Meet Michelle Allen

Michelle grew up in Layton, Utah and is one of 7 children.  One thing that Michelle really loved from her childhood was spending time with her large family, attending BYU football games, and participating in outdoor activities like camping, fishing, hiking, boating, and skiing.  Her family is very close and they frequently get together for family parties, game nights, holidays, and to watch sports.  Basically, they find any excuse to get together.

Michelle lives on Equestrian Parkway with her husband, Dave, and three of their four children.  Their children range in age from 15 to 25 years old.  Michelle is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and owns a private practice located in Station Park. Her goal is to add equine assisted psychotherapy into her practice in the future.  She is not a horse whisperer, if that's what you were thinking.  Equine assisted psychotherapy uses horses as a teaching tool to help clients with mental health and developmental concerns.  When Michelle isn't working, she enjoys spending time with her family, camping, hiking, reading, photography, traveling, and gardening.

One thing that has been so fun for Michellle and her family was to host an exchange student from Germany, Vivi.  Michelle is very excited to get to travel to visit Vivi and her family, in Germany next year.

If you haven't had the chance to meet Michelle yet, stop by the library on Sundays and say, "Hi."   

Nancy Park

 

Nancy grew up in Pleasant Grove Utah in Utah County. She lived in the same home the whole time she was growing up.

She said her upbringing was very simple.  She went to school, worked on her dad's 10 acre hobby farm, and played outside. When her work was done, she would go outside and play until her mother called her in for dinner.

Her parents taught her to value of work. It was very important to her dad. Her dad loved to work and if they went on vacation it was to go fishing. Otherwise, they were busy with the farm. On their farm they had horses, cows, chickens and fruit trees. In the summer she would pick fruit for her family and they would sell it at a fruit stand.

Nancy is the 4 th of 5 children. Her older siblings are much older than her and she is 11 years older than her baby brother. Basically she was raised as an only child. She spent a lot of time with her mom. They took care of all the work for the inside of the house. Her mom also taught her how to sew do crafts and helped her with her schooling.

After graduating from Pleasant Grove high school, Nancy went up to Ricks College for 2 years graduating with a degree in general studies. She then came back to Pleasant Grove and began working at the Bank of Pleasant Grove. At first she just answered the phones, but after a year they promoted her to secretary to the bank president.

Although she liked working at the bank, after 2 ½ years she decided she needed to work somewhere that she could have more of a social life. So she took a job as secretary in the dean's office of the School of  Management at BYU. She liked it and enjoyed being around more people her own age. She also started attending a BYU student ward. 

While attending the student ward she was called to be the appointment secretary for the bishop. However, the current executive secretary to the bishop wasn't really doing his calling so she started doing it too which included attending all the bishopric meetings.

About this time the bishop had a neighbor who was young adult age. He approached Wayne Park about accepting a calling in the singles ward as a ward clerk. It was at Wayne's first bishopric meeting that Wayne and Nancy met. They met in January, were engaged in March and married in June. The bishop joked that it was the first time the ward clerk and executive secretary of a ward ever got married.

Nancy and Wayne lived in the area for another year while Wayne finished his masters degree in Agricultural Economics. They had their first baby, Renae, while at BYU. From there the family moved to Illinois so Wayne could work on his PhD at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. They lived in the middle of Illinois farm country.  After 5 years, Wayne still had not completed his dissertation and they were out of money. Wayne wanted to quit, but Nancy insisted he finish his degree. So they came back to Orem and lived with Wayne's parents while he finished his dissertation long distance.  Their second child, Curtis, was born in Illinois.

 Wayne then accepted a post-doctoral position working for the USDA on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville and lived there for 2 1/2 years.  They became University of Florida Gator fans and still are to this day.  It was here that their daughter, Corinne, was born.  When she was a week old they once again packed up and moved.  This time they drove across the country to Kennewick, Washington.  In fact, Corinne was blessed en route in Orem so they could have family participate in her blessing.

