How Steve and Christine met (Steve's Perspective)

In the spring of 1992 (like March or April) my roommates told me that they were going up to Bridal Veil Falls with another apartment of girls from our apartment complex. When we got up to Bridal Veil I found out that each of the guys that went were interested in a specific girl that went. So everyone was paired off except for Christine and me. We just sat in the car while everyone else went somewhere else to go and make out. I found out that she was from California. For the most part it was an awkward conversation. My first impression was that she was not my type and that I had no intentions of asking her out on a date and I just had to endure until we went back to the apartment complex.

Over the summer and the next semester I got to know Christine a little better because we played volleyball together at the sand volleyball court at Raintree Apartments. Over this time I had gotten to know her a lot better and found out that she was different than my first impression. I finally asked her out in December. It took me six months to realize that I really did like her a lot.

Our first date was a big group date that a friend of mine (David Moore) from school put together. (Yes, all of my friends were electrical engineers.) We went up to my friends house in Salt Lake City. We went sledding and then had a very interesting dinner. The dinner had no utensils. We had lunch worker gloves on and ate with our hands and our drinks were in zip lock bags. After dinner we watched a movie and then headed back to Provo. And I definitely didn’t kiss Christine on our first date. After our first date I didn’t date any other girls.

The story of Chris and Heidi meeting, by Heidi

It was summer time in Provo and my neighbor was best friends with Chris. On a simple Friday night I arranged a game night at my apartment and two hours into the “party” Chris came walking in my apartment. The night went late with many games of cards (NERTS) which were very competitive. During the night of cards and games I couldn’t keep my eyes off this cute guy. We even played footsey under the table during cards

At the end of the night only Tim and Chris were left. It was Memorial Day weekend and the family was playing volleyball the next morning, so I invited both Tim and Chris to play. That night, I couldn’t sleep. It was if I had been shocked with energy. The next morning, only a few hours later, I was delighted to see Chris banging on Tim’s door as I was driving to play volleyball. During the game, Chris asked me out on a date for that night. The best thing about the volleyball game is that Chris really had no idea that all but one person was family on the court. Jeannie even came riding up on her bike during the game and he had no idea that we were all family. He didn’t really understand how big our family was until Sunday night dinner and games.

Kami and David – David’s point of view

I think it was September of 2004 when I got a random phone call from Sherry, who I talk to only on the phone maybe once a year. I was like, I wonder why Sherry is calling. She started with a question of “Are you dating anyone?” My answer was “Yes, I’m dating lots of people.” And I was. I was in my prime dating scene, at least 2 per week. I then asked why she wanted to know my dating life and she said “I have someone for you to go out with.” I immediately thought to myself, how would my sister who I barely talk to know a girl that I would want to go out with. So I said, “Well, tell me about this girl, why would I like her?” She said, “I don’t really know, I’ve never met her.” After that comment I just sat there like…. Uhhhh what? She then said that she was neighbors with her sister and that her sister was cute and fun. I just thought to myself, oh brother. Here I am a full dating machine meeting new girls like crazy and I’m supposed to go out with a girl that has to have her sisters neighbor set her up?

Well, I didn’t call Kami, but after about 3 weeks of Sherry nagging me to call I finally gave in just to get Sherry off my back. So I called Kami and no answer, well no there was no way I was going to leave a message. “Hi, I’m David and my sister who knows your sister told me to call… so you want to go out?” Yeah right. After another week or so I called back and talked with Kami and introduced myself and asked if I could take her out. She said yes and I asked what some of her interests were and she told me about Color Me Mine, a place to go make and paint pottery. Here I was again thinking… oh great some artsy girl, I don’t want to do that. So I said I knew the place and said I’ll set something up. We set up a time and she gave me her address.

