Annie: Well, it’s funny because we laugh about this, but that’s Lou’s one downfall is B&B and every night he has his little toddy before he goes to bed. I never let him get out of B&B. But anyway, I am glad you asked me about those years because I look back on that and I have so many memories of so many wonderful people in my life and having lived in a small town there is nothing like it really.

It really is, and as Lou says I have met with friends; we meet a couple times a year and they are from all over the country, but we wouldn’t let go of those friendships for anything.

Then of course there were so many cousins and uncles and aunts. There were just so many people involved in our lives that you always felt loved. But anyway, that was my growing up years. They were just very fun-filled.


Annie: We didn’t even think about it. We got married and on the way back from our honeymoon I was pregnant.

Lou: Mountain fever! (Laughter)

Annie: I never worked after I was married, and Mike was born about 10 months after we were married and Lou-Anne was born a year later and this was our life. This was my whole life. But also Lou, I had to keep up with Lou pretty much because he was a sales manager and so we did a lot of entertaining and all that kind of thing. It was a busy life for us, it really was. Wasn’t it Lou?