Story #34

Once upon a confusing time there was a nice-middle-aged couple who had gone from the time of a yellow telephone on the wall to the time of small pocket-sized gadgets called cell phones. They had gone from the time of paying for things with this green stuff called cash to charging everything with this pocket-sized object called a credit card. They had gone from living in big houses raising young children to living in a little house and worrying about their aging parents. And in the middle of all that confusion, they still had one confusing teenage daughter living with them.

In the middle of her senior year in high school, that confusing teenager, also known as Hayley, started "hanging out", going to lunch and text messaging a friend who was a boy but not her boyfriend. A short time later she confessed this friend had kissed her, so now he was her boyfriend. At first the boyfriend's name was B.J., but later the same boyfriend wanted to be called Brady instead. However, this confusing young lady still talked of going to college. She had mentioned just two years earlier at the weddings of two of her siblings that her goal was to be the oldest one to marry--at least 24 years old, and possibly after she started medical school. She got a scholarship to Southern Utah University and to Utah State! She got a promotion to Customer Service/front-end manager at Dicks' Market. She graduated from high school on June 1 . . . and exactly one month later she came home with a new announcement:

"Daddy, I'm getting married."

In September she actually did start school at Weber State . . .

got her wisdom teeth pulled four days after she turned 19 years old

. . . and hasn't yet made it back to college . . . because a mere month later on a lovely fall Friday, October 19, 2007 Hayley married Brady in the Salt Lake Temple.

 

Now nine years later Mrs. Pickett is a surprisingly good seamstress for a girl who once hated crafts . . . and her and Brady are living happily ever after in their Bountiful home with their two smart little boys and one big dog. And nine years later her parents are now confused by things like Instagram, Netflix, WiFi, and trying to remember which password goes with what and why as they fumble along happily ever after.

Happy 9th Anniversary Hayley and Brady

Love, your confused parents