EHS Class of 2002 Picnic

There have been many people suggesting this for a while, so we are putting together a picnic for all those who graduated in 2002, their spouses, and children. Please spread the word! I'm trying to get in touch with everyone I can, but even going through people on facebook, I'm afraid I'll miss people.

Date: Saturday August 14.
The time and place are tentative.
If you have park suggestions in the Salt Lake Area, please let know.
(Please also let me know if Emery County would be a better place).

Plates, cups, napkins, cutlery, condiments, and grill will be provided.
(If you have a portable grill you could bring though, PLEASE let me know!)
Please bring your own meat (and buns if needed), and if your last name begins with
A-H bring drinks
I-P bring a side dish
Q-Z bring a dessert

Please RSVP by Saturday August 7 to Misty Heaton via facebook, email, text, or call.
mistyheaton@gmail.com or 435-749-2071

In Loving Memory

Coach Darrell Gardner will always be remembered as a great teacher of both history and social dance, track coach, and as a a great friend and inspiration to all. He was always found smiling, running, and showing his love for life. He will be greatly missed at Emery High.

Coach was a dedicated husband and father and our thoughts are with his family at this time. If any of our readers are a member of facebook please join the group In Loving Memory of Coach Gardner to share your thoughts and comments (or through the blog comments on this blog).
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**Funeral service will be at the Huntington Stake Center on Thursday at 11:00. There will be a viewing Wednesday 6:00-9:00 at the Heritage Funeral home. (Heritage is the new one by BK's in Huntington.)**

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Following the funeral services on Thursday, an informal gathering will beheld at Emery High School in the cafeteria where students, friends andcolleagues are invited to meet and reminisce. Grief counseling is alsoavailable at the high school throughout the week.
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**Please also attend Last Run for Coach Gardner Thursday, June 10 from 6pm to 8pm. It will be held at EHS's track. A donation box will be available as well if you would like to make a donation to his family**

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Volunteers are being organized to help the Gardner family complete some yardwork at the family home. The work will get underway on Saturday at 7 a.m.Those volunteering are asked to bring yard tools, tillers, flowers to plant,etc.
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**An account has also been set up at Zions bank for the Gardner Family**

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Also a few have asked if there is some way to make a memorial by the track for Coach. If anyone is interested send an email to emeryhigh2002@gmail.com and we will pass along the information.

Kaylee We Are Thinking About You!

Kaylee, best of luck tomorrow in your surgery. We are thinking about you and will be praying for you. We hope you will have a successful surgery and a quick recovery!

For those of you on facebook, please join the Pray for Kaylee group or comment through the blog to send well wishes Kaylee's way.

Everyone is praying and hoping for the best for you and your sweet family! Good Luck tomorrow! Your family and friends are thinking about you!

Chris and Ashley (Larsen) Bernard

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO
SINCE HIGH SCHOOL

A lot has happened in our lives since we graduated good old Emery High...Chris joined the Army Reserves during our senior year and as soon as we graduated, he was off to Basic Training for the summer. Meanwhile, Ashlie went to CEU cosmetology, and we were married a little while later.

A lot has happened in our lives since we graduated good old Emery High...Chris joined the Army Reserves during our senior year and as soon as we graduated, he was off to Basic Training for the summer. Meanwhile, Ashlie went to CEU cosmetology, and we were married a little while later. Chris's unit was deployed, but luckily only made it as far as Colorado Springs, CO so we moved out there for about seven months, and found out we were expecting our first baby. We then moved back to good old Emery County, Castle Dale to be exact to begin our little family.

Chris started a new at Joy Mining in Wellington, as a welder, and thanks to his insane work ethic, he moved up quite quickly. He is now their CMM operator and he is only 25! We had our second child in the summer of 2006, so now we have 2 beautiful daughters. Chris is now a Drill Sergent based out of Fort Douglas, and is now in the process of moving to the Special Forces. Ashlie is a stay at home mom, and loving every minute...all though she is about to pop because we are expecting our third baby in January. We still happily live in Castle Dale and we plan on being here for a very long time...

Time for an update?

Another year has gone by, some of us have moved far away and some of us closer to our former home. Hopefully everyone, no matter where they are enjoy a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. Which will bring us to that time of year to make new resolutions. Feel free to make a resolution to write-up a profile for the blog :) or allow the blog to have access to your personal blog by emailing a link of said blog to emeryhigh2002@gmail.com. Even if you have a private blog we can mark it private and if anyone would like access they can email at the previously mentioned email address and that request will be forwarded to the blog owner.

