Matt Hughes

I'll just give a quick run down of what I've been up to since 99'. After Jerusalem I went to Utah State and spent about 5 1/2 years there. I graduated a few years ago with a degree in history, and after graduating I moved back to Salt Lake to look for a job. I got a job working for the Church and a couple months after that I met my beautiful wife-to-be while interviewing her for a position. Fortunately for me she was offered the job and a couple months later we began dating. I married Ellie Wolf on May 10, 2006 in the Salt Lake Temple. Six months ago we had our first child, a sweet little girl named Claire. At the moment I'm still working for the Church and enjoying being a father. Being a father is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life and we're looking forward to having more children some day. I'm also looking forward to reconnecting with those of you I have lost contact with. I regret not keeping in touch with very many people from Jerusalem. I'd love to hear from any of you. My email is mibshughes.dontaddthispart@gmail.dontaddthispart.com (to email me remove the "dontaddthispart"s out of the address, I'm trying to avoid spam at all costs). Take care and I'll see you at the reunion! Shalom!

Heidi Frazier Robinson

This is Heidi Frazier Robinson.  The last 10 years of my life have been great, and not at all what I expected them to be.

The summer after Jerusalem I went to Honduras with Brett Villinga and Joe Plicka as part of a Microcredit organization.  We worked most of our time there, but got to do some great scuba diving off one of the little islands and visit some of the ruins there.  When I came home I decided that I wanted to serve a mission and was called to the Brazil Ribeirao Preto mission.  I went back to BYU after my mission and spent the following 2 summers in Mozambique, a Portuguese speaking country in Africa, working with a Dutch nonprofit organization during the day, and taking classes at night in Mozambiquian literature, art and history.  I got to travel around to different countries in Africa and fell in love with each of them.  I saw some of the most beautiful places and had a hard time coming home. 

 I’ve had a bunch of interesting jobs since I graduated – working at a treatment center for women with eating disorders, teaching English in Taiwan, and working at a wilderness therapy program for at-risk youth.  That was an amazing experience – I worked there at the same time as Hailey Budge, my JC roommate, and I met my husband there.   Isaac and I have been married for 3 years and live in Gilbert Arizona.  I got my masters in Elementary Education and have been working as a 5^th grade teacher here, until our son was born last year.  Right now I am staying at home with Eli and we’re hoping to move to the Pacific Northwest soon.  I’m excited for a Jerusalem reunion, I think about our experiences there all the time.  We have a blog at robinson3.blogspot.comwith more family pictures.

Katie Rosenberg Ellsworth

This is such a great idea. I have been wondering what everybody has been up to. As for me, I graduated from nursing and went to work for Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo for a year. I returned home to Rigby and married my high school sweetheart, Brent, in the Idaho Falls Temple and we just had our 7 year anniversary. We have 2 children, Mikayla and Kye who are almost 5 and 2 years old, and I currently work in home health while my husband is finishing the Physician's Assistant program at Idaho State University. We live in Rexburg right now but hope to move after Brent graduates. Hopefully the reunion will come together, it will be great to see everyone again!

Angela Bingham Tomlinson

Hey everyone! It's me, Angela Bingham, now Tomlinson. After Jerusalem, I finished up school at BYU-I. In June 2000 I began working as a RN down in Provo. I reunited with a hometown friend-now sweetheart--Moe (Morgan) Tomlinson in January of 2001. On June 29, 2001 we were sealed in the Logan Temple. What an adventure our life has been since then!

In our married life we have lived in Logan, UT, Tremonton, UT, Jerome, ID, St. George, UT, Vancouver, WA, and Lancaster, CA. We have moved a total of eight times! We now have three wonderful children: Kenya Ilene turns six on September 21st, Naomi Elizabeth turned 4 on July 2nd, and Micah Preston turns 2 in March 2009. The family picture was taken in July of 2008.

Moe finished up schooling at USU in December of 2004 in the flight technology program. Moe has been a pilot since 1998, and a first officer pilot with Skywest Airlines since May of 2006.

I am currently working one 8 hour shift a week on a Behavioral Health Unit, yes that's right...I work on a locked down pyschiatric unit and absolutely love it! BUT I love being Mom the most. Life is good for us...there is NO WAY I can tell everything that has happened in the last 9 years...

We, Moe and I, just barely hiked Mount Whitney in 12.5 hours total on Monday, thus the picture! We try to go backpacking together at least once a year. I still love traveling by the way, but it's different now that I have children. We still take advantage of the flying benefits that come with being employed by an airline though!

I do have a blog, but it is private--I guess working on a pysche unit has made me a little more cautious, I have no problem with inviting my Jerusalem friends, I just need email addresses...

Hope all is going well in your lives...the funny is that lately I was having a great desire to reconnect with everyone from Jerusalem, but didn't quite know how. Then my mom ran into Angie Miller now Wyatt, and thus I now have a way! Thanks ladies--you were inspired! I vote for a ten year reunion!

Jerusalem Video

Hi guys,

Thanks for putting up the blog. I think it would be a great idea to get everyone together again after all these years. There are some people I have lost contact with who it would be great to see again. Right now I don't have the time to write up a paragraph and send some photos but recently I discovered that someone put the video that Ryan and Jenner made of our trip on Youtube. I thought you might be interested in putting it on the blog. Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUfw5ofIYY

Talk to you later.

-Matt Hughes (aka Mibs)