Jouett Smith:  

Oh my! It has been years since I updated my profile! It is now 2023 and a lot has happened. David and I are still happily married and will celebrate 49 years in August. We both retired from teaching in 2012 and have thoroughly enjoyed retirement. We still live south of Deming, NM. Our son Joshua, now 42, is an attorney and recently hung his own shingle out and is doing quite well. He specializes in water law which is a huge issue, especially in the desert southwest. He married a wonderful woman in 2008 and blessed us with 3 grandchildren. They live an hour away from us so we see them often. Our daughter Barbara , now 40, still lives in San Antonio, Texas. She works in the hospitality business with a brief interlude during Covid at a Credit Union. She is a board certified meeting planner and now works for Accent Destination where she plans conferences and such. Now that tourism has picked up she is very busy. She married a wonderful man in 2018. He is also in hospitality and both have incredibly busy schedules but thoroughly enjoy their jobs. We visit them a couple of times a year . I really like San Antonio but not in the summer! All in all, life is good. We are feeling our age and managing to adapt. Earlier: 2006….Wow! All these years I thought I had a profile and now I see a blank page before me. In a nutshell, I still live in southern New Mexico. The family sold our beloved ranch in 1991. Like so many ranch families, the children and I lived in Deming during the week and went home to the ranch, where my husband David and brother Bill managed the ranch. I had become a certified teacher along the way and was teaching in Deming at the time. David joined us in our little home in Deming. We bought some property with a home not long after and here we are today. David is a wonderful man, we have been married for almost 33 years. He is from Deming, but I never knew him until I met him in the early 70's. I don't think I would have liked him at a younger ...Expand for more