RAEANN ELIZABETH LONG

In the Beginning

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The above named granddaughter has faith in me that I can start a Blog and handle it. I do not share her view – but my grandchildren know I will do all in my power for them. So this is the start and as you can see the beginning will be about her.

RaeAnn ( or Gorgeious as Grampa gave the special name he called her from the time she was about 10) is my second eldest granddaughter she is a GORGEIOUS 17 years old that is in her Senior year of school at Booneville High School in Idaho Falls Idaho, Where she is a member on the pep band and plays the French horn in the Concert band, (I have her actual schedule but do not recall her classes now but I know that at least two of them are AP classes )She is not as smart as she would like to be and thus has to spend a great amount of time doing homework each night and she no longer has her Older Brother Roy to help her as he is in college some 4 hours from there. She works very hard for the good grades she gets.

Besides all the activities of school which are mandatory and a way for her to reach her goal of going to college, she is in the 3rd or 4th year of LDS Church Seminary there.

She has her own car and needs a license Plate holder like her Aunt Betsey had at her age – The frame said – I don’t drive fast! I fly Low!! However she is a good driver and I enjoy riding with her. She has one problem with the Van she drives – It seems the fuel keeps evaporating and each time she fills it the cost is almost a hundred dollars. She has to pay the costs to operate it. One way she does this is as a part time secretary at the BLM. Most of the money she has made pays all her expenses of school, the car, helping the family budget since her dad can no longer work. She hates to see the money go so fast – but does not regret where it goes.

In addition to this she is very active in church attending all the meetings and activities.

She has been completely redecorating her room. As she wants it – perhaps later their will be pictures. On her blog. That brings up another thing she does which is to keep her family blog.

She also is great with a camera and loves to manipulate photos.

She has Daily , specific chores that must be done – she last called me as she washed the dishes.

She is the eldest at home and she had to pick up where Roy left off, with one less person to spread the chores out too. She also tries to help her mother further as her mother has to work each day. Send finally but not least important –she helps her dad out.

Because Mom has to work each day at 5 and since her dad is usually too ill to get up, RaeAnn has to see that everyone is up for morning songs and scriptures – she just said that her sister Ashlee has been helping so much with getting the kids up on time. 6 Am comes early each morning.

Like any normal 17 year old girl she would not mind having a 17 year old boyfriend that just happened to be madly in love with her – although where she would find time for him is beyond me – I hearing her saying as she reads this – Don’t Worry - I’ll make time! There is much more I could say but this was just to get this started.

I plan to include a few special pictures here that I love of her. I will add more later as I figure how to do it.