Michelle Amundsen:  

(March 2008) I moved to San Jose, California in 1996 (which is when my grownup life really began)! I met my husband, Tony, in 1997. He was home (U.S.) from overseas after surgery from a basketball injury. Shortly into our "dating" he signed another contract to play basketball in Germany. He wrote me into his contract and took me overseas with him. We lived in Hamburg, Germany for the next basketball season. It was an amazing experience! Tony ended his professional career (with a knee injury) in 1998 and went into coaching, which brought us to Fresno, California (he coached high school basketball for six years and is currently in his third season coaching at Fresno City Junior College...they won State the last two years and as this season nears an end we are headed to the State playoffs). Tony proposed to me in 1999 and we were married in April 2000. We had a beautiful big wedding in Los Gatos, California. Everything I had ever dreamed of. Tony and I bought a home in Fresno and started our family. Cadee (pronounced "katie") was born in April 2002. At that time I was working at Kaiser in Worker's Compensation and was able to take six months off work to stay at home. After the six months, I was lucky to have the option to work from home. I worked from home until our son, Connor, was born on Christmas Day 2004. At that time, I left Kaiser and purchased a franchise... Gymboree Pl...Expand for more