Story #28

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was "cute as a button" and a bundle of trouble when she was little, but soon became one smart cookie. After waiting for what seemed to her to be forever, she finally started school. She went to Orchard Elementary for the first few years with her big sisters, Emily and Shelly . . .

and for the last few years with her little brother, Tom.

When she was just barely 12 years old she started attending South Davis Jr. High with one of her big sisters who was a ninth-grader. Her oldest sister was in her first year of high school and her youngest sister had finally started kindergarten.

When Betsy was a ninth-grader, her brother Tom was a seventh-grader at South Davis Jr. High with her. Her sister Hayley was all alone at Orchard Elementary in the second grade . . . her other sister, Shelly, was a Junior at Woods Cross High School . . . and her oldest sister Emily was attending her first year at Snow College!

That was the same year Betsy turned 14 years old and received a "Top Ten Things about Betsy" list for her birthday which said:

 
10) She's the middle child of the family . . . not too old . . . not too young . . . just right!?
9) She is smart, bubbly, and cute as a button!
8) she has survived older sister persecution for 14 years without resorting to murder
7) She loves her little brother and sister and has made a goal to never be as mean to those younger than her
6) She loves her Dad especially for not murdering her after a slide destroying incident
5) She loves her mother especially for always asking questions to
4) She loves books and has read many!
3) She loves noise, and has made a lot.
That is . . . she loves music, and practices a lot and
2) She loves talking and practices a lot
1) She was born on August 31--and not one day later!


After Betsy graduated from Woods Cross High School in the year 2000, she went to college at Southern Utah University in Cedar City. She loved school and learning so much that she decided to major in Elementary Education. She finished college in less than four years and got her first job teaching kindergarten before she had even officially graduated!

Now Miss Betsy is a piano teacher . . . a preschool teacher extraordinaire . . . and a happy mother living happily ever after with her own smart little cookies.

 

Happy Birthday Miss Betsy!
Love, your Mom
(and Eddy's, Lindsay's and Parker's Grandma)