As a kid Mikkie used to play walk the barrel, a game that required a big barrel. She also played games like Jacks and Shooter. Shooter required marbles and a circle boundary. To win the player must shoot marbles out of the boundary and the player who hits the most marbles out and collects the most wins the game. She later in life teaches her grand kids to play the game.

She was rebellious as a teenager and spent dates at the movies and playing miniature golf. She did attend church with the family. The memories that stick out most to her as a teen are her brothers giving her a hard time.

Mikkie went to school in Dodge City Kansas and her school was very standard. She struggled with math and English and ended up dropping out as a Sophomore. She wasn't very popular either and this was due to her coming from a poor family and poor meant you weren't popular. She did hang out with some friends though.

Mikkie didn't have a car until living in Sho Low with her husband. She shared a GMC Pick Up Truck. Her husband drove it to work and back and after he got home the truck was hers. Her special memory about the truck is sometimes she'd go drag race with her brother who had a Chevy Pick Up and they both got a ticket for it.

As her first job Mikkie was a car hop waitress. Her favorite job out of all the ones she had through out her life is being a real estate appraiser. She started the job back in 1982 and is still one now.