Lunquist, Davin

After graduating I attended Snow College for one year before and after my mission to Chile. I then transferred to Occidental College in Los Angeles to play football with my brother Erik where I majored in Kinesiology. I graduated from there in 1995 and then went to medical school at USC. During med school I joined the Navy to help offset the cheap tuition at USC. I also got married during my first year of med school. After graduating in 1999 we moved to Bremerton, Washington where I began a residency in Family Medicine at the Naval Hospital there. Unfortunately my marriage started to fall apart and I was separated from my wife. During that time I tried to run away my pain by training for a couple of Portland Marathons. I finished my residency in 2002 and was stationed in Port Hueneme, California (located in Ventura County along the coast). It was a tough job as my clinic overlooked the 5th tee of the base golf course where I spent most mornings before work. Soon after my first marriage ended in divorce, I thought my life was turning out all wrong. But amazingly within the year I met Mitzi Tarazon at a Memorial Day barbeque where mutual friends and family had helped (forced) us to meet. Both of us assumed it was just another lame setup only to be pleasantly surprised that all of the complimentary descriptions were actually true. After about 7 1/2 weeks of blissful dating, we eloped at the Ventura county courthouse. We didn't tell any of our families until the next day, and they were obviously pretty shocked (except for my parents, who were just relieved that my life had been salvaged). Not long after my time with the navy was done and I took a job in Mississippi in a small town. I know, what was I thinking? Not sure, but it was a great experience for my career being a small town family doctor. In the summer of 2004 we were sealed together in the Los Angeles Temple (to the great relief of MItzi's parents). However back in Mississippi, Mitzi didn't really buy into the whole southern lifestyle, although the people definitely lived up to their great hospitality reputation. After 3 years we made it back to Ventura County in California (the promised land), but not before we had given birth to two children, who for better or worse, will always call Jackson, Mississippi their birthplace. Carson is our 3 1/2 year old son and Isabelle is our 2 year old daughter. They are awesome and make our lives better than we could have imagined. I am working at a clinic in Camarillo, California which is a neighboring town to where we live in Oxnard. I practice family medicine and work in the urgent care there as well. We are incredibly blessed and are grateful for our membership in the Church and the wonderful perspective that it brings to our lives. We look forward to seeing all of you at the reunion.

Pace, Stephenie (Petty)

Hello everyone! I'm sad I won't be able to make it to the reunion. I hope everything goes well. I live in Salt Lake with my husband Scott and three children... Ben, Grace, and Lucy. Scott works with vSpring Capital and I go to lunch everyday with my friends or sisters (I wish). I don't know how so many of you have more than three kids. I have to remind myself to breath most days, how did my own mother raise twelve?!! Life is amazing. I try to ride my road bike as much as possible and spend time with my family. The highlight of this past year was traveling to Peru with my dad and two younger sisters. We climbed to the top of Waynu Picchu (picture below) and had a marvelous time seeing Machu Picchu, what a place! It's been thoroughly enjoyable reading about all of you. Hopefully I'll make it to the next reunion.

Allred, Brandon

Hi Everyone!! Twenty years have gone by fast! I'm sure you all feel the same. In a nutshell, I live in Sandy and I have four kids and one wife. My wife is Melissa. Our oldest is Tanner who is 12, Dallin 4, Ellie 2, and Stephen 1.

After high school, I served a mission to Guatemala City South 1990-1992. I went to college and went to Western States Chiropractic College in Oregon. I have been a Chiropractor in Sandy for the last 10 years. (see website www.naturalhealthandwellness.com). We love the Salt Lake area, no offense to all you Utah County people. We love to travel and spend time with our kids. Life has been good to us.

We look forward to seeing you all.

Brandon Allred

drballred@comcast.net

Lydiksen, Chris

It's good to see that so many of you will be coming to the Reunion. To catch you up:

After High School in November I left on my mission to New York, Rochester (Palmyra area). There I gained a love of church history and teaching people. When I got back to Provo I played golf at UVCC, won my first tournament, took second in my second, but realized at nationals that, although I loved the game, it would take more than I was willing to give to make it a career. So, for all intents and purposes, I put the sticks away and started a new life. It also had something to do with rekindling my relationship with Christa Ghoslin (Class of '90, we dated briefly in high school). We were married in 1993 and stuck our noses into college books (hers was already there). I got an Economics degree and MBA from BYU, while she got a Masters in Molecular Biology, also from BYU (we often saw Blake Baliff in the labs and lived in Dave Rowe's ward for a while).

