Since graduating in 1986 from the best high school in Oklahoma, I graduated with my bachelor's in journalism/public relations....and my master's in mass communications from the BEST university in the state, OSU! Yes, I bleed somewhat orange. I worked for four years in Oklahoma's largest ad agency as a copywriter and as a print manager. I moved on the work for Candid Color Systems, home of Party Pics® and Glamour Shots Licensing. I've been here for over 11 years. I am the Advertising/Marketing Manager and do everything from copywriting, graphic design, print production, and mainly producing all kinds of marketing materials for photographers around the country and over 100 Glamour Shots® stores nationally and internationally. This past year, I ventured out and started my own photography business shooting Party Pics® at special events around the state! It's called Picture This Photography and we would love to shoot any event you have!!! You can check out my website at www.picturethisphoto.us.

Other than work, I've been spending an incredible amount of time putting together our 20-year high school reunion!!! You never know when you run for class office, what you actually, truly will be in charge of! I love it though. It's huge, but it's also very rewarding to see so many people excited about seeing each other again. I've told several....I'm just doing my part to reunite old classmates!

I'm not married YET! I almost did in college, but I smartened up, thank goodness! I'm still looking for the right one....and I know they are in my future! I have a great family and love them very much. My nieces and nephews....fill in as my pseudo kids. I have a place at Lake Eufaula where I LOVE fishing, and just hanging around at the beach soaking in the sun. Life is good. And I'm happy. That's about all you can ask for. I am truly blessed.

After graduating from high school, I attended O.U. and graduated with my Bachelor's of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems in 1990. I moved to the Tulsa area and went to work for Amoco Corporation. Through a series of merges and buyouts with Amoco, I ended up working for IBM as a Systems Analyst. I met my husband-to-be, Brian, at Amoco in 1996 and we were married in 1998. We have two beautful girls, Lena, age 4 1/2 and Olivia age 1 1/2. We both still work together at IBM and live in Skiatook, Oklahoma on 5 acres.

I went to Moore schools (Kingsgate, Brink, Highland East, Central Mid-High) my whole life except Kindergarten (Noble). But when I got to MHS I turned stupid and dropped out my Junior year to go be a famous musician. Well, I did the musician part but not the famous part. Had fun and saw the country but made no money.

So I went where the real money is. The ministry! Ha! Worked in ministry for 15 years and then decided to go where the money is. Accounting! The money part worked this time! Graduated from UCO. I am now a tax analyst and love it. I am still involved in volunteer ministry at my church as well as running my own ministry part-time (http://www.voyagethroughthebible.com).

I married my beautiful wife Tina on April 20, 1991. For some bizarre reason she continues to keep me. We have two wonderful, good-looking,and brilliant boys Chase and Reagan. Pictures of our recent 15 Year Anniversary party are at http://www.id247.org.

I started nursing school after highschool, but was married in 1988, moved to California, had a daughter-Amanda Lynne in 1992, moved to Virginia in 1994 for a year, then New York in 1995 for 3 months-on a 150 acre farm-loved it there! Had a half acre garden there too! Then moved back to Oklahoma in 1995, separated from husband and went back to nursing school at OSU-OKC, divorced in 1997, graduated from nursing school as a RN in May 1998 and became a neonatal nurse at the Special Care Nursery in University Hospital, in 2000 we combined with the NICU at Children's Hospital and we worked in both areas, where I mostly Advocated(attended and recusitated) most of the deliveries on the days I worked, until 2002. In 2001 I was rear ened at a stop sign and ended up with 2 back surgeries. In 2002 had met my 2nd husband, whom I married in 2004 and divorced in 2005. I worked for Norman Regional 2003-2005 as a Nursery nurse and NICU nurse, worked for a home health agency for 6 months in 2002 and a workman's comp doctor in 2003 for 5 months-neither were my "cup of tea". In 2002-2003 I aslo cared for 2 foster children. Since April of 2005 to current I have been working at Park View Hospital in El Reno as an OB nurse doing Labor, delivery, recovery and post partum of the mom and baby and also caring for Antepartum mom's. It is awesome working there and we are all one great big happy family out there and it is easy to give lots of attention to our patients there so I get to do what I like to do the best- help others. It is well worth the 42 mile drive each way, each day I work. And with having another surgery this month, they took excellent care of me and my family.
I met Delbert in January of 2006, we are to be married sometime in the next year-we haven't decided a date yet. He has a daughter Chrystal who also lives with us and she is pregnant and due in October of this year. We can't wait!
Kristin, the one on the top of the picture is our Foreign Exchange student from Germany, who will be attending the reunion with us and then will be leaving to return home 3 days later-she has been here since August of 2005. In August 2006 we will be recieving 2 more Exchange students, on from Germany-Anna and one from Sweden-Annelie. From left to right in the picture is Delbert, Chrystal, Kristin, Amanda and Carrie.

