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Go to ww.mytreasuredphoto.blogspot.com for images from Cheyenne's birthday party and Roy and Tiffany's wedding reception in Duchesne, Grotto Hike.

June 22, 2011

How many children have you had?

Six, with six spouses and nine soon to be 10 grandchildren added to the family.

What are their names, birthdays, birthplaces?

See the blog posted on Novemebr 21, 2010. 

June 21, 2011

How did you feel when you found out you were going to be a father for the first time?

Shocked, especially since it happened so soon after we were married. However I had been looking forward to the time that I would become a father so I was also very excited. I was excited each time we found out we were going to have another one and regretted the day we had to stop. It was quite different too for us since we did not get to know the gender of the child until you were born. Plans for rooms and decorating always waited until after the birth of each of you.

June 20, 2011 Happy 36th Anniversary

What advice would you give to your children or grandchildren on their wedding day?

Well since each of you are married and I don’t remember any advice that I gave you then I guess I’ll have to give some now that will apply to you as well as your children. My advice is simple. Look closely at some one you are planning to marry and inspect them with the greatest of detail and then once married throw all of your notes away and just love them as best as you can. Forget all of your close friends and make your spouse your closest friend. That doesn’t mean you can’t have friends it just means you don’t frequently call them or confide in them about any of your personal matters in your marriage. Never put them before your spouse, never flirt with them if they are of the opposite gender, never let them be more important than your spouse. Look for ways each day to compliment them on things that they do and always support them in their church callings.

June 19, 2011

What do you admire most about her?

Her ability to work with people and her willingness to put all of her effort into her church callings even when other are far less committed. Her ability to love and her love for our children, their spouses and our grandchildren.

Tell a favorite story or two about her.

I could go on for a longtime about stories about her but will tell just this one for now.

As she admitted last night (as we were coming home from Roy’s wedding reception to Britt and Jeff ) when she first had a crush on me she would ride her bike up to my home ad stop along the road and hide behind the trees on the road as she would watch me working the hay. The one time I remember seeing her was when I was raking the hay in the filed just west of the house. A movement on the road caught my attention and as I watched I could see Marie and Trudy Childs on bikes up on the road. They later talked to me before they returned home.

June 18, 2011

These entries are actually being made after the date of the title when they were suppose to be made,I am just catching up.

How would you describe your wife now?

Marie is even more beautiful now than when we married. She is full of special talents and has an ability to love and make friends. We have recently ended a five plus year calling at BYU where she was greatly loved by nearly everyone of the Young Single adults that we worked with. The only reason it wasn’t a 100% of them is because we didn’t get to have time enough with some of them to get to know even who they were or they too would have had the same special feelings for her. She is so fun to have with me when we do family and wedding photos. There have been countless times that at each wedding someone would come u and compliment us on our ability to work together and how Marie was such an important part of that as she has such a unique ability to get people to smile for my camera. She is also a very hard worker and can work circles around me as she gets going early everyday and keeps going just like an Ever-ready battery.

How long have you been married?

June 20, 2011 was our 36^th wedding anniversary. We hiked with Brittany and Alex to the Grotto waterfalls in Payson canyon and then that night went on a date to a movie, “Kung Fu Panda 2”. We will be adding that to our collection.

June 17, 2011

Where have you most enjoyed living?

It must be pretty obvious that we like Mapleton since we have only left it for 6 weeks, to live in Spanish Fork, in 36 years of marriage.

Why are you living where you are today?

We are still living in the home we had built in 1983. We moved in on July 24^th and even though the house and yard have had changes it is still the home we love and don’t ever want to leave if possible.

June 16, 2011

Where was your first home as a married couple? (see Nov. 14, 2010 entry)

What other homes have you lived in? (see Nov. 23, 2010 entry)

June 15, 2011

What are some of your early marriage experiences?

We had a great time learning to love each other and be friends despite anyone else. The best examples that I can think of to illustrate this are:

First. A boss who wasn’t real smart. I started working for American TV just after we were married and Carl Haupt was the owner of the business and would have me go with him to learn how to do home calls and antenna instillations. That created a problem however since the boss usually had a lot of things he had to do in the office before we could go start on the days calls. So it was typically 2 or 3 in the afternoon before we would leave the shop. I would do odd stuff around the shop until we left each day. That meant that we got home late in the evening quite often as well. So one night when we were particularly late and Carl had brought me home, we were met by Marie her parents. Carl told her we were late because we had been out with a couple of women. Even though Marie knew it wasn’t true it still didn’t sit well with her especially since she had been told that with company present.

Second: A well meaning Aunt. After Ann had graduated from BYU she came to saty with us a couple of days before she headed back east to find employment in Kansas and later in Washington DC where she met Charles, her home teacher. We had Ben at the time and Ann was the trained child rearing person. It seemed like everything we did wasn’t the way Ann had been taught at BYU to do it and she would tell us. Well, needless to say we loved her dearly but she couldn’t leave soon enough for either of us. Since then we have come to greatly respect her insights and love for us and still love her dearly.

June 14, 2011

Did your wife know how to cook when you got married?

Marie wasn’t an experienced cook like her mother was but she was not new o it as well. She has always cooked special meals for me and us. She did have some lessons on how to use our new $800 or more Microwave that we got about two years after they had started on the consumer market. It was a great microwave and really changed the way we cooked and had meals. Baked potato meals became so easy after that and we did that quite often. Cakes became easy to make as well but we did revert to using the conventional oven for cooking them after a few months.  It has been interesting however thinking about our changes in eating habits over the years. We had Chicken Pot pies fairly regular during the first few years and Cambells tomato soup was used quite regularly. We then had different dinners that became a stable for a few years and then we moved on to something else. I think quite often as we go shopping now about the things that we used to buy every time we went and how we now don’t even seem to look at them.

Did you have any cooking disasters?

The only cooking disasters that I can remember are when for Thanksgiving we had a pressure cooker spew it’s contents of carrot pudding all over the ceiling. The only other one that really sticks out in my mind (during which I was not home to see) was when Marie put a potato in the microwave for three minutes and then went to shower and then upon discovering went running through the house in her birthday suit to get the charred smoking remains of the potato out of the microwave  and into the great outdoors since it had not stopped after the three minutes, it might have even gone thirty minutes.