We met when I was a high school senior. We fell in love ,and have been married 50 years. We raised 3 daughters and have 7 grandchildren.
We would like to thank you for supporting The Austins in this year's competition. Your participation allows us to aid both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Oceana in their respective missions to support hunger relief and ocean conservation.
Our love story started in 1974 at a New Year’s Eve party we were both at the party with different dates my date was a complete bust and Bobs wasn’t great either. A week later a good friend of mine who happened to be Bobs cousin introduced us to each other. The love story began almost immediately we hung out almost everyday we could. Prom season came Bob ask me to my prom it was magical the following week he asked me to marry him. Fifty years later we are still in love and happily married.
What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?One of my favorite memories would have to be spending our early married years going to motor cross racing which Bob was a participant off. Every weekend we were traveling with a group of friends doing racing and sitting around the fire telling stories. One particular weekend we were in New Hampshire and we stop at a store bought some pork chops and barbecue them on the side of a creek still till this day 50 years later we say they were the best pork chops we ever ate and Bob still rides a Harley
What would you do with $20,000?The money would help us help our youngest daughter who suffers from infertility she has had 3 miscarriages and had exhausted all her resources.The money would help alleviate some of the financial costs that come with starting a family thru surrogacy. I would also like to take a family cruise with my 3 daughters and 7 grandchildren hoping to be 8 grandchildren soon. Our family has been thru a lot of trials thru our 50 years. Our daughter had cancer 4 times and my husband has too.
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