Hello From Margarita West now Garrason

[margarita]

20 Years! Can you believe it?!

Not too much has happened in my life. I live 2 streets away from where I grew up. I have been working for the sheriff's office for 17+ years. I married a wonderful man (fpc class of 80) October 23, 1999.

Sorry I missed everyone at the reunion. I had a very pressing appointment to attend to in China. I had to go over and meet my daughter and bring her home ;D She just turned 19 months on 12/25 and her name is Hallye Lin Jin Lan Jean Garrason. Let me tell you she is the best thing that could ever happen to me. We have pictures of her and our trip to China posted at www.photobucket.com and the albums are under tommargarita. If you get a chance to take a look I hope you enjoy them.

[Clark]

Wow, quite the trip and story. here's the link to the pictures

s62.photobucket.com/albums/h115/tommargarita/


here's one of the pictures

[Clark]

ask your hubby if he knows my sister Cathy??

[tammi86]

Hi Margarita! How have you been??? Jeff told me that you had adopted a baby from China, she is beautiful! ;D

[Bob Lombardi]

Congratulations and welcome!

[Rochelle]

She's sooo cute!

[Kelly Hampton]

She is so adorable! Congratulations! Is this your only child?

[margarita]

Thank you all for the welcome and congrats.

Clark, I will try to remember to ask Tommy if he knows your sister. He is working nights this week.

Tammi, I have been really well. My life is really great, even more now that Hallye is home. If you will give Jeff the website so he can see the pictures on photobucket. We are having problems with our email at work and cannot access the SAO email addresses.

Kelly... yes and no....lol Hallye is my only child but I do have a step-daughter Jasmine who is 19 and lives in Jacksonville, NC with her mom.

[margarita]

As Clark pointed out in "In Free Time" I have not completely told my last 20 years correctly... :-) Lets see if I can remember some of it.

After graduation I worked for the state in agriculture visitng citrus groves checking for canker. During this time I broke off a 4 year engagement to Scott Overton who i had dated since I was 15. I got laid off from there and found a job working at Chevron by the turnpike. This is where I met my first husband, Robert Tucker. He was being noisey and wanted to know who had the pretty truck sitting in the parking lot. I left Chevron and went to work for Steego auto paints and was there for a year before I got laid off from there. From Steego I went to another paint store, Cadenheads paint, and was at that one for a year until they decided that it wasn't working for them in Ft. Pierce. Desparate for a job, a friend worked for the sheriff's office and brought me an applicantion and made me fill it out. I was hired in October of 89. In December of 89 I found out that I was pregnant but lost it and it damaged my tube, making it very hard to have children. Robert and I married in Sept of 90 bought a house and I thought was living happily every after. In 94 he left me for an older woman and the divorce was final in july of 94. Six months later he had a change of heart and I was over him and said No way. I actually met my 2nd husband 2 nights after Robert asked me for a divorce. One night at work he used that good ole line.... "I'm a good listener" Funny thing is, I didn't fall for it then. We did end up talking and became the best of friends but we refused to date each other. Finally after a year he asked me out but did it in a crazy way. He asked me to help him by something for his girlfriend. I said is there something you've been holding out on me? and he said no silly its you. So that is how we became an item. We were married October 23, 1999. Because of Tommy I have been able to travel. For our honeymoon we went to a dude ranch in wyoming. We took a 10 day drive and went to gettysburg, chattanooga, and stone mountain. We went to Hawaii for our 5th anniversary. When my stepdaughter was growing up we would get her and drive through the blue ridge. and I almost know orlando like the back of my hand. We also went to oregon to see his sister and we took off sight seeing and stopped at a place where I think "bandits" was filmed with bruce willis and billy bob thorton were bank robbers. Our trips are always during our anniversary, that is our gift to each other. The last 2 years were postponed because we were waiting for the dates to go to china and bring home our China doll, Hallye. Our 8th anniversary is this year and we are going to take another road trip. Still figuring out our stops.

I think I have covered everything now.

[Bob Lombardi]

Hi Margarita!
Sounds like you've married a real good guy. I am so happy for you! Your daughter is so adorable!! Hallye is such a beautiful name, too. Let's see some more pics.

Best of luck.
-Bob

[meadows6]

Hi Margarita,

Your little girl is so beautiful, you have def been blessed! Its so good to here how you have been. How is Mike doing? Tell him Hello for me please. Congrats again on Hallye she is a doll!

[margarita]

Hey Lisa,
Thank you, she is an angel! Mike is Mike and will always be the same... :-) He stays busy with his 2 kids, Cheyenne is a freshman in high school and will be showing a pig at the fair with FFA. Cody is in 4H, rifle club. So they keep him real busy. I hardly see him or talk to him and we live about 5 streets away from each other. If I'm lucky I catch me at Mom's house. I will tell him you said Hi. So how ya doing? Been a long time since I've seen you.

[margarita]

Hi Everyone, Haven't been on in a while, just wanted to say Hi and see how everyone is doing. Life has been very busy for me lately. I trasnfered to a new job position, I am now a secretary for the detectives. We just celebrated Hallye's 2nd birthday by going to Disney and having a party a Jaycee Park. I can't wait to see everyone at the July bash.