Billie Jo 'BJ' Welch Lepera

I have lived only in Thurston County & Pierce County.

I did actually graduate from WHS, class of '89. What I remember most from High School was Jazz choir, we performed so many times and I really enjoyed all the time we all put into the shows.

I actually started in nursing at St. Clare Hospital on the Medical/ Surgical unit. After putting in almost a half decade there I realized, I really wasn't into it. So later, I worked at a school district part time as a driver for children with special needs. Soon after that I divorced, then kind of just fell into a postion with Pierce Transit. Even though we all have "Big Plans" after HS, I am finding that I really never could decide on what I want to be when I grew up- but that spending alot of time with my husband and my kids is what makes me happy most of all! Also, I find I am always looking at wierd classes to do or adventures to go on. I guess I will be a student for life...

Married

lets not go there!!!

I drive for Transit's Shuttle program. This is designed as a transportation service for all ages and is specified for person with disabilities or elderly.

I have traveled to a few of the Hawaiian islands. My family & I have vacationed along the west coast from Washington to my birth state (Texas).

I have! My husband is into Sports- one of them being wrestling. Well During one of our travels back home, to Texas, he kept trying to get my attention. Of course being o'dark thirty at the lovely SeaTac airport, I was trying to get the kids fed before our flight. I had all the little ones tugging at me for their breakfast orders and him as well. He kept saying, Honey- come meet Eddie, come meet Eddie. I was recalling no memory of any family/friends named Eddie. So I Said just a mintue, let me get this done for the kids. He kept tugging so I grunted , who the hell is Eddie? I turned and low and behold it was Eddie Garrero(not sure how to spell) AKA "the Latino Heat" . I recognized him and after seeing him in person I thought WOW, he is so small. Of course I went and meet him and he had been traveling with a couple other pro wrestlers and it lead to an interesting morning. My husband of course got their signatures on the back of a Burger King napkin and was in heaven the rest of the vacation.

Worst Job- Nurses assistant, I enjoyed working with the elderly- just not so much with the personal care.
Best Job- I would say being a mom definately!

I attended Clover Park technical College for several classes: Certified Nurses Assistant, Medical Terminology, CDL class B (passenger), & Phlebotomy, I also attended BCTI to touch up on computer technology.

As a family, We like to camp at the ocean and in Levenworth, we go on raod trips to see different towns, we like to grow fruit & Veggies-we travel to Monroe each year to bring the apples and do a day of canning- I make an awesome applesauce! We like to do lots of stuff with the kids school programs.
I myself in particular- i love scarry movies- not bloody gorey ones, and spooky ones. I am a toal spa junkie pedicures, messages, facials(all the girlie/pampering stuff)

I think that my favorite thing was how friendly every one was. It was easy to make friends, read below first - then this one will make sence!!

My dad being military, the only thing I didnt like about WHS was having to start there for my junior year. So I guess being new and not knowing alot of people was the only thing that bothered me.

Mrs. Macnamara's choir class, I really enjoyed her class. It was an escape from home work !

English- I didnt catch any interest for that for several years, of course I couldn't sit still for more than 10 minutes

Who didnt have a crush? And to talk about them now- I think I will dodge that Bullet!!

What I would change? I would have stood up for a person that was upset about a rumor.
Even further, I should have told that person it was their friend that was spreading it but instead I took the blame because they were really upset from it.

I guess I would say, do more & enjoy more!

I was to chicken to do anything my parents would yell at me about. Well maybe not chicken- I didnt want them to be disappointed.

You know- no one ever bothered me about it. I didnt even know it was this big thing till the end of my junior year.

I think that the same pressure's are still there but now it has worstened. The violence you hear in the news with local schools, speaks for itself!

Day Glo braceletts!! You know what was funny? I remember doing a sale to raise money for cheerleading. We had sold the tan-in-a-bottle stuff along with other beach/summer things. We had sold alot and what I remember was we had all got it and after applying it, we were all orange. Some of us forgot to thoroughly wash our hands and had orange hands too. Funny???

You know the series I recall the most is 90201, but am not sure if it was end 80's or early 90's...

I had a huge love for music and I liked numerous genres.

I recall the summer after gradutation-Saudi Arabia. I was sure that a bigger war would happen. I never thought that almost 10 years later it would occur.

Some views have changed but ultimately my values haven't. I have become more empathetic.

With my last child, he was a fertility baby. Apparently I had developed a cardiac issue and it went undiagnosed. Until I got pregnant with #4, I had SVT-Supraventriculartachicardia (fast heart rate). Well, the only way to slow it down was to stop it. I had my heart stopped 6 times during the pregnancy this was because the other method involved using electricity to shock my heart to normal. Well that would have killed the baby. So they used a IV drug to do the same thing and incredibly enough the babys heart beat every time mine didn't. So he was never affected by this. Amazing??Numerous health issues arose from the last baby and when I gave birth to him, it all went away- except the SVT had sugery for it and am cured of SVT now. Scary thing is doctors never knew what triggered it. I had no reason to develope it so early in life.

Just to enjoy life, my family & wonder what will come!!

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