After a brief job as an LA police dispatcher, Ruth went back to work for Title Insurance, after finding a good babysitter. She found Maggie Barnett, who retired from the mining industry, formerly living in the gold-mining boom town of Randsberg.

The family traveled to the Zion / Bryce area again this year. Bob had an 8mm movie camera, and movies still survive of the kids playing around in the Virgin River and feeding squirrels at Bryce.

Robert recalls, because of the pitter-patter of little feet around the house, that he once bragged to the neighbors that this was the only house whose floors had been washed entirely with spilt milk. Also, local baby-sitters were employed, as both Bob and Ruth worked full-time.