By March of 1980, I graduated mid term from high school and worked during the days and took college classes at night the second semester of my senior high year. One night I got a call from my neighbor Richie Richardson who asked if I would come over and babysit his little sister because he and a friend wanted to go out that night, but his parents were at church. I agreed and went over. There was Bob on the phone trying to reach his date. He had traveled 400 miles from San Francisco to Palmdale and had been running late, and his date had left for the evening. Richie asked him to call someone else, but while they were deliberating as to who he should ask Richie's little sister suggested he take me. Bob said "well would you like to come we are going bowling?" I agreed and we got my sister Connie to babysit. We bowled and then went to Carl's Jr. for drinks. There was Bob and Richie cutting up and joking. There I was watching Bob tell his stories and jokes and then the wheels began to turn in my head. I couldn't place it, but he seemed familiar to me. And then it dawned on me, in a single moment I realized just who he was. Could it be? This was the guy I fell head over heals for several years ago. I couldn't believe it, it was him. We went home and I'm sure they didn't notice, but I was just spinning inside. And then he asked me out for another date. I couldn't go out in the evenings because I had my classes, so we went out for lunch and sometimes we would go bowling. We went out everyday that week and then that Friday night we went to a show. The next day we went on a church outing up in the snow. Then he went back to San Francisco, he was in the Navy.

     After several months of dating on the weekends and him traveling back and forth he asked me to marry him. He had joined the Church and that was important to me. We were married October 3, 1980. I moved to Vallejo California and we lived in off base housing. It was a peaceful time for us. Bob worked a lot, so I got a part time job with the school district doing testing and toutering for bilingual kids. I got pregnant right away and Heather was born July 9,1981. We also went through the temple and were sealed July 3, 1981, so Heather was born under the covenant.

     In January of 1983 we were transferred to Gaeta, Italy, where we lived for 2 years and where Robby was born on July 25,1983. During those years there were times that would speed right by and others that would seem forever. Bob was out at sea, more than half the time--2 to 3 weeks every month and when the ship was in he worked 24 hour shifts every 3rd day, and at least 8 hours a day the remaining 2 days, so I was often very lonely. On the other hand Kay my sister came and stayed with us to keep me company for a few months, and sometimes we traveled. I got to go on a tour to France in the Spring of 1982 and we vacationed all over Europe with Grandpa, Lee, Connie, Alan and Heather and Robby. What a trip that was. We got to go to Denmark and take Grandpa to the church where he was christined. We took a picture of him holding the book which contained the entry of his birth. We got to see Germany and the Swiss Alps. We got to see some of the most beautiful northern, parts of Italy and camp in some of the most beautiful camp areas in the world. It was a very eventful trip filled with laughter and frustration dealing with Grandpa and Lee. There were many mishaps Connie, Bob and I will never forget. We have pictures of Heather and Robby in the many scenes of that vacation and our stay in Italy.

     In 1984 we were transferred to Newport News, Virginia. That is where Michael was born in 1985. Virginia is beautiful I worked hard taking care of 3 small children and babysitting. Bob worked hard on tug boats and we prepared to get out of the Navy and start a civilian life where Bob would maybe get to be home a little more.

     In the summer of 1985 we moved home to Palmdale, California. We wanted to stay at home with my Mom and Dad until we could get on our feet. It was very cramped. While we had intended for us to stay there and for Bob to go to school we soon changed our minds, and he went to work full time and school part time, so that we could move out to a place of our own. We moved to Lancaster to a mobile home park. Robert sold copiers until he got on with an aerospace contractor as an inspector. There he worked overtime every day and worked every weekend. It was required due to timelines, but it also paid the bills. I can still remember that it was while we lived there that one day Robert called me from work and told me to turn on the TV. He said the space shuttle had exploded. The space shuttle take offs had become so common and that I had forgotten that one was to go off that day. I couldn't believe it. I told him "no way" I can't believe that. I was sure that I would turn on the TV to find out that it was some bad rumor, but to my absolute horror it was real. The space shuttle with all those civilians had indeed exploded. While we lived there it was the first time we had Japanesse exchange students come stay with us. I had just become pregnant and was feeling tired all the time, but I wanted them to have good American food and hot breakfasts. I remember making them hot cream of wheat, eggs and pancakes and then discovering that they hate cream of wheat.

     In the year 1986 we moved to a little house in Palmdale. This is where we lived when David was born. He was born in the Lancaster hospital because that's what our insurance covered. This house had a real pretty garden in the back yard with a swing. The house itself was very small 3 bedrooms 1 ½ baths and 1100 sq ft. Bob's grandpa came and visited us once there as did his father and stepmother. Heather started kindergarten then. She was so cute Bob took her and got her her first real hair cut and new clothes. He had more fun shopping for clothes for her that year and he worked 3 jobs that Christmas to be sure his kids had everything they could ever want.

     We moved out to Quartz Hill in 1987 and Robby started kindergarten. I babysat neighborhood kids and Bob went to work for another aerospace contractor in the Los Angeles area driving 1 ½ hours each way, everyday. He soon tired of that and searched while working there for another job. He found one out at Edwards Air Force Base. He worked there for a number of months. We had been making trips to the church conferences every six months and every time we did we would just drool. We wanted to come to Utah, but we didn't want to leave our families. On one of those trips I had been pregnant but had a stroke on the way home. On this trip we didn't bring the kids it was our 7th wedding anniversary and we came to vacation. We had brought Kay my sister and her friend Heather. I had not been feeling well the whole trip and had been having migraine headaches. We had just left Saint George and were hours from Las Vegas. We decided to proceed to Las Vegas. I remember looking out the window, it was nighttime and seeing the stars and thinking to myself I didn't know if I was going to be ok and it was the first time I had ever left my children. I thought how ironic that I might never see them again. We got to a hospital and they didn't want me to leave due to the risks. I was young, pregnant, and having a stroke the prognosis was death. I told the doctor that if I were going to die then I want to die at home and see my kids again, that I had to go home, so we left.

