This is a picture of my first dog, Goldie. While your dad was working on the Pot Holes Dam, one night he brought home a little puppy. She was a Cocker Spaniel and she was a beautiful gold, reddish color. We named her Goldie. I had never had a dog before. We always had lot of cats while I was growing up. We made her a bed with a basket and some blankets. At bedtime we left her in her bed and closed our bedroom door. She cried until 1am or so in the morning. We decided if we wanted any sleep we would have to bring her to our bed and said we would try again the next night. Needless to say, the next night was worse. Goldie ended up sleeping on the foot of our bed all the rest of her life. She died when I was pregnant with Donna. I loved that dog so much. I took her everywhere with me. I wanted to have a baby so bad but I ended up having three miscarriages while we lived in Moses Lake. I was pregnant again when the job at the Dam came to an end. Again we moved in about two days back to Everett. Shortly after we moved, I miscarried again. Your dad had gone to work for a Radio Shop in Everett and we were trying to buy an old fixer-upper house in Lake Stevens. Radio was on it's way out and Television was coming in so the shop cut down to one man. One night while your dad was playing cards at a store in Lake Stevens (the only store ) he heard about a job repairing radios in Enumclaw. He called the next morning and was hired over the phone. So again, we moved in two days. We were losing the house anyway. We spent one night at the Enumclaw Hotel and the next day I found this run down house to rent. The job was for Gunderson's Furniture, the largest furniture store in Enumclaw. Television was really starting to take hold so your dad started learning to fix them. I got pregnant again and just figured I would miscarry again but this time I didn't. David was born six weeks early on February 15, 1951. We decided to try buying a house again. We got another fixer-upper in Buckley. Before long, I was pregnant again with Diane. Gunderson's decided to do away with their TV and Radio repair. Your dad found another job right away in Fife. It was Bungee's Fuel Oil and they had a TV and Radio repair shop too. Your dad and one other man worked the shop. It was a steady job and we lived in Buckley for seven years. Your dad was still working at Bungee's when we moved to Bonney Lake. While we were in Buckley your dad came home one day and said he had bought some property in Bonney Lake and that we were going to build a new house. (That's another story.) My last child, Dan, was born after we moved to Bonney Lake. All seven of my children were born in the Enumclaw Hospital.