My wife Kay hand-wrote in her personal journal 9/18/1980: “... the biggest news! We moved! ... One evening, after Ned and [realtor] Wayne Pope [Avenues barber who gave Russell Nelson’s son his first haircut] had been looking, Ned came home very excited and wanted me to see another [near] Holladay home. 9:30 PM ... we loaded the [3] kids in the car and went tearing out there. ... I was immediately impressed with the spaciousness and openness of the main floor, deck and huge back yard [with a wild perimeter, in our view] ... The next day was Sunday ... Mom and Dad were immediately impressed with the same features ... and back yard. ...”
Our home on H St sold quickly for 3 times our purchase price, and we bought the home in East Mill Creek, north of Holladay. “The kids started school there on Aug. 25th”, a week before we moved — rough few days for Kay. Soon after the move, little friends on the block were running “all over the neighborhood and through our house and backyard all the time. It’s quite a dramatic change for us. Our boys love it, though.” ...
“For Halloween, we let our boys invite all their new friends over for a party and [wild backyard] spider web hunt. To our amazement, 25 kids showed up! A couple of them weren’t even invited.” Afterward we realized it was too much. “The kids were all so hyper and hard to control, but in general it was fun, and I’m glad we did it ...” in our home and backyard with a wild side.
