Wes Kime

From 2002 until October of 2012 my wife, Mary Lou, and I lived in Cripple Creek, CO. We bought our “cabin in the woods with a view” from my sister and her husband who were leaving Colorado. A breathtaking view of the Sangre De Cristo and Collegiate mountain ranges, at 10,000 feet, greeted us each morning and you couldn’t beat the sunsets. In October of 2012 Mary Lou retired as the Group Sales Manager of the Double Eagle Hotel and Casino. After leaving the Office Products business in 2006, which I had managed to continue to do by commuting about the country, I went to work managing a Starbucks that was located within the Double Eagle Hotel. This actually led to owning my own coffee shop and catering business, “Cripple Creek Coffee”. We then sold the coffee shop and our home in Cripple Creek and became full-time RVer's. After leaving Mueller State Park in Colorado in our Winnebago motorhome in February of 2013, we spent the summer in Virginia (of course we were really there to watch Chris' oldest son graduate from Virginia Tech), spent the 2013/2014 winter in Florida and then came to the Flathead Valley of Montana (just south of Glacier National Park) for the summer of 2014. We attended the reunion in October and then hung around Coffeyville for awhile doing the Camperforce thing at Amazon. Before we left Coffeyville we upgraded our motorhome to a 37ft Class A Holiday Rambler and are enjoying the additional space, larger refrigerator and a washer/dryer. In January we went to Belton, Texas and stayed at a U S Army Corps of Engineers lake where Mary Lou volunteered in the office. We were in central Oklahoma to be close to Mary Lou's mother until the end of April 2016. We then headed back to mountains of Montana for the summer. As of October 2016 we are back in central Oklahoma to again be close to Mary Lou's mother. Mary Lou's mother passed away on November 8, 2016. Other than a short trip to Virginia for our youngest granddaughter's college graduation and our oldest granddaughter's wedding, we spent the rest of 2017 in Oklahoma getting ready (read saving $$) for a year long 'bucket list' trip in 2018. My first item to check off was going to Texas Rangers Spring Training in Surprise, AZ. Then Mary Lou's first item was a visit to the Grand Canyon. After that, a trip up the west coast to the Pacific Northwest and then another summer in the beautiful Montana mountains. All in all we spent almost 10 years full time RVing and then decided to settle down again in a ‘bricks & sticks’ home in Belton, TX. We missed the 2019 Reunion but are looking forward to attending the Reunion in 2024.

As for our kids, Chris, after serving in the Army and marrying a German girl, has settled in Charlottesville, VA with his wife, 4 kids and 2 grandkids of his own. His oldest girl (Gina) graduated from the University of Virginia and has gone on to become a Physicians Assistant. The oldest boy (Matthew), the one that graduated from Virginia Tech in 2013, has married the love of his life (Jessica). Chris' second son (Ryan) joined the Marines and after a tour in Afghanistan is now married and is a civilian back in Charlottesville. Chris' youngest daughter (Roxanne) graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA and is now an Albemarle county police officer in Charlottesville, VA.

Our daughter, Rebecca, lives in Burleson, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth area) with her husband and 3 boys. She is a cosmetologist and her husband, Scott, is a graphic artist. The oldest boy, after attending Oklahoma State University, is following his ‘outdoor life’ dream as a rafting guide in Colorado. Her second son is engaged and is graduating from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, OK in 2023. Her youngest son graduated from high school in 2021 and is virtually attending Hill College in Hillsboro, TX,

We now have a total of 7 grandchildren and 2 greats … we thought we were being sensible by having only 2 kids and somehow they got the notion they had to populate the world…oh well!!