Wayne and Nancy lived in Kenewick for 19 years and this became their home.  They never thought they would come back to Utah but after their youngest graduated from high school there was a desire to move back to be closer to family.  Wayne asked for a transfer to SLC thinking that maybe in a few years it would happen but were surprised to be making  preparations to move within about six months.

While Wayne was down here looking for a house, he found our neighborhood and wanted to move Nancy here because of the fabulous view of the mountains. Their whole married life, except while living in Orem, they hadn't had mountains to look at and they missed them. They also liked Kaysville because it was so close to their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.  They have three children and three granddaughters with the youngest granddaughter born just two weeks ago.

Nancy says her favorite thing about living in our ward is the neighborhood. She says she knows more about her neighbors here than she did with her neighbors in the 19 years in Washington. Nancy is kind and generous. We are lucky to have her.

Angie Lines

 

Angie was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in West Jordan, Utah. When her parents were 6, they divorced and when she was 9, her mother remarried. She grew up in a yours, mine and ours family where she was the oldest of 7 children.

Dance was a big part of Angie’s life growing up. She danced from the time she was three until she was 18. She did just about every kind of dance: ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, tap and even a little ballroom. She says she loved different things about each dance genre so she can't pick a favorite.

Angie attended college at SUU. After her freshman year, her dad got a job in Yuma, Arizona. Angie was the oldest and the only child out of the house, her mother didn't want her to stay in Utah alone. She talked Angie into coming down to Yuma and trying it out down there for one semester. Angie agreed to go, convinced that she would be returning to Utah after the semester was over.

In October 1999 Angie went with a Young Single Adult group to San Diego to attend a Young Adult Conference. One of the activities was a service project picking up trash in Old Town San Diego. While picking up trash she met a very impressive young man named Brian Lines who was also from Yuma. They dated for nine months until Brian left for his mission in Chile.

After Brian went on his mission, Angie decided to attend BYU Hawaii. She enjoyed attending school with students from all over the world, and said it was a great cultural education. Angie did date while Brian was on his mission, but they wrote each other every week for the entire 2 years Brian was gone. She knew after he came home she needed to go back to Arizona and see if things would work out between them. Brian came home June 1^st,  2002 and they were engaged by the end of July. They were married in November in the San Diego temple where they had first met three years prior. As Brian and Angie have had the opportunity to work with the youth, they have told them the story of how they met picking up trash and reminded the youth that great blessings come with service.

During their first year of marriage, they lived in Yuma, Arizona and Angie worked for the Community College GED program. She worked with many different people who for one reason or another dropped out of high school and never got their diploma. She was able to help them prepare to take the GED, work on job skills, and many other things that would help them to become self-reliant. Angie says this job was incredibly rewarding and heart breaking at the same time. She loves how it opened her eyes to others people's struggles and gave her understanding of why people end up in these situations.

After a year of marriage and having their first child Garrett, the Lines moved to Tucson where both Brian and Angie finished their bachelor’s degrees at the University of Arizona. Angie graduated with a degree in journalism and a minor in English. While in Tucson, Angie was a copy editor and a feature writer for a local newspaper.

Three days after their second child, Addison was born the Lines drove across the country for Brian to begin his graduate studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Angie says she loved everything about Ohio. She says she always loved the four seasons and in Ohio, they were amplified. She says she had no idea what fall was until she saw the beauty of it there. She also loved how there were so many places to go visit so close to them and many outdoor activities they could do.

After graduating from OSU, Brian began a fellowship in Dallas Texas, so they picked up moved again just weeks after having their third child, Drew. Even though they were sad to leave Ohio, they were excited for this fellowship, not only was it with a great mentor, but they felt guided towards Texas. Angie had always been up for an adventure, but she was surprised when she never really loved Texas. While living there, Angie was offered an opportunity to do some writing for a hospital CEO. Soon after she started he urged her to start up her own company and the hospital contracted with her to do their writing, public relations and outreach. She also wrote speeches for executives, some of which were presented on the senate floor during the debate over health care reform.

