Steve Weber Puts Us To Sleep (literally)

Wow, its incredible that 10 years have past since we graduated!! I’ve enjoyed reading the many updates and finding out what everyone has been doing. Here’s a quick update on me.


After graduation, I attended Brigham Young University for a semester and then served a 2 year church mission to Munich, Germany. Jemand Sprecht Deutsch? If you’re planning on taking a trip to Europe, don’t exclude Germany or Switzerland as they are 2 of the most beautiful countries/places I have ever been. A sister missionary set me up with her sister, Katie, when I returned to the States and Katie and I got married 8 months later. I attended BYU and graduated with a BS in Microbiology. We had our first child, Shaun, in the middle of my sophomore year. During college, as well, I worked as a medical coordinator taking mentally handicapped individuals to doctor appointments and as a microbiologist for a local health food company.
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We moved from Provo, Utah down to Arizona for 4 fun years of medical school. It was a lot of fun dissecting the cadavers and cramming my brain with lots of good knowledge. We had our second child, Rachel, during my first year. I took step 1 and step 2 boards and am so happy that they are over. Katie gave birth to our third child (Nathan) this past August during my 4th year. I am excited to finally graduate from medical school this June!!
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My family and I are currently in the process of moving from Arizona to Toledo, Ohio in early June. I am doing my internship there for 1 year and then we’ll move to Ann Arbor (University of Michigan) for my residency in Anesthesiology. Yep, I am going to be the physician that puts you to sleep before surgery, a gas passer one could say. Only 4 more years of training and then I can get a real job. At least I’ll be paid during residency. I can’t wait to start paying off my $250,000 in loans! I am jealous of you all that have real jobs and homes. We have one more year of apartment living and then hopefully we’ll buy a house in Ann Arbor.

Well life is good. My wife and I celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary this August and our kids, Shaun (5), Rachel (3) and Nathan (9 months), are getting so big. I hope everyone is happy and healthy!
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Steve Weber

P.S. I’ll try and get Steph to send an update. Basically she has been married ~8 years, lives in Rochester, Minnesota where her husband is a resident in interventional radiology at the Mayo Clinic. She has a boy and a girl and they recently just bought their first home.

Nick Hilton Life Recap

Any way, here is a little about me and my life since 1997. Wow, just writing that makes me seem old…oh well. After high school, just like any other good Mormon boy, I served a mission in the Dominican Republic and had the time of my life. I learned Spanish, how to be on my own and how to loose weight very rapidly. After 2 years I returned home at 6’4” 160 lbs. If you thought I was skinny before you should have seen me then.

Over the next year I gained my weight back, worked and had some good times with Abe Swensen and Ryan Majors while attending BSU. At BSU I met a girl, no not the girl of my dreams, but she knew the girl of my dreams, Jamie Lamb. For a year we dated and were engaged and then on November 17, 2000 we were married. Life was good; I kept on with BSU and worked through several odd jobs while we had our first boy, Graeson, in 2002. After 4 years at BSU without a degree I decided to call it quits and do my own thing. I dove into the construction business, began to build homes and run a finish carpentry crew. My wife and I had our second boy, Maguire, in 2004 and found our lives full of just about everything. So full in fact that we decided to modify my career, I became a real estate appraiser. We kept the home building business going but dropped the finish carpentry and picked up the Appraisals. Along with that came some real estate investing and guess what, yup, another child. On April 29, 2007 my wife gave birth to our new daughter, Andelin.

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We are happy, healthy and currently found living in downtown Boise. Jamie, my wife, is from Utah and will not leave Boise so, I’m afraid we are here to stay. It is a good thing, however, because there are not too many native Idahoans anymore. Also, Idaho is a great place to do all that we love; fish, ski, camp, hike and just kick back. With all that who would want to live in New York City, they make that crappy salsa! (Jeff says - Nick, I concur...NYC has crappy mexican food, though it is improving rapidly as more Mexicans move here).

Well, it’s not much, but it’s my life and everything in between has made the difference. My family and I look forward to seeing everyone.
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My Turn To Report

I think it is only fair that I, Jeff Mulcock, do a post about myself considering I keep asking for you to update me on the last 10 years of your life.

