Move to Orem 1977

Leon was getting tired of teaching and wanted a change. We had always wanted to go back to Utah and on one of our trips he found a photography studio for sale. Brent went in on it with us. Leon's last day of school was June 15th, graduation. Alan, who was the band drum major, graduated that day. He, Rob and Doug played in the band. We loaded up on a large semi-trailer that belonged to a member of the ward. He drove the semi, Alan drove the little Toyota, Rob drove the station wagon with Doug, and Leon and I with Mark and Nancy were in our camper.We had bought a large five- or six bedroom home in Orem, Utah 767 E 400 S. It had a fenced back yard with two very large old apricot trees and concord grape vines. We eventually had 4 bedrooms downstairs with a 3/4 bath and two bedrooms upstairs with a full bath and 1/2 bath. We had converted one of the bedrooms into a dining room. For the first years we had to endure ORANGE carpet in the living room together with our ORANGE couch and overstuffed chair. I hated the colors! After quite a few years we took up the carpeting and found lovely hardwood floors which Leon refinished. We also painted and put up wallpaper. Brent doing the wallpaper and it became a lovely home. We bought new living room furniture that added to the pleasant feeling in the living room.The photography studio was called Mountainwest Photography, located on University Ave in Provo. Brent and Leon took the pictures and I was the receptionist. They learned to take good pictures but were not pushy salesmen! Alan also took pictures before he left for his mission in Padova, Italy. This experience enabled him to become a professional photographer, a very good one. The busines really couldn't support two families and both Brent and Leon decided they would rather be teachers. Brent went to Montezuma Creek and Leon, after taking some classes towards a doctoral degree, taught at Brighton High in Sale Lake County. Alan and I ran the studio, then when he left Rob began taking pictures, a senior in high school. Eventually we just gave the studio back to the previous owner.