Following GolfDiveNCougs lead, here's a bit of my pedigree.
We moved to Provo the summer before I started 5th grade. I remember attending BYU games as part of the knot-hole gang. The stadium, if you could call it that, was were the Richards PE Building now stands. Boy, have we come a long way!
We left Provo the summer after my junior year, moving to Renton, Washington. I remained a Cougar fan. The UW Huskies never caught on with me.
I returned to Provo the following year as a freshman. I roomed with two former players who told me stories about the team and Coach Hudspeth.
I returned to the Seattle area, worked for a year, and joined the Marines. After my enlistment was up, I returned to BYU and went out for the wrestling team. I was lucky enough, without any high school experience to make the team, though most of the time the guy who started in my weight class turned me every way but loose. I did that for three years.
I didn't have any form of financial aid except for the GI Bill. It took me a little longer to graduate because I had to make money for school.
I worked on Jimmy Osmond's movie, The Adventures of the Great Brain, as a set decorator. I never saw the movie. Other members of the crew who had suggested I not see it.
After the shoot was done, I went to work as a scenic carpenter at Osmond Studios in Orem. I also worked as finish carpenter building chapels in Southern California.
I began law school at BYU in the fall of '79. I worked two years for the professor who taught all the criminal law courses. That expertise led to my first job in the DA's Office in Las Vegas.
I left BYU with two degrees and no wife. We both graduated in '82 from BYU, but I didn't meet her until three years later in a singles ward in Salt Lake. She's Dutch (hey A_King, hoe gaat het?), has her M.Ed, and is also a licensed massage therapist.
We have three children, two boys and a girl. It's a family pattern. It was the same in her mother's family, her father's family, and one brother's family, though he has four children. The fourth started the two boys and a girl cycle again.
Our oldest is returning from his mission in August. He's in Suriname, West Indies Mission. It's one of the few places in the world he could have gone where Dutch is the official language. He was fluent before he left. His call was English speaking, but his Mission President changed it.
Our second son graduates from Jordan High this spring. He will test for his third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do in June. He wants to go to BYU, and has been accepted for fall. He hasn't decided whether to go or to work until he leaves on his mission in December or January.
Our daughter will be in ninth grade this fall. She hasn't discovered boys yet. I'm in no hurry.
That's probably more than was necessary, but it was fun to write. I've really enjoyed this thread.
