Fay tells about their first home in Lava (see below):

"We went out and got this five acres and we planted it into potatoes. Then we went in town and we didn't have any money to build a house, so we saw this little old house up on the hill that nobody had used. It was just kind of a shell. We talked Dell's brother (Don) into bringing it down on his truck and sitting it on our little five acres and we went about fixin up the walls and it was only one room. So we had a big old cookstove on one end and then we bought a fold-away bed that we slept on. We were living in this one room. That's where we were living when Sherry was born. In this little one room in Lava Hot Springs. We had it fixed up kind of cute.