{"id":116,"name":"Alison Moore Smith","url":"http:\/\/mormonmomma.com","description":"Alison Moore Smith was born in 1964 in Provo, Utah, and handed over to her real, loving parents two days later in the Skaggs parking lot. That\u2019s what we call a blue light special.\r\n\r\nIn 1985 she married her dream man, Dr. Samuel McArthur Smith, in the Salt Lake Temple. She graduated from BYU in 1987, three weeks after their first child was born. They are now the proud parents of six children: Jessica, Belinda, Alana, Monica, Samson, and Caleb.\r\n\r\nAlison is now in her 20th year of homeschooling her children. Jessica is an official graduate of the Smith family homeschool, affectionately known as Oakwood Academy. She graduated from BYU majoring in film production with an editing emphasis and minors in computer science, graphic design, and ballroom dance. Belinda is a junior at BYU majoring in American Studies. Alana was just accepted to BYU and to the Music\/Dance\/Theater major to begin in the fall of 2011. The younger Smith children are equally brilliant, talented, and beautiful and still attending Oakwood Academy.\r\n\r\nAlison loves singing, writing, programming, blogging, reading, holidays, karate, and rice crispies with sugar free chocolate milk powder and skim milk. She ran (using the term loosely) the Top of Utah Marathon to celebrate her 40th year on earth. Her first book, The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers will be published this year \u2014 if she gets the charts done. She speaks at conventions for homeschoolers and women\u2019s groups across the country.\r\n\r\nShe is the founding editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/mormonmomma.com\">Mormon Momma<\/a> and owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/popcred.net\">PopCred<\/a>. She would love to have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alisonmooresmith\">friend her on FaceBook<\/a> so that one day she can claim more virtual friends than her teens!","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/author\/alison\/","slug":"alison","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}