During their fourth year in Texas Brian was offered an associateship with the HCA company. They had three flagship hospitals Brian could pick from, and the Lines chose to come back west. They had been away from family for 8 years and wanted their children to know where they came from. However, Brian’s CEO intervened making it so they couldn't leave Texas. When Angie got the news, she said she laid down on a friend's couch and cried. Brian was working 15 hour days, and the job came with a difficult lifestyle for a family. Yet, Angie felt like they were still supposed to stay in Texas.

She embraced their new situation. They bought a house, had their 4^th child, Cole and Angie scaled back on writing and began teaching dance in her own studio. Within 18 months into the job, Brian was offered a job in Bountiful, Utah with Lakeview hospital. It would take Brian’s career in a different direction than they had been on, but the Lines felt like they needed to choose their family first. They sold their home and moved to Utah. They love this neighborhood and were drawn to it. They even knew their house was the right house to buy as soon as they stepped on the porch. Angie would love to stay in Utah forever. She loves the people, the mountains, and the work family life balance that Brian’s job now has.

Last year Angie came to understand why they were supposed to be in Texas for those 5 years. While living there, they came into contact with an amazing craniofacial surgeon and the hospital Brian worked at was the craniofacial capital of the world. At the time their daughter Addison had a cleft palate that hadn’t been sealed properly. This surgeon was top in the field and he was able to fix Addison’s problems. Interestingly enough, after moving back to Utah the Lines 5^th child Hallie was also born with a cleft pallet. The Lines have flown back to Dallas for Hallie’s surgeries and each surgery has been a tremendous success. Angie not only values the close relationship they share with their surgeon, but through this experience she came to understand how much Heavenly Father loves his children. Even though her daughters were sent to earth with some challenges, Brian and Angie know they were guided to the hospital and the doctor that would ensure their daughters would live a normal life.

We are so grateful to have Angie in our relief society. What a wealth of experience and wisdom she brings with her!

Amber Hill

 

Amber was raised in West Bountiful Utah. Her parents moved there when she was 4 years old and they still live there until this day. She was the 3rd child of 8 children. Being one of the oldest brought many responsibilities. She said while growing up her hobby, out of necessity, was babysitting and helping her mom. 

 

Growing up Amber lived in a house with 4 bedrooms one bathroom that all the kids shared, there was plenty of work that needed to be done. From the time Amber was 12 she worked to earn money. With so many little children at home if Amber wanted something she had to have the money to pay for it. She bought all her own school clothes and any kind of entertainment she wanted to have. She said growing up in these circumstances was great preparation for motherhood. She already knew how to care for small children.
 

When Amber was 16 years old she began working in a dental office and started learning how to be a dental assistant. After High School she began working full time. She really liked it and loves the people she worked with. She worked there until her first child was born. With so many siblings at home she didn't think there was any way she could attend college. Now she looks back and sees that if she just would've known about how grants, loans and scholarships worked that she possibly could have gone to school. Her dream now is when her children are older, to go back to school and become a labor and delivery nurse. 
 

In 2003 Amber graduated from Viewmont high school. In 2005 she attended a CES fireside given by Dallin H. Oaks. During the fireside, Dallin H. Oaks talked about dating and how dating has become so extravagant. He mentioned how in his day he would just go up and ask someone if they wanted to go on a walk and then you'd walk  and talk and that would be the date. 
 

After the fireside was over, Matt, Amber's husband, who had seen her come in, approached her and asked her if she wanted to go on a walk sometime. She didn't put the instruction from Elder Oaks together with what Matt was asking so she thought he was really weird to just ask her to go on a walk. After talking for a while she gave Matt her number, but it took them going out a couple of times before she decided he wasn't really that weird. 
 

Amber and Matt dated after that for about a year. When Amber was 21 she married Matt in Salt Lake Temple. The Salt Lake temple had great meaning to Amber. When she was 5 years old, her family was sealed together in that temple. Then again when she was 16 they went back to that temple for her parents to seal their final child to them whom they adopted. All the kids were able to attend the sealing. 

  

After getting married in 2006 they called Matt and Amber to be in the nursery and she has spent almost all her adult life being in Primary and mostly working with the Sunbeams and in the nursery. Currently she is serving with the Primary secretary assisting her. She says she loves her calling and loves how with Primary you get to know so many people. The parents, the other teachers, kids and the primary presidency.  Primary is great way to get to know each other. 

