Mineer

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, born July 21, 2000, Marc, born April 5, 2002, and Megan, born May 11, 2006. 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.

Michael works for a company called PMI and also runs his own small company – in fact it is so small I still have to have the other job. I am a graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Marketing with 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 ward clerk 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 additional 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 7, is the beauty of the second grade at her school. 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. She is in dance and piano and excels at both. Her dance studio is trying to get us to sign her up for the competition team. We will probably do it but we just haven’t decided for sure yet.

Marc, almost 6, is the tease of the area. He looks for any opportunity to try and tease his sisters, the neighbors, even his parents. He loves sports and looks for every opportunity to play catch with his dad, which of course I look forward to with pleasant satisfaction. However, whenever we go to sporting events it is not the athletes that he looks forward to but rather the mascots. He says he wants to be the mascot when he gets older so it seems that my little athlete in reality is a little bear, or little pioneer, or little whatever the mascot might be. Oh well, if that is what he wants then that is what I want.

Megan, 21 months going on 5 years, is the terror of the house. 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.