October 1998 I was pregnant with Stephen |
we were blessed with another little boy, In December 1998.
I hope you saw Stephen's page.
 And then there were four Candy, Jim, Jeremy, and Stephen Christmas 1998 |
 Stephen's Baptism, May 1999 |
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Jim's 42nd birthday August 1999 |
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Christmas 2000 |
I'm sure the best is yet to come. Life is an adventure, and I wouldn't want to experience it with anyone else. |
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