Jennifer (Box) Erickson

Greetings from St. Louis! Since I won't be able to attend the reunion, I thought I would share what I have been up to these past ten years. I first went to two years of school at Ricks College and loved it all, except the winters! I could have stayed when they changed to BYU-Idaho, but decided to go down to BYU instead. I'm very glad I did because I met this pretty awesome guy named Tyler Erickson there and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple Sept. 25th, 2002.

I graduated from BYU in April of 2003 with an Elementary Education degree. We spent the next summer in Ohio while my husband completed an internship at NASA. That fall I started teaching 6th grade at Pony Express Elementary School in Eagle Mountain while my husband finished up his last year at BYU. Then, with impeccable timing, our first son, Luke Tyler was born the day after school got out. Tyler started working as an Operations Manager at Convergys and we lived in Sandy for a year before being transfered to the St. Louis area. We have been here for more than three and a half years and LOVE it! About 4 months after moving to St. Louis we welcomed our second son, Isaac Nelson to our family. Tyler is now working as a consultant with BJC Health Care as well as going to school for his MBA at Washington University. Only about another year and a half and he will be done, then we will see where we end up! I've been able to stay at home with my kids and they keep me on my toes with their many questions and big imaginations.

Luke is 5, just graduated from preschool and is way more excited than his Mom is about starting Kindergarten. Isaac is three, loves playing Batman, loves animals, and is hard at work begging for a dog. We enjoy going to Cardinals games, visiting the many free local attractions in St. Louis, going to Six Flags and traveling to any BYU football game that is within a days drive (we've seen them play in Tulsa, OK and Fort Worth, TX, but we think we may be bad luck, because they keep losing all the games we go to!)

Overall, we are a just a regular happy family! We have a family blog http://thestlouisericksons.blogspot.com/ if you want to check us out, or find me on Facebook! Have fun at the reunion!