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Frank made the trip from Everett every three weeks and it was extremely hard to let him go back. I did not realize I was depressed. When the kids would go to bed I would go too.
We moved in June to live with Frank’s Mom, Frances, and sister, Linda in Milwaukie, Oregon. I was pregnant with our fifth baby and wanted to have Dr. Miracle deliver our baby girl. The home teachers packed up all our belongings into the U-Haul truck and loaded it into a storage unit. There were wonderful people in the ward who came to help clean my house. I will forever be grateful to them and try to pass that kind of service on to others that need it.

The summer of 1984 was hard living with my mother-in-law and my four children. I remember that Eric had a skateboard that he was riding in the house. He was riding pretty fast and hit the kitchen door making a hole in it. Grandma handled it very calmly and he felt bad. I was relieved that he was not hurt and that grandma did not get very upset.

Jennifer Lynne was born August 23rd, 1984 in Portland, Oregon at Portland Adventist Hospital. She was a beautiful, healthy baby girl. We loved her dearly.

Frank found a spacious house to rent in Marysville, Washington and we started our new life there. We arrived at our new house with only our suitcases and the clothes on our backs. All our other belongings, beds, furniture, and clothes were in storage in Spokane. Luckily Frank’s boss, Verna Colson, let us borrow blow up mattresses and sleeping bags. We had fun camping out in our new home for the first week. On the weekend Frank drove a U-Haul truck to load up our furniture, and he arrived on a Sunday afternoon. The word had gone out to the men in the church. They were waiting on our front lawn when we arrived to unload our belongings into our new home. We lived in that house for two years until it was offered for sale.