Diane Benton:  

Life Well, It has been quite a while since I have visited Class Mates. There have been many changes in my life. Mike is now retired and we are returning to our home on Logan Martin Lake. Just need to sell the Montgomery house...soon I hope!! I am still actively teaching aerobic fitness and sculpting classes 3 to 4 days a week at Metro Fitness in Montgomery, though I have to admit...I have reduced the intensity level, sigh. Will soon have to find teaching sites elsewhere. We were blessed with our first grandchild November 18, 1997 Connor Benton Rhodes is a feisty, gorgeous, 11yo boy who lives life to the fullest...every minute of his life! Wears his MiMi out!! Whew..but I love it! His teachers refer to him as brilliant...which I already knew! On January 14, 2002, our daughter Michelle gave birth to micro premature twin girls...Blaire Marie and Gwyneth Nicole at 24 weeks gestation. Our precious Gwyneth...who weighed 1 lb 1 oz.at birth, became an Angel on March 16, 2002 and lives with all her loving family in the arms of God today. Blaire Marie, her sister, is perfect...though tiny still, is beautiful and feisty with no obvous residual effects from weighing only 1 lb 7 oz at her birth...She is truly our precious miracle girl!!! She was 7 this January. On December 26th 2003...we lost our precious son Brad at age 30. There were many demons in his life that we could not fig...Expand for more