I have been going to do this forever, but I stress about doing new things I haven’t done before. It has been so fun to read what everyone has been up to and see pictures of everyone. My life had been pretty easy going and laid back until about 3 years ago. In 1998 I moved back to Monroe and was hired as a teacher at good old South Sevier High School and have been teaching there for 10 years. My husband Trent is a self-employed general contractor; we own our own construction company – Builders Unlimited. We have 2 little girlie-girls who love to dance, play princess and dress up. Kinley is 7 and McKazie is 3 (It worries me to think that someday I could have a daughter on the drill team!)

My easy-going, laid-back life did a 360 about the same time we found out we were going to have our 2nd baby. I was 3 weeks pregnant when I found out I had a brain tumor – that was a shocker! We planned to have a baby, but not a brain tumor. We decide to wait until after the baby to have the tumor removed because of the risks involved to the baby, but we were shocked again when our baby had to be taken on life flight to Primary Children’s Medical Center where she spent 2 months in intensive care. Thank God for miracles -Things have finally started to mellow out at our house.

It’s been fun helping Kelly with the plans for our reunion. We have spent a lot of time going through old photos and yearbooks - The good old days. I can’t believe how time flies.

FROM CHRIS NIELSON

Hello Everyone
I have been meaning to put a post on this blog for months but am now just getting around to doing it. I tend to be slow at most things. Anyway, I hope everyone has sent in their checks and RSVP’s to the committee because I am excited for this class reunion.

I will try and keep this short and sweet. Life has sure changed for me since the last class reunion. At the last class reunion I was single and teaching school in West Valley City. I am now married, I have three kids with one due July 28th, I live in Annabella (by the way, my ward has a great bishop), and I teach school at North Sevier Middle School.

Just to give you a few more details. I am starting my 5^th year at NSMS. I teach half a day (Algebra and Pre-Algebra) and am the school counselor for the other half of the day. However, the best change in my life is Jodi. You will all like her. We were married in February of 2007. People are always interested in how we met. We were next door neighbors and very good friends back at SUU during the 1997-1998 school year. But…we went our separate ways. She got married, transferred to USU to finish her degree and had three children. Levi is 7, Casey is 6 and Heston is 4. I finished up at SUU, taught in SLC and then secured my job with Sevier School District and moved to Annabella. A common friend told me that Jodi was divorced and told Jodi that I was still single. After a few phone calls and some e-mails, Jodi invited herself up to Annabella. She came the first weekend of June, 2006; we were engaged in November, and married in February of 2007. For someone as slow as I am, I feel like things moved along very quickly. Speaking of quick, before we could even celebrate our first anniversary, we were pleasantly surprised with a pregnancy. Our baby boy is due within a few days of the reunion. I don’t know of many things that will keep me away from a class reunion, but a birth would be one of them.

I had hopes of winning the newlywed and the newest baby award at the reunion, but two weeks ago David Cash got married and Jason Talley’s wife had a baby last week. Congratulations David and Jason. I will see you all at the reunion.

We are down to less than 3 weeks! To all of you who used the reunion as a motivator to lose a couple pounds, congrats! I am sure you look great! To those of us who had the best intentions but let the time slip away, there's always the 20th. LOL!

The reunion will officially kick off on Thursday, July 24th at 4:00 p.m. at the Mountain View Park (across from the high school) All children, spouses and significant others are invited to attend. We have reserved a bounce house and big blow up slide for the kids, we will have badminton and other games to play. There will be softball equipment available for those of you who would like to play. (Please bring your own mitts.) This will be a fun and relaxing afternoon to catch up and meet everybody's families. Drinks and refreshments will be served.

The 24th of July concert is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. at the middle school in Monroe, with fireworks at 9:30 p.m. We thought it would be fun to sit together with our families, so we will be roping off an area on the football field for our class. Bring your own blankets or chairs.

The adults only dinner is on Friday, July 25th at 6:00 p.m. This will be held at South Sevier High School. We have planned a great dutch over dinner and short program for this evening. We have put together a picture DVD that will be shown this night. These are available for purchase for $5, and will be available at the reunion for those of you who pre-order.

We hope everyone is excited to reconnect with friends from the past and share some memories. We certainly are! We'll see you all soon!

Keely

Here is a list of motels/hotels in Richfield. The Travelodge is offering our classmates a discounted rate for the reunion. It is normally $80.00 a night, and they are giving us the rate of $64.00 a night. They had about a dozen rooms when I spoke to them. It is a first come, first serve basis, and you just need to tell them that you are with the 93 SSHS reunion. If anyone finds a good deal from anyone else, please let me know and I will post it.

Travelodge (435)896-9271 Discounted rate

Quality Inn (435)896-5465

Days Inn (435)896-6476

Hampton Inn (435)896-6666 or (888)244-6505

Best Western (435)893-0100

Comfort Inn (435)893-0119

Fairfield Inn (435)896-9191

and Suites