I grew up in the small town of Shelton, WA in a fantastic family of 7 (Mom:Leslee, Dad:Bill, Sisters:Kaylee and Joanna, Brothers:Willie and Jordan).  After highschool, I moved to another small town, Newberg, OR and got a B.S in Math and Computer Science from George Fox University.   My original plan was to stay at 5th year and get my master’s in teaching and become a highschool math teacher.  However, after completing 2 majors in 4 years, including one extremely busy semester of carrying 22 credits (2 of those classes at being at the exact same time), playing tennis, and now looking back, suffering what I think may have been a small psychotic break :),    I decided a bachelor’s degree was enough and I moved back to Shelton to figure out what I wanted to do with that degree.

I didn’t have to wait long, a few months later AT&T Wireless found my resume online and contracted me to do some analysis on the traffic on their network.  So, I moved to Redmond, WA, where my new job was located.  When my contract was almost up, my managers decided to send me to a bunch of training on how a telecom network works and then hired me as a SS7 signaling engineering to design, setup, troubleshoot, and fix the traffic on the network.   And that’s where I spent the next 6 years of my life, working for AT&T Wireless, which then became Cingular, and has now been bought back by AT&T.   During those 6 years, I met and married my husband Royal.  We decided we were tired of city living and moved down to Olympia, WA.  I continued to work for Cingular, from our home in Olympia, until just recently.  March 12, 2007 was my last day in corporate America.  Hallelujia!!! I am choosing to be a full time mom to our son, Jayden, who is 11 months old.   I have also started a business with Arbonne International, which is allowing me to work around my family’s schedule.  I love Arbonne for allowing me to choose family over money, but not having to choose either family or money.

 So, that’s my story up to today! I am a wife to a kind hearted man (don’t tell him I told you that, he likes people to be scared of him); a mother to a happy, little, blonde-headed, blue-eyed boy; an aunt to two cute, funny, little boys; and a daughter and sister to the best family around!!!