Where Are They Now? — Alan McGraw

Twenty years goes buy in a moment. It seems like yesterday I was sitting on the heaters in main hall trying to motivate myself to get to class. We thought we would be over the hill at our twenty year, but I don’t feel old.

After graduation I went to Dixie College although I didn’t get much out of it. Shortly after high school I started dating Tamera Hurst from Orem. We dated for two years before we decided that missions were the right thing to do before we got married. So in 1990 I packed my bags and headed for Porto Alegre Brazil. We were both in the MTC at the same time, it was a little weird. Tammy went to Hong Kong on her mission. At the same time in Brazil I was hoping the magic would still be there when we returned, as it turns out, it was. I asked her to marry me the day I got back. In fact I had only been released for twenty minutes when I popped the question and four months later we were married.

It took five years and a whole lot of modern technology to have our first child but then we had things figured out and the next two came without a hitch. Sidnie is ten going on eighteen, Dallas is eight and in no hurry to grow up and Brooklyn is six and thinks the world revolves around her.

Tammy finished her degree at Weber State in social work and became director of aging and adult services at Mountainland Association of Governments. After our second child I convinced her to be a stay home mom. Along the way Tammy also got her real estate license and has sold many homes for me.

In 1992 I went into business for myself as a framing contractor then graduated to general contracting in 1996. For the most part I’ve built single family homes. I lost track of how many once I hit one hundred. With the recent downturn in the residential market I took a job with Layton Construction as a Superintendant. I never thought I would like working for someone else, surprisingly I like it. I am currently building the Spanish Fork Justice Center next to the high school in Spanish Fork.

Over the years we’ve moved quite a bit its like a car salesmen always driving a new car. When you build new homes for a living there is always a good chance you’ll build one you want to keep. We’ve moved thirteen times in 16 years. We lived in St. George for five of those years when the market was good but we now find ourselves in North East Provo hopefully for good.

All in all life has turned out just the way I thought it would. I suppose there have been a few surprises along the way but for the most part life is as good as it gets.