The Interview with Allyn Elizabeth Lee Boney
Where do your first and middle names come from?
Allyn: I believe my first name came from my Mom's friend Allyn Davis Smith. I think my middle name Mom just liked, but it also happens to be Allyn Davis Smith's younger sister's name. Don't know if that is on purpose or if it just sounded good.
Morning person or night owl?
A: Hmmmm. I used to be a morning person, but now I can't get my butt out of bed before 7:00am because I stay up too late. So I guess I'm a night owl.
What do you do for a living?
A: Let's see... Obviously I'm a mother, but along with that I get to listen to awesome arguments all day long about why one should not go to baseball practice or do something on the chore chart with their name on it. I'm also kind of a referee. And I make disgusting stuff for dinner.
What is your favorite thing to do?
A: I don't know my favorite thing. I like to walk outside.
What is the first thing you noticed about Aron?
A: His eyes for sure.
What is your super power?
A: I can make a full meal out of what is in my fridge, even if it's just carrots and ketchup.
What is your favorite meal?
A: Salmon with fresh sauteed green beans and salad and maybe mashed potatoes.
What is your favorite treat?
A: I kind of fluctuate. Sometimes I really just like ice water and other times I really like peanut M&Ms. And everything in between.
Who or what is your nemesis?
A: Cookies. Big time.
What do you do best?
A: I squeeze babies really well. Right, Chance?!
What is your most over-used word or phrase?
A: "Totally."
Who is your favorite muppet?
A: Grover.
What do you want to do or accomplish in the next 10 years?
A: I need to make better goals. Adam should be graduated by then, so... I think about fitting in taking voice lessons a lot.
The Interview with Aron Rhodes Boney
Where do your first and middle names come from?
Aron: My first name my Mom just picked it - it's also how Elvis Presley spelled his middle name. My great-grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all have the middle name Rhodes.
Morning person or night owl?
A: Uhhh... both. I can be both. It all depends on what's going on or what I have to look forward to.
What do you do for a living?
A: I practice medicine.
What is your favorite thing to do?
A: What do I like to do... I like to vacuum. I like to do a lot of different things. I like to take my family on a road trip and show them neat things.
What is the first thing you noticed about Allyn?
A: Her hair.
What is your super power?
A: Allyn says it is remember meals from the past. (I can remember what I ate at a person's house while I was on my mission, etc.)
What is your favorite meal?
A: That's tough. Growing up it was chicken and dumplings, but Allyn doesn't make chicken and dumplings, so I can't say that's my favorite meal. I can eat anything.
What is your favorite treat?
A: Carrot cake.
Who or what is your nemesis?
A: The rabbit in my yard. I keep trying to grow a garden and I try to chase him down.
What do you do best?
A: I'm just a jack-of-all-trades. I don't have a super-skill. I just get by.
What is your most over-used word or phrase?
A: "What the...?"
Who is your favorite muppet?
A: They all say funny things... The scientist with no eyes (Dr. Bunsen Honeydew).
What do you want to do or accomplish in the next 10 years?
A: Well, I feel like my successes are through my family. I'd like to have a job. A respectable practice or a clientele of patients. Figure out how to be in the bishopric. Help my boys get their Eagles.
A Little Something from the Boney kids:
Who are you named after?
Emma: Inno know.
Lilja: That lady in Finland that Dad... Lilja Laito. And Lucille after Memaw and Nana and Boney after Dad.
Adam: My Uncle (Adam Boney, Aron's brother). Why? My Dad, my Grandpa, and my Great Grandpa.
Banks: I don't know. Who am I named after?
Noah: Banks?
Chance: My Dad wanted to use the name Chance because he found a great uncle on his grandpa's side named Chancy and he thought it was cool. My Mom needed some convincing, but now she loves it. Bracken is my Mom's great-great-great-great grandmother's maiden name.
What is your favorite thing to do?
Emma: Hmmmm...read and sing and play the piano.
Lilja: Hang out with friends and family.
Adam: Play wii and play with my friends.
Banks: Play on the iPad, watch TV, and play on the computer.
