Welcome, Bairs

The family of Michael and Lori Bair include three beautiful daughters – Brianna Teddie Bair, a single, 21-year-old college student at BYU-Idaho; Aspen Honey Bair, a 15-year-old who loves sports, particularly volleyball and basketball; and, Cara Cinnamon Bair, a lively and sociable 13-year-old who also loves sports.  Dakota Black Bair, the only son, is currently serving the Lord in the Oregon Portland Spanish-speaking Mission.  

The Bair’s naming tradition is simple starting with Black Bair.  Michael’s mother’s maiden name was Black before she met his father (Michael says he got his father’s build and his mother’s tender heart).  Michael served the Lord for two years in the California Oakland Mission, then attended BYU where he played football (his claim to fame is that he showered with Steve Young).  He met and married Lori in his junior year (she says she dated all of his roommates before attracting her husband’s attention).    After graduation, he accepted a job teaching health and drivers education at Dixie High School where he has worked since 1992.  Currently he is the Vice Principal and Athletic Director.

Lori was born on a Navajo reservation.  The Catholic nuns at the hospital knew her family was LDS, so baptized her as a newborn.  "I guess they wanted to save my soul, so I’m double covered!” she laughs.  She attended BYU-Idaho when it was still Ricks College (“it will always be Ricks to me”), then studied two months at the MTC before serving 10 months of her mission for the deaf in the Florida Tallahassee Mission and another 6 months in the California Anaheim Mission.  After her mission, she worked for ten years as an interpreter but now works part time at SkyWest.  The first counselor in the B7 Young Women’s Program says she has been in YW “forever” while Michael has served as Gospel Doctrine teacher, High Priest Group Leader and a ward clerk.  Currently he is the priest quorum advisor.

Welcome to the ward, Bairs … one and all!