Patrick and Shirley

Patrick Dean
&
Shirley Jean

Background Music-"Save The Best For Last"

We were married on February 14, 1981 in Patrick's parents home. We wanted to buy a home but the Veteran's Administration would not approve the loan unless we were married. We had two weeks to plan a wedding before the closing. We had a very small wedding-just family and friends. Very simple and inexpensive. But what a fun day it was! We have since been blessed with two beautiful daughters, Amanda and Ashley. They are the joy of our lives!

This is our most recent picture taken June 2000.

About Patrick

I'm 45 years old. I am a carpenter and have worked commercial and residential construction since 1980. I am currently employed by a residential custom home builder as a warranty technician. In my spare time I enjoy helping elderly people with small odd jobs around their home. I enjoy 60's and 70's music. My favorite group is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and I enjoy many others from that era.

About Shirley

I am 44 years old. I have been a school bus driver for 11 years, and I love it! I also develop the safety programs for our transportation department. I have developed a bus driver handbook, the Buster School Bus Safety Program for elementary students, the Emergency Evacuation Procedures and Training, and am currently developing a Behavior Management Training program for drivers.

This is "Buster", my side kick

in the Buster School Bus

Safety Program! The robot

with an abundance of

personality!!

I am also very involved with Girl Scouts, and PTA. I love camping, hiking, being outdoors, and doing fun things with my daughters. I enjoy a variety of music from 60's through today. I love spending time with my girls. Medical complications during both pregnancies almost caused me to lose both of them. I thank God every day that I have them in my life. Being a mother to them has been the greatest joy I could ever imagine experiencing. In my spare time I love learning more about my computer and the internet and I am totally addicted to scrapbooking!

This is my daily poem!!

Bus Driver's Prayer

Please Lord, watch over me this day. Please help me remember to watch all five mirrors, two dozen windows, eight gauges, six warning lights, six dozen faces and three lanes of traffic, and to keep a third eye open for wobbling bicycles and daydreaming pedestrians, especially teenagers wearing head-sets who are in another world. Please Lord, help me hear all train whistles, trucks and automobile horns, police sirens, and the two-way radio. Please Lord, give me a hand for the gear lever, the steering wheel, the route book, the radio microphone, and the turn signal lever. And Lord, please grant me the self-control to keep my hands away from Johnny's neck. And one more thing, please don't let Mary be sick all over the bus. And finally, Lord, please watch over us all so that we can do it again tomorrow. Amen.

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