About Me

My name is Sherri Krista Goff. I was born January 31, 1977. My parents are Glenn David Goff and Joy Louise Decker. I have two brothers, Jeremy and Nathaniel, and one sister named Heather. I was born second of four children. Our family lived in the small town of Cortez Colorado. I was born and raised there.

My father was a teacher of music and art. My mother stayed home with my brothers, sister and I until my youngest brother Nathaniel was in first grade. My mom decided to go back to college when all of us were in school full time. My parents always did fun activities with us; played with us, read to us, and taught us a lot of things, particularly arts and crafts. Both of my parents were very creative people. My dad was really into music. He had a Masters Degree in Recreation and Music from Brigham Young University. I was taught how to play the piano by both of my par

One of my fondest memories as a child was playing with my brothers and sister. We played all kinds of things together, from pioneers, to house and from blocks to building forts. My dad built us a playhouse one time out of an old camper. That was our club house for years. Our parents didn't have a lot of money, but they gave us a wonderful life. We always knew they loved us no matter what. We always felt we could talk to them about anything. My parents had a great love for the outdoors. I remember going camping and fishing all the time. I'll never forget the times that my dad would take his guitar out by the campfire and play songs for us. We always sang and told stories around the campfire. My parents taught us how to enjoy and be thankful for the art and beauty of nature. I have so many wonderful and beautiful

A story I'll never forget is when my little brothers were playing around in our houses' crawl space, and they found something! They came up to me and said "Sherri come here, we have to show you what we found" "but you cannot tell mom, you have to promise!" So I went with them to the back yard and lo and behold they had handfuls of tampons. They said "look at this dynamite we found" They found a bunch of old tampons in the crawl space of our house from the previous owners, they just had a huge bucket full of them, they were just the cotton things with the strings hanging there, no applicators, so they thought for sure because of the string that they had found dynamite! They were about four and six at the time. It was so funny! I'll never forget that story. There are many funny stories like this one.

I have always been a very creative person, even as a child. I was always trying to make stuff, I don't care what it was, painting, writing poetry, singing. I am addicted to such things. My grandmother Frankie May Goff, whom I have always been very close to, taught me how to sew when I was about five years old. One day I went to her house and she gave me a really old Singer sewing machine, some card board, a pen and some old scraps of fabric. She told me to trace and cut the fabric into squares. Then she taught me how to sew them together. I soon learned how to make a quilt. Grandma Goff was an amazing artist. She sewed shawls for all the Navajo Indians where we lived; she did sand painting as well as oil and water color painting. She taught me how to do many things. She also loved yard sales. I remember going to tons of garage sales and yard sales with her. My grandma had a love for collecting antiques, everything from bottles to dishes and dolls. This is probably where I got my love for antiques and old stuff as well. If I had a choice between going to the mall and shopping for new stuff all day or going to some old barn full of junk, I would most definitely pick the old barn. I love digging through old junk whenever I get the chance to do so! I had to have gotten this from my Grandma Goff.

My mothers parents were Thomas and Ellie Decker. They lived on a dairy farm in Colorado. I spent a lot of time as a child feeding baby calves and helping out on the farm! I learned the principal of hard work thanks to my Grandpa and Grandma Decker.

 I am very thankful for all the blessings God has given me. I have learned from my parents and grandparents to love everyone, to find beauty in all things, and to endure to the end, no matter how hard things are sometimes. I am thankful for the things I have achieved as a person in the circumstances I've been in and the things that are to come. I am excited for my future. I am trying to live a positive good life. My only hope in this life is to teach my children the righteous and good things that have been taught to me. I want them to learn from the good and the bad that can and will happen in this life. Most of all I want my children to learn how to be good and righteous people.