Present to Past

I think the best way to start is to start with the present. This way, I can continue working on the ancestors, and yet future generations will have the most current data available to them.

So lets begin with me. My name is Michele McNett Kellenbenz, formerly Michele Lynn McNett. I was born in Janesville, WI on October 10, 1968. In 1979 we moved to Florida. I have one brother named Brian. Brian was married and is divorced. He has 2 kids named Patrick & Shalyn, more on them later.
I graduated from Pinellas Park High School in Pinellas Park, FL in 1986, and from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1993 with a BS in Business Aviation. After graduation I moved to California and went to flight school where I earned a commercial pilot's license and also became a licensed flight instructor. During the year I lived in California I survived chicken pox (a 104 fever :)), riots, floods, fires, and the Northridge earthquake.
A year later I moved to Ft Lauderdale Florida. In Ft. Lauderdale I managed a flight school and taught flight instruction. I have to say it became obvious that I was much better at the business side than the flight instruction. I was a good pilot, but pilot's aren't cocky for no reason. Being a pilot requires a lot of self confidence, not something I have ever been well known for. But, thanks to my Dad, I have a head for business, and with the creativity I get from my Mom's side, for marketing also.
I lived in Ft Lauderdale for a few years. Then moved back to the Largo area. I bounced around between jobs, never finding one I could make a career with until 2005 when I started working for Walt Disney.

In 2000 I met my husband, Stephen Kellenbenz. We got married November 1, 2003. Currently we live in Largo, FL. My husband is a truck driver, and due to Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (PDPN), I am disabled.