Meet the Powells

One day, a young boy walked a young girl home from a church social. A tad bit shy and slightly soaking wet, the young boy feared utter rejection from the young girl if were to ask permission to court her. In turn, the young girl felt that he did not seem to reciprocate her affection. With the support of her bosom friend, the young girl’s courage was buoyed up and she asked him for a dance. A Dance, Dance Revolution! It was while dancing in socks and laughing over delicious Frostys and Jr. Bacon goodness that their future began. After five weeks of courting bliss, the young couple decided they were hooked. Next to a flowing mountain river with the wind whistling through the pines, the boy knelt down, the girl cried and a ring was placed upon her finger.

That first year of marriage was a dream come true. Living in an apartment in exotic Orem, Utah, the young couple grew together experiencing some of life’s unique happenings. An impromptu visit to the emergency room to remove a staple from his finger, teaching a hundred year old man how to shoot a basketball from a wheelchair, mountain biking Slick Rock trail in Moab, Utah, kissing under the Eiffel Tower and consuming many Little Caesar’s 5 buck pizzas. It was during this time, the young boy decided it was time to become a man. The requirements being to join the U.S. Air Force and attend medical school in Kirksville, Missouri. So, the young couple packed their few belongings into a trailer and drove cross-country to see what the wild, wild mid-west held in store for them.

As the couple soon found out, medical school is a tough battlefield, scattered with many dead corpses, literally. The couple rose to the challenge to find the best way to survive the demanding expectations placed upon them by the esteemed professors. Midnight study sessions, dinners on campus, and many lonely nights was all that it required. In the precious moments they had together, the couple created many fond memories, such as cooking dutch oven cobbler, playing Nerts with close friends, canoeing across a lake and cuddling in front of a roaring…cinema feature! It was not long before the couple decided they were receiving too much rest and relaxation and were ready to venture into the challenging world of parenthood!

Not long after, the young couple received all that they had hoped for...and more! Baby Calvin was a joy to all who beheld him! His insistent cries for food, sleep and immediate attention soon filled the home. A night’s rest had become a luxury fondly remembered from life’s past. But the joy that came with every coo and smile held no bounds. It was at this time, the young man decided he had received all the education he could from the good establishment in Kirksville. It was time to move his young family to beautiful Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

In Cape Girardeau, the young man would spend a month’s time observing and learning all he could from a doctor’s expertise, hoping to gain some insight into what destiny had in store for him. The young woman would spend her days teaching baby Calvin to play with toys, hold a spoon, roll over, and sit up. Until one day, to his parents expressed joy, Calvin decided to try his hand, or should we say foot, at walking. Holding onto his parents fingers, his determination and pleasure show with each hesitant, wobbly step that each foot makes. And this is where we find our young family at the moment. Looking together with excitement and anticipation for what surprises tomorrow holds.