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.

Playing Barbie Dolls with Rebecca

This is such a cute picture of my sister Rebecca (back) and me (front). I am closer in age to her than any of my other sisters. If I think back to our childhood, and what we did together, the words "barbie dolls" comes to my mind. I don't remember playing barbie dolls with Teresa, but I do remember playing barbie dolls with Rebecca.

My barbie doll house was one level and it opened up and became three rooms. I only had four barbie dolls (Ken, Barbie, Skipper and Growing Skipper). I remember Rebecca's barbie doll house was two levels and it had an elevator on the side. I'm not sure how many Barbie's she had or what they looked like.

I remember we would pull all of our barbie doll stuff out and set it up in the front yard under the carport and we would play for hours together. I think setting everything up and dressing all the barbie dolls was the funnest thing to do. I loved playing barbie dolls with my sister Rebecca.

My mom made most of our barbie doll clothes and she even knitted some of them. I still have all my barbie dolls, their clothes, and some other things (like dishes). I found them the other day and had to laugh at how worn out they looked. I cut Barbie and Skipper's hair short, thinking it would grow again, and I pushed pins into their ears for earrings. I was saving my barbie dolls for my daughter. Looking at them I thought how silly of me, my daughter would never want to play with these ugly old barbie dolls. I still can't throw my old barbie dolls away because they brought back some fun memories for me.

Here is a picture of Teresa with Rebecca and I that was taken on the same day.

My Mom's comments: This picture was taken at Kmart. It was a promo for a camera. Rebecca or you fell off the back of the seat you were sitting on.