A little about me

Hi! My name is Crystal. I am 27 years old. I was born at West Point, NY on May 10, 1980. I have two of the best parents in the world. I have 2 sisters, Tarylyn, 25, and Khaylee 9. I also have one brother Zackary 11. Tarylyn has 3 kids Saria 7, Samuel 4 and Benjamin 2. My parents are divorced and live in Alabama. Mom lives in Enterprise and dad lives in Ariton. Both are remarried and are very happy which makes me happy.

I am married and I have one child so far. His name is Brandon and he is one of two joys in my life. I thought that when i got married nearly 5 years ago that my husband was the person that completed my life and made me the absoute happiest, but after I had Brandon, my heart reopened and grew again.

I got married on Sept 20, 2003 in Clarksville, TN. Both sides of the family were there. It was soooo cool to have my family come from Alabama and his come from Ohio. We got married by the river. It was such a beautiful day.

My husband's name is Michael. We met through yahoo personals but started talking to each other on the phone before we met in person. I pretty much knew I wanted to be with him for a very long time by around at least the 3rd date. Our dates pretty much consisted of laundry at my house and watching a movie but that was fine by me. I enjoyed spending time with him. Michael was in the army at the time and had just gotten back from Afghanistan. He has been deployed pretty much most of our marriage. He went to Iraq the first time in Febuary of 2003- August 2003. We were married in September. In October we moved to Texas and in January of 2004 on his birthday, he was on his way back over to Iraq again. This time he was there for 13 months. (January 2004-February 2005) When he got home that time, he got out of the active duty part of the army and was in the reserves. He is now in Iraq with the reserve unit and has been there since August 2007, but before he went, he was in training for 2 months in Wisconsin. He should be home in June of this year.

This is sorta all over the place but I think it makes it more intersting.

Brandon was born January 21, 2007 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. He is amazing. Every day he changes or does something new and never ceases to amaze me. He is 14 months old now and he's been walking since he was 9 1/2 months old and I think one of the first words he's ever said was duck. His daddy was home on leave when he started walking so at least he got to see that!

In September of 2007, we bought our very first house. It's so cool to have a place to call home. We live in Cincinnati and I love it here. I live right across the street from my father in law. He helps me so much with Brandon. His wife just passed away 2 weeks before we bought our house so I think I help him too by being so close by to have someone to talk to. I miss her so much though. She was sorta like my best friend. Someone that I could tell just about anything to. Of course my mom is my bestfriend too and so is Michael....ok I have a lot of best friends!

So that puts me at what do I do to make money? Well after graduating High school in Ozark, Alabama, I joined the army. I was in the army for 3 years and then I got out (early). While I was in the army I was trained to be an optician. So that's what I do. I work at Wal-Mart in the vision center and I fit and sell glasses. It doesn't sound so hard but you really have to know a lot to help people with issues they have sometimes.

So that's it. That's a little about me. Of course there are more people in my life but I will mention them in later posts.