Although many of you might not know this, but when I, Ashley, married into the Henry Family I knew that I must always do my best to uphold the Henry family name. Of course any of the original Henry's will deny this, but lets be honest here. When thinking of the Henry's, what are some words that come to mind...Cheerful (Bill)....Great genes, ex;Beautiful daughters (Rachel, Tara, Jen and Ashley)...Wonderful Cooking skills (Carolyn)...and Hardworking boys (Nate and Marcus). However, I had the privilege of not only having the Henry name tacked on to my name, but I also share my first name with my sister-in-law (Laura Ashley Henry) who goes by Ashley Henry. Yes, you heard me correctly, two Ashley Henry's in the same family! The Ashley's.Fortunately for us, we really get along great! Sure the whole family differentiates between the two of us by calling us either Ashley Bauder-Henry or Marcus' Ashley and Ashley Henry or Laura Ashley Henry (including Emma) and Cory still never knows which Ashley Jen is talking about when she tells him a story about either of us,... but up until now we've gone almost a whole year without any problems!
So last week my mom went to Marcus and I's bank to deposit some money into our account. She filled out the deposit slip and the name as going to me: Ashley Henry. For the last week, Marcus and I have been waiting for it to turn up into our account, but it never showed. We finally started to get worried and I called the bank to ask them where this "missing money" had gone. Finally after 3 phone calls, 2 phone transfers, 30 minutes, and one very unhelpful bank teller later, she finally determined that the money had been deposited into Laura Ashley Henry's account and not ours; even though my mom had written the right account number on the deposit slip! I then asked the women why she couldn't just transfer the money from Laura Ashley's account to ours and she said she couldn't without Laura Ashley Henry's permission. After my annoyances began to settle, at that point I was just grateful that I actually "knew" the other Ashley Henry and she could give the permission that was needed to withdraw the money back from her account into ours. What a mess right!?
At the end of it all, the bank teller politely said, "Sorry about all the confusion Laura, have a great day!" I grumbled a mere "Thanks," and decided to leave it alone. Nevertheless, even after all of this, I just wanted to post proudly that I love sharing a name with the other Ashley Henry, almost as much as I love her... even when it complicates things
uhhh... and why exactly couldn't they transfer YOUR money out of Ash's account? That seems weird, but at least you got it all figured out.
I have a sister-in-law and an aunt with the exact same name two. They even live next door to eachother- so confusing too.
My SIL actually won the $10,000 from the Deal or No Deal case game and since their phone number isn't listed, all the radio, tv, etc stations called my aunt for like 3 days... hilarious!
You guys look so much like sisters. Its so great. Glad that you figured that one out. Yowser.
My sister's brother in law is named Aaron. The two have become known as Aaron-the-boy or Erin-the girl. It's funny how that happens. I'm glad the bank got it all sorted out.
Ashley, glad to hear the banking problems have been solved. We have had some confusing conversations with Emma about which Ashley we are going to see. It is actually pretty funny. We have two Emma Haertlings that are exactly the same age. Chad's brother had a little girl one month after we had Emma and named her Emma also. That will definatley be confusing.
What a blessing to have two Ashley Henry's in our family! I've always thought it was a "fun" problem but definitely frustrating for you and Marcus this past week. Hopefully it's all straightened out. Such cute pictures of you two!
Ash, I'll share my name with you any day :) Someone asked me who I had been talking to the other day and I said Ashley Henry and they looked at me with the weirdest look. It's kind of entertaining to see peoples reaction when I tell them about the other Ashley Henry in my family :) Thanks for the tribute Ash, I love you too!!
Ash, Laura, I mean, the Former Miss Bauder, that was a great story. Your mom is welcome to deposit money into my bank account at any time. My number is 475584...just kidding.
Cory always had a heck of a time on his mission telling people that he had a twin brother named Cody. The 'r' and 'd' in spanish sound the same in this case so all the people thought his parents went a little overboard giving them the same name.
I love both Ashley Henry's! You're both gorgeous and genuine.
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