Where Are They Now? — Craig Anderson

I really appreciate the wonderful post that my good friend Dan Knight did for me, but I thought I should do my own to clarify some of the details.

After high school I left on a mission as soon as possible. I served my time in Japan and returned home to study at BYU. I married a feisty Provo girl, Amie Heaston, in September of 1994 and graduated in December of that same year. Amie and I moved to Lindon in 1995 and started our family. During this time I tried a few marathons and, as Karen O. mentioned in her post, didn’t love them. My career total is 5 but I would have done a lot more if you didn’t have to run so much. Then I tried several triathlons because swimming and biking is fun but here again you have to run so now I am retired. We lived in Lindon for ten years and had 4 children there. Approximately 3 years ago we moved to Pleasant Grove and added another child. We have 3 girls and 2 boys- Macie(11), Brody(9), Britnie(7), Ellie(5) and CJ(3). My kids are awesome and I love spending time with them. I can’t figure out why I have been blessed with a beautiful wife and incredible kids when I am not really an angel. Maybe this is the calm before the storm...? I hope not.

As Dan mentioned, he and I started a company with a Timpview guy (not all of them are annoying) back in 2001. It is fun to be able to make a living while hanging out with your buddies. We work hard and find time to have some fun too.

I actually see a lot of guys from high school besides Dan. I live by Mark Whiting and do stuff with him from time to time. Brandon Hill makes an appearance when it fits his busy schedule. My wife is somehow related to Lance Garvin so I see him at family reunions. Dan and I have an annual golf trip with Kent Frampton each fall. Greg Stott will call when he comes to town once in a while. I ran into Katherine DeMartini a couple of years back and she said something REALLY embarrassing--you will have to ask her about it. I see Santones and Kim whenever I attend a BYU athletic event. Am I forgetting anyone? I hope not but I don’t remember a lot of things. I can’t remember kissing Amy Hughes at graduation--I think that was a dream she had (fantasy? jk). I never remember fighting with Marvin Dean--at least after 1st grade. And I don’t remember threatening Don Danner with a baseball.

If there are any further questions about my life please refer them to Dan Knight at 801-362-9555 or just send him a text message to say “Hello”.

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Craig has been very reluctant to post his life on the PHS ’88 site so it’s up to his friends to take care of business for him. After high school Craig served a mission to Japan. When he got back he went to BYU and graduated somewhere in the 90s. Somewhere in there he spent a summer or two as a Japanese tour guide in San Francisco. He wasn’t Japanese, just the people who he guided.


Later he married Amy Heaston (PHS class of 90 something). Craig and Amy have 5 beautiful kids. Macie (11 or so), Brody (9ish), Britnie (7 roughly), Ellie (in the 5 range), and Craig Judah (CJ – he’s maybe 2 or 3 and I’m not sure about what the J stands for – Judah is a guess because that’s Craig’s middle name, but it might actually be Jaden or something like that).


Craig has been working in the Internet marketing industry for about the past 8-10 years and in 2001 helped found eFamily Network. He lives and works in Pleasant Grove and still likes to kill animals up in the mountains and also lots of water fowl. He loves to take his kids fishing and camping.


As you can see by the pictures, he golfs at a few charity tournaments each summer with some of his friends. He and Dan Knight started a “Golf Date Dance Picture” theme many years ago once when Dan forgot to bring his club for the picture and ended up sharing Craig’s club for the shot. It looked gay enough to be a date dance so we made it a tradition for all our golf shots. Since we don’t have any current family photos at the moment we’ll start with these and hopefully Craig will pony up with some real photos.


There is a very real chance that Dan Knight will take a severe beating when Craig reads this post. Fortunately Craig left yesterday with his family to Hawaii for the next 10 days. I could use a little support in getting Craig enthused about the reunion. Please email him at cj@efninc.com or send a text message to 8013625886. (Now there is no question about getting pummeled.)






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