My History

            I was born on May 20, 1990 in Provo, Utah.  I am the fifth of seven children. I have four older brothers and a younger brother and sister. I am the first girl in my family. David Isaac, Brandon Levi, Robert Adam and Daniel Reuben are my older brothers. Matthew Jordan and Hannah are my younger siblings.

            When I was about one year old, I won $100 on the radio. As far as I know my family was listening to the radio and the station they were listening to did a thing where if they read your birthday and called in you could win $100. Isaac was listening when they said May 20, and he told my mom that they had said my birthday. My mom called into the radio station and later they went in and verified my birthday. I won $100, and when I was old enough to open my own bank account I put that $100 in it. (I’m pretty sure Mom cashed the check when I was younger and just reimbursed me once I was old enough.)

            As a child I enjoyed playing school with Hannah and Jordan (my brothers all went by their middle names). I always wanted to go to school, or grow up to be a teacher.  I was always the teacher and Hannah and Jordan were the students. I used to make up assignments for them. We somehow, got the extra readers (a little 8 page magazine on different topics) from school and I would assign them to read those. Another way I made up assignments was to handwrite their assignments and make copies on Dad’s fax machine. It was an older machine so it had waxy rolled paper. It was so hard to write on and always curled up. Jordan didn’t like playing school but Hannah would always play with me.

I attended Crater Antonia Elementary School in Newberg, OR. The year Crater opened I was in kindergarten, and I was in the first class to go all the way through the school (kindergarten through fifth grade). My best friend was Breanna Taylor. My mom was worried about me making friends since I was the first kid to not start school in Utah with a lot of members around. Breanna Taylor was a member of the church, and mom was so happy that there was another member for me to be friends with.

In second grade I met Randi Williams we quickly became friends. In third grade Randi wasn’t in my class but her friend, Twila Tschan was in my class. We also became friends. However, Randi and I were a lot closer friends than Twila and I ever were.

 I started playing piano in 1997. Mrs. Griffin was my piano teacher. She held group piano lessons, so I would go to a lesson with a few other people. I really liked taking piano lessons. Mrs. Griffen used to have us compete in a contest every year. For the contest you had to memorize a whole song. The contest was held in Portland, so Mom used to drive me there and I would perform my piece from memory. They graded us on a point system and after so many points you received a trophy. The year I was supposed to get my trophy I had to switch piano teachers because Mrs. Griffen was going to have another baby. I was so upset because I didn’t get to compete that year, and I never got a trophy.

 I started taking dance classes in 19??. I loved to take jazz classes and even a few hip-hop classes. I started taking dance lessons at a studio owned by someone in the ward.  Hannah and I started dancing at the same time. I didn’t take any ballet classes, but Hannah did. Charlie Osborn (who had been in my ward growing up) was in my dance classes.

I received a presidential award for academics in the fifth grade.

            My dad, David Wesley Haupt, baptized me in May of 1998. I received my first set of scriptures, a journal from Grandpa Emmett and Grandma Rosemary. Grandpa and Grandma Haupt also gave me a book to remember my baptism. Isaac also left on his mission in December of 1998. Levi left on his mission also in December of 2000.

            In 2001 I started middle school at Chehalem Valley Middle School. My homeroom teacher was Ms. Mac. She was the hardest teacher in the school and a lot of people were afraid of her. I was so scared to be in her homeroom, but she ended up being my favorite middle school teacher.

Once in middle school I joined the band. I played the cornet, which is basically a small trumpet. All of my friends played the flute, so originally I really wanted to play the flute. However, Mom took me to a music store so that I could see and “play” a few different instruments before I made my decision. Once I blew on the cornet I was sold. Mom always said that my eyes lit up really big, so we decided to have me play the cornet. It ended up being a lot of fun. Unfortunately for my middle school self, I didn’t get to sit with my friends, but I was always the only girl in my section so I didn’t mind so much.

My best friends in middle school were Randi Williams, Twila Tschan, Justine Adlong and Ariane Kunze. I knew Randi and Twila from elementary school, but I met Justine in the sixth grade. Ariane and Randi became really good friends in seventh grade and we all ended up being best friends throughout high school.