It took us eight years to have a child, which didn't worry me until about year six. After quitting fertility treatment, we finally had our first girl, Lindsay in 2001. She's been followed by Nichole and Greta. We don't know how we got such cute kids (Christa's genes I guess). Now I'm stocking up on guns and ammo in preparation for the dating years, or the next revolutionary war, whichever comes first. We recently added a puppy with very sharp teeth, also a female. FYI, Christa came from a family of six girls. To get the oft-needed testosterone boost, I take my girls to Cabelas, or Home Depot, or Gold's Gym. They haven't quite gotten into golf or cars yet...sigh. That said, I'm extremely well-versed in everything princess, fairy, and Hanna Montana (which I do enjoy...did I just say that out loud). Other fun female topics are just around the corner.

While in college I started an automotive enthusiast web site, beginning as CarPictures.com and branching out from there. It was mostly a hobby, but when I won the BYU business plan competition with it, the Utah Angels invited me to present to them. They warned me that about 1% of companies got their funding. Somehow I did and it has change my life ever since. The funny thing was that this investment happened concurrently with the dot-com bubble bust, in the Spring of 2000. So, I worked on that full-time under difficult market conditions for four years, until I realized that my family and I, and even my company, needed me to leave self-employment.

I got lucky (blessed) to join Ancestry.com in 2004 and am currently the Product Manager over U.S. Content. This experience has taught me much about internet business and content models. As employment is never certain, I still have my other internet content business, mostly being operated by others. Life is very good for us.

We'll see you tomorrow, Chris

Coomes, Kiel

Here is a photo of me and one of the wife and kids, sorry I don't have a recent one of all of us together. I don't have any cool stories of the past 20 years to post on th blog page. I Went to Dixie College for a bit after graduation, then went on a short mission to Mexico. Then was dumb and married a girl from St George and we had three boys. She got to mental and too many problems and we were divorced. I spent 13 years working for Smith's grocery store and ended up hating being there. I finished a Criminal Justice degree sometime between all of this at UVSC and went back to what I always wanted to do and be a police officer. I finished the police academy in 2002 and spent time as a reserve officer for Pleasant Grove. I was offered a full time job with Vernal City and moved there in 2005. Between all of the job hunting, divorce, and other things I got custody of my three boys and remarried Chalyce who grew up in American Fork. She too was divorced and had four kids, two boys and two girls. Her kids stayed here when we moved and by then we added one boy of our own. After the first year in Vernal Chalyce was ready to go back home and be closer to her kids. After another two years I gave in and we returned to Utah County in 2008. Chalyce is a Police Officer for American Fork and enjoys working where she grew up and being back close to her kids. Her oldest daughter graduated this year from American Fork High. We live in Lehi and have four boys at all times and two more most times. The girls come and go and it is an age thing for them. I started working for West Jordan City as a Police Officer and am adjusting to the busy job compared to hick town Vernal calls and the red neck locals (sorry if that offends anyone, but if you are from there then you know how it is and can't be offended). It keeps me on edge wondering what call will be next in West Jordan it can get crazy at times. We enjoy camping, ridding four wheelers, and what ever other outdoor things we can find. The kids are Kenzy 18, Josh 16, Karissa 15, Zakk 14, Kade 13, Chandler 10, Keaton 8, and Gabe 7.

Brown, Kristie (Rosser)

I am amazed that 20 years have passed! I'm sure the rest of you feel the same way I do--still young, wondering where the time has gone? I have lots of memories of PHS (mostly running, and studying, and running and studying..you get the idea).

I finally had time to read through the blog stories that have been posted, and I have really enjoyed reading about everyone, their lives, their families, and what they have been doing for the last 20 years.

As for me? I met my husband Paul Rosser, while I was at BYU. We were both on the track and cross-country teams there (i know, huge cliche'). We moved to Salt Lake City after Paul graduated from BYU so he could coach the University of Utah men's track and cross country teams. I finished up my college running at the U. (Fun to be married to the coach!)
I graduated with my RN from the U and worked at LDS and St. Mark's hospitals in the ICU's.Paul got his RN while at the U, and worked in the Burn Trauma Unit at the U Hospital.

