Cort Crandall

Like many of you, in the same moment I feel like it has ONLY been 10 years, I also can't believe it has been this long since graduation. After graduation, I moved to live with my mom on Oahu, HI were she was a nanny for a family. I spent several months there learning to surf and enjoying the tropical life-style. Then reality hit, and I returned to St. George in the Fall of 2000 to attend Dixie (like the majority of you). I attended Dixie for 2 years and one semester shy of my Associates degree, before I decided to go on an LDS mission. In the summer of 2002 I received my call to serve in the Buenos Aires North Mission in Argentina. I left May 2003 and returned home in early May 2005. While working in the summer of 2005 I met my wife in our singles ward at Dixie. Kristen is from Davis County and was attending Dixie on a Volleyball scholarship, and I was finishing my last semester. Kristen and I dated for a little over a year before we got married in the Salt Lake Temple; August 5, 2006. We then returned to Southern Utah to finish our degrees; mine a BS in Communications and Kristen's a BA in History from SUU. Kristen and I both found work in the SLC area after graduating from college, Kristen works for an art gallery as a Gallery Specialist and I work for Intermountain Healthcare as a Community Liaison. Last April we had our first kid, a boy we named Boedi. It has been a different experience this last year changing diapers, going through the pains of teething, and cleaning up after a baby, but it is definitely worth it. Life has changed a lot over the last 10 years, but I can honestly say it keeps getting better, everyday. I look forward to seeing all of you at the reunion.