Meet My Family

I know you're probably thinking I'd give you an EFY post right now, but that's going to take awhile.


Instead, I figured I'd show you all the letter I wrote to Celia, my foreign exchange student, yesterday afternoon. It always amuses me to hear other people describe me or my family, so I thought you all might enjoy it too.

To let you know, I put in the same pictures I sent Celia, but these are uncropped, and Sami lacks a photo. I figure y'all know what she looks like and I didn't want to have to write two entries just to suit Blogger's photolimits.

Without further ado- the Hendricks Family!
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Okay, so here’s my family-

This is my mom and dad. My dad, Robert Hendricks, is bishop for our ward, which is pretty much being a priest over a congregation for our church. Therefore, he’s very, very busy. When I get to see my dad, he’s a lot of fun. Very nice and always able to make you laugh, even if it isn’t on purpose. If he had free time, he would spend it golfing. He also loves to try and spend time with us, usually playing dominoes, Nintendo, or some other kind of game. My dad’s a great singer, too.

My mom, Susan Hendricks, already gave you her blog. My mom is a seminary teacher during the school year, which means she has to get up really early to teach a bunch of teenagers religion every morning before school. This year, I’m lucky enough to be in her class. My mom doesn’t have a job, but she’s always busy. In the summer, she’s usually working on seminary preparations, doing favors, cleaning, or other things. She’s very kind and also very fun and super easy to get along with.

This is my brother, Mark Hendricks, and his wife, Emily Hendricks. I would be absolutely shocked if you met them while you’re here, but they’re part of the family, too. Mark and Em live in Logan, Utah where Mark attends college. He’s working his way up to being a pilot…it’s a very expensive job. Emily works as a medical assistant and they both have a job as “house parents” for some men, which is pretty complicated to explain. Emily used to live on a farm, so she’s pretty rough, but in a fun, charming, Disney Princess sort of way. Mark is kind of weird, but he’s my brother so I have to say that. He’s very talented and sweet. Mark and Em have been married for a little over a year.

This is my sister, Emily Hendricks. No, I’m not talking about Mark’s wife…I really have both a sister and sister-in-law named Emily Hendricks. This Emily also lives in Utah, but in Provo, where she attends a different college majoring as a Vocal Performance Major. As you can probably imagine, that means she sings simply amazingly. She’s really fun, but you probably won’t meet her either. She does call home more often than Mark and Em though. Emily is an absolute sweet heart, and I’d be very flattered if someone said I remind them of her.


Then there’s me…I don’t really know how to describe myself. I’m a junior next year in school, and I spend a lot of time drawing, writing, or going out with friends. It would probably have been more beneficial to introduce you to my friends than my siblings, but oh well. Um…I’m pretty nice, I guess. And funny…like my dad, not always on purpose, but my friends tell me I’m funny a lot, so yay. If I had a steadier job (I babysit mostly…very unstable money, but very good money!) I’d like shopping more than I do, but it’s something I really enjoy to do with my friends. We also like to go to the pool (when its not too miserably hot) and movies…we’ll do anything if we can talk whilst doing it! (By the way, I’m preparing for a musical in this picture)


I decided I’ll tell you about our pets, since they’re part of our family too. This is Sami, our little old lady dog. She’s eleven years old and starting to show her age, but for the most part she’s as crazy and energetic (and skittish) as she ever was. Sami’s breed is called “Papillion”, but I don’t know what you would call that in France. Here, we don’t have any issues with getting her confused with butterflies. Basically, she looks like a Chihuahua with long hair. She’s very friendly once she knows you, but at first she just begs for attention and then proceeds to run away from anyone who dares touch her.

This is my sweet bird, Papaya. She’s a budgie, but we just call her a parakeet. She’s got quite a personality and loves attention. She’s very smart and knows how to say “Pretty Bird” and “Papaya”. It’s always amusing when she says what sounds like “Papaya is a Pretty Bird” or “You’re a pretty bird” or even a “pretty, pretty, pretty bird”. She also loves to take showers and baths in our sink and try and steal our food if she’s out when we’re eating.

That’s basically my family. I’m so excited for you to come and meet all of us, and I’m absolutely ecstatic to meet you!
It was surprisingly hard to find pictures for you…most of my best individual pictures are on my phone, including of the pets. Not sure how that happened…you’d think a camera would take better pictures than a phone.