Beckie Gerdes:  

Life Hello to anyone who's reading this! I'd love to hear from any old friends! Coming up on a 20 year reunion next summer is making me a bit wistful for the 'old days'! I married Mark Gerdes (Mt. View class of '87)in November of '89 - we recently celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary! We live in Redmond on 5 acres and really love it out here. We have 2 boys - Jordan is 14, in the 9th grade and Sawyer is 13 and in 7th. Jordan atttends Redmond High School and Sawyer goes to Obsidian Middle School and both are doing very well. Jordan still plays the trumpet in band and the electric guitar on the side for fun and occasionally in his youth group worship band. Sawyer plays the drums and has his eye on an electric bass - it gets pretty noisy, but it's a good noise - about a year ago, they started playing 'Back In Black' and 'Crazy Train' - sure made ME feel old :) Both also attend a local youth group each Wednesday night and they love it there! Most of their friends from school are there as well. Mark owns and operates Gerdes Electric here in Redmond. Right now he's a two-man shop but we forecast several new employees coming on soon, just in time for the busy season. He likes it small and manageable, a...Expand for more