Getting to know you: Phoebe

Welcome to the latest edition of Getting to Know You with my sister Phoebe. Beautiful Phoebe is busy with the demands of a second-grader, preschooler, and toddler...and husband...but still ekes out time to read, relax, and enjoy life. Phoebe finds friends wherever she goes--for that matter, she also seems to find family wherever she goes--and can also find humor in anything. (Including A New Dawn, which, truth be told, is hysterical.) Read on for more about this lovely lady.


Name:
Phoebe Elizabeth

Stats:
Married 11 years, 3 children, living it up in the Pacific Northwest. Almost college graduate with continual plans to go back and finish those last 2 classes!

You and your family and your home always look very put together. What are your shopping secrets? (The ones you are willing to divulge, that is)
You want me to give up my secrets! Here is the trick-Always keep your eyes open and never underestimate the power of buying secondhand.

What's your happiest memory?
Too many to list! One that stands out (beside the obvious wedding, births, etc.) is laying on the warm cement after getting our of the pool at Grandma Terrill's house. A bunch of our cousins were there and Pop came out and gave us all popsicles. I was probably 4 or 5, but whenever I sit on warm cement after swimming I think of that time.



Tell us the stories behind your kids' names.
Is this because it takes us forever to name our children? It really is a Terrill tradition.

Henry David was almost Harry, but since our brother Harry didn't have any children yet, I felt he should have a chance at it first:) So Henry was the runner up. And his middle name was obviously after my husband.

Calvin Hyer-I have always liked the name Calvin and David completely vetoed it when I was pregnant with Henry. Luckily he came around when we had our second boy. The moral of the story is to never give up on a name you like! Hyer is a family name on David's side. I love it. It was a bit of a compromise since David wanted Calvin's first name to be Hyrum. Definitely my favorite middle name we have used so far.

Agnes Mae was named after our Mom and great grandmother. She actually had a different name and the night before we left the hospital I woke up in the middle of the night and felt like her name should be Agnes instead. It took David a day to think it over, but he came around. It is the name that gets the most response for sure. Some of it negative, but she's a feisty enough little girl to handle it! Mae just sounded right as a middle name.



What's on your iPod right now?
Hmmm, do I want to admit this? Dolly Parton's classic hit, Here You Come Again.



What's the nicest thing anyone ever said to you?
Last summer at Hannah's wedding, a former YW leader who has known me most of my life said, "Motherhood has been good to Phoebe." It's nice to know that I didn't peak in High school!


What's a book that made you laugh?
A New Dawn by Jack Weyland

Not to bring up a sensitive subject. But...share a memory of the car you just sold. (The Malibu, to be specific)
Ahhh, the Malibu. Did you know that car can fit 16 people in it and still have room to drive?

When I was 7 month pregnant with Henry, David and I flew to Utah to drive the 'Bu back to California. As we were leaving Uncle Billy hexed us by asking if we had an extra starter for the car. Apparently the 1967 Chevelle was notorious for burning through starters. After we filled up in Wendover, the car, of course, wouldn't start! Thanks Uncle Bill.

So there we were, Saturday night in Wendover, NV. I am fairly pregnant and David is supposed to be at work on Monday. This is pre-cell phone era and the one auto parts store is closed for the weekend. David had his Mary and Joseph moment since all of the hotels were full! We finally found a place to stay and had to basically hitchhike to get there. The next morning David went out to see what he could find. He ended up at the LDS church service. Someone there knew of someone else who was driving down to Salt Lake that day. He made a few phone calls and the mystery man said that he would bring us back a starter from Autozone.

This story is already too long, but after killing two days in Wendover, the starter finally got there, David paid some random guys he met at a gas station to get it in. The random guys then ruptured a brake line and we then we had to fix that. We finally got on the road on Monday afternoon. When we got home there were 16 frantic messages on the machine. David's sister had gotten worried when we didn't get home on the day we planned. She had called everyone we know and then started calling the Highway Patrol in Nevada!

The funniest part (to me) was that when they called Mom and Dad they were completely unconcerned. Dad said that if something truly terrible happened everyone would have been notified!

Favorite place you've ever lived?
I really have loved everywhere we have lived. But I have to say that if given the chance to move back to Davis, Ca I would start packing.

What's the #1 thing you want to do this summer?
Sit at the lake and swim with the kids. Every day.

Something on your mind lately is...
How do I balance my family life with all of the crazy demands that surround our family right now. I am not sure it is possible.


What's something no one would guess about you?
I think I am pretty much an open book.

What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do or say?
Saying goodbye and giving birth.

What's your favorite indulgence?
Hands down- a Manicure and a Pedicure. It's almost an addiction, but, luckily, I have some self-control.

What's your biggest flaw?
You really want me to point it out for all to see? I think that my biggest flaw is my big mouth. Just about every time I come home from a social event I say to David, "Why did I say that!? They are going to think that I am crazy/rude/insensitive..."

Write us a six-word memoir.
Home, church, school, busy. Getting dizzy.

To read more from Phoebe, go to Blue Skies Smilin' at Me.