Well, it has been a long time since I have heard from or talked to some of ya'll. This school year has been crazy. I am sponsor of the school newspaper. I have a staff of 5 seniors and 1 freshman. The other thing is that I am also senior class sponsor. Hectic huh? Well, today is the first day of the second semester. I have added 4 chemistry students (1 doing her's by Independent Study) and 1 7th grader. I'm not sure if I will be able to keep up with all of the changes.
My husband didn't get deployed like they thought. However, for those of you in the military, he is in school ( one a month on the weekend) and will get his E6 sometime between May and August. It depends on when he is schedule for Phase II and when he is back with his unit. If he is in Phase II in June, it may be July or August before he gets his E6 pinned on him.
Otherwise, things around here are great. Kimble just got a Civil Service job where he works only 4 days a week. WE figured it up and he only works a total of 189 days a year. (That's counting his days off in a week and all of the days he gets off for federal and state holidays.)
Here is my updated home email address:
midgetmiddleton@wmconnect.com
Hope to hear from you soon.

Heather

Hello to everyone. Hope your 2004 is going well. I want to let everyone know that Paige's heart surgery has been moved to March 5. We'll keep you posted.

Congrats to Jen, Jason, and Jacob for their upcoming addition!

Edited by author 02-29-2004 10:04 AM
Back from Iraq and fresh out of the armed forces I am now attending the University of Arkansas. I`m taking my kids to Ranger to visit their grandmother for spring break and visit my cousin J-dub.

Hello Everyone, I haven't talk to any of you in so long, just wanted to update you on our lives! We've moved to Colorado and we just love it! We close on our house on the 12th of May. As most of you know we lost my mother to cancer in late November, we've had a very hard time and the kids are really going through a rough time adjusting. Keep them in your prayers. Other than that things are good. It's good to hear that you are all well, Keep in touch! Bye for now, Donna

I have accepted a position at Ernst & Young, Downtown Dallas ~ world famous accounting firm. I start May 24, 2004. So, I am moving back to the Dallas area (Fort Worth wasn't big enough to hold me!) I am excited to say that I will live in a smaller town, outside of Dallas (Waxahachie, TX). Dalton starts public school this year. I could not imagine putting him in Dallas ISD, and to be frank...I am sick of paying private school prices! He turns 5 in August.

Edited by author 05-20-2004 12:00 PM
Last night, I was thinking about Ranger and what I remember growing up versus what exists now. It would be fun to see what you remember, too.
1. The spindle-top at the pool in the shallow end
2. Two diving boards at the pool.
3. The pool was over 10 ft deep
4. A ceramic shop on Main Street, across the street from a grocery store, Quality?. Also a dress shop on the corner by Gholsen, and a jewelry store before Rexall.
5. Two pharmacies: Rexall and Brown's
6. Our old gym spook houses
7. The teen center
8. Watching my mother cry when the old school by the old gym came down
9. The Frigi-Queen!
10. How Bobby Richardson had the nicest house in our class!
11. How Angela perfected the back flip before anyone else (for that matter, I think she was the only one)
12. Watching a grey hound pick up and drop off people
13. Barely remember the store/restaurant in operation next to Bubba's Liquor...it was like a car-hop place
14. When Ranger had more than one red-light (can you believe that it's down to one?!?!)
15. The boys club in the summer
16. The hospital was open, not dorms!
17. When we had real Roaring Ranger Days with helicopter rides and Spanky McFarlin on Main Street
18. When both recreation parks were open ~ the one by the swimming pool and the one behind our current volunteer Fire Dept
19. When the circus would actually come to Ranger
20. The dips by the post office
21. The last movie I saw at the drive-in was Purple Rain
22. Being the first to return a ball at the Little League Field to get a free snowcone

Just passing through and thought I would say hello! Some of you may or may not know but there is a few people forming a committee to try and pull together a "decade of exes" to this years homecoming! Thats right, we are trying to get as many people from the classes of 1990-1999 to have a weekend of fun this year. We need some help with class of 1990 if any of you can help it would be appreciated.

Craig

Hey, glad to see that so many of you are still using this message board! It's such a quick way to let us all know what you've been up to (without having to wait for me to update our site and who knows how long that might take).

