KaTiE rAe!

CATCH UP!

2010-08-23T07:10:00.001-07:00

It has been forever since i have posted!!! This won't be anything exciting, and i don't even know if anyone looks at this blog anymore but i wanted to share my new blog with everyone~! It is about all my adventures in Ecuador! I am loving it here and i love the little kids so much :) Visit the new blog at http://www.katiesecuadorianadventure.blogspot.com/ Thanks everyone! I appreciate all the support and everything everyone has done for me! This is the best experience ever!!!

AlL dOne!!

2009-04-07T13:14:00.000-07:00

Im done! Im finally moved in :) Thank goodness its over! I will be getting pictures up soon so no worries!!! I am loving my new house and i finally feel at home...its been so nice to be doing this all on my own but at the same time it has been so hard because I have learned that growing up is not all its cracked up to be...although i am loving it i am having a seriously reality hit!!! Ha life will always throw us curves and we just have to learn to bend with them right?! Well i hope all you guys are doing good and life its treating you all great! Love ya tons!

!~Moving~!

2009-03-08T15:20:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!!! So i am getting ready to move out of my parents house starting tomorrow!!! I won't officially be moved out until friday but we will be moving all week long :) I can't wait! It is a bittersweet moment because i don't think i will be back, hopefully i won't! ha i love my parents but i am ready to do it on my own! We got this really good deal on this house that is owned by Lagoon (actually lagoon is my back yard). It has brand new carpet and paint and it is just so so cute! I can't wait, I am moving out with 3 of my best friends! One of them i have known since i was in elementary school (Keltsey Sowell), she is adorable and i am so excited to live with her! One of the others girls (Abbey Jo Green) i have been really good friends with since i was in high school! She is so much like me and i absolutely love her. The last girl is my BESTIE (Talisha Murray) we have been good friends since 9th grade and i couldn't ask for a better group of best friends! I am so excited to start this new journey in my life and to just see what lies ahead of me :) I hope all of you are doing good! Love you all!!!

FREE!!! Who wants in?!

2009-03-06T16:43:00.000-08:00

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! (Though I hope you will!)
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. I don't even have a clue what it's going to be.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a homemade gift! It may not be great, but it will be fun!!
* * *Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!* * *

My Beautiful Niece

2009-02-15T12:15:00.000-08:00

So last night i got to babysit my beautiful niece Audrey! I seriously love this little girl more than anyone could know, she is amazing. We hung out with Riley and Austin (uncles) and just had fun with them. She was getting tired, so i was changing her into her pajamas, i set her down to play for a minute and she started crying, i know that it is sad that she was crying...but i was so happy she just wanted me to hold her. I know that she also wanted me because her mom wasn't around but honestly i am so happy that she trusts me and she wants me to play with her. The reason for this post is also because i went upstairs to my room and was laying down with her, she fell asleep in my arms and then i fell asleep. I woke up about 45 minutes later and she had her cute little hand on my face and was just smiling at me :) It made my night! I honestly could not have asked for a better valentines date! She is such a sweet and innocent little girl and i love her so much!!!

DiShWaShEr ExPloSiOn~

2008-12-02T23:19:00.000-08:00

So i am plain stupid :) haha we ran out of dishwasher soap so being the smart person that i am i put in dish soap...I went about doing what i was doing and i walked back in and the dishwasher was pouring out all over...hahaha I love how funny i am sometimes...i just thought this might give someone a laugh that needed one thats why i decided to post it :) Love you all!!!!~

A wEeKeNd In St. GeOrGe!!!

2008-12-02T18:07:00.000-08:00

So a couple weekends ago i went to St. George to spend the weekend with one of my really good friends Talisha! It was one of the funnest weekends i have had in College, we stayed up till 5 every morning just doing absolutely nothing! We colored, made dinner and just had fun! On sunday we decided that we wanted to go to the Temple and Visitors Center so we left at about 4:00 and went over to the St. George temple. When we first got to the temple it was raining so we started out in the visitors center. The ladies were so sweet and just wanted to help us with whatever we needed, i honestly think our church is so lucky to have such amazing elderly missionaries and normal missionaries as well :) We got to watch a pioneer video that was so fun and exciting to watch, and then we got to see our first presidency on video and hear their testimonies WOW that was amazing! It just has the best feeling and i also learned that Utah is very lucky because we have 2 visitors center in Utah and no other state does, i also learned that there are only 15 visitors centers world wide! which really suprised me because i thought there were a lot more. I am so grateful for the temple and i honestly can't wait to go there :) We also got to go to In & Out while i was there and it was so much fun, i had never been there before and it was the best food, i can't wait until there is one in Layton! It was an overall good weekend because i got to be with one of my best friends, and we just had a blast together doing absolutely nothing!