My parents had a rule that we (girls) weren’t allowed to get our ears pierced until we were 12. I thought it would never happen for me. However, on my twelfth birthday Mom, Hannah and I went to the Washington Square Mall in Tigard, OR and I got my ears pierced at Icings. I had planned to get little silver studs, but Mom talked me into getting some small blue studs instead. I remember being so excited and then so scared when I heard the crunch of my ear being pierced. It wasn’t enough to scare me into not getting the other one pierced. It was such a fun experience.

In my eighth grade year I received another presidential award for academics.

            In 2004 I started high school at Newberg High School. I remember on my first day of high school I wore a bright pink corduroy skirt, a light pink shirt with a big sequin flower on it and had a pink JanSport backpack. I felt super cool in that outfit until I got to school. Once I was at school I felt like a little kid in a stupid outfit.

            Also, on my first day Reuben had given me some advice not to go around a certain building because that was where all the druggie hung out. When I got my schedule I headed toward the building my first class was in and realized it was around the same area Reuben had told me not to go to. I was so scared because I was in a silly pink outfit and was in a bad area. It turned out to be ok, but those first few hours of high school were scary.

While I was in eighth grade I tried out for the high school dance team and I made it. I was the only freshman on the Tiger Riot Dance Team.  I had a lot of fun with the other girls on the team, most of whom were seniors.

My freshman year the school decided to start a program called small schools. The school was divided into five different “small schools”, each one was based around a theme. A lot of my friends joined the theater themed school, but I chose basically the only school that didn’t have a theme and I was separated from all of my friends. I had a hard time adjusting to high school without my best friends around. It took me about a month before I made any real friends. My friend Breanna Taylor was also in my small school so we ended up becoming good friends again. I was in this small school with the same people through my sophomore year. After that they changed the program and a lot of kids were integrated into my small school and I was in classes with my friends again.

            In 2005 I received my patriarchal blessing. Reuben and I received our blessings together. The patriarch was Patriarch Kohler.

In the summer of 2005 I went on the fourth year hike for girls camp. I met a lot of girls in the stake that I had never met before. One of those girls was Ashley Lake we ended up becoming best friends. We were best friends until our senior year. We had a falling out, and then became friends again after my first semester of college.

Ashley and I also spent a lot of time hanging out with Ryan Aguiar. Ryan was in our stake but was in the Spanish branch. My dad was the high counselor over the branch and knew Ryan’s dad. I first met Ryan when I was 15. My parents had invited his family over for Thanksgiving dinner. After that we became friends and started hanging out with not only Ashley but his friends Sutton Bowers and Andrew Matthews. We all spent a lot of time hanging out at Sutton’s house, watching movies and flirting.

            In the summer of 2006 the church had a multi-stake dance festival. Each statek and age group was assigned different types of dances to do. I was in the 14-16 year old group and we danced an English Ballroom Waltz. We started rehearing in January. It was a lot of fun because Ashley and I were able to see each other more often. We also got to have dance partners for our English ballroom dance. My partner was Bryan Adams. He was my first date after I turned 16 and we dated for a few weeks. It got awkward because I decided that I didn’t like him, but we were partners so I couldn’t break up with him. I finally broke up with him after our final performance.

            In the summer of 2007 our stake held its first Trek. It was a lot of fun, but still a lot of work. Since no one had done it before no one knew how much training it would take. On the first day almost my whole family had to quit because they were dehydrated. I was really lucky and got to be in the same family as Ashley. Ryan’s parents were my mom and pops. Unfortunately, Bryan Adams was also in my group, it ended up being ok, and nothing awkward happened. By the end of the first day I was the only member of my family pushing our handcart. During Trek I met Kent Richeson. I ended up lending him my sleeping pad and then throughout the next few days we talked and rode next to each other on the way home. Kent and I started dating after Trek. We dated for less than five months.

            My senior year of high school was not the typical best year of high school. It was fun, but I was really busy with extra curricular activities. I was working at Lazerquick Copies, on the dance team and had church activities. This is by far the worst year of dance team, in all four of my years on the team. We had a lot of freshmen and they thought they owned the place so they didn’t work well as a team. I did make a new friend my senior year, her name was Danielle Jeanfreau. At first we weren’t friends (I thought she was to cool for me and vice versa). However, a few months into the school year we started to become friends. We were friends up until we went to college, we both went to BYU-Idaho, but we were on different tracks and it made it hard to talk a lot.