Also, after getting married, Matt and Amber lived in a basement apartment for a few months while they built a house in the Foxboro development in North Salt Lake. They lived there for 7 years and had 3 kids, Korver (6), Livie(4) and Hadlie(2). While Amber was pregnant with her 4^th child, Boston(9 months) they moved into our neighborhood.
 

Amber says she loves living in our neighborhood. She's happy to be in the ward and loves that the neighbors here are so friendly and make it so easy to talk them. She also loves that there are so many children for her kids to play with. What a great addition to our ward Amber makes. 

Food Storage Notes

Here is the link to the "food storage calculator" http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/babysteps/step-4-long-term-food-storage-planning/

Here are the links to my notes that I had at the food storage class: Food Storage Outline

Food Storage Recipes

Food Storage worksheet

If you have any questions please feel free to call, text or email me!  (Tarrah 801-540-9409, Tarrah@digis.net)

Here is a link to the dessert recipe that Julie Hendrickson brought to this activity.

Becky Moody

 

Becky was born in Murray, Utah and raised in Layton. She attended Lincoln Elementary, North Layton Jr. High and Northridge High School. She grew up in a family with 7 kids: 1 older sister and 5 younger brothers.  In her opinion this worked well because the boys couldn't really pick on or tease her and her sister, even though they tried. She says her parents were stalwart examples of service and even now, her dad spends almost every weekend helping someone work on something. She gave them the very high compliment by saying they are very unselfish people.

 

In high school Becky had a lot of energy, which kept her very busy and involved. For her sophomore and junior years she was the class president. During her senior year she was asked to be the seminary president, which would prevent her from serving in student government at the school level. So instead, she served as a state officer in the Utah Association of Student Councils. In this role Becky provided state-wide student officer training, and represented Utah at the National Association of Student Councils.

She also performed in school musicals. For her junior year she was a chorus member in the musical Oklahoma. She says she was so energetic the director kept telling her to hold back a little. He told her she was like beer that would explode over the top with all her enthusiasm. She believes all that energy has served her well as a mother, although now she wishes she has as much energy as her kids.

After high school Becky went to BYU-Provo with a major in nursing. Half way through she took a break to go on a mission. In the spring of 2001 she was called to the Washington DC North mission. Her mother was so relieved because she felt like Becky would be safer serving in the United States.

Becky arrived in Washington DC in July 2001. On September 11, 2001 she, her companion, and a group of missionaries had received special permission from their mission president to spend the day at the Smithsonian Institute museums near the Nation's capital just off of the Mall. While traveling on the Metro someone had mentioned that they thought an airplane had flown into the Pentagon on the south side of the Potomac.

When their group emerged out of the Metro, they were so excited to be there, having a day off for fun. Sirens were blaring and Becky's companion turned to her and said, "Welcome to the City!" The group, with jubilant smiles, asked a man dressed in business attire to take their picture. The man agreed and then after taking the photo very somberly asked if they realized what was going on. He explained that an airplane had crashed into the Pentagon and our country had just been part of the worst terrorist attack since Pearl Harbor. Soon after a police car drove down the middle of the Mall (the grass strip surrounded by national monuments) with a bullhorn telling everyone to leave because there was another plane inbound. The Metro was flooded with people trying to get out of the city, but because they were heading north and didn't need to cross the Potomac, they were able to get back home.

Shortly after 9-11, people in the DC area were again terrorized by the DC sniper. The very first victim was a member of the church,and 2 sister missionaries nearby had rushed to her aid. Despite all the tragedy Becky experienced on her mission, she also had many wonderful experiences and loved it! She loved meeting and working with the large diversity of people, and said she gained a great understanding that there is truth in all religions and all religions strive to do good.

