My Childhood Home

In this picture my dad is holding me while my two older sister's are looking up at us. Teresa is on my dad's right and Rebecca on his left. We are in the backyard of our childhood home in Sunset, Utah.

When I was born my parents lived in Layton, Utah close to Grandpa and Grandma Poulsen. Later my grandparents moved to Arizona and told my dad that he would not be able to afford to keep following them. My parents decided to stayed behind in Utah and they bought a home in Sunset, Utah when I was about 6 or 7 weeks old.

My grandparents moved to Mesa, Arizona and never moved from that area. My mom always wanted us to live close to my grandparents, so she was sad we never followed one last time.

I think my parents paid about $20,000 for their home in Sunset, Utah. (My dad told me the exact price they paid for it and I forgot what that amount was). When they bought the home it had 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a small kitchen, dining room, and living room. The house was/is white and had an attached carport that would later be changed into a large bedroom. The house sat on a corner lot which made for a large front yard, and a small back yard.

My parents still live in that same house today and not much has changed. A lot of great childhood memories were created in that house!

My Dad's comments: We paid $12,000 for the house. It was a terrible shock when I had to pay more than that for my latest pick-up.

My Mom's comments: Your gr.parents had already moved to Az. We got to live in their big house until it sold. That was 3 great years. They helped us get this one. It was $200. down & take over payments. Gr.pa had to make the $200. This was a repossion.(sp?) It was all we could do to make it's payments of $89. We moved here in Jan. So you were 8 months old.