Once upon a time there was a white house with red bricks and brown (later green) shutters that sat in a circle at the end of a street in the small town of North Salt Lake. Once upon a time there was a handsome young man, his cute nice wife and one little baby girl who moved into that house. For the next 20 years this house was home to a little family that grew to three more girls and one boy.
This was a house with a very big yard filled with fruit trees like the beautiful cherry tree that never grew cherries and a peach tree that grew the biggest, juiciest peaches ever! . . . plus plenty more space for a vegetable garden, grape vines, a redwood deck, a swing set and a basketball court!
This was a house with a shiny yellow kitchen floor . . . a fireplace for hanging Christmas stockings and birthday banners . . . a pink sink in the downstairs bathroom . . . an adorable little playhouse under the stairway . . . a craft room for "Saturdays off" and top-secret Christmas projects . . . and a big enough basement family room for pizza picnics, family slumber parties, and Disney puzzle-making marathons during the holidays.
This was the house with a yellow phone on the wall that one teenage girl (known as Emily) would stretch the cord as far as possible in the useless attempt to have privacy when she was talking to her friends. This was the house with a big bedroom in the basement shared by up to three sisters sometimes, but only a half-room for the boy (known as Tom). However, his Grandpa built him a bed/closet/dresser combo so he survived just fine. This was the house with a bulletin board in the kitchen where the creative mother posted "Top Ten Lists" such as this one:
"Top Ten Reasons Why We Spoil Hayley"
10) She's the baby of the family . . . it's our moral duty to spoil her!
9) She'll cry if we don't.
8) She has such a sparkling, outgoing irresistible personality . . .
7) . . . and a funny little giggle!
6) She is so dang cute!
5) She attracts more boyfriends than all her sisters put together!
4)She won't let hardly anyone leave the house
without a big hug and kiss.
3) She dazzles us with her big vocabulary and amazing piano skills.
2) She's our favorite "muffin" . . . "tootsie pop" . . . "sweetie pie" . . . "punkin". . .
1) . . . and one great little eight-year-old!
"Top Ten Reasons Why We Spoil Hayley"
10) She's the baby of the family . . . it's our moral duty to spoil her!
9) She'll cry if we don't.
8) She has such a sparkling, outgoing irresistible personality . . .
7) . . . and a funny little giggle!
6) She is so dang cute!
5) She attracts more boyfriends than all her sisters put together!
4)She won't let hardly anyone leave the house
without a big hug and kiss.
3) She dazzles us with her big vocabulary and amazing piano skills.
2) She's our favorite "muffin" . . . "tootsie pop" . . . "sweetie pie" . . . "punkin". . .
1) . . . and one great little eight-year-old!
This little girl climbed the monkey bars, stood in probably every dance picture of her sister Emily and lived in the North Salt Lake house only half of her childhood. Shortly after she turned nine years old her family moved to a tall gray house on Eastpointe Circle where she lived the next nine years until she moved with her parents to their little "home sweet home" in Centerville. Since then she has lived in other houses, basements, apartments, condos, and once in another state, before she and her little family found their very own "home sweet home" where they will hopefully live happily ever after.
Happy Birthday Hayley!
Love, your Mom
(also known as Wade's and Owen's Grandma)
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