I kind of split my life after Centennial up into two very distinct groups: University life and New York life. It is amazing how different those two stages in my life have really been. Environment, friends, daily life all very different...but hopefully people would say I have remained relatively the same person since high school.

So after high school I went to college. I got accepted into USC in Los Angeles as well as BYU in Provo, Utah. Originally, I really, really wanted to go to USC to study film. But then I looked at the cost of tuition ($30K+ a year) and opted to to head to BYU ($3K a year) - plus my boys Mikey Smith and Scott Henneman would be there. My BYU experience in a way was an extension of high school in that I hung out with a lot of my Boise friends. I lived with Scott, Mikey, Eric Atwood, John Root, and Kelly Frew...and we kept the Centennial spirit alive with buttrock BBQ's and Boise reminiscing. I really enjoyed those four years at BYU because it always felt like I was with family having people I grew up with around all the time. I got a degree in advertising and also studied film theory.

Since I was little I've always known I wanted to live in New York. I am drawn to big cities and the constant visual stimulation and opportunity they provide. Three days after graduation I packed up everything I had and moved out here, without a job or ever having stepped foot in NYC. I love it here and if I can afford it, would love to live here forever. I work in advertising and take part in a million things each week, from concerts to art to museums to parties to travel to movie making, etc. etc. etc. I am very involved in making horror movies out here (my favorite genre) as a hobby. You can check out a preview of my last film here - though the sound is a little off. Here is a collection of some of my favorite photos of me in New York.
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I do advertising for Subway Restaurants - and sometimes I just gots to support my brands. I have also worked on BMW and Dannon Yogurt.

Kelly Frew, Ryan Fisher, and Rob Chatterton partied with me one year for New Years in Times Square.

Ben Wilson and wife also came recently to enjoy some art and the craziest clown show ever.

I am a member of the New York Lawn Bowling Club in Central Park. We participate in lawn bowling on Saturday afternoons and early mornings to ease the stress of New York madness.

This is a picture of my movie premier in Washington DC. One of my horror movies got played in a movie theater down there. One of my best friends lives there and she was in the film along with her cousin and uncle (pictured).

It all comes down to this: I'm 28 and single and have loved every minute of it with no regrets whatsoever. I started seeing someone last year and have fallen madly in love. Her name is Caitlin and strangely, she is from Idaho. I met her in North Carolina at a party on the beach and we have been together ever since. Last Friday I asked her to marry me - the answer was Yes. So we will be getting married on August 4th in New York City, which is where we met and call home. I guess this will be a third section of my life starting, fittingly, along with our 10 year reunion. We'll be in Boise for an Idaho reception just in time for the reunion and hope to see you all there!
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Sara Morgan Finds Her Way To New York

Through this reunion, I have found out I have a neighbor here in New York City - Sara Morgan. She sent me an update below:

You could say that I am taking the long road...After high school I went to work as a bank teller for First Security Bank. Anyone who knows me would be laughing here because I don't even balance my own check book. Surprisingly I worked there for a little over a year. It helped me to fund a trip to England and Wales with the BIU Institute choir. I attended College of Southern Idaho majoring in Commercial Art. I got through one semester when I decided to serve an LDS mission. I served in the California San Diego mission. It was a little different because each day would be spent at the Mormon Battalion Visitors Center or Temple grounds and then proselyting the rest of the day. Oh, the stories I could tell...But I will spare you all the details. I'll just say that the decision to go was one of the best things I could ever do and I have no regrets.

After that I went to Salt Lake City and got my Associates of Applied Science Degree in Interior Design at LDS Business College. I moved back to Boise where I worked as a Design Consultant at Norwalk, the custom furniture store, and started my own side design consultant business as well. Then, one day a customer came in who was building a beautiful cabin/mansion in McCall. She soon became a friend and mentor of sorts and encouraged me to go back to school. Long story short, I found Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. My mentor flew me out to see the school (and a couple others). I was quickly accepted (to my surprise) and arrived here just last August.

So, here I am in Brooklyn. I just caught my first Mets game the other night and had a blast. There is still so much to be explored here, I just love it. I recently started an internship with Steinway & Son's (yep, the piano company) in the city. I will be working full time this summer and it is not likely that I will be able to make it to the reunion :( But if anyone is going to be in the New York area it would be great to meet up!