We lived in SLC for 7 years before we moved back to Provo for more schooling. We had our first child, Madison, during our first year of BYU grad school. I think I was defending my thesis about the same time we had our 10th year reunion? We both graduated with our master's and as Nurse Practitioners in 1999. Paul works at the Utah Valley Pain Center in Orem with the interventional radiologists. After more than 10 years specializing in women's health care, I opened my own office "The Women's Center" in Provo just a few months ago. I love the education and disease prevention aspects of what I do. I focus a lot on being healthy and living well.

We added to our family soon after graduation. Jack is 7 (2nd grade) and is very analytical, quite a thinker, and likes to have all the facts, loves legos, transformers, and puzzles, bugs and blood, doesn't seem to have the patience for sports. Georgia is 5 (1st grade) and is a princess all the way! She is very social, has lots of little girl friends, loves to sing and dance Tommy is 4 (pre-k) and might be a line-backer when he gets older, loves to wrestle, and EAT ALL THE TIME. Madison is 10 (5th grade) and loves soccer. She is smart, a great leader, and has a great heart. She loves to run, too, which makes her dad and me very happy. She recently finished 3rd at the district track meet in the 800m. We would LOVE to have a runner in the family and spend the day at track meets again!

We moved to the the Hunter's Valley area of Springville in 2000, and since then, many PHS grads move into the neighborhood. Jennifer (Murphy) Jackson and I share a backyard. Tonya (Smith) Monson and I were team managers for our girls' premier soccer team last year, and her husband is Madison's soccer coach. Maria (Chambers) Ruf and I are on the school board together. Dave Rowe, my old track teammate, annouced my daughters 400m and 800m hershey track wins at Springville High this spring (that was an awesome experience!) Dave's wife, Debbie, is in my ward's relief society presidency, and I was their oldest daughter (Elsie)'s Sunday school teacher last year. Kind of crazy!

I still love running and really enjoy the marathon distance, and have recently taken-up long distance cycling. I love photography and carry my camera everywhere. Paul has won many marathons including Desert News, Park City, Lake Powell, and St. George. His best marathon time of 2:16 qualified him for the Olympic Trials Marathon.

Well, that's about the last 20 years in a nutshell. More to bore you with later. See you all soon!
Kristie (Brown) Rosser Cell: (801) 400-1109 Office: (801) 357-7190

McKinnon, Lynnette (Grant)

It's been so fun reading about everyone. After High school I attended Ricks college and roomed with Diann Lott and Tiffany Thelin. It was a blast, and I played way more than I studied. I transfered to BYU where I decided to finally get serious and study hard. I wanted to study archealogy as I always had a crush on Indiana Jones but had a few more G.E. classes to take, so I enrolled in a Philosophy class, fell in love with the TA and promptly married him (yes, I got an "A" in the class).
We have been married for 18 years and have five kids. Kenny 17, Rachel 15, Daniel 12, Sam 10 and Joseph who is 6. We stay super busy with sports and church but we are loving it. In my free time (ha,ha) I love to run, road bike and read. I am training for my fourth marathon, have completed several century road rides and would love to do a half ironman one day (maybe when I finish all the laundry:). Dave is an avid Mountain biker so we spend a lot of time as a family biking and wrecking. I have some "Sick" scars that my four boys are proud of. Two of our kids are on the high school basketball team, so we spend lots of time at the gym which seems like my second home. I actually love the smell of a gym.

We love living in Cedar City and have been here for the last ten years. We lived in Costa Rica and Arizona but Cedar City reminds me of Provo "back in the day" and we will be here for at least a few more years. I am excited to see y'all at the reunion. A big thank you to everyone involved in the planning of this shindig! Lynnette Grant

Faulconer, Christian

It has been a lot of fun to catch up with everyone through this blog. The last 20 years have gone by faster than I thought they would.

After graduating from PHS, I attended BYU where I dated and eventually married a PHS graduate, Kacy McNeal. We have four children, Sam (11), Maggie (9), Ben (6), and Ellen (2). We live in Provo on the street I grew up on, so I see a lot of familiar faces on a regular basis and I love it.

