Amber Baldwin McArthur

In a way the 10 years since graduation have gone fast but then again it feels like a long time ago when we were 18 year old kids with no responsibility! The years have come and gone though!

After graduation, I attend Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.  I played on the basketball team and had lots of great experiences.  For about the 1st semester I was SO homesick and really wondering why the heck I had went to Wyoming for college.  I missed my family and all my comfortable surroundings!  But with time I began to really like it and made some great friends on my team. I loved being able to continue to play basketball and had lots of long bus rides and games.  I graduated from Northwest with my associates 2 years later and then moved back home to attend BYU-Idaho.  In my 2nd year at Northwest I met Spence McArthur.  I was determined not to like him, let alone marry him!  But my mind was changing fast and we dated for about a year and a half and we were married November 18, 2005.  We moved into an apartment in Rexburg and kept going to school at BYU-Idaho.  In 2007, I graduated in Social Studies Secondary Education and started teaching 7th grade at Midway Middle School in Rigby. I still say that after teaching 7th grade, I know now why parents beat their kids!:)  I really did love teaching though and had some great students and teachers that I taught with. My husband, Spence, graduated a year later with his Business Management degree.  In 2008, we moved to Ogden, Utah where we currently live. We manage a storage unit facility that is connected to our house.  In November 2008, we had our first baby girl, Mia.  She is a sweet girl and we have loved every minute of having her! In August of 2010, we had another baby girl, Ellie, who has been talking since she was tiny and keeps us laughing.  Then in August 2012 we had our 1st boy, Graham. We have loved having a boy.  He is a chubby little thing and I love it!  Spence graduated with his MBA last year so he is finally done with school!  He works for Wasatch Peaks Credit Union in Ogden as the vice president of lending.  I stay busy at home with our kids and managing the storage units.  We are looking for a house to buy and hopefully something will come up soon for us!