After her mission she went back to BYU to complete her degree in nursing. While there she met her husband Dan. They were in the same ward and apartment complex. He first noticed her at church one day and figured she was just a visitor since he hadn’t seen her before. He was surprised and excited to see her again later that night when she and her roommate took some goodies over to his roommate as a thank you for some help he had given. The girls met all the guys living in the apartment and she remembers thinking they were all stellar guys. They all seemed to have their head on their shoulders with a sense of direction.

On Tuesday Dan called to ask her out for the weekend and she mentioned she needed to go back to campus that night. He said he would drive her so she would be safe. When she went to get out of the car she had an impression to give him a good night kiss. She didn't but she noticed how familiar it felt to be with him. Two and a half months later they were in engaged and 2 ½ months after that, they were married.

After Becky graduated with her nursing degree and Dan finished his MBA they moved to Riverton and Dan successfully completed his CPA tests. One day, Dan was contacted by a recruiter to see if he would be interested in working for Disney in California. They thought it sounded like a great adventure, so they moved to Burbank and then later Pasadena. She said living there was so much fun. They loved frequenting Disneyland. Becky also says one of the most fun things about living there was the Rose Parade. They lived just at the end of the Rose Parade route and it was so much fun seeing the million dollar floats while they were parked by their house. They were so elaborate.

 

After about five years in Southern California, Dan and Becky were missing family and learned Becky’s dad had cancer. They made the decision to move back to Utah, and stayed with Becky’s parents in Layton until their house was completed in May 2014. Becky's dad is now cancer free, but earlier this year Dan unexpectedly lost his dad in a plane accident. Becky and Dan were very grateful to be back in Utah and spend more time with his dad before he passed away.

Becky says their family is grateful to be back in Utah, and to have recently added a child to their family. One of her favorite things is living in our ward. She loves how the people in this neighborhood all seem to go out of their way to include others, regardless of whether or not they are LDS. She also loves the semi-rural feel of the neighborhood. We are so happy to have Becky and the wonderful contribution of friendship she gives to all of us!

Krista Funk

Krista Funk grew up in Layton, Utah. She is the youngest of five children.  She has one brother and three sisters. Out of Krista’s fondest memories growing up some, of her favorites were traveling with her family.   Krista’s family traveled a lot.  In the summers months they would always travel to Georgia where her dad would teach.  They would always take the long way hitting different states until they would get to Georgia.   One time they went through Iowa and camped the whole way. One night it was so hot that Krista decide to sleep outside of the tent and sleep under the stars.  When she awoke she thought she had chicken pox all over again.  It turned out she was covered in chigger bites.  Krista and her family with all their road trips have been to 48 states.

Growing up Krista played all kinds of sports.  She played basketball, soccer, and some club volleyball.  Krista continued to play soccer in college as well.  While going to college at Dixie State her soccer team won the national championship.  Krista than went on to college at Weber where she received her bachelor’s degree in Science Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography. 

                Krista’s first job was at UCLA Medical Center on their Cardiac Heart Transplant team.  While living in California she meet her sweetheart, Derek, in the singles ward.  Derek was there going to dentistry school.   Krista knew she had a good guy after a trip when they drove six hours up to San Francisco.   Krista was running in a race up in San Francisco.  The race was to escape from Alcatraz and race through San Francisco.   While Krista was starting the race, the car was broken into and all their things including their wallets and money were stolen.    While Krista was racing Derek spent the whole day trying to find a way to get money and back home.  He eventually was able to contact his mom and get money wired to a bank.  He also found cardboard to tape up the broken window on the car.   He managed to do all this and still make it to all of the check points to cheer Krista on.  Krista didn’t even know all of this happened until after the race was over.  Krista and Derek got married in the Salt Lake Temple and then went back to California for Derek’s last year of Dentistry school. After completing Dentistry school they moved back to Utah where Derek went to work at his dad’s practice.

                Krista is always busy with her cute kids and their dog, Bailey. She has three beautiful children, Max and her cute twins, Elizabeth and Harrison. Krista wants to get back to running in races.  She also works one day a week at LDS Hospital doing cardiac ultra sounds. 

Krista loves living here and being in this ward.  When you get the time make sure to say hi to Krista.  She is a fun, bubbly, and awesome woman!!!