The first date.
It was a week before Halloween and on the way over to pick up Kami I was just about there when I realized that I had forgotten my wallet at my apartment. In the hundreds of dates I had ever been on and still to this day I have only forgotten my wallet once, and it was my first date with Kami. I knocked on the door and a girl opened the door and immediately the first thought that went through my head was, “Please don’t be the roommate, please don’t be the roommate.” This girl was smoking hot. She was in this red shirt with white stripes down the shoulders and sleeves, it was very attractive. I introduced myself and she introduced herself as Kami and I was like YES! It wasn’t the roommate. So we got in the car and I admitted to her that I had forgotten my wallet for the first time ever on a date. So we headed back to my place and made out the rest of the night… JUST KIDDING! We got my wallet and headed to dinner at Red Robin, little did I know that I had onion breath the rest of the night from my tasty burger. Sorry Kami! My plan was to go ice skating with her after dinner, and if the night was going well to either hit movie or if I was having a blast to go hit a haunted house because then she’d have to hang on to me for being scared, I loved haunted houses for dating for that reason. So we went ice skating and then headed up to Salt Lake to go to a haunted house. The conversation was great the whole night was wonderful. And unlike the rest of you we did not kiss on the first date. In fact it took until December to kiss. And after we kissed I don’t think I dated anyone else really, I think maybe a couple of dates here or there. We got married a year later in December 2005.

Todd & Kathy (from Kathy's point of view)

Todd and I met at Nu Skin when we both worked there. A girl on his team wanted to set us up so she told Todd that I could help him with something (I think it was some email thing). So he called me and then came over to my desk. He wasn't exactly sure where I sat so he said "is there a Traci over here?" I knew he was looking for me and was totally bugged he would forget my name but I told him he was looking for me. There wasn't a lot I could actually do to help him so I just pointed him in the right direction and that was that.

Then Becky (his co-worker) kept on pushing it so over IM he asked me if I wanted to go to lunch with him. Sure why not? So we went on a lunch date to Yamato's (a Japanese place) and I drove because his car was broken down. He didn't like his food very much so he just played around with it and ate a few bites. I'm pretty sure I ate more than him on our first date....oops! After that we started chatting A LOT over instant messenger and he asked me out again. This time we were going to a concert at UVSC and then dinner. I told him I had to go to step aerobics first so we were totally late and only made it for about 30 minutes of the concert. Then we went to dinner at Chevy's (another place he didn't like very much). I don't think we've ever been back to either of the places we went on our first 2 dates. After our first "real" date he came back to my apartment and we hung out watching tv....and yes we kissed on our first date. We met and started dating in July and were married in December of the same year.

The first time he met the family was hilarious. He asked me if I would drive him up to the airport and since I was going up to mom & dad's house in SLC I agreed. So Heidi and I went to pick him up at about 7:00 am. I knocked on his apartment door for what seems an eternity and his roommate answered the door and told me Todd was asleep and no wonder his alarm had been going off all morning. Within a few minutes Todd shows up with a pair of basketball shorts in hand ready to go. We got almost all the way to the freeway before I asked him if he had his wallet with his driver's license. Nope. So we hurried back to his place for him to get it. Heidi and I waited in the car and he was inside for SO LONG (seriously at least 15 minutes). When he came back out he had showered and put on some cologne and picked up his wallet of course. He still only had a pair of basketball shorts in his hand and we were amazed that was all he was taking on his trip. He said he didn't need anything else since he was driving home 1 1/2 days later. We were really late by this point and needless to say he missed his flight. So he ended up coming with us since the next flight to Twin Falls wasn't for about 3 hours. My parents house was a little crazy that morning since George and his family were visiting and Danny and Emily were in the process of moving out that day. Todd just sat right down at the kitchen table with everyone and had his first buckwheat pancakes.

The Beginning of the Story

Yesterday after Sunday dinner I interviewed both mom and dad about their first date and when they were dating. I learned lots of new things I hadn't heard before.

I asked my dad what his first thought about my mom was and he said "she was fine." Nice dad, way to be romantic. Then my dad said "and she was a good kisser, we kissed on our first date".

When I asked my mom the same thing she said "he was so tall, I loved how tall he was. He was tall, dark and handsome (with glasses) and he was so much fun". She talked about what a good dresser he was too. She said he would wear a button up shirt with a tie and a sweater with slacks and that he always looked so nice.

So here is the story....

Dad got set up to take Carol (mom's older sister) to a party by his friend Randy Culp. Randy was Uncle Ron's best man at his wedding, was in dad's fraternity and knew Carol through school. Carol's fiance ended up coming back into town that weekend so my mom ended up going instead. The first date was going to a party with a bunch of dad's friends.

