Delanie (Harper) Johnsen

Atlanta, Georgia
Family Status: Married

Children: 4 *if you would like to see a picture, click on their name*
Mike Johnsen - 1976
Matt Bragd - 1977
Stefanie (Bragd) Fulgham - 1978
Nic Johnsen - 1979

Mike is a police officer in Marysville, Washington. He is married and the father of two of our grandchildren. He also serves in the Washington Army National Guard. He will be deploying for a 12 month tour of duty to Iraq in July. This will be his second tour to Iraq, the first having been from December, 2003-March, 2005.

Matt is a project manager for a biotec firm in Bellevue, Washington. His is still single and enjoying life in Seattle.

Stefanie is a Business System Analyst for SuperValu in Boise, Idaho. She is married and the mother of two of our grandchildren.

Nic is a blackhawk helicopter pilot in the US Army. He is currently serving a 15 month tour in Iraq and will be coming back to the states and his home in Savannah, Georgia, in July. He is still single.

Grandchildren: 4 *if you would like to see a picture, click on their name*
Winter Grace Johnsen, 2002
Taylor Lynn Fulgham, 2004
Daniel Parker Johnsen, 2005
Gavin Michael Fulgham, 2007
One more picture for fun - Taken on Mother's Day, 2008

After Graduation I: Went to College

College:
BYU
Boise State University
ITT Techinical Institute

Career: I currently work in the client services department of an advertising firm headquartered in Livonia, Michigan.

5 Years from now...
Five years in the future, I will still be plugging away at the grindstone. I hope to see the other two children married and settled down in the next five years and maybe even be graced with another grandchild or two. The two children that are currently married have already informed us that they are not likely to give us any more grandchildren so I guess we will have to start pressuring the other two. Hehehe

Retirement
I hope to retire by the age of 65 and, if this current recession and market crash doesn't mess things up for us, that should be a very realistic goal.

After retirement, Greg and I will most likely move back to the west. We would love to move back to Seattle but it just isn't affordable to purchase housing in that area. I would like to travel, often just going to see family but I would like to take an annual or semi annual trip to places I have never seen before.

Other Information:
I left Twin Falls to move to Provo, Utah only one day after I graduated in the mid-semester of our senior year. I attended BYU for one year before moving to Boise, Idaho. There, I met and married the father of my two children, born 05/1977 and 10/1978. My children are my proudest accomplishment.

In 1993, I married my current husband, who has two children. When we were married, we had 14, 15, 16, and 17 year old teenagers, three cats, two dogs, and a rat (who luckily died shortly after our wedding). If we could survive those early married years, we can survive anything!

After living in Boise, Idaho for 22 years, my husband and I moved to Seattle, Washington. We loved Seattle but after 10 years, my husband was offered a career opportunity that required us to move to Atlanta, Georgia. We have now been living in the Atlanta metro area since April of 2005.

My life is my family and what I have accomplished beyond that is meaningless to me. We have been greatly blessed with many things in life but none of it means a thing without the love and ties of family.