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.