Almost there . . .

The 5 year reunion is only a week and a half away!

We've decided to keep it simple this year, and save our limited resources for the 10 year since so many people are still busy with summer jobs, finishing school, budding careers, moving, babies, etc. and so few people have had time to help out.

Pack your picnic basket and head over to the South Shelter at Smith Park for a nice, relaxing evening with old friends. Feel free to bring any good lawn games you have.

Details:
5-7 pm on Saturday, August 14th.
Smith Park, South Shelter
Bring your own picnic.

Updates about the five-year reunion

Great news! We now have an official time, date, and place for the five-year reunion. Mark your calendars for August 14th, from 5-7pm at Smith Park.

The old high school was first choice for the reunion location, but with the high school transitioning to the new building this summer, neither building was available for the reunion.

Now that we're getting closer to the reunion, we really need help making the final arrangements!

There are two ways we need your help:

First of all we need volunteers! If you're willing to help plan the reunion, please let us know. Send an email to madisonhigh2005@gmail.com, leave a comment on this post, or write a message on our Facebook page. So many people have busy plans this summer, and we're having a hard time finding people to help finish putting the reunion together.

Second, we need to get an idea of how many people are planning on coming to the reunion. Please respond to the poll about whether or not you're coming to the reunion. This will help us get an idea about how much interest there really is for the five-year (rumors have it that a lot of you are planning on ditching out this year!)

Thanks for all your help! And just a friendly reminder, don't forget to tell your MHS friends about the blog and the Facebook group, and we'd love to publish a post about what you've been up to since high school!

Addresses

We plan on mailing invitations for the reunion around a month or so before it takes place. We'll be using the high school's record of everybody's addresses as of graduation. If you would rather have the announcement sent directly to your current address instead, you can either post your new address as a comment on this post, on the Facebook discussion thread, or send it to madisonhigh2005@gmail.com.
Thanks!

The reunion location poll has closed

Voting for the location of the reunion concluded last week. You picked:
1st choice: The old high school
2nd choice: Smith Park
I'll post the definite location after it has actually been reserved, hopefully sometime this week.
Thanks for your participation!

Location Location Location!

Cast your vote for the location of the reunion in the poll on the sidebar. Vote for both your 1st and 2nd choices, since we don't know for sure yet what locations will actually be available.

Feel free to leave a comment on this post if there's some other location you'd be excited about. Maybe we'll sneak a last minute entry into the poll.

As always, don't forget to tell your friends from MHS '05 about the blog and Facebook page, and write a post about you or your family and send it in for the blog!

It's Official!

The votes are in, and the reunion will be planned for August 14, 2010. Stay tuned for details about location, time, activities, etc.

Cast your vote!

We've narrowed down all of your feedback about the date for the reunion to four possible dates. You can find the poll at the top of the right-hand column of the blog. Make sure to vote for the one you like best as soon as possible!

When we've settled on a date, it won't be more than another week or two before we decide on a location as well.

Don't forget to write a quick update about you/your family for the class blog! We'd love to hear what you're up to! Send anything you'd like to share to madisonhigh2005@gmail.com.

One week later . . .

Hey everybody!

We're one week in with the Facebook group and class blog. So far over a third of the class has joined the Facebook group, with 52 more people invited. The blog has had visits from 4 countries, 12 states, and 31 cities. That's pretty impressive for one week, but there's still quite a few people we'd like to reach out to.

A few things each of you can do to help connect everyone we graduated with:

1. Invite all of your Facebook friends from MHS to join the Facebook group.
2. Put a link to the class blog on your personal blog.
3. E-mail the link for the class blog to anybody else you're in touch with that we graduated with.

In the coming weeks, keep an eye on the blog for polls about the date and location of the reunion, and don't forget to send in an update about you/your family! So far we've only received updates from 7 people. We'd love to hear from the rest of you!

Sam and Stacy (MacCabe) Robbins

Our updates are also joint.


Sam and Stacy sort of dated the summer after high school - but mostly spent time together as best friends. Stacy's family moved to Utah in August after graduation but she stayed in Rexburg and started college at BYU - I. He left on his mission to Africa (Zimbabwe and Zambia) in October of 05. We kept in touch as friends. We started officially dating in December of 07 after he got back. We got engaged less than a month later. We were married in the Rexburg temple May 3, 2008. That summer we lived in Utah and both worked for Provo School District - Sam worked for the Transportation department driving school bus for summer school and he also worked helping set up a new elementary school - Stacy worked for Tech Support - her summer job since graduation.

