Lynn:  When Steve returned from Vietnam, we moved to Belton, Missouri, not far from Kansas City.  We were a happy family!  After discharge from the Air Force it was back to Miamisburg and a small apartment on Simonton Avenue.  Steve and Stephanie were off to school—Wright State University for Steve, the Little Red Schoolhouse Daycare for Stephanie.  I went to work for an optometrist in the Dayton Mall.

Steve:  Within the next year Paul Arne was on the way and I started work for Monarch Marking systems.  Lynn took on the awesome responsibilities that come with two children and moving into a rental home on Maple Avenue, then owned by Hazel and Harry Shell.  Andy arrived next and Lynn and I decided we needed to invest in a home, so we purchased a ‘starter’ on North Eighth Street.   There must have been some strange aura in that house because Amanda was conceived shortly after we moved in.  We stayed in our starter home for 12 years.