Noah: Play on the computer [giggle, giggle].
Chance: Play on my slide in the backyard.
What is your favorite thing to eat and how do you make it?
Emma: Mashed potatoes. First, I wash the potatoes, then I peel them, then I wash them again. Then I cut them into quarters. Then put them in salt water and let them boil. I don't know how long. Five minutes or ten. Then, when they're done I drain them and then first I smash them, then I add evaporated milk. I smash them again. I add a whole stick of butter and then I smash that up. Then I add pepper and salt. Then smash that up, then I add Worcestershire sauce and then I make Lilja taste it and she tells me what it needs.
Lilja: Chicken pie... any pie. You make it with a recipe.
Adam: Homemade bean soup and cheeseburgers. I don't know how to make bean soup. Cheeseburgers - grill the meat, put cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, little tiny bits of onion, mayonnaise, mustard, and pickles.
Banks: Pizza for dinner and cookies... chocolate chip. I don't know how to make them.
Noah: Pizza, cheese with salad dressing. Our parents make it.
Chance: Flip flops. You convince someone to take you to the back room and put you on the floor, then find the flip flop that has fallen out of the shoe cubby.
What is your favorite toy and/or hobby?
Emma: Piano.
Lilja: Sing and act and dance (ballet).
Adam: Reading, drawing, and legos.
Banks: Play wii. Play baseball. That fin mcmissile big toy.
Noah: Pegususes.
Chance: Anything in the girls' room.
What is your favorite place to visit?
Emma: Hmmmm... Grandmother's house.
Lilja: I like Finland.
Adam: Disney World and Disneyland.
Banks: I really wanna go to China. Can we go to China? Grandmother and Papa's house.
Noah: Hotel.
Chance: The bathroom.
What is the grossest thing you can think of?
Emma: Being dared to watch someone puke.
Lilja: Surgery. Body parts and cutting people open.
Adam: A kid eating throw-up.
Banks: Poop. And puke and barf.
Noah: Germs.
Chance: Mashed broccoli.
What does your Mom do when you're not home?
Emma: Watch the leftover kids and clean and shop and has fun with her friends. Inno know.
Lilja: She goes to the thrift store, she hangs out with Chance. She sews, goes grocery shopping, goes on walks.
Adam: Feed my brother and go do things.
Banks: She feeds Chance. She plays outside with him and she watches TV.
Noah: She feeds him (our baby). Plays with him in the playroom.
Chance: I am never not home if Mom is home.
What does your Dad do for a living?
Emma: He's a doctor.
Lilja: He's a doctor.
Adam: He's us, isn't he a pediatrician? Isn't a pediatrician like a doctor?
Banks: He works on these kind of things like ships.
Noah: He, um, makes sure Banks gets a hit at baseball.
Chance: He leaves early in the morning after he
takes me out of my bed and puts me into Mommy's bed so I can do my
aerobics routine on her while she is still sleeping. Then he comes home
and tackles me. What happens in between is a mystery.
What is your favorite thing to do with your family?
Emma: Laugh. Because screaming is annoying.
Lilja: Go on vacations.
Adam: Play board games and watch movies.
Banks: Eat dinner.
Noah: Eat dinner.
Chance: Do all my tricks that they tell me to do while they laugh at me.
Do you have any nicknames?
Emma: Emma Lou.
Lilja: Liljalucille. And some people who cannot pronounce my name call me Lilly.
Adam: No, not really.
Banks: This is what Adam calls me, Chicken. Sweetie, Banksy.
Noah: No. (Sometimes we call him Nonah to make him mad.)
Chance: Chancers, Chancy, Mister Chance.
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Emma: I don't know. Author, actress.
Lilja: Well, um, I kinda wanna be an artist, but that can be my side job. I really want to be (a long pause and sigh) I like working with children... I'm gonna be a mother. Fine, I'm gonna be a mother who sells artwork for $50000000.00
Adam: Be an inventor and a scientist.
Banks: I know, nothing. I meant I wanna do everything, but not go to space. Space can kill you.
Noah: Be a fire fighter.
Chance: Crawl down the stairs.
