Davis High Class of '98 Now!

Jocelyn (Newman) Tanner

Hello from Boise Idaho. It doesn't seem like I am that far from my home town so I keep hoping that I will run into someone from High School. Five Years in Idaho and I still haven't had that experience. Strange, I know.

I am finding it difficult to sum up the last ten years. Here we go: School, kids, job hunting, school, mortgage, kids, school, 10 extra lbs, job hunting. Did I miss anything? It's been a crazy adventure – but a fabulous one. I have a wonderful husband – Trevor and three cute girls: Kamber (7), Elaina (5), Abigail (2).

The last ten years have taught me one thing about myself. I am completely motivated by fun. (Maybe that's why I wasn't Valedictorian!) There isn't time enough in a day for the fun things I'd like to cram in. Anyone else out there share this problem? I hope so……..I need some validation because a little voice in the back of my head keeps telling me to grow up!!

Well, that's it! I'm sending this cheesy tidbit out to Davis Dart Cyber Space………
It's great to read up on everyone's last ten years. Thank You to the group that put this blog together.

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Travis Hirschi
In case you forgot…
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally I tred water for three days in a row. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook 30 min brownies in 20 min. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Paraguay (that is a whole other story). I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I bat .400. The laws of physics do not apply to me. Children trust me. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. Using only a hoe (garden implement) and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I have played Hamlet, performed open-heart surgery, and spoken with Elvis. But I have yet to hear from any of you!

In between doing all that, I served a mission in the Brasil, Londrina Mission (98-00) along side several other Darts (Merrick Jackson, John Treu & Brady Platt). Upon returning home I started my studies at Weber State during that time I meet my beautiful and wonderful wife, Megan Richter from Bountiful. We were married in Aug '02. I transferred to the University of Utah and graduated….. We stay busy with our 2 beautiful children Samantha ('03) and Benson ('07). We also stay busy building a business, an Insurance Agency for American Family Insurance in Centerville, UT. "You can visit my website www.travishirschi.com or call 801-292-0950 for a free no obligation quote on your personal or business insurance needs."

We are living the dream and loving it.

PS – That first paragraph was a joke – part of it was a joke, okay I don't write operas…..yet.

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Daniel Henderson
Daniel Henderson here! It's fun to read about everyone here. After graduating, I spent one year in Baton Rouge, Louisiana studying jazz trumpet at LSU before serving a mission to North Carolina. I finished my degree at BYU and married Michelle, who is from Seattle, WA (and is a yummy but dangerous pirate, as shown above).

We moved to Boston, MA, three years ago to do my Master's degree in jazz composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. We love Boston! Here, we had our boy Logan, who is now two. We're living in Boston for a couple more years while I stay at the Conservatory to work on my Doctorate degree in jazz composition, and to do a Teaching Fellowship at Harvard University (teaching jazz history). I'm also having fun playing my trumpet and singing with lots of jazz bands around Boston. We live close to the beach and downtown, so we love exploring the city and learning its history. I hope to be in touch with old friends soon!

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Kristy (Perkins) Jensen
Dee and I met after he returned from serving a mission to London England. Well, it was more like re-meeting. We actually grew up in the same ward. It was only about two weeks after our first date that he asked if he could take me ring shopping. We fell head over heels in love! (I know it sounds cheesy but how else do you describe it?) We were married August 7th, 1999. Dee works full time and goes to school full time too; he will have his MBA at the end of this year. He has sacrificed so much to go back to school-we LOVE him! He works for Intermountain Healthcare in the supply chain contracting and finance department at the corporate office in Salt Lake. So all dressed up he goes in the morning, and from his desk he’s living his dream and working hard on making all our other dreams come true! We have been blessed with two AMAZING children, Taycie-7 and Tanner-2. I am finally so lucky to be home with them 100 % after spending time on-again off-again in the workforce. They never slow down and manage to make very big messes. Taycie asks me questions until my head hurts. Tanner likes to climb on, and then jump off, everything. I never knew kids could cause so much trouble-and bring so much joy and love into your life all at the same time. It’s been absolutely wonderful being a mom and I wouldn’t trade them for anything. And lastly, we have moved from Layton BACK to Kaysville three different times. Always knowing Kaysville was HOME. So now we have really settled and are here to STAY for sure. Taycie is finishing the first grade and we are really excited for summer. Parks, picnics, swimming, and play, play, PLAY! See you all in July!!

