One of the greatest mysteries in my family is how my Grandma and Grandpa got married. She spoke no English and he spoke no Spanish. Nowdays she speaks English and he still doesn't speak Spanish which makes for very fun family reunions with all the returned missionaries who are fluent in Spanish.

                Olivia is my mother’s step-mother, she raised my mom from the time she was 5 and is sealed to my mom and me.  Olive Briones was born in Los Mochis, Mexico on March 22^nd 1940. Her parents were Jose Briones Pavilla and Ernestina Vega Rosas. She had two younger brothers, Eario and Francisco. Two older sisters, Herlinda and Irene, and 2 younger sisters, Reyna and Tina. Olivia and her 4 sisters were local celebrities because they participated in many beauty pageants, they were local beauties. Her father was orphaned by the age of 5 and never went to school. He taught himself everything and learned how to work with gold and to repair washers. Her mother had also lost her parents at age 10 and worked as a seamstress.

                Olivia spoke Spanish at home but took English in high school although she never took it seriously. In 1972 she met David Niven Baguley in Southern California. He was recently divorced and was taking care of his 3 children. She spoke no English and he spoke no Spanish yet they were married within the month on July 29th. No one in the family quite knows how that worked out. Olivia says that David labeled everything in the house with the English word. Donna, my mother says that growing up she mixed up nouns and adjectives all the time, for example saying ‘box mail’ instead of mailbox and ‘paper toilet’ instead of toilet paper. About a year after they were married they had their 4^th and final child, Brenda.

                On March 17^th 1984 Olivia became a grandmother to my older brother Andrew. Today she is a grandmother to 16 grand kids and 2 great-grandchilren. They live in Lebanon Oregon and raise geese and other random farm animals.