            One of my favorite classes my senior year was AP Government. My favorite high school teacher Mr. Geygan taught it. I was one of five republicans in my class, and that year (2008) a Mormon, Mitt Romney, was running for president in the primaries. He was not the nominee, but I was a big supporter of him. The primaries for the state of Oregon were help on May 20 2008, the day I turned 18. I was so excited that I was able to vote for the first time on my birthday. I got a t-shirt that said I was a voter (a cool one, not one from a campaign), and wore it on my birthday. Dad and I rode the tandem down to the ballot box so that I could put my ballot in. In Oregon all the ballots are mailed out, so we don’t have to go to the polls to vote.

            The best part of my senior year was graduation, or more specifically Grad Night. Grad Night was where all the seniors (after the graduation ceremony) were loaded onto a bus and taken to a surprise party. My class got to go to Club Sport in Tualatin Or. At Grad Night they had food (pizza) a ton of different games, rock climbing and tons of prizes. At each game you could win tickets that you would then put towards a prize. At Reuben’s Grad Night he won a portable DVD player. I wanted to win something like that, so I put a lot of my tickets towards a few prizes. There were a few grand prizes that everyone was entered in to, one was a laptop and printer, another was a DVD player. At the end of the night they announced all the winners of the prizes. I was pretty disappointed because I didn’t win what I had entered for. But then, they announced the winners of the grand prizes. I had won the laptop and printer. I was so happy to have won this because I had been saving up for a laptop for college, I even decided to skip prom so that I could save the money. I felt so lucky that night. Dani and I went back to my house after grad night and we opened my new laptop and played on it until Mom came in and told us to quiet down (it was around 5 a.m.) when I told her I’d won a laptop she was really happy for me too.

            I left for college in the fall of 2008, where I began my freshman year at BYU-Idaho. I was so excited to come to school, but I was also really nervous because I didn’t have a friend to room with or anything. My friends Sutton and Andrew came up to BYUI and the same time so I hung out with them a lot. My first roommates were Paige Morely, Clara Washburn and Brooke Butterfield. Paige was my room-roommate. We all got along really well, at first Clara was pretty shy, but eventually she became one of my closest friends.

            I was walking on campus one day when I saw a sign that said the BYUI College Republicans were taking a trip down to Las Vegas to help campaign for John McCain (he ended up being the Republican presidential nominee). I signed up to go and Paige went with me. We got to go down to Las Vegas for three days and help campaign. We made a ton of phone calls and went door-to-door one day. We also go to go to a rally that John McCain was at, and go to the election night party on the strip. We had a lot of fun, not necessarily making phone calls all day, but just hanging out and being a part of the campaign. However, since then I haven’t been to keen on making phone calls for other political campaigns.

            I was on the Spring/Fall track at BYUI, which meant that I would go home during the winter and work. After my first semester at BYUI I moved back home and started working at Lazerquick again. I started going to the stake singles ward and made a lot of friends. One person that was really important to me was Kirk Stanovich. He was a recent convert but had and incredibly strong testimony. I had a big crush on him (he was the only guy in the ward that I hadn’t grown up with). He was from Knappa, Or (right outside of Astoria). We quickly became friends and started dating. We only dated for about a month, because he thought once I went back to school we wouldn’t talk. However, he became my best friend. We talked a lot right up until the day he left for his mission in December of 2009. He helped me through a really hard semester at school (spring 2009) when my roommates and I didn’t get along, and I almost moved out of my apartment. I thought that I was going to wait for him, but life ended up making me change my mind.

            Kirk and I had a lot of really good times, but we also had a lot of really bad times. I thought that we would be able to make it, but he was a little self-centered and that caused me to get hurt a lot. I was always quick to forgive and I think we ended things on a good note.

            In the fall of 2009 when I went back to school I was rooming with my old roommate Clara. I was really excited to be living with her again because I had, had such a bad experience the previous semester with roommates. However, fall of 2009 ended up being the best semester because of my roommates. My roommates were Mary Cameron, Tiffany Reed, Stephanie Billings and Natalie Reed. Tiffany and Natalie were sisters but they didn’t room together. We all got along great. Tiffany, Mary, Natalie and Stephanie were all into soccer, so we played every Saturday with a group of friends. We all got along great and had a ton of fun together. Mary got engaged to her boyfriend Ben that semester and it was really exciting.

