Heritage

Well here we are in Cache Valley. Who knew we would move to the home of my forefathers? Well at least a couple of generations back.

You see my maiden name is Bullen. Bullen is a pretty important name in Logan. At least I like to think so. My great-grandfather, Roy Bullen, was the mayor of Logan back in the day. You can read more about him here. My grandpa's (also named Roy Bullen as is my father Roy Bullen) cousin Reed Bullen was an Ex-senator and the Logan temple president.

The Bullen family still owns a lot of the land in town as well as Bullen’s Inc. owned by my grandpa's 1st cousin Charles William Bullen, Sr. is an agricultural supply and irrigation implement company serving small and medium scale farmers of the Cache Valley in Utah and in Southern Idaho for over 30 years. His company provides alfalfa and corn seed as well as irrigation equipment from several vendors in the U.S. and remains a chief resource for farmers in the area.

There's the Bullen Center next to the Eccles Theater on main street and even Bullen Hall on the USU campus. My great-grandpa and great-grandma even have scholarships in their names. The Roy Bullen Memorial Fund for Engineering Students and Annie (Nan) Nibley Bullen (my great-grandma) Scholarship for The College of Family Life. I have always been proud to be a Bullen.

Every year my entire life growing up we would pay homeage to our great name and family by visiting Cache Valley on Memorial Day. We would spend time at the cemetary visiting the graves of loved ones and every year I got told how much I looked like my dad's cousin Sidney when she was a little girl. EVERY year, I kid you not! The best part of the visit was alway eating at the Bluebird Restaurant downtown.

Brandon and I decided it was time to take our kids downtown and tour historic Logan. We also read the histories of Mendon and Petersboro online with our children. It is amazing how hard the early Saints, many of them our ancestors, had to work to build the town we live in today. History is so cool!