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Liz (Mueller) Knighton
After High Schoool I went to the University of Utah as a Modern Dance major, but eventually decided that wasn't the degree I wanted so I transfered up to Weber State. I met my husband Matt in 1999 and we got married in 2000. We lived in Clearfield for a while and while we were there we had two daughters, Shelby who is 7, and Amelia who is 5. In 2003 we moved to Atlanta Georgia where my husband works for Delta Airlines as a VP of IT. In 2004 we had our third Daughter Audry, and in 2007 we had our 4th daughter Sophia. I am lucky enough to get to stay home with my 4 beautiful girls. We keep busy traveling all around. This picture is from our latest trip to St. Thomas.
We are hoping to be able to make it to the reunion this summer, it is so fun to read what everyone has been up to the last 10 years, can't wait to see everyone and catch up!

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Dan Hill
Hey, gang. It’s been cool reading up on everyone. Man, we’re getting old. Well, I have some time to write this paragraph tonight because I’m hiding out in my hotel room on a business trip. There is a drag queen cabaret in the lobby/bar, so I don’t really want to leave my room. If any of you have become drag queens since graduation, I hope I haven’t just offended you. I’m not passing judgment. I’m sure Michelle (the lingerie-wearing man that invited me to the show) is a very nice person. He just makes me feel uncomfortable.

So anyway, on to my life: After Davis I went to BYU for a year, lost my scholarship skiing and sleeping in and not going to class, and then went on an LDS mission to the Connecticut Hartford mission. I came home and went back to BYU. This time I was more disciplined and did ok. In 2004 I married Jamie Jensen, the sister of a mission companion. Our marriage is great. My mom always told me marriage was hard. So far it’s been easy. She’s a great fit for me--really funny, artistic, musical, and a good dancer. She loves me a lot but is embarrassed by my musical and dancing talent. I always knew I was bad at that stuff, but she has me convinced that I’m more likely partially retarded.

Around the time I married Jamie, Tanner Bell and I started Backroad Events (now Ragnar Events) and the Wasatch Back Relay (now Ragnar Relay – Wasatch Back). It’s basically a 180-mile, 12-person, running relay race. It’s more about the party than the running. The race did well and grew. Tanner and I quit our jobs and started a national series called the Ragnar Relay Series. This year we have 7 races, all similar to the original, with races in Arizona, Washington State, Minnesota/Wisconsin, the Washington D.C. area, Texas, and Florida. We have 11 employees.

On October 23rd Jamie and I had our first son, Max Jackson Hill. He’s 7 months old now, and his personality is starting to show through. He’s very smiley and happy. He loves to smile at strangers, and he laughs a lot. I can’t believe how much I love him. People always talk about how much they love their kids. It really is impossible to understand until you have your own.

Well that’s about it. Thanks for updating me on your lives and letting me update you. It’s going to be fun to see everyone in July.

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Jared Crookston
After graduation, the first thing I did was serve a mission in the Dominican Republic. After spending a couple of great years there, I enrolled at Utah State University in the Computer Engineering department. A few months later, while home for the summer break, I met this really cute girl named Aubrey at an institute class. After dating for a little while, we decided to get married, and after what seemed like the longest fall semester ever we were married the day after my last final test in 2001. Our oldest, Noah, was born in 2003, and I finished up with my degree a year later. After that, I got a job in Boulder Colorado, where our little girl, Tess, was born. We only stayed in Colorado for a year, after which we picked up our family and moved to Texas. We moved to a little town named Royse City, which is about 45 minutes east of Dallas, and bought a house. It's only 20 minutes from my work as a software engineer at a local defense contractor, way shorter than the commute into Boulder. A year and a half after settling in, our 3rd, Tate, was born.

Nowadays, we all keep pretty busy. I'm either at work, playing with the kids, or being cubmaster, while Aubrey's usually busy chasing 3 kids and being generally amazing. Noah is almost 5, and will be entering kindergarten this next year, which is absolutely nuts. Tess is 3, and is just the cutest little girl. When she's not pretending to play "Mommy," feeding and dressing and taking care of her dolls, she's chasing her brothers around. Tate is 1 year old, and is just starting to chat and play and run right behind the other two.

