We are Steve and Tanya Will and God has us on an unexpected post-retirement journey. Steve retired from 23 years with the Drug Enforcement Administration where he served in 6 offices that spanned 3 states and 3 countries. Tanya spent most of those years raising our four kids but also worked as a web designer and teacher.
Steve grew up in western NY, Buffalo actually, and is a lifelong Bills fan. Tanya grew up in central NY but considers herself a TCK (Third Culture Kid) because at the age of 13 her family moved to India. Athough they were only there a total of two years, this move changed her forever. We met at Cornell where we were both studying Communications and we got married in 1993 as soon as Tanya graduated.
Our first home was back in the Buffalo area (Hamburg) where Steve worked at a weekly paper and Tanya earned a Masters in Education. As soon as Tanya graduated in 1995, we moved to Atlanta where Tanya took her first teaching job (3rd grade) and Steve worked for a daily paper. Steve continued to move to bigger papers moving us to Raleigh, NC for a bit (where I taught the academically gifted) and eventually moving us to Dallas, TX in 1998 where he worked for the Dallas Morning News' online sports division.
Hannah was born shortly after we moved into our first house in a small town south of Dallas. We loved our little home and growing family but it wasn't long before Steve was offered a position with the DEA. After just 2 years in DFW we moved back to NY in 2000 where, after his DEA academy, we were posted. Wyatt arrived just about that time as well. We bought our second home in the Village of Hamburg and over the next 6 years, we welcomed the last two to our family, Lena in 2002 and Eva Lynn in 2004.
Stay tuned. More to come...
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