RACH

She is child number three. She is the first child born after we moved to West Bountiful. Let's talk about her birth.

She was due the first of September. But of course she wasn't born then. Dad had a new job with Singer and was scheduled to go on a business trip to San Jose, leaving Sunday, Sept. 12. He was to be gone for three weeks. So we made alternate plans for getting to the hospital. Grandma and Grandpa were staying with us for the birth. So Dad left Sunday afternoon. Middle of that night I was ready to go. I called him and told him if I had known all that needed to happen was for him to leave town, he should have left a few weeks sooner. Uncle Ster drove me into LDS and Rach was born about 2:30 Monday afternoon. Uncle Bill came to visit while I was in recovery. (I think the staff felt sorry for me, since Dad was not there.) She weighed 9lbs 7oz , dark hair, and her face was red. I was so glad to get her here. By the time Dad got home and saw her she was all grown up. A baby changes a lot in three weeks.

Now she's really grown up. But she still loves baseball, as she always has. She's a lot like Grandma--always painting some room or decorating another. She loves being a wife and mother and she's very good at it. Before Maggie was born Rach was so worried about mothering a daughter. It came to her, just as everything else has.