Hometown – Maple Lake/Park Rapids

About me – Our family consists of Bret, Naomi, Taylor (Club Irish voleyball player), and Tristan. We presently have 2 horses and 4 cats (which the quantity changes almost daily around here). Bret works for Latour Construction, Naomi works at Untiedt's Vegetable Farms (part time - seasonal), and Comfort Keepers Home Health Care based out of St. Cloud, MN. Taylor NEEDS to find employment, and beyond volleyball she is actively doing her behind the wheel to get her driver's license and also fund raising for a Spain trip with her Spanish class next school year. Tristan enjoys making everyone's else's hair turn gray. He likes to eat, play DS games, watch NASCAR, and he loves animals.

Movies – Several - Legends of the Fall, Open Range, Cold Mountain, Sommersby, Lonesome Dove series. . . the list goes on.

Music – Mostly country

TV shows – ER