Cherie (Anderson) Wright

Springville, Utah
Family Status: Married

Children: 9
JC-mission Spain, lawyer criminal Hispanic county attorney’s office, married with fourth child soon. He was two pounds at birth.

Joseph-mission South Africa Durban, lawyer intellectual property, vice president of tech transfer in Iowa Sioux city, married with three children.

Micka Perry-married with fifth child on the way. Husband is dentist in Salem Utah served his mission in Canada. She was premature at birth and had heart failure and surgery but made it.

Daniel-mission England, owns Wright Shed Company, started the business when he was 15, sold a 4-wheeler his grandpa had given him to buy lumber for a shed, the business has helped all the boys go to school. Married just had his second girl and he lives in Layton.

Chad Jr-mission Cebu Phillipines. Is currently in law school, 2nd year, in Lincoln Nebraska. A cornhusker. Married with #2 on the way. Will be home summer to work with Shed Company.

Seth-mission Seoul Korea. Junior in college; married with one son. Hopes to be a lawyer and is working with Wright Shed Company.

Samuel-mission Torreon Mexico. He will be home from his mission in September. He will be a sophomore in college.

Hannah is 17. Dancer, she had a full scholarship to BYU when she was 16 and was invited to audition for Juilliard at 16. She was accepted to Juilliard and will be going there this fall. She is dancing with Long Beach Ballet this summer in China as lead in Swam Lake and is a finalist in a world ballet competition at the end of this month.

Levi is 15. He works at the Shed Company and is starting college con-current classes this fall. He can do a rubics cube in one and a half minutes, and plays all sports.

Grandchildren: 17
My oldest is nine and with 17 and 9 of them will be under 2. They are all great. So far we have 10 girls and 5 boys. It is nice after raising seven sons to have a lot of girls. Every Sunday we get together at our house and have dinner. Chad, my husband, usually cooks. I turn on the music as my granddaughters dance around the room and I applaud. I try to be involved in their lives but have started to feel overwhelmed. I am very thankful for their good parents who teach them. Last week when our last grandchild was born somehow his uncle missed the news and did not find out for four days. I felt overwhelmed with the responsibility to keep us all together and informed. A big job. We have five in the midwest. The rest are close here.

After Graduation I: Went to College

College:
BYU

Career: After having three premature children I decided to teach my children at home. It was not cool back in those days. Family hassled us along with anyone else who decided they knew what my children needed. But as they grew and people saw that they could be normal and even somewhat smart they softened. So being a mother and teacher to my nine children has been my job. We have built our own home four times and the boys learned their construction skills from that, besides we grew really close as a family. We have had some great times. We built one house right by BLM land and had a bear visit us yearly. Our closest neighbor was two miles away and we lived in this forest with a creek and a pond. It was so much fun. Now we live the city life. Hannah has kept me flying to New York seven times in the last three years. We did not travel or vacation much before her dance started taking us every where. My husband has been in the flower business for our married life. Providing for a large family has not always been easy. But we have learned to work together and that has been great for our relationships as a family. We now have a wholesale florist, and we sale to florist all over the state and we also have a retail store.

5 Years from now...
With 50 grandchildren!! Probably Chad and I will be on missions just to get away. We are hoping to sell our businesses and home and size down and become portable. So we can visit children and grandchildren and serve missions.

Retirement
Chad likes his home and traveling is not his thing. He likes to work in the yard and have his children and grandchildren around him. Chad and I like to work so retirement, I can't even think about it. It sounds so, so boring. So we will probably be doing something off the beaten path because that seems to be the one we usually travel on.

Other Information:
It has been great to read about your lives. It seems we have all been taken down different paths and adventures. You are all amazing!!! It seems like we have changed the world, just our class. I would love to someday hear the whole stories and struggles and growth that we have all gone through. Thanks Delanie and all who have put us in touch.