I studied Accounting at BYU, but I've never done accounting professionally. After graduation, I worked for a management consulting company in Los Angeles. We loved living in California, but we decided to moved back to Provo when the opportunity presented itself. Over the last 20 years I've found that I really enjoy starting businesses and working with startups. I have been able to start four businesses and I currently run one of them -- a small company that helps businesses grow through franchising. I feel like I've been really lucky.

Sorry I don't have a better picture of the family. I'm doing this at the VERY last minute and this is all I could come up with.

I'm looking forward to seeing you at the reunion.

Thurman, Heather (Richins)

When you see me at the reunion you are bound to say (to yourself hopefully) Oooh look, it’s Heather Thurman. Yes, it really has been 30, I mean 20 years……

Just like all of you a lot has happened in those years. After high school, I attended and graduated from UVSC while working retail at the infamous University Mall. During that time I met and married Brent Richins. Within our first years as a married couple we moved to Salt Lake where I continued to work retail (boo!) and then moved to Patient Accounting at the U of U Hospital - until an amazing gift came to our home our daughter, Alexis. I became a mom over night by “special delivery”, a miracle & true blessing. I completely dove into the mom roll because 14 months later, our oldest son Nicholas was born. Four years of no kids, traveling and late nights where traded practically overnight for 2 kids, diapers, no sleep and even later nights.

Life must have been going too well because a job change took us from everything we were used to, to Denver, Colorado. The first thing I learned was how to buy a house by myself and for six years, I learned to live away from my friends and family. It ended up being the best experience. We loved it in Denver. I started my own business called Sew Cute 4 Kids where I taught kids to sew. I had a great time teaching and continue to dabble in this business to this day. While there our third baby was born, Benjamin.

Once again, life must have been going too well. This time a job offer took us to a completely foreign country……..Southern California. Once again, I bought a house….by myself and we hauled all our stuff and three kids across three states. Ask Rana Barton about that move. She was my husband’s second wife for that adventure. While in “SoCal”, as me and homies call it, we spent a lot of time at the beach and our home away from home, Disneyland. (We still mourn the day that our season passes to Disneyland expired.) It was a short 18 months in California when yet another job offer threw our life in the air again!

Since 2006 my family has been living back in Colorado in the Vail Valley. We live in Gypsum, Colorado which sits about 30 minutes west of Vail and about 30 minutes east of Glenwood Springs. Small town, beautiful valley, cold winters and high property taxes. Even paradise has a price! Since being back in Colorado our fourth baby, Rowen was born. I continue to work a little and volunteer at the schools since my job as a mother is definitely more than full time.

In case you lost track, let me recap. 20 years, 4 moves, 3 states, 4 kids, (Alexis 13, Nicholas 12, Benjamin 7, Rowen 18 months). 3 months of complete bed rest with each of the last 3 pregnancies chocolate and candy was NOT included.

However, end result - Totally worth it! 1dog, numerous friends, no regrets.

It’s great to read and catch up with everyone.

Wishing all of you the best!

Heather Thurman Richins

Ballif, Blake

It's hard to believe that 20 years have come and gone. It has been great to read your blogs and to get a glimpse into what so many of you have been up to. I wish there were other opportunities to catch up more frequently than every 20 years or so. Here is a brief run down of my life. After high school, I attended BYU for a year before serving as an LDS missionary in Geneva, Swtizerland. When I returned, I completed my undergraduate and masters degrees in Molecular Biology at BYU. In the middle of that time, I was set up on a blind date by my good friends Mark and Marilee Durrant (they were not married yet) to one of Marilee's Orem High friends, Kara Streuling. To make a long story short, we were married in 1996 after Kara returned from her mission in Lithuania. We moved to Houston, Texas in 1998 to begin a PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine in Molecular and Human Genetics which we finished in 2003. After a brief stint in intellectual property law, we left the heat and humidity of Houston and moved to beautiful Spokane, Washington where I have worked for the past 5 years as the Director of Product Development and Research for a genetic testing company called Signature Genomics. We have 5 wonderful children: Cameron (10), Cade (8), Caleb (6), Paige (2), and Porter (3 months) that keep us really busy but we enjoy it. We love Washington and plan to stay here as long as we can. Life is good. I look forward to seeing all of you at the reunion. Thanks to all of those who have helped put this reunion together.