Utah's PRIDE

May PRIDE Dinner at the Price Funny Farm

2008-05-04T22:23:00.003-06:00

Kiri Price's (Reeve) parents have graciously offered to host the next PRIDE dinner at their place!

Sunday, 25 May 2008
5:30pm
Prices' Home
1025 East 13200 South

BRING YOUR OWN MEAT; the Prices' will supply the rest.

Email for directions. or call 801-572-1022

Help us spread the word! And please plan on coming if you plan on being around Salt Lake County for Memorial Day Weekend! We'd love to see as many people there as possible.

Like usual, please leave a comment and let us know if you're coming and how many adults/children you're bringing with you.

(You can leave comments without having a Google account... just be sure to click the Name/URL option and leave the URL blank if you wish... DO put your name.)

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you all.

There's Just Something Wonderful About Hanging Out With Good Friends

2008-04-11T22:55:00.005-06:00

Back Row: Jarin Blackham, Melissa Pond
Front Row: Viet Le, Jeff Litster, Jered Plouzek

You decide what happened in this picture.

Leave a comment and tell the story you think this picture tells. :)

Tonight we had our rescheduled dinner with Melissa Pond as the Guest-of-Honor. There's something special about reuniting with old friends; and it's amazing to see how, even though you haven't seen the friend in over ten years, it's as if you had spent time together last week... and picking up where you left off is effortless and wonderful.

We felt that tonight as the five of us got together with our families and enjoyed excellent food and great company. There was much chatting, Wii bowling, and attempts at getting some pictures (if you wonder why the smiles are so cheesey up there; it's because that was our third attempt and we were all laughing pretty hard.)

We really enjoyed catching up with Melissa and are sorry for those that weren't able to make it.

We wish Melissa, Alex and Roxey the best of success in Los Angeles. Melissa and Alex will be continuing their pursuits in their acting careers. I made her promise she'd let us know when she lands roles so we can all check her movies out. :)

I look forward to more of these in the future. It really does rock getting together with old friends! Thanks all for coming tonight; it was awesome.

New Grubb Coming Soon

2008-04-06T10:37:00.004-06:00

Sean Grubb (1991-1992) has some exciting news...

From an email to Jeff Litster:

PREGGERZ!

That's right! Our newest addition should be here in time
forChristmas. We're not sure exactly when, but he/she should behere
sometime during the holiday season. We'll keep you all posted as
information develops.

Love,

Sean, Rayna, and Rani

Congrats to the Grubbs!

New Melissa Pond Dinner Date

2008-03-31T23:01:00.003-06:00

Not to be confused with a Dinner Date with Melissa Pond; sorry single guy PRIDEsters... she's happily married and we're excited to meet her hubby and baby daughter!

Come join us for a night of fun and reuniting before she heads to California!

We're all getting back on the health bandwagon, so we're giving it another go... this time it will be:

Friday, 11 April 2008
6:30pm
Jeff Litster's House
(Taco Soup and potluck sides/desserts/drinks)

(Contact Jeff to get directions; please be sure to RSVP by leaving a comment on this post so we can know how many are coming and can make enough Taco Soup.)

When you leave your comment, tell us how many people you're bringing and what side-dish, dessert or drinks you're bringing (no alcohol please; we're PRIDE after all!) ;)

We'll see you there...

Melissa's farewell dinner will be rescheduled

2008-03-14T14:39:00.004-06:00

It is with great remorse that we have to cancel the dinner tonight. With so many of us sick with various colds, coughs, sinus stuff, etc. it will be better for everyone if we stall for a bit. Jeff and Melissa will work on scheduling another evening, before she makes her way to LA. Once a new date is chosen, we'll post it to this site, and contact those who have left comments on the other post. Hopefully those who weren't able to come tonight will be able to join us for the rescheduled dinner!

Thanks for understanding. We hope everyone gets well soon!!

MMM.....Dinner

2008-03-07T14:31:00.013-07:00

Melissa Pond is moving away.

It was a good reason to have a pot-luck dinner at Jeff Litster's House (Gwen is making Taco soup). Come and enjoy some time with Melissa before her exodus to Los Angeles!

Please leave a comment if you are planning on coming and let everyone know what you are bringing (side, drink, dessert) and how many people are coming (adults, children). We can't wait to see all of you.