7 Years of Bad Luck x4!

2008-11-11T17:31:00.000-08:00

I have not wrote on here forever! I need to be better but i have been so busy lately! So keep up if you are a follower ha because i am going to be writing a lot hopefully!!! I have been living life to the fullest and i can't wait to move home in about 4 weeks! YAY i am getting all registered at Weber and hopefully will just have a smooth move back home :) I hopefully will be moving out in May if i get enough money saved and i just work my heart out! But who really knows!!! Anyways...back to my title! I have had the worst luck with mirrors lately...you know those tall full length mirrors that you can buy at Wal-Mart for like $6.50 well i had a black one before i moved to school, and as i was unpacking my car when i got to Cedar I realized that it was broken, so i had to throw it away and go to walmart and buy another one. Which was fine because it was my fault it broke, I put to much heavy stuff on it (OOPS!) So my mom took me to Wal-Mart before she left and i bought a brown one this time :) I left and slept at the hotel with my mom and my best friend Tressa and came home the next morning and my mirror had fallen off my wall and cracked all over, so i had to throw it away and go back to Wal-Mart and buy a new one :( (the second one). My mom and Tressa left later that day and i slept peacefully that night, later on that next day after i got back from Orientation my mirror was still in tact, that was the day that i met the boys above us, they think it is really funny to be load and obnoxious! So anyways later that week i came home from Orientation and my mirror had yet fallen down on the floor but this time it SHATTERED everywhere...i had to go to Wal-Mart and buy a miniature vacuum and clean it all up...i bought a new mirror while i was at it (the third one). I was so upset because my roommates were using the same things to hold there mirrors up and they were staying on the wall. So i had the third mirror for about a month and a half and then yesterday my mirror fell off the wall yet again and cracked at the bottom...many would ask why i keep buying a mirror and why i don't just give up but its simple that is where i get ready everyday, do my hair, make-up etc...so i have to keep buying them! But i guess i am just going to have 28 years of bad luck! Oh well...hahaha

My Decision!

2008-09-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

Well, i just thought i would post a blog saying i decided not to join one :(, last night i had a very great night! I just had an urge to read my scriptures and pray about my decision and i went to bed feeling accomplished and happy. I woke up this morning, got ready and went to school...i saw the Rush week signs and i decided that it was not for me! That there are plenty of other things i can do to get involved and that this was not in the plan for me! Well even tho it might sound weird i am happy with my decision and i happy with the person that i am coming!

The hardness of life!

2008-09-08T21:03:00.000-07:00

So i decided that i wanted to get out and meet new people and i found a way to do it...the only problem is my brother doesn't agree with me and its hard because i want him to help me...I know that when a lot of you read this you will be thinking the same thing that everyone else does, but i want to join a Sorority...when i was growing up i always thought that they were something that only involved alcohol and they were something that you didn't do. But i have learned so much about them and i am so interested in joinin, today when i went to the greek barbaque i talked to some of the girls and they were telling me how service oriented it was and how much they are involved with the community. I want to get involved i want to love college and i want to have fun! I talked to my mom about it...and i felt good but both of my brothers disagree, and i wouldn't want to do anything to make them not want to talk to me. One of them said he wouldn't talk to me because i shouldn't have to buy my friends, i agree i shouldn't but i don't think that thats what this is all about. I just want to get out and have fun...so what should i do? any suggestions???

MEMORIES!

2008-09-07T21:58:00.001-07:00

I got this idea from one of my friends blogs! I thought it was a great IDEA!!!

1. As you comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember.

2. Next, repost these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty fun to see the responses.If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you do not have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. Have fun!!

Temple Trip!

2008-09-04T22:00:00.000-07:00

Well this is a late post, but i thought about it and i wanted to talk about it! About 4 weeks ago me and my two best friends, Rachel Leckington and Tressa Burrup went on a vacation. Before we graduated high school we decided that we wanted to go on a Temple Trip so we planned it, took the dates off work and just were so excited, to go on a 3 day trip and feel the spirit the whole time! Well when the dates finally came we realized that almost half of the temples were closed for maintenance of construction of some sort! We didn't let this stop us however, we decided that we would still go and we would still just have the time of our lives!