Moved to Seattle about a year after graduation. Went to Western Washington University and received my BA in Communications and Business Management. Started working in the radio industry and had a huge time working for some great radio stations across a variety of formats.

Moved to Sydney Australia in 1996, again working in radio. Left the radio industry in about 1998 to work for the Sydney Morning Herald's digital division and worked there for 6 years, leaving as their National Agency Sales Director. Had a great time and got to travel a bit, but mostly learned an incredible amount and really got my start in the online industry. I'm now working for Toyota Australia as their Interactive Manager.

In between all this, met my husband Clayton at my first job in Australia (he was my boss - how convenient!) - basically had to leave that company for shagging the boss, but we got married, had 2 children and redeemed ourselves. We've been together now 10 years!

Life is good!

I married in July 1986 and moved to Washington State. I left and moved back to Oklahoma in September 1987. I then joined the Army for 4 years as a mechanic. During my time in the Army, I was sent to Saudi Arabia during the 1st Gulf War. Also while I was in, I met my 2nd husband. We had two wonderful kids together. My daughter is 16 and learning to drive. My son is 12. I have been divorced from him now for 7 years. So far I really enjoy being a single parent. I had been doing customer service work from the time I left the Army until about October 2005. Problems with my hands and shoulders prevent me from continuing that line of work. Now I drive a School bus for the best Schools in Oklahoma….Moore. I love it. Wish I had started driving a bus a long time ago.

Hello 1986 Grads!!!! ~ I went off to OSU for a SEMESTER...hmmm...wonder why! just the one? ha ha ~ (Hey, I DID PASS all my classes...barely) :o) ~ Anyway, I almost finished school my Bachelor's at UCO until I met this GREAT guy who made WAY too much $$ at the time for me to finish....(I had 30 hrs left when I quit...the day before we left for Cancun on a "whim") :o))) Oh, those were the DAYS!!! ~ Also, I was a legal sec for about 3-4 years and decided the downtown/office life was NOT FOR ME!! ~ So...I got involved in the restaurant biz beginning with the Outback and ended up working at Chilis/Brinker for about TEN YEARS!! WoW!? ~ Anyway, I'm now happily married for 9 years now (after being engaged TWICE...OMG! ~ don't ask....), and have a 5-year old son...(I'm in AWE of those of you that I've ran into that have TEENAGERS....ok, ok, I got a late start)! Payton plays Soccer, Daddy is "coach" now for TWO seasons!! His Daddy, (Paul Gordon Jr., class of '88), has played Soccer literally all his life, so GO FIGURE!! ha ha ~ BTW, I did not know him in high school, but met him MUCH later in my life! Paul is my BEST friend!!! ~ it's awesome! We have a GREAT relationship and I'm thankful for my family everyday!! I did not attend the Reunion....I wanted to however. We own a local restaurant in Moore, Berkley's Restaurant and Grill, even though we ironically don't TECHNICALLY live in Moore anymore....but pretty close in a nice home with an in-ground Pool ~ LUV IT!!! ~ . Berkley's has been open for over 5 years now (I was in the hospital having Payton the DAY it opened)!!! ~ It's been a really rough 5 years for all of us, as Paul left a really good job/income at Zio's to do his "own thing", but we're making it!! I'm so proud of him. He literally works about 6-7 eleven hour days a week... :(( But TRIES to take at least ONE day off a week..... Anyway, I, personally, have an internet biz that I've had for probably about 3-4 years now...I sell Scrapbook "stuff", and it's so hard to work at home with a FIVE year old around and be a good Mom and Wife at the SAME TIME!! It's crazy, as I work with people all over the world at ANY given time/internationally and so the hours of my "job" are just crazy! Sometimes I literally have to turn my puter OFF to get a "break"! Anyway, enough about Me ~ I've kept in contact with SOME of my old friends, but not very many....just in my own lil world here and I'm Happy!!!!!!!!!! :o) I do wonder about some of you, however and what happened to you! Anybody EVER hear from/of Brian Rains? (who literally broke my heart)...funny I heard from Allen, who I guess I broke HIS heart unbeknownst to me?! So sorry Allen about that Bracelet!! ~ ha ha ~ Memories are fun!!?? The pics I'm attaching are just the latest ones I have...nothing spectacular. oh well....take care everybody!! XOXO, Diedra Berryhill-Gordon