Ok...only 2 more "chapters". This next part is from the same road trip I took on Saturday. I visited several places from my childhood. My goal was to document via pictures as many things as I could from my childhood. I don't know when I will be able to go back to Portland again and do this. This section is the houses that I grew up in and the houses that my grandparents lived in.
The first house that I remember living in was on Cardinal Terr. We moved in to this house when I was 2. We moved out when I was in 4th grade (so about 10). As I drove down the street I could pinpoint where several of my friends lived. This is the house that we lived in and Jann lived next door to us. Some memory highlights...the house on the other side of us had a swimming pool and I nearly drowned in it. Scott & I were playing in the car one day and one of us accidentally slipped the car out of part and it rolled out of the driveway and across the street and up the curb. We were ok, but scared to death. When I was about 9 the house next door (the one with the pool) was broken in to and I was home alone when it happened. I heard the people running down the side of the house. The police came to the door to see if I had heard anything. I was scared to death. This is the house that Spencer was born in also. Before Spencer was born, my room was the front right window. When Spencer was born, Scott and I moved into rooms in the basement.
We moved from the house on Cardinal to the house on Preslynn Dr. We lived in this house until I graduated from high school. It is amazing how familiar things can become even when you haven't been back in 20+ years. The house across the street from us had a schnauzer named Candy. Everytime I see a schnauzer now I think of this dog. This is also the house that had the dump truck accident. As you can tell we lived on a steep hill of a street. A big truck was at the top dropping off something and the brakes failed and the truck rolled down the street. It came through the neighbors yard and then ran into our brick wall (you can't see it in the picture) and then crashed into our famly room. (the window to the left of the front door) Kind of a scary experience. My room is the back window in the picture. Scott's was the front & side window and Spencer's was the middle window.
From Preslynn we moved to West Linn on Antioch. I only lived in that house for one year. After my first year at BYU I moved back home for a year before going back to LDS Business College. The house on Antioch was built by my parents. The house is down a LONG driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac. Needless to say, I didn't go and take any pictures of that house.
As a child we spent a lot of time at each of my grandparents houses. Grandma & Grandad Bower lived in NE Portland until I graduated from high school. I have many memories of sleepovers and dinners at this house. This house is near the airport and I remember sitting by the big picture window in the front and watching the airplanes coming in for a landing.
Grandmother & Grandpa McAllister lived in this house on 29th Ave. for (I don't even know how many) years. My dad was lived in this house...that's how many years they lived there. We spent many family get togethers here. The house is so old and it has so many stories to be told. The most interesting thing about this house is how the people have changed the look of the outside. It used to be just all grass and a sloping front yard.
The other neat thing about this house is the church that is just down the street. The church is so old that it is now considered a historical landmark in Portland. Notice the stairs in the front..that is an entrance to the chapel. The benches in the chapel are solid wood...so they are HARD. The building has had additions and renovations, but for the most part it is still the same as when it was built. It is a very beautiful building. This is where we had Grandpa's funeral.
The last house to document is the one that Scott & I lived in while we lived in Portland. Tanner was born when we lived here. It is our "first" house. When we moved to Portland we lived in Grandma & Grandad's house they built in Lake Oswego. Unfortunately, I didn't make it down to that area to get a picture. We lived there for about a year to save money. Then we decided to buy our own house. We bought this house in Aloha on Jay St. To look at it now, it looks so tiny, but it was just perfect for us. We loved this house.
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