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Campbell relocates to Quincy
JoAnne Fowler/Post-Register
Kelli Campbell enjoys playing with her young son, Keyton.
Trying to find an Internet connection in a town surrounded by data centers seemed like an easy prospect for Kelli Campbell and her husband, who recently moved to Quincy from Spokane. Campbell’s husband, Allen, relocated his family to Quincy to begin his new job with Microsoft.
“We’ve been here about three weeks,” said Campbell, “and we are still looking for an Internet provider.”
The Campbells live in a section of newer houses in town.
For the stay-at-home mother of 17-month-old Keyton, adjusting to the slower pace of the Quincy Valley has been a lifestyle change. Born in Port Angeles, Campbell knew she always wanted to work with teeth.
“I always assumed that I would do something in orthodontics,” she said. Campbell attended Utah Valley State College and Spokane Community College for dental assistants.
She worked as an assistant in a periodontist/orthodontist office until she had her son.
Campbell met her husband while in school.
“We lived across the street from each other in Utah, but attended different colleges,” she said.
The two married in San Diego, in the LDS Temple four years ago this month. Their anniversary is also Allen’s birthday.
“Since I was 12 and saw a photograph of the temple, I knew that I wanted to get married there,” Campbell said.
They spent a relaxing honeymoon about a year later in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Many of Campbell’s hobbies have gone on hiatus since she became a mother.
“I used to enjoy ballet, playing the piano, and as a youngster, I was involved in Girl Scouts,” she said.
Campbell played trombone and danced for the drill team in high school. She misses doing scrapbooking and finds time to read fantasy fiction novels for an escape.
The Campbells own two dachshunds and bred the small dogs recently.
“It was bad timing,” said Campbell of the small litter.
“They were born in the middle of our moving to Quincy.”
The family resided in Soap Lake while they sold their house in Spokane and looked for a residence in Quincy.
“We may decide to breed dogs again when we are more settled,” Campbell said.
Campbell’s parents are Sharene and Stuart Smith.
“I admire my mother the most,” she said. “I have always looked up to her because she has a lot of talents. She is always busy; she is a wonderful cook and is always helping people. I have never seen her mad. She’s the type of person that I looked up to and wanted to be like when I became a mom.”
Campbell shared that her mother is empathetic and understanding and she can always talk to her. Having grown up in a family of brothers, Campbell and her mother share a strong bond because they are the only girls.
“I have three brothers and I was a tomboy growing up,” she said.
Campbell looks forward to seeing more of Quincy when it is not so brown and discovering more places to take her young son to play.
