Havilah (Capel) Jones

The past 10 years have gone by WAY too fast! There was so much I was planning on accomplishing before the 10 year reunion. Unfortunately, I was unable to reach my goals of becoming an Oscar-winning actress or a Nobel prize-winning doctor or even a skinny underwear model for Victoria’s Secret. (Okay… those weren’t real goals) But don’t worry! My life has still been quite a ride. Two weeks after I moved up to Logan to attend Utah State University, my parents decided that they wanted to move up to Portland, Oregon (so much for being able to do my laundry on the weekends!). I was able to spend my summers there between semesters and fell in love! (With Portland, that is….I didn’t fall in love, love until later (but I’ll get to that)). After three years of lots of playing, a little bit of working and a teensy bit of sleeping, I met Jonesy. We were working at the Haunted Forest near Logan. I was wearing my scream mask and he was wearing his devil dress (he would insist that it is called a ‘robe’ but honestly, it was a dress) and we were standing in the ‘blood room’ underneath the strobe light when he asked me out on our first date. The rest is history. We spent three more years after marriage in Logan while Jonesy finished his Masters Degree in Technical Theatre and Design. While there we had Ruth (she’s 6 now). After graduating, we headed off to Flagstaff, AZ for two years where Jonesy worked for Northern Arizona University. While in Arizona, we had Gareth (he’s 3). After good times in AZ, we moved out to Lubbock, TX for a year while Jonesy worked at Texas Tech University. Good barbeque, fun football games, exciting tornado warnings, excellent neighbors, a week of flooding and awesome dust storms inspired us to have our third child, Ronan (he just turned 1!). Even though we really LOVED Texas, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity when it came up to work for Utah Opera and packed our things and moved to Salt Lake City only two weeks after Ronan was born. I’m glad that we’re close by for the reunion. I’m looking forward to seeing all y’all again soon!