After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
But I think the Pacific Northwest is a particularly great place to raise a normal family and to have some privacy.
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
I think we're doing the best we can at providing them with a normal environment.
I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.
I'm willing to step out of that at times because I think there are important issues that we ought to speak about.
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
People are respectful when we're out with the children on a normal evening, and it couldn't be a better place to live for those reasons.
So I made a conscious choice that when our daughter turned one, I would get back into those interests, those issues, and start learning them.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
We've met parents who love their children just as much as we love ours yet who can't protect them from polio or measles.
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