Haley

I've decided to do a post on each child so I can catch you up on all of them and what their interests are. I'll start with Haley. Can you believe I'll be the mother of a teenager soon? Neither can I. We're both looking forward to Girls' Camp this summer. It will be her second year already. She really loves Young Women, and especially loves going to the temple. We're lucky to have one so close. She has a lot of really great friends, and loves middle school (can you believe it?). She actually wants to go to school early and come home late. She is a straight A student so far, and loves to sing in the chorus at school. She is a black belt in tae kwon do and teaches three times a week. To bad she doesn't get paid until she's older.


Haley is definitely our adventurer. Her favorite thing to do in the world is travel. Luckily, she has a grandpa who likes to take her places. She wants to be independently wealthy when she grows up, so all she has to do is travel. Good luck with that!


Her favorite place in all the world is Hawaii. She's been there twice, and we were just glad she came back the last time. We weren't sure she would leave. But she did come back, and she would love to go to BYU-Hawaii to study sports medicine.

Here are some of her adventures:



Fishing in Massachussetts or Connecticut, I'm not sure which.




Haley in Connecticut at high tide.


In Geneva, NY on Lake Seneca


Family trip to Walt Disney World, Florida.



Haley on her way to see the Statue of Liberty.



Haley churning butter at Sturbridge Village in Connecticut.

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Haley and Me in the Sacred Grove, Palmyra, NY.


Last December, at sunset in Hawaii.

And I didn't even put any pictures in of her in Washington, DC, or in some of her other adventures. So you can see what a love of travel she has. She is such a great help at home, and we love the spice she adds to our lives!

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My First Try

Hi everybody! After reading my friend Mandy's great blog and some encouragement from my long lost cousins, aunts, and uncles I saw this week, I've bit the bullet and started a blog. I really have no idea what I'm doing. My experience with the web has been opening internet explorer and reading the news. So this might not go well, I don't know. You all might be receiving some desperate pleas for help. I don't even know how to add pictures, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. I'll try to give you guys updates of all of us to catch you up on our adventures. And boy, do we have some great ones. Why, just yesterday I pulled a bandaid out of Joey's nose. How did it get up there, you ask? He had another imaginary "owie" on his finger and then proceeded to pick his nose with said finger, unknowingly inserting the bandaid quite far up his nostril. As you can imagine, he was pretty upset about that. But it only took two blows to get it out. One thing I've learned as a mother of three boys is that they can do very strange things with the crevasses in their bodies. And as the mother of two girls, I have learned that they do not need paper to become an artist (more on that later).