Laura Joyce:  

I was always going to be a single career woman, like my great aunt but the plan changed. I started by attending Oregon, and then working day jobs in accounting and administration and doing theater at night. I did that for 10 years, then went to PSU to complete my MBA. Who would have thought that I would end up getting my MBA and reconnecting with someone I met in college! Frank and I got married in '97. Frank likes vintage Porsches - we now have 3. That's partly my fault...more on that later. I was working in marketing managememt when Allison was born in January, 1999. I wasn't planning on going back, but 3 weeks into my "retirement" my old boss begged me to come back part time. OK, it worked for a while, but then we started on child #2. After firmly stating that I wasn't coming back, they finally hired someone to take over my accounts - I never met her. Katie was born in August, 2000 and I made an exit from paid employment. I got tired of getting wet loading the girls in and out of carseats - I had to park on the driveway because his first Porsche and his Datsun 280Z HAD to be inside. So in 2004 we embarked on a major addition to our ranch house, creating a 6-car garage in the process. Of course, we had all that empty space, and to forestall all of our friends asking to store stuff in our garage, we aquired 2 more Porsches. One actually runs quite nicely, the other two are in various states of renovation. But there's still room in the garage for another, so if you happen to have a vintage Porsche that you don't want any more..... Allison is your average, happy kid, likes sports and her girlfriends. Her favorite state of being is 90 miles and hour with her hair on fire...Expand for more