Mom said it was over Christmas break from school (her freshman year and his junior year at WSU) and they went to a party and ended up sitting in the kitchen making popcorn and talking. That night they planned to go snow skiing the next day. Over Christmas break they went skiing (mom of course wore dad out on the slopes), they went to a movie and to a hockey game. The hockey game was one that Uncle Bud (dad's uncle) was the coach one of his kids was on the team and Bud's brother-in-law was the referee. Mom said it was a blast to go to.

Mom said that she really liked his 1956 green Mercury but when the got back to school she found out it wasn't his it was his mom's car and he had an old 1939 Pontiac. She said when he would take her out at school everyone would think he was such a gentleman when he would walk over to her side of the car to open her door. Then he would climb in and scoot over to the driver's side since his door didn't open.

Both of them grew up in Spokane but on different sides of town. Mom grew up in the valley and dad grew up in town on the north side. Then they both ended up going to Washington State College (it changed to Washington State University before they graduated). They didn't know each other but my mom said her dad knew about the Schultz family through Grandpa Schultz's involvement in the community.

My mom said that her first Christmas present from my dad (1 year after their 1st date) was a coat. She said she still has the coat. Grandma Jo came with my dad to mom's house to give it to her and made her try it on while she was there to make sure it was perfect. Then after they left my mom said Grandma Giboney looked at her and said "you know men only give presents like that if they are serious".

They dated for 2 1/2 years before they got married. My mom said that once she started dating dad she never dated anyone else. Dad talked about a girl from Loon Lake that he went out with a few times while he was dating mom, but it sounded to me like once they started dating it was destined to turn into an eternity of fun for both of them.

Family Pictures 1972

I found these family pictures from right after I took the family to 4 kids. I'm pretty sure it was one of the best days ever in Schultz family history when I was born. Everyone looks so excited to have me part of the family.

The Schultz Family

Sherry, Mom, Me, George, Dad, Steve

Things I love about this picture: the look on dad's face is priceless (I have 4 kids????), Sherry is dancing, Steve and George are holding hands and Steve has a balloon.

Just the kids

Steve, George, Me, Sherry
I love the look on George's face in this one. I can totally hear mom telling the kids to look at the camera and Steve having no idea she's talking to him. He was probably thinking about a math problem.

All I can do is laugh. Finally everyone is looking and Sherry pulled up her dress. I will say this - she was potty trained before 2 and that is impressive!

Grandpa Schultz with the girls

I love this picture. It is very special to me the way grandpa is holding me. I love how young he is in this picture and I'm pretty sure he had those same clothes all the way into his 90's.

All the kids with Grandpa Schultz

Come on Steve - you can look at the camera just once.

Todd Is Awesome

I mean c'mon ... does it get any cooler than this?

The Motorcycle 1964

This was their first motorcycle. It was a 50 cc bike with an electric starter. They got this in Alabama when dad was in the army.


I'm not sure if you can really call that a motorcycle. But I love this picture of mom and dad. Dad has hair and white socks with black shoes and looks so young! Mom of course is a pretty as ever and I love that she is riding on the back of the bike. Does it really have enough guts for 2 riders?

Here is a story I remember hearing as a kid. Dad and Mom went for a ride in Arizona in the desert somewhere and a bull starting chasing them (perhaps because of the red????) then somehow mom fell off the back of the bike (dad pushed her off, the seat is just too small or they hit a bump....I don't know?) But from the story I remember dad kept on going and left mom there. I remember dad saying it was to lure the bull away and mom saying dad was just trying to get away faster.

Clarifications on the story from dad: The bike pictured isn't the same bike as the story (I can't find a picture of their second bike). The second bike was a 90 cc trail bike.

The true story: Mom and dad were riding out in a field in Arizona and there was a bull that looked at them then started walking (not chasing or charging them). They had to cross a dry creek bed and to get through it dad had to put his foot down. When he did that he stepped on mom's foot and when he kept riding she was left standing there in the creek bed then he stopped a few feet later out of the creek bed and waited for her to get back on.

A Family Blog

As part of family history I want to create a family blog. We had a fun and unique childhood and I don't want to forget any of it. I'll be doing interviews with mom and dad and getting stories from all the kids and even grand kids. Any pictures or stories people have would be a great addition.