Courtship and Wedding
Mom remembers this about the first time she saw Dad
We first saw each other in Sunday school. Dad was wearing black and white wing tipped shoes, blue polyester pants an orange letterman jacket, and he was tipping back in chair.
This is the date of their Marriage
July 31, 1975
38 grandkids, 7 great grand kids
This son blew up the toilet.
Patrick
This son put the principals trampoline on his roof when he was out of town
Tom
This is how Mom initiated a first date from Dad
Instead taking the offered money to spend on her trip to Colorado, she said "why don't you keep it and take me on a date instead?"
They were this old when they first met.
15
On one of their first family camping trips they cooked pancakes on this item.
On a flat rock.
This son tried flying off the roof of the garage
Aaron
This son played the whole football game with a broken wrist.
Scott
This was what Mom and Dad did on their first date.
They had a flat tire with no jack. They had to walk into town to borrow one. Then they watched 2001 Space Odyssey.
This is the date when they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple
July 13, 1977
Grandma is the queen of thrift. They bought their first station wagon for this much at this event.
$125 at a yard sale
This son couldn't get out of the school bathroom so he busted his way out through the window.
Mike
Dad pranked the "world's greatest irrigators" with this prank
He got Rachael, Leanna, and Renee to all look down at the water flowing out of the irrigation pipe and pushed them in the mud at the same time.
This item brought Mom and Dad back together after they broke up after High school.
8 track tape
They started serving their first mission in this year.
2010 to the Marshall Islands
They bought their 3rd house for this much money.
$16,000
This child would sneak out during her nap time and go to Grandma Bea's and would return in time to fake a waking up.
Renee
Dad had to complete this task before being allowed to go to his own wedding
Cultivating a field of beets
They started serving their second mission in this year.
2016 to Vanuatu
Dad did these jobs over the years
Farm Hand
Custodian at the Burlington high school
Lawn waterer on BYU ground crew
Built snow fence
Built wood drives
Landscape and Sprinkler installer
General Contractor
Farmer
Business Owner
This child almost got swept underground in the storm drain when she was a toddler
Rachael
This traumatic event happened on their wedding day.
The cake from her co-worker didn't turn out. They had to call all over the Big Horn basin to find someone to make them a cake but they could only do it in blue, so Mom's colors changed to blue and yellow.
These are the years of all their children's births.
aaron 1977
mike 1978
Thomas 1980
Patrick 1982
Scott 1984
Rachael 1986
Leanna 1989
Renee 1990
Mom did these jobs over the years.
Postal Worker
Homemaker
Town Secretary
Business owner (Bookstore, Assisted Living Center)
Waitress
Bus driver
Teachers aide
This child went snow caving and woke up with a drool icicle.
Leanna
They moved to these locations on these dates:
1975
1975
1976
1979
1981
1985
1987
1988
1989
1990
2021
2024
Greybull
Otto
Burlington
Provo
Spanish Fork
Provo
Laramie
Bainville
Burlington
Forsyth
Forsyth