Karalenn Smart (Hippen) Update of Magic

I wanted to send our new family picture with an update for you. I've been pretty busy, sorry it's taken a bit to get this to you.

Currently we are living in Los Angeles, CA and have been living here for the last 3+ years. We wont be here for long though. Two weeks ago, just before we were about to make our decision to move to London or another part of California, a company in Salt Lake City, Utah (Avalanche- owned by Disney) contacted Seth about working for them animating for Disney video games. They called three separate times sweetening the deal until finally we couldn't refuse. So now we find ourselves moving from LA to Utah and Seth switching from feature animation to video game animation (at least for a few years, until that job offer from Pixar comes). :) We will be moving end of May beginning of June-ish to start Seth's job, find a home to buy, and settle in the mountains again. We're going to miss going to the beach all the time and Disneyland so often with our annual passes. We're so excited though to move by much of our family or within driving distance and buy a home though (a near impossibility for us here in LA).

As far as what has happened since high school, after graduation I went to Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho and earned my Associates in Elementary Education. I also met my husband Seth there and we had great fun and dated for a year and a half and got engaged and married in the LDS Mount Timpanogos Temple a few months later. We moved to Provo, Utah and continued our schooling and working. We had our first little girl (Makenzie) in 2000 and I continued with school for a while more. In the middle of our BYU experience we lived in Glendale, California for a summer because Seth had an internship doing character layout for the TV show, The Simpsons. That was a blast and very hard at the same time with a new baby (Makenzie was just a few weeks old when we moved out there for the summer).

In 2002 we moved to West Jordan, Utah where Seth animated on children's educational software and I was a stay-at-home mom and took correspondence classes. We had our second daughter (Kendyl) in 2003 and a few months later at the beginning of 2004 we moved to Los Angeles, California so Seth could animate for Sony Imageworks on the movie The Polar Express and since has animated on Monster House, Surf's Up (coming out this summer), and Beowulf (released next year).

Our oldest is now 6- almost 7 and in the first grade and our youngest (now 3) is in a preschool that I teach a few times a month. I've been teaching art at my oldest daughter's school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Although I've been teaching art to youngsters for a couple of years, I haven't painted or sketched for myself for a few years for some reason until the last few months. I've really been enjoying gaining that back again. I've also begun dancing again, which I haven't done in years, but grew up doing and am having a great time with that as well. It's fun to take dance classes a few times a week. I guess I do a lot of sewing too. I like to make insane costumes for the heck of it. (I know, weird)

The hobby that I spend most of my time with is my guitar and singing. I volunteer teaching music and play my guitar on Mondays for a few of the classes at Makenzie's school. (My favorite thing is to hear a bunch of kindergartners and first graders singing/shouting silly songs that I've made up or They Might Be Giants, Björk, and Beatles songs. We had a big performance tonight at the school for a couple hundred parents. It rocked! I was proud of my stinkers. I need to bring in the camcorder and record them singing Monday mornings to post to my blog. It's the cutest thing. I really am not that good at performing compared to a lot of music people I know out here, and haven't ever had lessons, but I have so much fun doing it (for kids at least).

Something pretty cool that has been happening is that I've recorded some of my songs in my friend's studio recently. That's been a kick and it's going to sound really great when all the stuff is added to it over the next few weeks (drums, harmonies, that kind of stuff) by her sound/editing guy (I'm not sure what his official title is). My husband has written some amazing songs and lyrics and will be recording them in her studio too before we move. We love jamming together. I'm not going to release it or anything like how my friend makes her living. I'm just excited to have a CD to send to all my nieces and nephews at Christmas this year.

So that's my life in a nutshell from the last 10 years and what is most current. Crazy and fun where life takes you eh? See you at the reunion now that we know we wont be in London. :)

Location Set - Get JAZZED

Back in 1996 when you were all faced with a very tough decision of voting for Senior Class President, you chose Mikey Smith. Maybe it was his charisma, maybe it was his leadership style, or maybe it was because he ate 10 dandelions in his speech that Lisa Ward threw at him. But either way, Mikey Smith became our leader. With that leadership came the responsibility to plan the 10 year reunion (along with fellow officers like myself).