Thanks again and have a happy, safe holiday season.

Terrence and Laura (Pabst) Mills

WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO SINCE HIGH SCHOOL

After two years of having a long distance relationship, Terrence and I were married on June 6, 2003 in the Manti temple. We spent our honeymoon moving Terrence to Denver where he started working for Savage Services in Boulder and I worked as a department manager at Michaels craft store. We both worked full time and I went to school, graduating from my program in May. We welcomed our first little girl Kylie into our family on September 2004 (about 2 1/2 years earlier than the original plan). In April of 2006, Terrence was given the opportunity to transfer job locations to New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to the deep south to work at the Valero oil refinery as a Lead Safety Specialist and Kylie and I joined him 5 weeks later. We LOVED the experience of living there. Our little Kylie even started to develop a southern accent. We made a lot of great friends, got to experience Mardi Gras and learned how to cook like the locals. Our sweet little Madison was born in Baton Rouge in January of 2007, but she didn't get to experience the south for long. Terrence finally decided what he wanted to be when he grew up, and there was no way on earth I would send my girls to school in the Louisiana school systems, so...we made the most bold and daring choice of our lives. In August of 2007 Terrence ended his employment with Savage and we spent the next two months apart while Terrence moved to Utah to look for jobs and enroll in school. He is now working full-time for Schreiber foods in Logan, Utah while going to school (yes, also full-time) at USU majoring in mechanical/aerospace engineering. Right now, I get to stay home and focus all of my time on being a mom to two pretty amazing girls. When the time is right, I will get to go back to school and further my career. Terrence and I are still each others best friends. We have an amazing relationship and spend any free time we have outdoors. Life is pretty chaotic most of the time, but we definately have fun in the midst of it all!

Max Thatcher

What I've been Up to Since High School

Well, as most of you know, I left High School my senior year and went out on my own and moved to Montana. Anaconda, MT to be exact. I enrolled at the Job Corps up there because I knew that I wasn't doing so well in regular high school and needed a little bit of a change. I spent about a year and a half up there and if anyone knows anything about Job Corps, you go there to get your GED and also a trade. I majored in Business, and Heavy Equipment/Semi Truck Maintenance. (Yes, the Max Thatcher that roamed the halls of high school in a suit and tie, majored in that. Don't worry, I found it strange as well.) My intuitions were right about doing better up there than in high school. I graduated with a 3.8 GPA.

After graduating Job Corps, I moved back down to the EC and ultimately, moved down to Farmington, New Mexico with Jeffery Behling to pursue my Mortuary career. After doing what I loved for 2 1/2 years, I moved once again back to the EC and thought I could easily find a job up there. Wrongo Bongo. I then one more time moved up to the Salt Lake City area, (as so many of us do) and worked in a Hotel for a while as the Night Auditor, while going to school during the day to get my Commerical Driver's License, strictly as a fall back career, never thinking I would use it.

While working at the hotel, I found "The love of my life" and after about a year of her pushing to get married, Max decided that being married is NOT for him let alone being in a relationship. We then went our seperate ways.

The Hotel got slow, so low and behold, I had to use that little plastic thing in my wallet to feed my belly. After overcoming a brief illness, I have finally settled back down and got back into my groove in this semi truck. I currently work for James H. Clark and Son Trucking out of Murray, UT, and I dont think I have ever been treated so well by an employer in my whole life. We run Refrigerated freight, mainly the 11 westen states, and occasionaly we run out to Georgia and Tennessee and then straight back. While typing this I am currently sitting in Ontario, CA waiting to get unloaded in the morning.


Just a few words before I close: Trucking is not what anyone, including myself, thought that I would be doing with my life, however, the wonderful thing about this beautiful, wide open, limit-less country is, we are free to choose, and make our decisions about how we shape our future. My advice to everyone is, never, never, never give up on your dreams, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. If you have children, or are planning on having children, teach them well, and let them know how wonderful and special they are each and everyday. Let them know that in order to succeed in this life, they must be the best they can be, and to please, please stay in school. It will make their quest in life so much easier.You can take a look at my blog at http://www.truckmax.blogspot.com/ and if anyone would like to get in touch with me, my contact information is on the blog, as well as on Facebook.
Thanks again.

--Max