Our Wedding - October 20th, 2006

Here is a super short history of my family. I am the youngest of four children. I have one brother, Kevin, who is 10 years older than me. I also have two sisters, Krista and Karin, who I think are 8 and 4 years older than me but I honestly often forget what the exact difference is and never have the motivation to calculate it. My parents Larry and Norma, both Indiana natives and Purdue University graduates, got married in 1959.
They lived in East Lansing, Michigan while my dad was getting his PhD at Michigan State, then moved to North Judson, Indiana and then to Terre Haute where they are today. While they've grown deep roots in Indiana, my parents travel a lot, sometimes so much that I can't keep track of where they are. When we were younger they used to take us on summer roadtrips all over the US such as San Francisco...


Colorado...

Florida...

We used to buy stickers in each state and stick them on the side of our station wagon's trailer. This is where my love of travel came from.

My grandparents have long since passed away and I miss them. My grandma Rebecca and grandpa Nelson lived on a farm in Royal Center, Indiana where we'd spend time at holidays and in the summer, going bowling, playing Bunco and croquet, walking to the 'crick', gardening, listening to silly jokes, visiting the county fair, and drawing pictures in the nap of the fuzzy brown chair with our fingers.

My grandma Beulah and grandpa Charles Beymer lived in Montpelier, Indiana. They're pictured here on the right. Grandma Beulah could make a mean chocolate pie *and* kick your butt in Bid Euchre. I have decent sized extended family that still lives in the Montpelier area.


So that's a super short introduction to my family. Please introduce yourself to them at the wedding!