Alison Moore Smith
Alison Moore Smith was born in Provo, Utah, in 1964, and handed over to her real, loving parents two days later in the Skaggs parking lot. (Is this what we call a blue light special?) She was raised in Orem, Utah, (with a short stint in Goleta, California)
Alison adores her family. Her siblings are: David (who is a cartographer for the Department of Agriculture) and Nora (who is the wife of one, the mother of ten, and sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir). They were all raised by their mother, D'On, who was a homemaker until her death in 2003, and their father, Hal, who is an emeritus math professor at BYU.
In 1985 Alison married her dream man, Samuel McArthur Smith, in the Salt Lake Temple. She graduated from BYU in 1987, three weeks after her first child was born. After she and her husband finished school, they spent ten (long!) years in Boca Raton, Florida. They returned to Utah in September of 2001, where Alison homeschools her wonderful children. Jessica 18, Belinda 15, Alana 12, Monica 8, Samson 5, and Caleb 2 are the pride and joy of her life. She also serves as the CFO of Adept Systems and owner of AlphaSmith.
She has been a featured speaker at both the National LDS Homeschool Association Conference and at the Utah Home Education Association Convention.
Alison loves singing, computers, reading, and rice crispies with sugar free chocolate milk powder and skim milk. She has written for Mormon Momma, Meridian Magazine, National LDS Homeschooling Association, The Daily Herald, and numerous special interest publications. She has a blue belt in kenpo karate and hopes to get earn a black belt one day—a quest she began just weeks after giving birth to her fifth child at age 36. She ran (using the term loosely) the Top of Utah Marathon to celebrate her 40th year on earth (which her father will point out, was actually her 41st year on earth…) in 2004 and directs an awesome teen swing choir called SwingShift.
She plans on becoming an entirely new person in 200___ (fill in with next consecutive calendar year).