Gidget Rader:  

Life After graduating from Westwood, I attended MCC for a year and NAU for a semester - had way too much fun in Flagstaff and decided not to waste my parents' money! Moved to San Diego for a summer with Kathy Smothermon where we both graduated from travel school. We both went to work in my Mom's travel agency. I enjoyed my 20's single and traveling to wonderful destinations like Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Bali, Jamaica, Mexico, Hawaii and cruising the Caribbean - it was a fun decade! At 29, I joined a singles Bible Study group at my church (Bethany Community in Tempe) where I met my husband Troy. We married a year later. One of my favorite memories during that very romantic time of my life is when we took dance lessons so we could waltz during our wedding reception. We loved it so much that we continued lessons together through our first year as newlyweds - what a blast! We stopped once we learned that we were expecting our first child, a boy - Zackary Aaron(Zack), who's now 10. Three years later, God blessed us with another baby boy, Andrew Charles(Drew), age 7. After 13 years in the travel industry, I became a stay-at-home mom. Like most parents, I began taking tons of photos of my precious little ones and got hooked on scrapbooking! To support my "addiction", I signed up as a Creative Memories consultant to get my product at cost and soon discovered that I enjoy inspiring busy moms to celebrate special moments as they share their stories. I really like having my own home-based business. It's great ...Expand for more