So the first day started and we went to the Ogden temple, and Salt Lake Temple and did baptisms for the dead, it was so amazing and it was cool to see the difference in how each temple did baptisms. The bountiful temple was closed but we stopped there and had a picnic out front! It was so peaceful, because no one was there and the temple was so WHITE! After we got done doing baptisms at the Salt Lake Temple we went straight to Cedar City! My dad got us a hotel room and we just had a girls night dying hair and just staying up all night talking! The next morning we went to the school (SUU) and did some of the registration stuff that me and Rachel needed to get done before we moved down to school, after we got done in Cedar we went to Provo and stayed the night with my aunt Brenda and Uncle Jim it was so much fun to just hang out at their house and be with them! The best part of staying at their house was that Kiersten was there and i didn't even know that she was going to be, it was fun to get to know them better and just hang out! My aunt Brenda spoiled us and ordered us pizza and then the next morning she made us pancakes, they were whole wheat and they were delicious! I truly love Kiersten and Brenda and thank them so much for opening their house and just letting me and my girls have the time of our lives!

The morning after we left Aunt Brenda's we went to the Mount Timp. Temple, it was the most amazing expierience of my life! I didn't realize how beautiful this temple really was, i mean all temples are beautiful but this one had a special place in my heart! I always thought i would get married in the Salt Lake Temple, but i don't know anymore, i love this temple and it just felt so right and so peaceful!

This trip was so amazing and helped me realize a lot about myself, i am glad that i took the time out to do this trip, and i hope that i will be able to go on another one next summer, but when all the temples are open! I will post some pictures on the side so that you can see some of the beauty because i have not yet learned how to post them under my new post! Well bye for now! I will for sure write more later!

CoLlEgE!

2008-09-03T16:58:00.000-07:00

Well it has been awhile! I am safely in Cedar and i am getting use to life, slowly! I miss home a lot but i am excited for what awaits me in life!!! Well i am taking 2 really interesting classes right now, 1st is my Intro to Hospitality! It is a really fun class because it is helping me learn that this is what i want to do in life, i want to help people! The only hard thing about this class is that my teacher is from Thailand and i don't understand what she says most of the time, but i am plearning! My 2nd favorite class is my BA* class (*Business Administration) My Professor is the funniest guy and he really makes it interesting to go to class! It is also fun because it is teaching us about new business and i just really enjoy it! My hardest class is English 1010 i get so frustrated but it is also a good class, because it is teaching me great techniques about writing, which i need to be better at! So college is fun! I have not meet that many new people, but one of my Roommates Danelle, who is from arizona, i just love her we get along so well and it is just fun to hang out with her and do fun things with her! I have a cute little apartment, that i posted pictrues of! So like i said college is fun, but the thing is miss the most is my MOM! I didn't realize how much of a mommy's girl i am! I miss her a ton and wish that she could be with me, these are some of the hardest times in my life, but i am learning that i need to learn to be on my own! But i just love my MOM!!!! She is amazing and i am lucky to have her as my mom! Well i just wanted to give a quick little update!

I nEeD hElP!!!!! sUgGeStIoNs???

2008-08-11T23:32:00.000-07:00

I am just trying to get ready for school...but i didnt realize how much i would need!!! Ahhhh its so stressful...Things just keep coming to mind and i keep forgetting other things! I didnt realize collge was this hard...I need help...what are some good things that i need to get???...what are things that i need more than others...and what can i go without???

I also am really excited for Wednesday!!!! It is my last day to be with Audrey, even though i am sad i can't wait because she is such a wonderful baby and i love her so so much! I am going to miss her so much!!!! I just want to pack her and take her with me!!! But i know that is not an option....well please help if you can!

GiRlS wEeKeNd!!!!

2008-08-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

This past weekend...me my mom, Stephanie, CJ(my aunt), Chell(my other aunt), Grandma Kathy, Kami(my other sister!), Taylor, Lexi, and Madyson (my cousins) all went to Morgan and had a girls weekend!!!! We mad Journals, Watches, Family boards...and just watched movies and had so much fun!!! On saturday we went to Park City and shopped, and i got so much cute Stuff!!! This weekend was so much fun because it was the last weekend that i got to spend with my family before i go off to school! I can't wait!!! I will miss everyone so much but i know that the expierences that i have are going to be worth it!

NEW BLOG!!!/Exciting News

2008-07-29T00:13:00.001-07:00

So i am new at this, but i hope to get really good like all the rest of you!!! This will be my way of keeping in touch with my family while i am away! So the countdown because i move out in 20 days, and i am not sure how i feel about that! I am super excited, but scared at the same time! What am i going to do without my mom right beside me??? haha she will probably be happy to get rid of me!!! Finally she is almost gonna have the whole house to herself!!

The biggest reason i don't want to leave is because precious Audrey is growing up, i have waited 18 years to have a little one, and now that she is here i am leaving, what a bummer! Hopefully she won't forget me!!! Well i am just packing and getting ready for college! Hopefully my next blog will be a little big better, as i learn what i am doing! Love you all!