Our Daughter Leslie

This is a picture of our youngest daughter Leslie and her husband Mike. They have been married for a year now and still just as crazy as they were when they were dating. In fact the thing I like the most about them is that they have not stopped dating one another. Mike has been a very welcome addition to our family.

This is Leslie's second marriage. The first one was supposed to be the perfect one and all looked very good until after they got married then things started happening unfortunately. I enjoyed her first husband because we would go shooting or whatever. Come to find our later that he literally hated our family with me being the exception. Leslie quickly found that he had a dark side that he had kept very well hidden. He was into pornography major time, could not hold a job and became physically abusive which is something I have no tolerance for. At first I thought she was making a mistake in getting a divorce but now I support it 110%.

Mike, on the other hand, is what every parent hopes for in a husband for their daughter. Leslie and Mike both work for Utah Valley State College in the aeronautics program. Mike is a licensed A&P mechanic and is working on getting his commercial pilot's license; Leslie is a student counselor for the school helping students get whatever they need to get into the flying program. She is a licensed hot air balloon pilot. I have often wondered how you pilot a hot air balloon. They go where they want to and you are at their mercy. As far as having enough hot air, welllllll, Leslie is a woman so there is enough there to keep the balloon afloat for a looooong time.

They are expecting their first child in April, (I think) and are very excited. It has been a hard thing for them to accomplish due to Leslie having some medical problems that have prevented child bearing. Maybe it is because her mother never gave her the birds and bees talk, I don't know. I still believe babys come from the pumpkin patch and that is all there is to it. (Or is it the cabbage patch) Bunch of little farts I do know that.

This is the pair on the big lake in northern Idaho. The one I can not spell properly.

I envy them in a way. They have traveled Europe, Costa Rica, and other places together. They have some great stories to tell.

I guess I am proud of all my children. Each has their struggles but don't we all.

Well, I have to go and get Cheryl off. She has not been feeling too well this week. A lot of bronchial stuff going around and right now she feels and acts like a Mama Grizzley on the prowl. The cat and I just stay out of the way and let her do her thing. Oh there might be a little teasing but it is mostly from the cat.