Story #13

Once upon a time there was a brand new baby boy (the baby boy from Story #11, not Story #12) who may have wondered if he had four mothers. Three of the four "mommies" were always giving him treats or toys or entertaining him while his real "mommy" was fixing dinner or doing laundry or whatever else it is real mommies do. Two "mommies" thought because he was a boy he must be tough and they enjoyed doing crazy tricks that involved a blanket, him and lots of dragging. But most of the time these two "mommies" (also known as his big sisters, Emily and Shelly) were usually gone to school.

 

One "mommy" tried to hold him all the time even though she wasn't much bigger than him. Eventually this "mommy" (also known as his sister, Betsy) gave up trying to carry him everywhere although she must have started teaching him the art of mischief-making, instead. Soon the brand new little boy (also known as Tommy) was busy crawling, climbing and crashing into everything. His head always had at least one bump. And just like Betsy, he too had to get stitches before he was even two years old.

The real mother of this busy little boy had her hands full.
For one thing, she was surprised to learn that a boy raised with three sisters knew how to be a boy--not only the continual climbing, crawling and crashing but all the weird sound effects that she had never heard from her cute little girls. His language was more car and animal sounds than words. And sometimes the real mother of this noisy little boy would be quite embarrassed in church when he would drive his little toy cars down the bench and "beep beep" into anyone sitting in his way.

 

The handsome, hardworking father of this busy little family may have never noticed because he was always sitting on the stand. He was very busy either at work at a new bank . . . or off on church business or in meetings . . . or even once overnight in the hospital after his appendix was removed. Yet in spite of stitches, hospital visits and general family chaos, the brand new little boy, his favorite father and his four "mommies" all managed to live quite happily ever after.

Happy Wednesday!
Love, the real Mommy
(also known as your real Grandma)

Story #12

Once upon a time in a tall gray house on Eastpointe Circle there lived a handsome hardworking father who now worked in a very tall building in Salt Lake City that was not a bank! Not only that, but he was also working on obtaining an MPA degree from BYU. A 12-year-old young lady named Hayley also lived in the tall gray house. She was voted "classroom sweetheart" in 6th grade only to become an unpredictable teenager shortly thereafter. Just after receiving 13 presents wrapped in purple for her birthday, she informed her family she hated the color purple. Also in the tall gray house on Eastpointe Circle lived a young man named Tom who was a senior in high school and who worked at Dicks' Market to earn enough money to buy a PlayStation 1. But where were the three cute little girls from the previous stories?

Daughter number one (also known as Emily)
was all grown up, married and living in her very own home with her husband, Keoni. Daughter number two (also known as Shelly) had just graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in Computer Information Systems. She found a job in St. George and moved there with her husband, J.P.

 
And daughter number three
(formerly known as the mischievous little trouble-maker, Betsy) was now a genius majoring in Elementary Education at SUU in Cedar City who had saved enough money to buy her very first car!


The very nice mother of all these amazing children suddenly realized how expensive their family had become so she decided to go get a paying job. In July she started working at the Davis County Library in Farmington, Utah as a process clerk. But before that she and her handsome hardworking husband celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on the same day that daughter number two celebrated her first wedding anniversary and on the same day that daughter number one celebrated her very first Mother's Day!

Because before all that Emily and Keoni became parents for the very first time on a lovely spring Sunday afternoon when Zachary Matthew was born! On April 8, 2001 the handsome, hardworking father could hardly believe he was now a Grandpa. His very nice wife could hardly believe that the world's cutest baby had just been born, because she thought the world's cutest baby had been born almost 24 years earlier. And all the other people in this story could not believe they were going to live happily ever after spoiling this brand new baby!

Happy Birthday Zach!
Love, Grandma

P.S. If you would like to see more pictures of this good-looking 15-year-old goofy guy, you can either click "Zachary" under the "Labels" section to the right,  or you can look at the not one, but two,  mini scrapbooks a crazy first-time Grandma once made about him!