I have many a hobby that keeps me very busy when I let them... The second most time consuming is updating my homepages. The first is rock climbing. Climbing has become my new found passion. If you are in need of a belayer or climbing partner, let me know!! Although I must warn you we've only just begun about a year ago. I am now up to a solid 5.9 soon to start on some 5.10's. I have done a couple 5.10's, but with rests... Everytime we go we get better or notice improvement, so hopefully we'll be pretty damn good by the end of this fall semester!! We have also taken a lead class so now we are trying out a new type of climbing that is much more exciting- maybe a little too exciting. We'll also be starting some outdoor climbing... even more exciting.
Here is a list of all the other things I like to do: hike backpack, do sand art (ma is jealous of my talent), water ski, downhill ski, in-line skate, swim, travel, camp, canoe, rappel, rock climb, read (especially a Koontz book or Robin Cook book), watch movies (especially one of mine!!), write/read poetry, photography, view/find/explore/photograph waterfalls, ice skate, kite fly, horseback ride, dance... And now that I'm 21 I can actually get into the bars to go dancing.. too bad Chu's had to go downhill!! But that's my luck....
Some of my favorite things are the color white and roses. With all of the outdoor stuff I like to do it is probably no surprise that I like to travel and of course take tons of pictures of everywhere I go. One of my favorite places to go is Beauport, if you have no idea what it is just follow the link to find out!!!
As you can tell I am an outdoor person, two summers ago I went out West to visit the many great sights with the fam... Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and San Francisco. The fam and I had some great fun!! I put some cool pics on here that I took... that page also covers my time in Denver from this past summer!!! we'll see about more pics....

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I grew up in a little "town" called Elizabeth. Elizabeth is in the upper Northwest corner of Illinois, opposite Chicago and near Galena. I've lived near or in Elizabeth my whole life (I'm 21 so...) Elizabeth is a nice 3 hour drive from ISU, well actually it is pretty damn boring... just cornfields till Rockford... then hills where I live.
Info on my fam... my parents: Jeneile (mom) picutured on both sides, Greg (dad) with mom on the left, Tiffany (oldest sister), Adam (only brother), and Kendra (youngest sis). My parents also grew up in Elizabeth. Went to high school and graduated together, in addition to being high school sweethearts. After getting a few years of college life they got married and got - the farm... soon we started invading their lives. Yep you read correctly, we used to live on a farm, so I am a farm girl. We had some really good times out there, and actually I still can due to the fact that my good friend Jack lives(d) there. But we ended up moving into town sometime around 1991 - 1992. We did a total make-over of the house and now it looks pretty spiffy. Dad works at M&W Feed Mill (where he spends way too much time...). Tiffany currently works at Great West Life, and lives in Dever, Colorado! Tiff's a computer programer, currently in Visual Basic, and actually doing web development with active x stuff... so not too sure what else she's working on.... Our ultimate plan is get a gym going, where she can do the aerobic part, and I'll start a rock gym part... Adam is still in high school and hopefully will not be another Charles DeMar. He is wanting to go into graphics of some sort and is currently interested in drafting and animation, he is also hoping to move in with Tiff in Denver ... three may be a crowd but we'll see!. Kendra is also in high school (2 more years). She wants to become a ?? maybe a nurse?? She plans on going to Highland at least for a year and who knows from there. She prides herself on being unique and being her true self:) You can catch some pics of them on my