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!