But speaking of updates, I finally got our photo albums loaded and working! So send me some new pictures while I have time to work on it. I'm so big (just about four weeks till the baby comes!) that sitting is about all I feel like doing lately.

There are some other updates yet to do and I'll get those on ASAP. Be sure to make plans to attend the Decades Reunion (all alumni from the 90's) at Homecoming this year! Send in your updated contact info if you haven't done that yet. Let's continue to keep in touch- before long we'll be getting together for another reunion of our own!

Thanks again for all your support on our web site. It means a lot to me. Y'all have a great summer!!!

Just to give everyone an update before the school year starts. My husband, Kimble, has been activated. His activation begins August 15th. He will be at Ft. Hood for about 6 months and then to Iraq for a year. One of the ladies I work with, Jana Wieburg, is in the same situation. Her husband will be activated at the same time as my husband, so we will be doing a lot of driving back and forth to Ft. Hood from San Angelo.

I will try to send a picture of my step daughter when I send a current picture of Kimble and I for Jen to post. Her name is Nicole. We have been tring this summer to be more a part of her life. We decided to take more of an interest right before we found out at the end of May that Kimble was being activated. Hopefully she will get to spend enough time with him before he actually has to go to Iraq. Please keep us in your prayers. It is going to be hard around the house. At least I have work and neighbors that will be watching out for me.

Keep in touch. If anything changes with Kimble, I will let everyone know.

Well here I am back in Iraq.Im here with a company called LSI we are subcontractors to Kellogg Brown & Root.We have a contract to work on all the militarys equipment. Ive been in baghdad now for about a month. It is worse now than when I was here for the war. We have two to ten mortar attacks a night.Its almost as exciting as A Bulldog homecoming game. Take care everyone.

Has anyone heard from Shane Howeth? If he is still in Biloxi (spelling?), he is dealing with the hurricane season.

Edited by author 02-14-2005 11:01 PM
Hey, sorry it has been so long since I updated our site. I plan on doing that soon so y'all send me some stuff! I am especially looking forward to seeing pictures from the 90's reunion. Please email me some pics and stories! That will help me get in gear to get things updated if I actually have things to add! :o)

And yes, once again, I have changed my email.
jastroup@valornet.com

Anyway, send me some new stuff!

Hey Jennifer,

I saw you posted a message on the 1992 website, despite the fact it was in February :( Anyway, I wanted to let you know that noone has sent me any pictures, so therefore I have none to put on our website.

I would also like to add that LeAnne was supposed to send out some kind of info on names and addresses for everyone that went, but I handt heard of that either.

Craig

I have Homecoming 2004 pictures from the dance party and beer runs (snapshotsof everyone of many classes) and can provide the negatives. So, whomever wants to take responsibility of having them put on a disk or reproduced and scanned, give me a shout stacyvann@yahoo.com I will drop them in the mail.

Hi everone
nice web sit I am doing fine I am liveing in Austin
and have a 8 year old Girl name Gaylyn.
well I got to go I am At work.
bye.

Well, I know that it has been a long time since I updated anyone, so here is the update.
Kimble didn't get activated to Iraq. The unit that he is in didn't take anyone that had problems. For example, Kimble needed 7 teeth fixed, and so he was left here. Well, in March he was called up again and this time they fixed his teeth. However, the day before final qualifications to go to Iraq, he broke is ankle in a training exercise. He has been in Colorado Springs since the 8th of March and has not come home yet. He was finally released from the doctor for his ankle, but while he was up there they we doing some tests and he told them about his sinus problems. So he is currently waiting on a consult from a pulmonologist. He is supposed to let us know if Kimble has asthma. If he does, it is possible that they will medically retire him from the military. If not, he will come home and will possibly called to go to Egypt. Personally I hope he doesn't have asthma so that we don't have to worry about that later in the future.
I have been able to see him a few times since he has been in Colorado. I went to see him Easter weekend. That is when we found out about his ankle. I also got to see him the first week in June and he came down here the weekend of the 8th - 12th of July.
His appointment to see the pulmonologist is not until the 9th of August, so it looks like we won't know anything until after them. He is planning on coming home for a few days the weekend of the 13th of August.
If anything else comes up, I will try to keep everyone informed.