Where I Grew Up {Mom}

I was born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.  We lived in a little tiny home just off the main road between Mt. Pleasant and Moroni.  I have no memory of that place.  Mom just pointed it out to me as we would pass by it.  Soon after we moved back into Mt. Pleasant to a small tiny home two blocks from the church.  My parents paid $50 a month for rent.  (Again, I have no memory of living there.)

We lived in West Kearns, Utah -- I think I was about 4.  I remember playing in the rabbit hutches and hiding in the bedroom closets to stay away from my older brother.

We then moved back to Mt. Pleasant and lived in a house that my Grandparents owned.  Dad worked for Grandpa.  We also lived for a time in Fairview . . . but I have no memory of that place.

Then we lived for the first time in Indianola.  I started school while we lived there.  I started in the middle of 1st grade -- not sure why my parents didn't have me go to kindergarten.  Probably because my mother didn't drive and no buses came clear out to Indianola at the time.  It was about 45 minutes away.  I remember 1st and 2nd grades there.

Then we moved to Gustine, California so dad could work for Rene Andersen.  I went to part of 3rd and part of 4th grade there.

Then back to Indianola where we stayed for a couple of years.  Most of my childhood memories are from Indianola because we lived there the longest.  Dad ran a dairy.  Summers were about riding horses and working around the house and farm.  Kristeen and I spent our time there building a treehouse.  I think this is where my love to create started.

From there we moved back and forth from Moroni to Mt. Pleasant, then to Moroni, and then to Gunnison, Utah.  I started middle school in Moroni then we moved to Gunnison.  Gunnison was one of my favorite places.  We lived there two years and I was able to get real friends and not feel like the new girl.  Whenever we would move it usually took a few months to make friends and by then we would be moving again.

My parents were always very secret about when we would move.  I came home from school one day and they had packed up the house.  When we walked in they said, "If you want to say goodbye to your friends do it now, because we are leaving tonight." Wow, what a shock!  I think I cried all the way to California.

Then we moved to Merced, California where my dad took a job for Joseph Gallo running a large dairy.

We lived in two different homes there.  The high school was large and scary.  I did like the church ward there.  We lived there for two years.  I started dating Danny while living there.

In the middle of 11th grade we moved to Chester, Utah . . . then to Moroni and I finished school at Mt. Pleasant High.

After High School graduation I lived in Ephraim, Utah while going to school at Snow College.  I moved back to Moroni to help my mother who was on bed rest with a pregnancy - Uncle John.

Then I married your dad and moved to Gustine, California.

There were several times where we would move to another home in the same town . . . by the time I married your dad I had moved to 19 different homes in 19 years.

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A list of all the towns mom has lived --

UTAH:
Mt. Pleasant
Moroni
West Kearns
Fairview
Indianola
Gunnison
Chester
Ephraim

CALIFORNIA:
Gustine
Merced