>> i liked her from the first moment i met her. she was very effervescent and very funny and very opinionated, and i really liked that in her. >> so you really saw into the future the first time you saw her. >> yes. i mean, we ended up getting married i think seven months later. >> reporter: two years after that their first child, natalie, was born. >> it was very special. >> reporter: catherine's mom, christina, was ever the proud grandmother. >> natalie looks so much like her mom. so much like her mom. >> what was it like the first time you laid eyes on your new daughter? >> natalie. it was like falling in love like a thousand times more than you have with any other person. natalie's just -- you know, she's a part of me. >> reporter: four years later along came nicholas. >> she was in her glory. and then you know, to have a boy and a girl, which was good. >> things were all coming together. >> yep. >> she got directly engaged in the community, in the church. she taught sunday school.