It's only been 10 years, but now we've got 3 kids, a minivan, and a mortgage payment, and it's really hard to believe how fast it all happened. We're very happy that we were able to align our annual trip to Utah with the reunion, and we're looking forward to seeing all of you there. If you want to check up on us, we keep our website at jaredandaubrey.net updated frequently.

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Greg Nelson
What a fun group of people! It is great to hear about everyone. A brief
catch-up: After high school I went to BYU for a semester and then served a
mission in Manila, Philippines. After my mission I went back to BYU, where
I was set up on a blind date with my gorgeous wife, Katie. I took the Brett
Garner route and married an Alta Hawk (no worries, she can sing the DHS
fight song from memory now). One of my close friends from BYU ended up
marrying Katie's twin (not identical), and then we set Katie's brother up
with another one of our close friends and they got married (2002 was a big
summer for Katie's parents). Needless to say we all have a ton of fun
together. Katie graduated from BYU in accounting and worked in accounting
and university recruiting for a few years while I got my act together and
graduated from BYU in Biochemistry. After I graduated we moved to Chicago,
where I attended law school at Nortwestern University. 3 weeks before we
moved to Chicago we had our son, Trevor. He will be 4 in July and is the
joy of our lives. We loved the Windy City and put about 70,000 miles on our
car roadtripping around the country during our 3 Chicago years. After law
school we were 99% positive that we would never go back to Utah. Nope,
Flower Mound, Texas (suburb of Dallas) was supposed to be our next home and
we were excited to live by 3 of our close friends from Chicago that were
also moving to Dallas. But at the last minute we decided to take a job
opportunity in Salt Lake City. Now we live in good ole' Kaysville. My wife
is still getting used to the Davis High idea, but I think she will
whole-heartedly convert before to long. Life is great! Looks like we also
need to work on our family pictures. Thanks to Natalie, Kara, Carrie and
whoever else is helping with the website and reunion.

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David Stringfellow
After graduating from Davis High I spent a year at BYU, where I was bedazzled by my now wife. Following 2 years in the Netherlands and Belgium on a mission that never fails to remunerate - I returned and quickly secured my future by marrying Angela Soren in May of 2002. We graduated in December 2002; she in Elementary Education at USU and I in Economics at BYU. A grueling job search during the jobless recovery following the last official recession sent our journey to Washington D.C. in May of 2003. While working on economic statistics at the Census Bureau, I came to appreciate the vast complexity of our world and how to grapple with massive amounts of data. Most importantly, in April 2004, we welcomed our daughter Abigail into our family. Serendipity led us back to Utah in September 2005 where we bought a house in Kaysville and I started working in the Governor's Office. Jonah was born January 2006 and Eli arrived in December 2007. As an Economist in the last few years I've had the pleasure of reviewing tax policy, forecasting revenue for Utah's budget, and building economic models culminating in the reform of Utah's individual income tax system. I'm also finishing a Master of Public Policy from the University of Utah and look forward to the reunion this summer.

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Cindy Thredgold Eggertz
10 years later and I am back in Kaysville, happily married to my dream boy--Cameron Eggertz; and loving the laughter and chaos my 3 kids bring: Josh (5), Daxton (2), and Ella (1) Since High School, I graduated from Weber State University in Elementary Education, taught 5th and 2nd grade at Plain City Elementary, then moved to St. George for 2 years. My family and I just got back from living a year in Belgium while my husband got his masters in International Relations. Now we are back in our home, loving America and loving the sunshine! (Belgium gets rain 300 days a year, however, it felt like a lot more than that.) I read that Rainey served her mission in Belgium-we'll have to talk! Looking forward to the reunion!

