July 30

For my first post I'll share a Little about myself. For thirty years my wife has been trying to get me to write in a journal. Maybe this will work for me.
I’m one of two children. I have a sister. My mother passed a few years ago, but my dad is still around and pretty active for his age. He remarried after my mom passed. His new wife was a girl that he dated in high school. She unlike the rest of us is very musically inclined. She has four children.
My wife and I were married in the Salt Lake City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We lived in Escondido, California for about 18 months before returning to BYU. Our first two children were born while I attended school. I worked for Albertson’s to support my family while attending college. After school we returned to Escondido where I worked at several different jobs until I landed in a factory. Since then I’ve been a Production Control Specialist, Manufacturing supervisor, Tool Room Supervisor, Production Manager, Manufacturing Engineer and NC programmer. Half way through my 14 years in the manufacturing environment I transferred to Grand Junction, Colorado. This was a great place to live.
We spent many weekends’ trout fishing, camping and hunting. Our family loved living in western Colorado, but I needed a change so I took a job with an engineering software company and have been with them for the past 9 years.
My children are in chronological order:
R.J. married to a lovely girl, Cindy a great mother to their children: A boy almost 3 and a girl just 1 year old. They live in Arizona.
Alice almost through college and engaged to be married to Justin next March.
Heather, who has a gift to work with special needs children, particularly Children with Autism.
Susie married to J.J., a farmer in Oklahoma. They are expecting their first child, a girl. We are very excited to have a grandchild close.
Sarah is living with my sister in Escondido and attending college there.