About The Mineer’s

Michael and Taralyn Mineer were married June 5, 1999 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. We had only know each other for 5 months and 3 weeks at the time but it seemed like much longer. In fact, after our first date on December 12, 1998, we both went home and told our families that we had found our eternal companions.

Since then we have been blessed with 3 beautiful children: Mikayla, Marc, and Megan. Currently we live in Lehi, UT and we love our house. Though small and quaint, it sits right next door to a secluded park that few people visit. In fact, it is so under used that we call it our park and I am considering petitioning the city to have it named the Mineer park. I doubt it will happen but it would be fun.

I work for Adobe and also runs my own small internet based company selling construction leads online. I am a graduate from the University of Utah with a degree in Marketing and a minor in Spanish. I served an LDS mission in the Argentina Mendoza Mission and truly loved every second of it. I currently serve as the Cub Master in our ward here in Lehi. I grew up in Murray, Utah graduating from Murray High School in 1995. I played various sports throughout my high school days but I only played one all 4 years – basketball.

Taralyn, my beautiful wife and the best addition to the Mineer family via marriage ever, grew up in American Fork, Utah and graduated from American Fork High School in 1993 (she is 2 years older than me). She spend a few years at Dixie College in St George then served a mission in the Chile Concepcion Mission at the same time I was serving my mission. We wished we would have known each other during those years so that we could have written each other about our experiences. Tara is a stay at home mom (she does have a small part time job she does from home) and loves to be with the kids. We agreed before we got married that this would be the case unless there were extenuating circumstances. She is the love of my life and it amazed me that I literally love her more each day that goes by.

Mikayla, now 10, has been smarter than me for about 2 1/2 years. Her favorite subject is math even though she does well at all of them. However, it excites me as her father that she loves math because it is also my favorite subject.

Marc, almost 8, is everything sports and everything BYU (surprisingly it doesn’t bother me that my son cheers for “those” guys since it gives my wife and him something in common. He is my little bud and I love spending time with him. In fact I feel a good deal of pressure to set a good example because I can tell he is watching my every move.

Megan is now 4 and wishes she were 14. Sadly, she has grown out of the phase where I can trick her into about 30 kisses. I am lucky to get more than 2 or 3 kisses a day from her now. Hopefully that phase will pass and the kisses will return. It is her way or the highway and she sets some serious demands. Our favorite quirk she now has is that she has to sleep in a big girl bed no matter what. In an attempt to keep her in her crib for just  few more short months I put her in it, put rope all over the top in such a manner I thought there was no way she could ever escape, then left her to fall asleep. Since rope was involved I went in and checked on her every couple of minutes to make sure nothing was going on. The 2nd time I went in she was laying in Mikayla’s bed with a look of complete satisfaction. The Mineer gene is one of determination and dedication until the task on hand is resolved.

Oh well – long live the Mineer name because as I would like to always say – Mineer’s Rock.