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Melissa (Canova) Golden
Hello everyone! I am very excited to see everybody at the reunion seeing as how we haven't lived in Utah since 2002. After high school I went to college at Weber and lived with all my girls from high school off and on. What a fun time! In my junior year I met my husband, Todd Golden, in contract negotiations class. We were married September 12, 2001 (yes, the day after 9/11) and we both graduated in Technical Sales in May of 2002. We moved to N. California right after and lived there for three years where I worked for HP as a Territory Sales Manager until I got pregnant with our first child, Tyler (4), and then my husband took over my job, got promoted and we moved to Tennessee when I was seven months pregnant with our second child, Abigail (2). We have been in Tennessee now for exactly three years and we absolutely love it. I think we are here to stay! Currently, Todd just changed jobs and is now a Pharmaceutical Sales Rep in the Neuroscience division for Eli Lilly and I am the Chief Home Executive J with my two little buddies. We try to come to Utah at least once a year and this time I am glad we got to line it up with the reunion. See ya there!

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Matt & Sarah (Burtenshaw) Redd
Matt and I were married in May 2001 shortly after he returned home from his mission in Oslo, Norway. I had just graduated from BYU in Fitness and Wellness Management (Matt's pretty sure it's a fancy title for P.E. and that I learned how to jump rope). I was then hired by Novartis Pharmaceuticals and worked as a Drug Rep in Northern Utah for 5 years. Matt went to the U and graduated in Finance and was applying for medical school when we had our little boy, Jack. He is quite the character and already has his dad's sense of humor. He will be 3 in July and keeps me busy! We are now living in Glendale, Arizona where Matt is going to medical school at Midwestern University. In February of this year we had our daughter, Ella. She is now 2 months old and is Daddy's girl and Mommy's sweetheart. We are loving Arizona where the kids and I can be found at the pool or the park almost everyday. We miss friends and family but have made the best friends down here and feel truly blessed. We will be in Utah for Matt's first rotation in July so are excited to see everyone at the reunion!! I almost missed Matt's biggest accomplishment in the past 10 years......Wheel of Fortune.....he won a trip to Jamaica, $1000 in Hickory Farms gift certificates (that's a lot of sausage) and about $10,000....random, I know, but are you really THAT surprised?

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Sara Louise (Williams) Vernon
After leaving the illustrious halls of DHS, I moved down to Provo to attend BYU. A proud Cougar, I studied Elementary Education and graduated in 2002. During those four years I met many nice young men, but no one could compare to the handsome and charming Andy Vernon from Sandy (a Brighton High Bengal--yuck!). Recently returned from a mission in the Dominican Republic, he was tall, tan, and drove a Camaro--how could I resist? We dated 10 months and married in the summer 2000. We spent two happy years living in the cinderblock luxury of BYU housing, with a brief summer working out in the Washington DC area where I enjoyed working as a tour guide and learning all about that amazing city and its history. After my graduation, I spent a year commuting from Provo to Tooele (thank goodness gas prices were lower then!), teaching fourth grade while Andy finished up at BYU. We moved to Mesa, Arizona in July of 2003, arriving on a day when the temperature reached 117 degrees; "trial by fire" has a whole new meaning for me now! Andy attended school at the brand new Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health for the next four years, one of the members of the first graduating class in 2007. During this time, I taught second grade at a very low-income school in the heart of town. Most of my students were ELL students, many of whom came into my classroom without knowing a word of English. It was very challenging, but rewarding at the same time. After two years in Mesa, our adorable daughter, Katie, was born. I was excited to be able to stay home full-time with her, although I missed being able to sleep more than three hours at a time. When Andy graduated in May of 2007, we moved back to good old Davis County and bought a house in Bountiful. In July 2007, our son, Micah, was born. Andy is currently working as a dental resident at the University of Utah Hospital and we are exploring our options as to what we will end up doing next. In the meantime, I enjoy reading, watching "The Office," and dreaming of the day our student loans will be paid off.

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Taylor (Neville) Johnson

Here goes my attempt at summing up the past 10 years.
First, I flunked out the physics program at the Univeristy of Utah.
Then, I spent the next year in China hiding from my college failure and having the time of my life.
Next, I graduated from the U of U with a less than marketable degree in English Literature (don't worry, I shrewdly doubled my market value by minoring in Latin).
Oh wait, before that, I married Shawn Johnson (DHS class of 96).
Then, I dragged my poor hubby to Southern Illinois so that I could complete my masters degree in Behavior Analysis and Therapy (working with children with autism, mostly)
And most recently, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and now we are happily living in Seattle, WA.
The End.