What We've Been Up To...Emily (Warnock) Goldman!

Reunion time is almost here!  A little over a month :)  I better start losing weight.  Or maybe try one of those feeding tubes all the brides are using...hmmm.  Anyway, we have another victim on "What We've Been Up To!"  It's Emily (Warnock) Goldman! 

I attended Utah State University for four years (best school in the state, BTW) before heading south for four years at the University of Utah pharmacy program (that school is okay, I guess). While I was hanging out there learning about drugs and stuff, I met Michael Goldman (he prefers to be called G Money Funky Fresh) and we fell madly in love. Then he broke up with me and I was just plain mad. But "we" figured it out and have now been married for 2 years and 50 weeks. (I'm trying really hard not to forget our anniversary this year.)
I have been working at the Lehi Macey's (your family grocery store) for almost two years now handing out drugs while Michael spends his time messing with the computers at UTA. (Did I mention he went to BYU? I don't know about that school...) Between the two of us, we have seen a large percentage of the "really smart" things people can do to themselves.
Speaking of which--I can guarantee I will not be the skinniest person at this reunion but I will get two servings of dessert. We are expecting our first child (a girl) on June 28th. We are super excited. (And terrified but don't tell anyone.)
 

See you soon!

PS. This crazy picture is from our trip to Hawaii last November. Try not to be jealous.

What We've Been Up To--Heather (Dunn) Oxborrow!

It's so great to have these updates in my queue ready to post!  I hope everyone is loving them as much as me.  And remember...only 3 more days to get the early-bird pricing for the reunion, so register now!

Today's alumni is....Heather (Dunn) Oxborrow!

At times it doesn't seem like 10 years since high school but then I think of all the things that have changed or happened and it does seem like quite awhile. The fall after graduation I moved to Idaho to attend BYU-Idaho. I didn't end up knowing more than a handful of people but it was a great experience and helped me to become more independent. In the spring of 2004 I graduated with an associate's in Architectural Design and transferred to BYU in the fall of the same year to finish my bachelor degree. That same fall I met Graham Oxborrow who later became my best friend and husband. We were friends and then dated and almost 2 years after we met we were married the summer of 2006. I worked for Ivory Homes as an Architectural Designer for a couple of years and then a design firm in Salt Lake City called Method Studio for a couple of years. I am not currently working full time but do teach a night class at LDS Business College, Computer Design for the Interior Design department. One day I hope to have my own design consulting business. At times I miss doing design all the time but I have fun doing projects in our home in Lehi. My husband is always wary when I start a conversation by saying, "So I was watching HGTV . . . " or "I saw this cool thing on Pinterest . . ." I love design and love being involved in creating things but my greatest accomplishments come from being a mother to my two wonderful boys! Our family loves to do things together from being outside, camping or hiking, to attending sporting events (BYU football and basketball are our favorites!). Probably the most interesting thing that we have experienced is when I didn't make it to the hospital for the birth of our second son last fall. If you want the whole story you will have to come find me at the reunion. It will be great to catch up and see old familiar faces!

What We've Been Up To...Kara (Allred) Andrus!

As the reunion really starts to fill up, I am loving these updates that keep rolling in!  Our next one...Kara (Allred) Andrus!

After graduating I headed up to USU for college. I'd planned to major in Theatre Education. A year later I switched to History Education, and a year later went to Accounting. After 3 years I had a lot of various credits and no degree lol.
But back to the start- I met my husband Nate my very first day up there, I just didn't know it yet. He was my roommate's sister's boyfriend's roommate/friend and came over to help my roommate set up her computer. I paid no attention but after he left my roommate told me he had said I was cute and she'd given him our number. After a couple months of him losing our number over and over I finally took things into my own hands, went to where he worked, and asked him when we were going to go out. It went pretty quickly after that. First date in October, engaged in February, and married in the Idaho Falls Temple July 18, 2003. A beautiful sunny perfect day.
We both continued to go to school and work. September 27, 2004 we welcomed our first son Jason into the family. A few years later Nate graduated with a degree in Computer Science and got a job in Pocatello, ID. We moved up there 2 weeks after our second son Jacob was born June 1, 2006. We bought our first house and I started doing in-home childcare to help out. Even though we loved being in Idaho, the job opportunities are better around SLC, so New Year's Day 2008 Nate accepted a job down here and in 2 weeks we were back in Utah. We spent 2 long months living with my family in Riverton before the house in ID sold and we were able to buy a new home in West Jordan. A few days before moving into our new home we found out we were expecting baby #3. Another boy, Nathan, joined us November 13, 2008.
Life went on, I continued doing in home child care part-time and enjoying my little boys. I also prepared to go back to school at SLCC to work towards an associates degree in Computer Information Systems, which I surprisingly love and have no plans of changing this time. I started Fall of 2010 at the same time we found out that baby #4 we were expecting was actually babies #4 and #5! Our twin boys (yep, all boys!), Isaac and Caleb, were born big and healthy January 10, 2011.
Life continues to go by so quickly I can hardly keep up, but I'm loving it. My boys are now 7, 5, 3, and the twins are 1. They keep me busy but bring us so much joy. Nate has a great job that supports us so I can stay home with my children. I'm still in school part-time, slowly working towards my degree. I live a pretty normal, quiet life but I wouldn't want it any other way.
Kara

What We've Been Up To--Rachael (Nielsen) Homer!

