I'm from the Starved Rock area, and love spending my time at Starved Rock and Mattheissen State Parks!  Those parks, the rivers, and community are what brought me here. 
I am a wife for 22 years and a mother of four children.  Our oldest daughter, Tarren just became and RN, Lauren who is 20 will be headed off to college at SIU Carbondale this fall, after a Christian mission trip to Kenya.  Our two younger children, Sheridan 12 and Hank 10, love sp...