Family Friday: Featuring My Niece Aubree

When my siblings and I were children, whenever one of us sulked because we were "last" it never failed that my Mother would say, "last is the best of all the game." I'm not sure if I ever figured out what that meant, but I'm sure it's something good because it always made us feel better. This week I'm featuring the "last" of my beautiful nieces; Aubree. Aubree is the youngest of my brother Archie's three daughters. The sisters were born within three and a half years of each other and are very close, I would say that they are probably best friends. They all three have the exact same initials AAM, they each have double letters in their name, and when they were young they always dressed alike. As you can see they are beautiful girls.

Aubree with her sisters Ammanda and Alyssa in Disneyland

When Aubree was just a little girl in elementary school she had a writing assignment and she chose to write about the family Christmas party. Aubree's mom Julee made a copy of Aubree's paper and the picture that went along with it and mailed them to me. I was so excited when I received it. Aubree did a wonderful job writing about the games, the food, Santa Claus, singing, and the family. Aubree's paper is a treasure to me and I keep it in a special book. If you click on the picture it will enlarge and you can read Aubree's paper; it's really cute.

A few years ago it was brought to the attention of the family that Andy could incorporate the song "Jingle Bells" into any song (Linus style), we've heard him do it on more than one occasion. About a year after that we were at the family Christmas party and it was Aubree's turn to perform. She went to the piano where she performed a beautiful musical number, just as she was concluding the song we heard the familiar tune of "Jingle Bells" being played one note at a time. There was an amazing uproar of laughter and applause, the whole family was delighted. Way to go Aubree!


Aubree is very supportive, she always comes to family functions and activities. When I recently performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Aubree came to the concert with her parents. Following the performance I met my family members outside of the Tabernacle where we all huddled together in a circle and talked about the concert. During our conversation Aubree told me that she could hear my voice. Now... with nearly 400 women singing I knew that Aubree couldn't actually hear my voice but it made me happy to know that she knew my voice well enough that she recognized the part that I sang and knew that I was one of the altos.

Things to know about Aubree: She has a beautiful smile. She's a very good student. Uncle Mike says she has musical talent (very important to Uncle Mike), she plays the violin and the piano. She has a sense of humor. She has a dog named Biscuit. She is one of the eight Ann's in the family. She likes "Survivor". She's a good sport. She likes going to Disneyland. We spent a week in Yellowstone with Aubree and her family. She's very sweet. She's very neat and tidy. She is a good daughter and sister. We are all grateful to have Aubree in our family and we love her.

Aubree's family: Aubree, Julee, Ammanda, Archie, Alyssa, and Biscuit