Tim and Vicki Cahill met in a Mexican cantina and remembered the
evening well enough to fall in love, get married, move to Hollister
and have two inexplicably red-haired children, Joe and Megan.
Hollister – Tim and Vicki Cahill met in a Mexican cantina and remembered the evening well enough to fall in love, get married, move to Hollister and have two inexplicably red-haired children, Joe and Megan.
Tim Cahill is the director of operations for Fox Racing, a widely-recognized motocross apparel company based in Morgan Hill, and his wife Vicki raises the couple’s two children. After four years in a suburban neighborhood, the Cahills moved into their dream house in the hills south of Hollister, 13 miles from San Benito Street.
“We decided the suburban life wasn’t for us,” Tim Cahill said. “So we moved out here.”
Finding a suitable school for their children was also a factor in their decision to move out to the country. The Cahills wanted both of their children to attend Cienega School District, which serves about 35 students, employs two teachers, two aides and has posted some the best state accountability scores in the county during the past five years. Both Tim and Vicki are very involved in the educational community and both have served as members of the board of trustees at the year-round school district.
The couple’s two children share a love for the outdoors but are otherwise they very different – their brilliant red hair notwithstanding. Joe, 11, dedicates the majority of his time outside of school to playing soccer for the Hollister Tremors, a youth soccer league. Joe’s eight-year-old sister Megan, the more introverted of the two, enjoys drawing and nearly everything artistic. Megan is also following in the footsteps of her mother and becoming a craft fanatic.
“I just taught her how to sew and we’re in the process of making her an outfit,” Vicki said. “She’s thrilled that she is learning to make her own clothes.”
Both of Megan’s parents agree that acting may be in her future. “She is dramatic, she expresses herself very well,” Tim said.
As a family, the Cahills enjoy soccer and off-the-beaten-path vacations. Soccer season is a busy one for the family. In addition to attending soccer games for both children, the Cahills also enjoy watching the San Jose Earthquakes as often as possible.
But the real family bonding happens during the family’s vacations. For the Cahills, vacations are not about fancy resorts or crowded theme parks.
“The more primitive, the better,” Tim said.
In addition to Montana and Wyoming, the Cahills have also visited Mexico, Central America and Hawaii. Future plans range from Germany to Alaska. All of these “family adventures” build character, but the also build fond, and often hilarious memories, Tim said.
Wild animal encounters have awed and spooked the entire family. Once when Tim was fly fishing with the rest of the family nearby he spotted a giant moose, which startled the family and caused him to fall down in the river with his pole in hand.
Brett Rowland covers education for the Free Lance. He can be reached at 831-637-5566 ext. 330 or br******@fr***********.com.
