I was born in Wichita and lived my entire life in Maize, KS - except for one year when I lived in Kansas City, MO. My husband, Derek, and I have been married for 5 years and we have a daughter, Quinn.  We live in Maize with our dog, Stoli, and 4 cats, Brinkley, Gusty, Dolce and Scars. In my spare time I like to work in my garden, golf, read, cook and spend time with my family.

I started at Make-A-Wish on December 5, 2005 and since then have helped grant over 350 wishes. My favorite Make-A-Wish moment was celebrating our 800th wish at Wish Child Yosiah's home. He had wished for a castle playhouse and it was an amazing party with knights, dancers, jesters, turkey legs and much more! It was truly an amazing wish experience!

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I was born and raised in Huron, South Dakota and moved to Kansas in 2000. I'm married to Robert who is also from Huron. I had three children and Robert had two children all of them grown and we have 6 grandchildren. I have been with Make-A-Wish since 2005.

I feel I can understand what the families we serve are going through because when my youngest daughter was 4, I was told she had cancer. Luckily that was the wrong diagnosis and she is fine, but last year I lost my oldest son to cancer at age 28.  If I could have a wish I would wish for a trip to Hawaii to visit my daughter.