Jeff and Nancy met in 1997 at Washington State University and married Feb 28, 1998. Jeff graduated with a Bachelor's in Agricultural Economics and Nancy in Microbiology. Jeff's first job was in Prosser, WA as operations manager trainee. That job allowed him to see that he didn't want to be an operations mgr after all. Allison Kate was born at Kennewick General on Aug 2, 2000.
Then off to job #2 in SLC as a produce broker for a world wide company. We lived in Layton and then West Jordan. Nancy worked as a Technologist for Associated Regional and University Pathologists up by the U. That was a fun job for Nancy testing body fluids for various sexually transmitted diseases and as the fecal technologist. That job teaches two things: 1. If you're not celebate, use a condom, 2. poop comes in many beautiful colors!
Jeff then took a job near Salem, Or as a salesman for a produce company. With this job he got to travel to Mexico. While in Oregon Nancy's MS flared up really bad. It was scary for several months. She was pretty much bed (couch) ridden for that time. We are thankful for the women from church who brought in meals 3x a week for 4 months. Life got better and we purchased our first home in Salem. On April 8, 2005 Natalie Page was born at Salem Regional Hospitals beautiful new family birthing center.
Then off to a new produce company in Pasco, WA. We bought a home in Kennewick and have now been here for 3 years. We love the area, Nancy hates the excessive summer heat and the wind. Does the wind ever stop blowing here?! Jeff loves his job as sales manager. He has a great boss who treats him good. He has traveled to Houston, San Diego and will be going to Orlando in October. This past February Nancy got to accompany Jeff to Phoenix, though she spent most of the trip with the bosses wife since this was a golfing trip for Jeff and his boss.
May 10, 2007 Tanner Merrill graced us with his presence. Our blue-eyed, almost blonde boy. Do you think the hospital got babies mixed up? No. He looks like our family, just the wrong colors.