            After the fall semester I went home and worked as a nanny and at Lazerquick again. I wasn’t planning on working at Lazerquick but someone quit and my boss hired me back on. I spent a lot of time this semester just at home hanging with my family. I didn’t really like any of the kids in the singles ward. They had all been there for years and weren’t moving on with their lives. I didn’t really feel like joining that type of lifestyle, I wanted to progress and move on. I wasn’t able to go back to school in the spring because I didn’t have quite enough money; however, I did complete one of my life goals: to be an EFY counselor.

            The summer of 2010 was one of the best summers ever for me. I was a counselor for four weeks. I did two weeks in Forest Grove, Oregon and two weeks at BYU-Idaho. I met so many people and made so many friends. I had amazing kids all four weeks. One of the hardest things about being and EFY counselor was the lack of sleep and how happy you had to be without sleep. One of my weeks at BYUI I had one of my girls tell me that a friend back home had physically abused her. This was so hard for me. The best thing about being a counselor is that you got to see these girls and boys just as Heavenly Father saw them, you saw their potential and how great they were. It broke my heart that someone would hurt one of these precious children.  She told me a year or so later that she had worked things out and that this boy wasn’t able to hurt her anymore. This made me so happy.

            In the fall of 2010 I returned to BYUI, I was rooming with my old roommate Tiffany, our other roommate Stephanie Billings also lived with us. I was nervous to room with Stephanie again because I never really felt like we got along. We also roomed with three girls we didn’t know: Stephanie Moon, Tarryn Mosbrucker and Tammy Kay. I really got along with everyone at first, but then Stephanie Billings and I started not getting along at all and it caused a lot of tension in the apartment. One weekend my good friend from McMinnville Scotty Van Lear came to visit me. He ended up meeting Stephanie Moon and they started to like each other. By the end of the semester they were engaged. I also met my husband that semester.

         My husband and I were in the same singles ward during the Fall 2010 semester. We first met on the second Sunday of the semester. Jason was teaching Sunday School that week; he had mentioned that he served a mission in Indiana. My roommate, Tiffany, had grown up in Indiana, so after the class was over she wanted to talk to him. They chatted while I stood by, eventually I got bored and walked away. Jason and I didn't really interact until about two weeks later. By that point Tiffany had been called to be a gospel doctrine teacher. I had sat down in the class and Jason and his roommate sat by me. I was talking to Jason's roommate, Eli, and invited them to come over and watch a movie that night (ironically that was the same day/night that Scotty was coming to visit me). Jason and Eli came over that night. One of Jason's other roommates was trying to get him to date Tiffany; however, while Jason was over Tiffany barely talked to him and we ended up talking a lot more. After the boys had left I mentioned to my roommates that I thought Jason was really cute, he told his roommates that I seemed like a lot of fun. In an effort to see Jason again my apartment invited their apartment over to watch Saturday's Warrior. Jason and Eli were the only ones to come again, and they ended up bringing a treat. 

          By that point I was really interested in Jason. One day as I was leaving my religion class I noticed him outside in the hallway. We said hi to each other and talked for a minute before I headed off to my next class. I got really excited about seeing him after my religion class twice a week and looked forward to it. One day, after my class I went outside all excited to talk to him. I looked around and he wasn't there. I was really disappointed, so I started to trudge off to my next class, sad that I hadn't seen him. As I rounded the corner I saw him and was thrown off guard. He said hi, and I replied hi, back, but I kept walking. The next thing I knew I was spinning around to try and talk to him. Once I realized that I was facing him again I quickly got scared, realized that I had nothing to say and kept spinning to walk away. That night Jason told his roommates about the "spin move" as it came to be dubbed, while my roommates were at his apartment. They came home and told me what he had said. I texted him to try and play it off like it was no big deal, but of course he knew that it had been awkward and embarrassing for me. 
        After waiting to go out on a date with Jason and never being asked I decided to take matters into my own hands. Tiffany and I planned a cowboys and indians date. We made invitation and taped them to Jason and Eli's door (I asked Jason and she asked Eli). Jason got the invitation and texted me saying he would go with me (he also said he made a sexy cowboy). 