With Mikey comes awesomeness...and a desire to try something a little different. I tell you this now as I am about to reveal the location of the Saturday night portion of the reunion. We will be holding it at The Big Easy Concert House in downtown Boise by 8th Street. This venue is usually a dance location or concert house for some pretty good acts (for example, Modest Mouse is playing there tonight if you feel like going). They have an awesome stage we can use with killer audio/visual capabilities, room for dancing, and delicious catering we can take advantage of. We're pretty excited...and it won't be your basic hotel ballroom thing. We envision lots of great things - including the Senior Video playing on some flat panels and a fun but not too long program.

Any ideas you have will be considered and appreciated...hope you are as excited as we are about the venue! Don't let the trance dance pictures on the website fool you - check out the virtual tour to see how great the space will be.

A Fateful Meeting For Dave Boyle

Although many have tied the knot, there are still a few of us still living the single life as well as a few who are well on their way...

Dave Boyle is one as he recently got engaged to his fiancee Stormy. Dave sent this picture and a brief description about how he and Storm met:

I met Stormy one month before graduating from Utah State. Hence the photo's USU baseball cap that I'm donning atop my head. She and I met in my last church Institute class as a USU student, sitting right next to each other, as a matter of fact. However, interestingly, we didn't even share a hymn book at the time, although we share a book all the time now!

Actually, other than a few sidelong glances at each other throughout the entirety of that fateful Institute class evening, not a word was spoken between us until right after class in the local Walmart parking lot. We both decided to do our shopping right after class that night at Walmart, which explained how we recognized each other from class right before as we walked in the parking lot to do our shopping. We both did a double take as we initially noticed how familiar we each looked to one another as we were almost literally walking side-by-side into Walmart from where our cars were parked not more than 10 yards away from the store.

So, naturally, we both said, "Hi." Then, "Interesting class, huh?" ... "Yeah!" (I forget who said "Hi" first, but that was truly, almost word-for-word, how we greeted each other). As we continued to walk together into the store's front door, we amused ourselves with small talk about the weather, our funny and energetic Institute teacher, and so forth, until finally, I decided to just ask her out. I was nervous about being too direct in asking her out, so instead, I said, "Hey, Stormy, do you want to join some friends and I in watching Will Ferrell's 'Elf' movie tonight?" She thought about it a moment and replied, "You bet. That sounds fun. I just need to get something for my mom here, and I can meet you all at your movie party place as soon as possible."

"Yee-haw!" I thought, as I proceeded to write down her phone number as she started spouting off her cell phone digits to me, apparently as excited as I was to watch this funny Christmas movie with funnyman Will Ferrell starring in the lead role this time. Then, I remember how adorable Stormy was as she appeared as nervous as I must have seemed when she asked, "By the way, Dave, is it okay if I'm still dressed in my work clothes?" Stormy is a medical assistant for a local family doctor practice in Logan's Cache Valley, and she was still sporting her comfortable-looking medical scrubs from having worked right up until class before.

I was about to say, "Sure," but she decided she wanted to change into something other than work clothes anyway, even though she was still so clean and neat appearing, somehow. So, without further adieu between us, and before I could utter another word, she nearly read my mind with the perfect backup plan instead, when she went ahead and said, "How about I go ahead and call you when I'm changed and ready to go to the movie at your friends' place?" So, here Stormy was, getting my digits for that evening, too, reinforcing even further my belief that she was just as excited, if not more, about the "Elf" movie than I was. :-) Moving on to such movie, it was so much fun that I decided to ask her out again ... and again ... and again.

And so, the rest is history, and in a nutshell, that cold Logan evening was essentially our first date; hanging out with elves, reindeer and everything else magical during the bright lights and sweet sounds of joy-filled Christmas-time! And, planned as such or not, it was just as magical to ask Stormy to marry me under by my brother Brad's brightly-lit Christmas tree in Bountiful, Utah, two holiday seasons after that very first holiday season when we met each other and simultaneously found in each other our future best friends ever!

Congrats to David who I believe is getting married in May...so we can all probably meet Stormy in August!