Chick-fil-A opening in American Fork!

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August 26th at 6:30am, the American Fork, UT branch of Chick-fil-A will open its doors for business. Located almost across the street from the shuttered Chadder’s burger joint, this will be a great place to eat. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 9:30am. Look at http://www.cfarestaurant.com/americanfork/home for tons of info on the opening and other pertinent info. As part of the opening event, they were handing out free chicken sandwiches on Friday and Saturday. They handed out some 10,000 of them! They had stacks of coolers lined up in their parking lot and folks were driving through or walking up to get a hot, fresh chicken sandwich. They are so good!

I’m Alive!

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Folks, I am here! Life has been a little interesting lately. I’ve really been focused on family and life in general lately. We had some upsetting news as of late that has taken center stage in our lives. I’m not totally ready to divulge all the details at this time. If you are close with us, you already know. Let’s just say it was really hard to hear it and it’s taking awhile to sink in. Don’t get all worked up it’s nothing really tragic, no one is terminally ill. We’re all pretty healthy, actually. I’ll refer to the aforementioned as our primary concern.

On top of our primary concern, we’ve made a big life-changing decision that involves every aspect of our lives. Our jobs, Wyatt’s school, Church, and ultimately, where we will live. Since 2002, I’ve wanted to return to Washington to live. Opportunities never presented themselves. It never felt right. When we moved from CA to UT, it felt really good, plus my employer was paying for it all! We were able to buy a nice home in a great neighborhood, we both had wonderful jobs. Since then (about 2 years later), we no longer have those jobs and things are getting difficult to manage. We have good jobs, but they’re not so wonderful. For the past couple years, I’ve said, “This is the year we move to WA”. 2010 was the first time when I said it, it really struck a chord and felt more right.

Trip to WA

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A couple weeks ago, we were blessed with the opportunity to make a long-awaited trip to my home state of Washington! It had been over 3 years since my last visit and I was severely missing it. All my family is up there as well as many long-time friends and it was so great to reunite. My love for Washington is something that is tough to really put into words. I think that many of you, if not all, know how home feels. Maybe not your current residence, but home – where you’re from.

Shortly after Rachel and I were married, her dear Mother passed away. In an effort to be helpful to her family, we decided to move from Tacoma to Sacramento. This would allow us to be close enough to provide help and support to her sisters and Father. It was with a lot of hesitation and prayer that this decision was made. After about 4 years, we moved to Utah and we’ve now been here just over 4 years. I’ve mentioned that I like Utah much more than I did Sacramento. It held no magic for me. Nothing to grasp onto. I was there to help out family. I got a great job as well that really set me up for the long-term. Utah does have some magic. It has excellent scenery and so much family-oriented activities. I have been much more content with my station in life, here in Utah. But it’s still not home. My homesickness hasn’t been nearly as strong as it was in Sacramento. I was always wanting to leave. Get out of town. Go somewhere else. In Utah, I’ve really enjoyed it for the most part. Utah is not, however, without it’s faults. I don’t want to get into that here and if you know me, you probably know how I feel.

Susan Powell Media Blitz!

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Our friend, Susan Powell, a beautiful 28 year old Utah mother, sister, daughter, wife and friend has been missing since December 7th, 2009. We’re asking you to help us find her.

From 8 AM Monday, January 4, 2010 to 8 AM Thursday, January 7, 2010, we’re asking all our friends, family and supporters to join us in the Find Susan Social Media Blitz.

Do you want to help? Here’s what you can do:

* If you have a twitter account, follow @FindSusan (http://twitter.com/FindSusan) and then tweet about her with a link to the YouTube channel below, using the hashtag of #findsusan – please also ask your followers to retweet your message.

* At 8 AM, Mountain Standard Time on Monday, January 4, we will have a new video slideshow with new pictures of Susan. Please go to our Facebook page to get the direct link to the video. If you follow us on Twitter (@FindSusan), we’ll also be tweeting the link throughout the Blitz. The official YouTube channel for this video and other videos about Susan is: http://www.youtube.com/susanpowellsearch

* Here is the link to Susan’s missing poster: http://bit.ly/4ppWVz – just scroll down to her posters. Again, please memorize Susan’s face and look around right where you are. If you see her, please note her location and condition and call 9-1-1 immediately. There is an $11,000 reward for finding her. Please also consider printing out a few and posting them at your local supermarket and other places nearby.

The search for Susan Powell continues…

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Susan Powell, 28

It’s now been over two weeks that the 28-year-old mother of two from near Salt Lake City, Utah, Susan Powell, has been missing. Over 8,000 have joined in the effort on the Facebook Group! There have now been three candlelight vigils in her honor. This last one included people in both Utah and her home state of Washington (and other places around the world) gathering at the same time. We offered prayer, a brief statement and sang Silent Night all together. The feelings felt were incredible. It felt like God’s angels were among us comforting us, acknowledging our efforts and feelings.

We are still hoping and praying for the best and the part that really is sometimes disheartening is that we are not hearing much about the investigation. We trust the police are doing all they can and understand they can’t expose any information until they consider it best. But thousands upon thousands of us are waiting and begging for the next bit of news or police action.