Date: Friday March 14, 2008
Time: 6:30pm
Where: Jeff Litster home (Riverton)

(For directions please email Jeff)

PS: Melissa's baby daughter is finishing recovery from RSV; Jeff has twin infants and Jered has a baby daughter as well. If you have sick ones, please arrange to leave them home with a sitter so we avoid getting the wee ones sick!

13 March 2008 Update: Jeff's kids woke up with coughs yesterday morning... they seem to be the morning/evening-only coughs and we're not sure if they're colds or allergies or what... they don't seem serious yet but 3 of my 5 have them. If everyone's still comfortable coming, I'm still willing to host Friday and we'll keep the kids at bay as much as possible (they're pretty good about covering their coughs with their arms (instead of their hands) to help prevent spreading. Please comment and let me know who has concerns...

Jered also mentioned his baby daughter has a cough too... I don't know the status of Melissa's daughter's RSV recovery...

If need be, we can reschedule, or go somewhere else. Sorry for the late notice, but it came on sudden for all of us. Please let us know by leaving comments here whether or not you'd still like to go for Friday night. I'd like to make it work if we can.

14 March 2008 Update: Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the dinner for tonight. With illnesses affecting so many of us, we will enter a holding pattern to let everyone get better. Jeff will talk with Melissa about alternate dates, and we'll let everyone know as soon as one is chosen. Thanks for understanding, and everyone: get well soon!!

Jon Best - Young Film Star

2008-01-24T03:00:00.001-07:00

Utah's PRIDE's own Jon Best (1994-1995 White Team) had a role in a film called "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (as well as a few others)

Here is a scene someone posted on YouTube that is hilarious!!!

Jon did a great job in this scene... he looks petrified as the psycho old man goes off on what I call his "Santa Rant-a"

Enjoy! "You better run.... RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!" :)

utahspride.com is not responsible for any content that may arise in subsequent YouTube videos after the clip.

January PRIDE Lunch - Utah County

2008-01-20T23:35:00.001-07:00

Happy New Year! We're going to meet for some Mexican dining this month at Maria Bonita's Mexican Grill in Orem. We hope you can join us... it's tasty and relatively inexpensive.

31 January 2008
11:30am
Maria Bonita Mexican Grill (click for map/directions)
(801) 426-9328
171 W 800 N
Orem, UT

Please let us know if you're coming, by commenting on this post.

December PRIDE Lunch - Utah County

2007-12-07T06:58:00.001-07:00

Thursday, 27 December 2007

11:45am

The Pizza Factory (click for Google map/directions)

291 West 400 North

Lindon, Utah 84042

801-785-4464

From Jered:
The easiest way to get there is to get off I-15 at the Pleasant Grove exit with the BMW dealership on the east side.
go east (right) to 700 north (it should be the first light)
take 700 north to state street and turn south (right)
go south down state street about 5 blocks, it is on the east side (south east corner of state and 400 north)

We don't want to leave this set in stone... if any are in town that would like to join us, and need a different day/time during that week, please let us know and we'll accommodate.

See you there!

December PRIDE Lunches 2007

2007-12-05T01:29:00.000-07:00

Hey gang... Like last year, we'd like to try to do the December Lunch around the Christmas holiday in case any PRIDEsters are in town and would like to join.

I'm thinking sometime between 26 December and 28 December... What do you think? Please comment and let us know; we'll plan accordingly during the business week of 17 December - 21 December. (EDIT: I re-read that and realized it sounded like we were going to plan a lunch for sometime during the week of 17 December - 21 December. Forgive me, I originally meant that we would post the details for the December lunch DURING the week of 17 Dec - 21 Dec. However, we've had a lot of discussion already amongst some of us and we'll be posting the Utah County lunch today and revamping if needed as it gets closer.)

We're looking forward to seeing y'all and extend the warmest holiday wishes to all of you.

November PRIDE Lunch - Utah County

2007-11-14T01:54:00.000-07:00

We've decided to do the Utah County November Lunch the Wednesday before Thanksgiving; to give those that might be coming in from out-of-town an opportunity to join us.

Wednesday, 21 November 2007
11:30am
Wallaby's Steakhouse (Lindon, UT)
(Map & Directions)
131 S State St
Lindon, UT 84042
(801) 785-4447

So join us, will you not?! It'll be a Crazy Delicious time; and Jered Plouzek and I will be full of thanks to have others besides ourselves make it. :)

If you're planning on coming; please leave a comment on this post (You're not required to have a blogger account to post comments.)