On the date we had chili and cornbread, and then we had marshmallow shooters to "fight" with. We went up to the Ricks Gardens and fought against the "indians". Jason said it was the best date he had ever been on. After the "shoot out" we all went back to my apartment and just hung out for a while. Jason had been sending me a lot of mixed messages. At the beginning of the date he didn't sit by me, but then later in the night he pretended to kiss me. After he left I was really confused and had no idea if we would ever have a second date. 

         We continued to hang out with out roommates and talk after my religion class but Jason never asked me out. Thanksgiving break was coming and I was planning to go home for the break. Jason had mentioned that I should stay since he would be here and it would be fun to hang out. I was a little bit sad that I was going home since it seemed like he wanted me to stay. The week before the break a huge snow storm blew in and my ride decided that she didn't want to drive through it. So, at the last minute I ended up staying in Rexburg.
       That Friday night Tiffany, Tarryn and I went over to Jason's apartment for harmonica funeral (it was Eli's harmonica). Then we had dinner and hung out. Eventually everyone left except for Jason and I. We started talking and playing with photobooth on his macbook. We had a lot of fun messing around.
       We hung out again on Saturday and Sunday and Monday and Tuesday. We played soccer and watched movies and by Tuesday night it was time to decide whether we were going to date or just be friends. That was also the night we had our first kiss, which kind of sealed the whole dating deal.
      After Thanksgiving break there was only two weeks before the semester would end and while we were both planning on coming back for the next semester we didn't want to spend two weeks apart. We went on a ward temple trip and we were both trying to see if we wanted to get married. While we were at the temple I was just feeling happy and warm, and I knew that I could marry him, and we could make things work.
    We made plans to have me fly out to Maryland during the break to meet Jason's family. I think it went ok. As far as I know there were no strong objections to us getting married. Jason met my family when they brought Jordan down to school for the semester. Jason only met Mom, Dad and Hannah (he had already met Reuben and Chantile since they were out at school at the same time we were).
      A few weeks into the semester we went to Oregon for Jason to meet the rest of the family. We went out to dinner Saturday night in Portland. We had tried to go to one restaurant, but the wait was really long and we were really hungry. We found a nice little restaurant called the Original Dinerette. We ate there and it was amazingly good food. After we were done eating we went and walked along the water front. Jason started dancing with me and was singing out song, I thought I loved you then by Brad Paisley, in my ear. Then he got down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him. I knew that it was coming, but I had no idea it was going to be that night. I never even looked at the ring he was holding until after it was on my finger.
         We called Mom and Dad and Hannah and told them that I was engaged and then we went to Isaac's soccer game, which we had been planning to do. We told Isaac while we were there. When we got home Mom and Hannah had set up candles lining the hallway and into the front room and got us sparkling cider and black bottom cupcakes.
      After that we did a lot of wedding planning. While we were planning the wedding Jason found out that one of his best friends from high school had died in a car accident and then his "second mom" had passed away from cancer. It made things really hard for us, and he was really upset over the deaths for while.
     We got married on April 16, 2011 in the Portland Oregon Temple. We honeymooned in Miami Florida. Jason loved Miami, but I did not. I had never really been exposed to humidity before and coming from Idaho it was a big change. We did eat a lot of amazing food in Miami ( I think it was our favorite part of the honeymoon).
      After the honeymoon we moved to Maryland for the summer we lived in Sarah's parent's basement. We had a lot of fun while we lived there. They had a swimming pool and we spent a lot of time swimming and hanging out, out by the pool. Jason worked at the scrap yard and did painting jobs on the side. I was working at a bakery, and it wasn't the best experience. We also got to go to Williamsburg, Virginia with Riley and Sarah and her family. We had so much fun on that trip. While we were there we also got to go to Jamestown and attend a prayer service.
         We moved back to Idaho in September to go to school. We lived in a 300 sq. ft. apartment that had six-foot ceilings so Jason could barely stand up in the apartment without hitting his head. While it was really small we had a lot of in that apartment.