How many brothers and sisters do you have? Where do you fit in oldest/youngest?- I am the oldest of 4 girls. I had such a fun time growing up with my sisters. I really do not know how my Father survived with all the women in his live, but he did. He is a tender hearted man because of all the women in his life.
If you have children, what ever their names and ages? Where are they living if not still at home?- I have 3 daughters and they all got married 7 years ago with in 4 months of each other. I experienced the empty nest very fast and it was hard. I have the best Son-in-laws and 5 grandchildren. They all live close to each other and when I visit I can sometimes visit them all. My oldest daughter is Bree and she is 31 years old and has 2 children, a boy and a girl. She lives in Salem Oregon with her family as her Sweetheart is finishing law School at the end of this school year and she will return back to Medford Oregon again.Bree is a stay at home Mom but works very hard being a great Mom and is a wonderful cook and enjoying crafting. Brandie is my 2nd daughter and she is age 29 years old and she lives in Camas Washington with her 2 children, a boy and a girl, and her Sweetheart. Brandie is a manager on a Medical Clinic. Brandie is a very busy great Mom trying to juggle being a Mom and working and is involved in sports with her Sweetheart and keeping her children involved in fun and activities. Brandie loves Sports and was a Varsity basket ball star in high school. Tori is my youngest daughter age 27 and has one child and is a stay at home Mom that is very busy with her little boy keeping him involved in fun activities. Tori loves photography and doing crafts. Tori lives in Ashland Oregon and her family. Her Sweetheart is a Airplane Pilot so he sometimes comes to get me and I get to visit my family.
What are some of the different places you're lived? What is your favorite? I grew up the first 10 years of my life in St. Ignatius Montana/Flat Head Lake. I also lived in New Mexico and we lived so close to the Texas boarder that I developed a Texas accent while I was in 6th-7th grade. Favorite place is Medford Oregon because I went to school there from Jr.High -High School and longer. Most of my life has been in Medford Oregon.
What is you favorite color? Pink- all Shades of Pink.
What is your favorite food? My Mother's home cooking. I love healthy good food.
What are some of the things you enjoy doing? I love Crafting and collecting Antiques and Vintage stuff. My weakness is thrift store shopping and I collect children's books and small cozy baby blankets. My passion is working with children. I started a volunteer Story time and music at Head Start and area Preschools just a few months ago in October. I was just recently recommended to serve on an Executive board for Head Start and area early childhood programs for the state of Washington. This Executive board makes decisions affecting policies and funding for State and Federal and area early childhood programs of the Palouse. I was in Nursing for years but left that profession because it has become to much of a business and I care to much.
Share something about you we might not know- I got my early childhood degree when my youngest daughter was just 2 years old. Going to school in the afternoons and evenings at Southern Oregon State College. I saved a choking baby and almost delivered a baby in my home. I loved high school so very much and I was so blessed to have a huge group of friends that were LDS. I met my Sweetheart in the Portland Temple and was engaged in the Portland Temple a few months later. Married there and my 3 daughters were sealed to my Sweetheart in the same room that my oldest daughter married in the Portland Temple. My youngest daughter Tori was married in the Medford Oregon Temple and was sealed to her Sweetheart by my Seminary teacher. When I grew up in Medford we never thought we would ever see a Temple someday. We only had 2 Wards and now there are almost 4 Stakes in the Medford area now.
What is one thing that you'd like to do or see someday? I want to go to New York and visit Ellis Island to see where my family entered America. I also want to visit the Salt Lake Temple again, Go visit the BYU Campus and spend some time at the family history center. Visit Russia and see where my family came from. Visit Paris France.
Name a book or movie that describes your life right now- Soul Surfer- because I depend and believe in that you can not do anything in life without my Lord and Savior and overcoming a bad MVA in 1993 but happily married and so in love with my Sweetheart and happy children and the best grandchildren.
What is your current calling if you have one? I teach the Sunbeams in Primary. I feel it such an honor to work with these little children that have been held back for this time.
