Spotlight

So our family was spotlighted in our church newletter. I had to write a summary of the Andrews and got a pretty overwhelming response. What do you think?


Tom is the Dad part of the family. He grew up in Normal, yes, Normal, IL. At BYU he received a Construction Management degree, a stunning, intelligent, and talented wife, 2.3 kids, and a run down old Toyota. After graduation he packed all these things into the Toyota and drove down to Arizona to work for a large residential roofer. After enduring his lovely wife’s grumblings and snide commentary about the heat for three years, he packed them all (3.6 kids now) back up into the Toyota and drove here to Maple Valley. He is now an independent slimy salesman. He peddles various roofing materials to contractors, mainly the foul-mouthed variety. He works with the Young Men in the ward, generally not the foul-mouthed variety.

Laura is not actually writing this but hired a ghost writer which explains why she talks about herself in the third person. She grew up in Alexandria, VA and studied Fine Arts at BYU. Her activities include folding laundry, making unrealistic plans, losing vacuum cleaner attachments and wiping things. She also enjoys other things but can’t remember what they are since having her fourth child. She cleans, bakes, sews, and homeschools, but she doesn’t actually enjoy these things. Laura is the Chorister in Primary but thinks that it should have a snazzier, more descriptive name for what this marvelous calling actually entails.

Ethan just turned nine. He is very bright and thoughtful. He enjoys Math, History, Taekwondo, and practicing his Taekwondo on his unsuspecting brother. When he misbehaves his parents threaten to send him to public school which must be something akin to the Tower of London in his mind by now. When he was a baby he looked exactly like Dallin H. Oaks.

Emma is seven. She is emotionally unstable. She enjoys writing sweet little love notes, drawing princesses, and keeping her baby sister awake ‘til all hours of the night. She does not enjoy losing board games. When she was a baby she looked like Jeffrey R. Holland.

Jake is five. He enjoys irritating his older brother and sister, telling knock-knock jokes (preferably the same one multiple times), falling from high places, and instigating giggles at wholly inappropriate times. He also enjoys wasting inordinate amounts of scotch tape. If he were an ice cream flavor it would be Moose Tracks.

Lily is two and gets away with a lot of tomfoolery based solely on her cuteness factor which is abnormally high. She enjoys riding in shopping carts, singing unintelligibly, causing scenes in public places, and pulling out entire boxes of tissues one at a time. She regularly pilfers handfuls of chocolate chips, but don’t hold it against her.

We love visitors so feel free to stop by and visit anytime. I warn you, I still haven’t found that vacuum cleaner attachment so for heaven’s sake, leave your shoes on.