Joey Beals & Lori (Branam) Beals

Wow...so much has happened in 10 years! A couple of months after we graduated, I was married for 7 years & then divorced. I lived in Cedar City during that time & graduated from SUU with my RN. After my divorce (great learning experience!), I moved back to Utah County. I began working at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in the ER as an RN & have absoloutely loved it since! I am now a charge/trauma nurse & have worked there 3 years. I had my little miracle baby in November 2006; he was born 2 months early due to complications I was having. 

I brought him home from NICU on his due date. In March 2007, I began dating Joey Beals (yeah--we dated in high school--it has just taken us 10 years to get together!) We were married in November 2007 & he will be adopting Kayden this November after we have been married for 1 year. The 2 best things I have ever done in my life are marrying Joey & having my son. Life is great & I have never been so happy!

Joey graduated from UVSC with a degree in collision repair & technology management. He has been working as a manager for Cascade Collision in Provo for 5 years. He is an avid jeeper, hiker, bicyclist, etc; now we enjoy doing all of those activities as a family. One of our favorite trips is going to Moab.  He bought his own home 2.5 years ago in Spanish Fork; I moved in with him last year when we were married. We still "hang out" with Taylor Davis' & Russell Bartholomew's families as time permits. I think it is kind of funny that Russell B. & Jocelyn Oldroyd reconnected like Joey & I did. They had a little girl on the same day that I had our son. We are excited to see everyone!