We moved back to Rexburg to go to school after that - and we are still in Rexburg hoping to someday finish school. Stacy will graduate in April 2010 with a degree in Art with an emphasis in Photography with clusters in English literature and Visual Media (Communications). Sam should finish April of 2011 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Sam currently works for Madison School District driving school bus (a job he truly loves). On October 10, 2009 we welcomed Caleb Thomas to our family.

This summer Sam hopes to have an internship  - perhaps in Utah. Stacy will probably be staying at home with Caleb and working photo jobs on the side.

We have a blog - but it is private. If you want to follow our blog send an email to tastyjane@gmail.com and we'll pass along an invitation.

Blake and Anjanette (Harrell) Riley

This is another joint post. We started dating during our Junior year Commencement dance and continued dating through high school. After graduation, Anjanette planned on attending Texas A&M to study marine biology while Blake headed to Arizona State University for an economics degree. Due to administrative mix-ups about housing and financial aid, Anjanette decided against Texas and also moved to Arizona. On our second anniversary, Blake proposed and we were married later that summer on August 12, 2006. Anjanette also started her bachelor's degree at ASU that fall.

Our last two years at ASU, we ended up heavily involved in the Arizona government through our jobs. Blake worked for the state legislature's budget committee, doing research and acting as a liaison between the legislators and a couple state agencies. Anjanette did an internship with the Secretary of State, and then worked for the Arizona Capitol Times, a newspaper that covers state politics. She reported on healthcare and transportation, with numerous front-page stories to her name.

This May, we graduated from ASU. Anjanette finished in three years with degrees in English and political science, and Blake received a BA in economics and a BS in mathematics. We since moved to Champaign, IL where we are doing our graduate work. Blake is in the economics PhD program at the University of Illinois here in Champaign with plans to become an economics professor. Anjanette is working towards an English MA with a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language at Illinois State. Champaign has much more of a small-town feel than the Phoenix area, and we are being subjected to winter cold for the first time in four years, but we like it nonetheless. We spend most of our free time reading: her with a novel and him with a math text.

Our plans for this coming summer are still up in the air; Anjanette might be out of the country teaching English. But, either way, feel free to follow us at http://anjanetteandblake.wordpress.com.

Ila Lund

hey my blog is camandila.blogspot.com    lil update, cam and i started dating almost a year ago. we met shortly after my divorce.... i moved to virginia to be with him cuz i hated the long distance and had nothing in Logan Utah going for me lol. i had moved there just a few months before. anyway we lived in virginia together from the end of march til the beginning of august when we moved to boise, which is where we are now. we are both going to school and working. cam is working at american eagle at the mall and at the department of labor. he's going to BSU. I work at applebees and I go to paul mitchell. we really like it here :) we just got engaged on Dec. 10th and we will be tying the knot August 13th 2010. yay!!! :) the wedding will most likely be in Idaho falls somewhere. anyway, nothing else really new with us. oh we have 3 babies. Addi is our oldest she is almost 1 year. she is a jack russel rat terrier mix (haha yep a dog :)) then next is lincoln. he is a tabby of some sort. he is almost 7 months old. and then the newest addition to our family is hurly he is a miniature pincer. he is 2 and a half months old. we love our pets. they are so fun :) anyway... that is about all

-Cam and Ila

Stoddard and Ellen (Tew) Davenport

We'll get things started here! This post counts for both of us, since we got married.

We started dating right after high school graduation. We had an awesome summer of dating, waterskiing, and working. I was the store manager at the old Craigo's, and Ellen started school at BYU-Idaho. In February 2006, I left for a mission to Boston, Massachusetts (same mission as Jason Andrus, good times!) Ellen started working at Rexburg City Hall during her junior year, while going to school year round. When I got back from Boston, I worked for Craigo's again, and commuted down to Pocatello and back everyday to help get their new store up and running. A few months later, in July 2008, Ellen graduated with her degree in Political Science, with a minor in Sociology.

In August, we got married, went on a honeymoon to Portland and the Oregon coast, and moved to Boise. I started school at Boise State, majoring in Economics, with minors in Applied Math and Political Science. Last semester, Ellen decided to go back to school for a Paralegal certificate and a second bachelor's degree in Sociology. She's just got one or two semesters left, and I've got three more. I just started work as a tax preparer, which should keep me plenty busy until April.

We're enjoying living in Boise, although we rarely get to see any of our old friends from Rexburg anymore. Everytime we come back for a visit, we're surprised how much colder and snowier it is in Rexburg! The weather's nice and mild here. We enjoy taking day trips to see the sights around this side of the state, and this last year we've seen quite a few ghost towns, national parks, and wild animals.

Our family blog is set to private, but we're happy to invite any of you who are interested in seeing a little more of what we've been up to.