How to Subscribe to Lunch Alerts

2007-10-07T15:34:00.001-06:00

For those of you interested in hooking up with the PRIDE lunches, we've made a way for you to subscribe to Lunch Alerts so you can be notified when they happen.

There are numerous ways/readers you can use to subscribe to these "feeds", but for those that are new to RSS feeds/subscriptions, I'll offer the 3 I find are the easiest and most readily available.

1. Google Reader - I recommend this one first, because you can set it up wherever, and access it from anywhere that has internet access. This allows you to take it with you, rather than having to set it up on a bunch of individual computers.

To add an alert to Google Reader:
Right-click the appropriate link in the left sidebar and select "Copy Shortcut" (Internet Explorer) or "Copy Link Location" (Firefox)... then open the Google Reader and log in.
Click the "Add Subscription" link in Google Reader and paste the link you copied from this site.

2 & 3. Internet Explorer 7+ and Mozilla Firefox 2+ - This option is probably easiest to implement, since you only have to click on the appropriate Lunch Alerts link on the left to bring up the feed results. If you're using IE 7.0 or above, or Firefox 2.0 or above, the page will offer you a panel at the top of the page that allows you to add a bookmark/subscribe to the feed so that you can receive these updates through your browser.

Firefox will actually help you subscribe using Google Reader too, which is EXTRA cool.

I know this is a very brief description of how to get your alerts going, but I'm short on time... so try with what I have now, and if it's not enough... leave comments and I'll edit it later...

Good luck! May the force be with you...

October PRIDE Lunch - Utah County

2007-10-07T15:04:00.000-06:00

09 October 2007
11:45am
The Purple Turtle in Pleasant Grove

Sorry for the short notice... Jered, Jarin and I actually came up with this last Thursday, but I made the sorry assumption that I'd have time to get it posted before the weekend.

My twins remind me that I have no free time anymore. hehe!

Anyway, we're hitting the Purple Turtle in Lindon and anyone reading this is invited to join us... click the name above to get directions to the Purple Turtle.

If you're planning on joining us, please leave a comment (non-anonymous) on this post so we have an idea of who will be there.

We hope to see you Tuesday! And next month, we'll be sure to give more notice.

Pardon our Dust While We Make Some Changes

2007-08-07T01:24:00.001-06:00

We're transitioning to a blog for the news on the PRIDE site. This will make it easier for us to post news (allowing more than just me to add items) as well as make it easier for us to notify people of things (see RSS description in the The Fate of PRIDE Lunches is Changing... post.)

While we complete the transition, you'll notice some links not working right, and some things missing from some of the pages. Please be patient with us while we work out the kinks.

We're excited with the direction this can take the site and hope you'll enjoy the new features as we get them implemented.

Please also welcome Jarin Blackham to the blog. He'll be helping me update content here. If you're a PRIDEster and wish to help contribute to the news also, please contact Jeff Litster (my information is in the contact list...)

Thanks for visiting! Check back soon... And please let us know about broken links or other things wrong with the site.

The Fate of PRIDE Lunches is Changing...

2007-08-07T01:08:00.000-06:00

We're excited to announce that Sean Grubb came through town, and we're sorry we weren't able to get more advanced notice out for a meal meeting in his honor.

Sean Grubb, Jarin Blackham and Matt Moon (and their families) gathered tonight at the Golden Corral in West Jordan for a PRIDE dinner to celebrate Sean's arrival in the Beehive State.

Due to the fact that some of us have now changed employment and are working in Utah County... we're proposing that we start having Utah County lunches and Salt Lake County lunches. If you're interested, please let us know.

If you are interested, we'll be providing links soon to enable you to set up your favorite RSS Reader program (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Thunderbird, Google Reader, etc.) to alert you when new lunches are planned. Of course, you'll always be able to check here for details.

We're doing this in an effort to not have people feel like they're being "spammed" when we invite them to lunch via email. This way, those that are interested can subscribe to be notified and others that aren't so concerned with it don't need to be bothered. You manage your own subscriptions, which saves us a lot of time and energy too.

Watch for more information on the RSS Feeds coming soon...