1) We met for the first time at the Miles City Ram Sale. Anne was showing sheep for MSU and Eric was running the livestock gate.
2) Eric worked for two years on a long-range sport fishing boat called The Big Game out of San Diego.
3) Anne once picked cherries in an orchard for a summer in college to make money while serving as a unpaid intern/newscaster for several radio stations. When it came to addressing her fear of heights, she lied on the farmer's application...then pretended to be perfectly ok with climbing 8 plus feet into branches.
4) We would not be living in the house we have without the help of friends in building it.
5) Eric once threw a passenger's rap CD out the window near the town of Winnet in disgust.
6) Anne owns a Fergie CD that she plays in secret after hearing about #5
7) Eric made money in high school installing window coverings for his mother's interior decorating business.
8) Anne lived for one month in a gym in Lake Wales, Florida with 150 other people while volunteering after Hurricane Ike.
9) Eric's first car was an Isuzu pickup, Anne's was a Ford Thunderbird
10) We couldn't agree on a boy's name, so its a good thing we had a girl
11) Eric has been to 49 states - Alaska is the only one remaining.
12) Anne was once asked to present the holy gifts
to the front of the church while attending the
cathedral in downtown Denver. She still blames Steve Kaufman for this.
13) We moved into our house in November when it had no doors, windows or insulation. Anne cooked on the wood stove for a month and we nailed a blanket shut over the front door each night. The horseshoe we hung at that time over the opening still remains.
14) During this time, our coffeemaker froze solid.......repeatedly.
15) Both us serve on our rural fire department and were one of the first engines on the scene of the
Black Pulaski Fire in '06.
16) Anne loves to run chainsaws and has been a certified sawyer since '04.
17) Both our dogs are purebred red border collies.
18) Both of us own and use vintage Singer sewing machines.
19) For Anne's job, she works primarily with members of the Hutterite colonies.
20) Eric has lived overseas in England and Italy.
21) We were married in the steer barn of Garfield County Fairgrounds.
22) Anne has had 12 roommates from college until marrying Eric (however, it was a case of living with multiple people at a time, not one individual per go). She and 4 other girls rented a Victorian house from a statistics professor while studying at Univ of Idaho.
23) Eric has only ever had one roommate pre-Anne - his best friend while living in Santa Barbara.
24) Anne served as President of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Student Section for one term.
25) Both of our families have ties to, and love for, flying. Eric's father was a Navy pilot and Anne's grandfather had a small plane.