And another update!  I know, look at me, 2 in one week.  If only I could take the credit for writing them.  I just bug people until they cough them up....anyway, our update today is.... Rachael (Nielsen) Homer!

I have absolutely LOVED reading about what is going on in everybodys lives! Everyone seems so mature and established and grown up, what the heck happened to me? I feel like the same girl... blond and clueless :)

So here's my life in a nutshell. I went to UVSC for a year with my best friends, and gave that up to do the next most logical thing- work construction, framing LDS chapels in Arizona. After working on my muscles and tan, I came back to Utah to be an EFY councilor at BYU. The week before I started that job I went to a "Hot Singles" dance, because I was so hot (yeah right), and so single (that's true). That's when my 6'7 dream danced into my life. We both couldn't dance, which is probably why we hit things off so well.

2 engagements, and about 15 break-ups later Jon Homer and I were hitched! We were married July 2005, and I could not be happier. We both worked to put Jon through school, then I went back to try to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I got as far as my associates, (still not knowing what I want to be) and have stopped for the time being to do what I love most, being a mom. At our Senior Dinner Dance I was awarded "Most Likely to Have 20 Kids", which I have taken most seriously and I'm a fifth of the way there. Our last baby was actually just born March 30th.

My husband works like a madman, and I stay home and become a little more crazy every day. I work 2 part-time jobs doing things I love. I am a caregiver to people with special needs, and make jewelry on the side. I have big plans to travel to Lagoon this summer, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll be visiting Mickey Mouse the summer following. :) I feel so blessed and truly could not be happier. It's been so fun thinking about "the good ol' days" and I can't wait to see old friends!

What We've Been Up To--Kateka (Jeppson) Goodman!

It feels like it has been a while since we have had a classmate update, so here we go...Our victim today is Kateka (Jeppson) Goodman!


Hmmm…. As I stare blankly at my cursor trying to figure out what to write since I’ve graduated high school I feel like anything I could say might come off as braggy, or lackluster.

Let’s see, I am a CEO, have one billion dollars, spend my weekends in Hawaii, have never looked hotter in my life, and have no imperfections. HA! Obviously, I am kidding. Now anything I say won’t seem like I am bragging right? I can’t vouch for any of the things I just listed, so yeah, my life is certainly not brag-worthy. Don’t get me wrong, life has not been bad and for that I feel thankful and blessed, but I have not graduated college yet, I have no pets or babies, and I work 40 hours a week on my tush at a desk job. So let’s get to the good stuff before I put you to sleep!

When I was 18, I was attending college at Utah State in Logan and one day received a random letter from an unknown boy, Stuart, who was serving a mission in Texas with fellow RHS alumni Jeron Hyatt. I thought he was freaking hot so we became pen-pals and wrote for pretty much the entire length of his mission. He came home to SLC in 2004, things clicked, I moved from Logan back to SLC to be closer to him, and we married in August of 2006.

This was our engagement picture. Sigh, back in a time where we were both cuter, younger, and skinnier.

It’s blowing my mind that I’ve known him for 9 years… time is going by too quickly. We moved around from apartment to apartment until finally buying our first townhome in 2010 in South Jordan. At first I thought we had so much space, and now I feel like I need a bigger place. Ha! I am never satisfied.

Stuart is finishing up his business degree at the U which, holy smokes (!), is burning a major hole in our wallet so once he is done with his degree, I’ll go back to school and finish up my degree in exercise science. Unfortunately, we don’t have the finances to pay for both of our educations at once, so unless someone wants to pay for my degree (takers? Anyone?), I will start up again in about a year and then probably have another two years until I graduate.

What else, what else. I feel like this is boring… Ummm… I won the Miss Herriman pageant in 2003 and competed in Miss Utah in 2004, which I did not win, but very much enjoyed the experience (even though I really don’t consider myself to be a “pageant” girl). I ran a marathon when I was 19 and never ran another race after that! Ha! Take that 26.2 miles! I’ll probably never run another marathon again, but I am highly interested in running the Disneyland half marathon over labor day, and competing in a triathlon sometime in my life.

Stu and I love a good weekend in Vegas and seeing the shows there (get your mind out of the gutter, not “those” shows), my favorite being La Reve, so we frequent there as often as we can.

Recently, you can find me hobbling around on crutches because I broke my foot falling down my stairs! I am in a cast now and can’t walk on it for 5 weeks and 6 days, you better believe I am counting down.

Anyway, I think that will do it! That’s what I’ve been up to for the last ten years. Oh! And just dreaming for the day that we get to have our ten year reunion so that I can see all your beautiful faces again (facebook just doesn’t do it for me!). I really hope you’ll all come. I am very excited about it and think it will be a blast. Seriously! Every single one of you. Sign up. You won’t regret it. I’ll leave with you a more recent picture of me and the best thing in my life.