I Am A Happy Hemple

Hmn... I just read a hundred of so pages of my daughter's (Michelle Jolley) blog, that's her on the left with my wonderful son-in-law Scott and three of my soon to be 7 grandchildren. Anyways, after reading I felt 1. Very proud that she is my daughter. 2. Guilty enough to get motivated to start my own blog. So here's the beginning of the Hemple Family Blog. Better late than never.

Michelle reminded me of a few of the very cute things that my wife Darlene seems to do on a regular basis. This is one that I remember Michelle getting a little embarrassed over.

When the girls and Brent were young, we used to sing a song for family home evening that was a take-of a 1960's Clearisil Jingle: " I am an acne pimple, as lonely as can be.Don't cry, pimple, I'll keep ya company. Hey, fellow pimples, would three be a crowd ? All together pimples, sing real loud : Nah, Nah, NAh..."

Except our song went: "I am a happy Hemple, happy as can be. Don't cry, Hemple 'll keep ya company, Nah, Nah, NAh..."

Anyways, if I remember correctly, one of the girls came home from school, I think it was Michelle, and was really upset. I ask her what was bothering her and she told me that she was singing the Hemple family song when one of her classmates asked her if that was the Pimple song she was singing. I can imagine how embarrassed she must have been. It is still our song.

I remember another time we were watching the Stadium of Fire fireworks show from the Shopko parking lot. If anyone has been to Provo on July 4th, you know how big an event the Stadium of Fire is and that the Shopko is about a mile or two away. Anyways, it started to rain and we decided to head home, having seen the majority of the fireworks, when Darlene stated that it was too bad that we didn't have tickets. I ask why, and she said, "Well if we had tickets we wouldn't have gotten wet?" I asked again how is that possible and she replied: "If we had tickets we would be inside in the Marriott Center, which has a roof and it would have protected us from the rain." I pointed out to her that if we were in the Marriott Center we wouldn't be able to see the fireworks and that those who paid to watch the fireworks were in BYU football stadium. Her reply: "You mean The Stadium of Fire isn't in the Marriott Center?"

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