     I soon began recovering and then had a miscarriage of that baby, it was the only miscarriage of 3 where I had to be hospitalized and where I knew the sex of the baby, he was a boy. We named him Joshua Aaron Wright. I had been very sick between the time of the stroke and the miscarriage, so in between that time we moved back to Palmdale in the house we moved to from Virginia only this time Mom and Dad moved out and bought a house on the hill. Something they had always wanted to do, plus they wanted to have me a little closer and take some of the stress from me. It was fun being in my home ward again at church. I put Robby in preschool and swimming lessons we even signed him up for gymnastics and he played basketball that year. When school started Heather and Robby went to the school that their grandmother was the principal of and Bob was busy working out at Edwards Air Force base and building computers on the side for extra income. Heather and Robby started piano lessons with Heather's friend Amy. I became pregnant again and Christopher Aaron was born January 1, 1989.

     Housing in Palmdale had hit a peak and Mom and Dad decided it was a good time to sell the house and Bob had been offered a position in Ridgecrest as the head of micro computer maintenance (he would get to work with computers his favorite hobby in the world). I was excited to live near my Uncles and Aunts and cousins. My kids would get to know them better. They would get to see the motel I grew up seeing each summer when I visited my grandma and grandpa and swim in the pool we spent many hours swimming in each summer when I was a kid. My grandpa got very sick that year and we visited him often. He died the day after Thanksgiving. At his funeral the kids sang: "It's always fun for everyone when grandpa comes hurray, He always says the kindest things and in the kindest way, He has a winkley, twinkley smile, he's jolly all the day, It's always fun for everyone when grand-pa-comes." Mom told the story of her dad being a very inventive person coming up with solutions for everyday problems like when the dogs would come and knock over the trash cans and grandpa came up with a way to hang the cans in the air until the trucks came to remove them. I remember her telling us that one day he wanted to build himself a brick wall. So, he went out and found some professionals doing it and watched them observing every detail learning how to do it. Then he went and built himself a brick wall. He must have been very good to me because I only have fond memories of him.

     I became pregnant that year and Melissa Ann was born June 4, 1990 in Ridgecrest California. Heather and I had been active in girl scouts and Robby started boy scouts. We went on a boy scout family camp out and participated in our first pine wood derby. Robby and his scout leaders had built his car, and Robby played soccer that year. I was a room mother for Heather's class and Michael went to kindergarten. The month before I was due to have Melissa Heather came down with the chicken pox. She had not missed one day of school and then had to miss out on all the end of the year activities. I went into the hospital and had Melissa and had to go to Mom's house in Palmdale to recover because all the boys had the chicken pox as well. But, because Heather had had them for a couple of weeks before she was no longer contagious, so she got to go with us and Bob was stuck at home with 4 sick, itching, miserable boys. Us girls had a relaxing convelesence in Palmdale until a week later when Bob and the boys came and got us to take us home.

     We were still drooling over Utah, however and Bob took a chance one week to see if he could get a job there. Raster Ops, a computer company, was moving a division from northern California to Utah at that time so they hired Bob and a few months later we moved to Utah. We moved in May and the kids started school that August with Heather in the 5th grade, Robby in the 4th grade, Michael in the 1st grade, and David starting kindergarten.

     We lived in Payson for eight years. We started a magazine with the president of Rasterops called LDS Entertainment, but then he got into financial troubles with his other business after about 6 months of starting this business. We struggled for a few more months later until we decided we were too broke and tired to go on. We paid for those debts for 8 years. Bob got on with a prominent company called Word Perfect and then they sold out. But while he worked for them he created electronic publications and headed up the profitable product of CD distributions of their publications making them 100's of thousands of dollars, but it would not be enough to save the company. He counseled them about the Internet and spoke in conferences throughout the world on the Internet. He taught companies how to make money with their publications in an electronic format and distribution. I encouraged him to go on his own and consult and create web sites. He won contracts with IBM, Texas Instruments, Miller Freeman and others. A multilevel company was in need of an IS manager and offered him a job. We were tired of having to take every company who owed us money to court to get paid. So, Bob took the position. Soon they expressed a need for an out-of -house web development company to fulfill web sites for their reps. I had been working with Bob when he was doing his consulting so I bid on the job and won the contract. There wasn't much competition and I was willing to do it for next to nothing, so I won. Then it became apparent that that company was not going to make it much longer and their major investor was pulling out. However, He was interested in Bob and in starting his own company and was willing to buy me out of my business and hire me and my staff and pay the rent on the lease I had recently entered into. That's how we got involved with One World Online. Bob works as the Chief Technical Officer and I am the manager of Quality Assurance and the Project Manager for the development of our new flag ship product the IMC web site.

     Michael and David became more interested in basketball and have played a few years of baseball. Then Chris too got involved in baseball and basketball. Melissa took some piano as did all the kids and all dropped out within a year or two. We just aren't piano players, but I got to take some lessons and have learned to play and enjoy it very much.

     A favorite yearly activity of the boys and their dad was and is the yearly father and son camp out down in Nephi. It is just one night, but it is fun.

     In 1999 we moved to Orem where we could stay close to work and the kids. We literally live 3-4 blocks from work and from the kids' schools.