We are residents of western Colorado. This has to be the most beautiful corner of the country, majestic alpine mountains surrounded by deserts where the most amazing creatures and plants grow.

Shane is a full-time geotechnical engineer, and works for a local engineering firm. His emphasis is on retaining walls and shoring. He holds a master's degree in geotechnical engineering, with an emphasis on geogrids under seismic loading. See this for details on the project.

Kelly completed her Honour's History program and is now employed as a full-time mom and home educator (paid with hugs, kisses, and the two most beautiful children ever to grace this earth).

Amy graduated with an honourary Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in May, 1998. She is undoubtedly UBC's youngest civil engineering graduate! She has instead decided to pursue animal sciences as she studies animal communications.

Jackson has dedicated his life to making money. From conscripting his neighbourhood peers to sell his very sharp, pointy sticks to studying investments, profitability, and charity, he has become a very determined young man. Surprisingly, although he comes from a generally pacifist family, he enjoys the fine art of decapitation. We wonder if soon he might be selling shrunken heads.

The kids have taken to earning money and giving it away. It seems on a regular basis they bring us money to be put toward an orphanage. Do you ever have those moments in parenting when you realize that no matter how bad you are as a parent, your kids have turned out to be healthy, functioning, and caring people despite your best efforts to destroy their lives?