Heart

Heart, age 15!
She wakes up daily at 5 a.m. to attend a Seminary Class where high school youth from our church study the scriptures together for about an hour. She has a very full academic schedule this year, taking classes in Latin, English, Spanish, and Design two days a week (but w/ homework given for the entire week--just like a university.) At home she works daily on Geometry, History and Biology. Add to all of that piano and voice lessons, and you have a girl with very little extra time! But when she IS available she is still a VERY popular baby-sitter. Some parents have told us they will just wait for her to be available rather than get someone else.
She is the best sister EVER..., She had a very busy summer and LOVED it! It started in May when she went to a home-school conference at the Buena Vista College with River, Smiley, and Mom. In June it was off to Utah for our church girls camp with her cousins Amanda and Karli E. While still in Utah she and River began a "Wild Western Adventure Super Trip" with their distance learning school (Liahona), which included a full week of things like white water river rafting, Yellow Stone Park, and rodeos. They even squeezed in a cousins wedding--all in less than a month! Shortly after returning to the east she went to the beach (Charleston, SC) for a week with the entire Butler side of the family (39 people). The week after that she went camping for Youth Conference in the pouring rain! Then the week after that went to Especially For Youth with her cousin Karli at the Buena Vista college and had the best time ever! (She had her birthday there on the 28th of July) The last week of August she took a drivers ed. class which she loved and made new friends that she still keeps in touch with! Then she went to the mountains for a weekend with her best friend Mariah's family and Gillian. Then FINALLY after once failing the test....she got her driver's permit! (3 months late due to full classes for home-schooling youth here...Dad wasn't happy about that....and you think she would be the one unhappy:-) Well Heart is usually happy all of the time! Some of her friends thinks she's "too happy"...and they make jokes about how she is "blonde" (yes the whole extended Butler family knows about that......how in the world did she get the "Blonde Of The Week" award!?!?!? haha) She likes to make new friends all of the time...You could say she is outgoing! She loves going to church dance dances (about once a month)!