PAST/FUTURE UPDATES

Life is still so crazy and busy and...awesome! Bodie and I only have internet on our phones, and the screen is so small that I cant hardly stand to be on it long. We were going to get the internet at our new place, which is still located in Cedar City, just out in the boonies, but we aren't going to get it anymore. First, Just a quick word about the previous post, my little sister Emily was baptized about a month ago and it was SO awesome!!! Bodie baptized her and it was such a great day. Also, the next weekend (May 2nd) was my graduation from SUU!! My mom, stepdad, two sisters, and also dad and stepmom all came down to attend. President Monson spoke and it was AMAZING!!!! He was great, very exciting. Later that day we all headed to St George to stay at my dad's resort thing and it was such a blast. Our good friends Kody and Ashley also came to hang out. We went swimming, barbequed, and just relaxed in the wonderful weather all evening. It was probably one of the best days ever, having all my close family, all my parents, together at the same place. That has NEVER happened. LOVE YOU ALL!!! p.s. it is THE BEST FEELING EVER to know that I will NEVER have to spend another dime or another minute sitting in a college class. YESSS!!! Another thing that happened during all these events, including moving to our new place, was that someone, still unknown, got ahold of my debit card info and took almost $1000 bucks out of our account! It sucked so bad. Luckily the bank caught it while it was still pending so we got all our money back in about 2 weeks. The people that took it was from the country Dubai. Weird. So I think thats mainly all that's happened in the past month and a half. Baptism, identity theft, graduation, and finally...moving. BUT dont worry! It doesnt end there until recently. Just when we thought we were getting settled in, yet another surprise! and NO. Its not what most of you are thinking, I AM NOT PREGNANT! haha... but...Bodie and I are MOVING! Once again! Most of you already know, but while I have been in the salon and Bode has been doing electrical work, we have also been working together part time for Primerica. A financial company that helps families become debt free, and financially independent. It's been so amazing and the income has been better than our other jobs, not mention the fact that we get to help families in a way that they never thought possible. So rewarding!!! Well an amazing opportunity presented itself to us about 2 weeks ago. Our Regional Vice President who owns our office in St George is expanding into Spokane Washington and has asked us to come help open the office and get things going! We, of course, said YES! We are moving to Spokane in July and just cant even wait. We are so blessed for this great opportunity and the freedom that we will recieve from working with Primerica. We plan to make our home there as well as start our family. We will surely miss our family and friends, but know that this is the best decision for our future goals and dreams! Later we will be able to spend and much time as we want with them for as long as we want!!! Thats all the updates for now! Very exciting times! Hope all is well with all of you! I have a ton of pics to post of everything that has happened, but dont have my camera with me right now. That's also the reason we arent getting the internet, 2 months? Not worth it. Anyway, talk to you all soon!!! WASHINGTON HERE WE COME!!! :)

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Life is BUSY! I have so much new news to share! From my little sisters baptism... to identity theft... to graduation....and also moving! Unfortunatly because Bodie and I did move we haven't got the internet hooked up at our new place yet...so as soon as that gets here, hopefully this week, the blog will be back in business with full details and pictures! Hope all is well with all of you! -Katie

Birthday Pictures

WELCOME TO NINJA~ Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi....This is my one of my favorite restaurants. I will share with you why...

I personally do not like sushi..or any seafood for that matter.
this soup and salad was very yummy though ! A great way to start out...

We sat at the Habachi (?) Grill and had this talented chef whip up our food...literally. He had so many cool tricks, tossing up eggs, throwing stuff around, and he stacked uo an onion and started in on fire!

He was very quick with his hands. We asked him where he learned how to do it all he said SUU...which was obviously a huge joke.

For my dinner I had way yummy new york steak and chicken. It honestly is amazingly good. We also had fresh zuccini and mushrooms for our vegi's, and fresh made fried rice and noodles. It was all made right in front of us. As fresh as it gets! Bodie had Streak and Shrimp. He saved a couple shrimps and went around the table and tossed them into our mouths. I did it so I could try and catch it and it actually tasted really good!



We had a couple close friends come with us. Kody (Sorry Ash couldn't make it!) and also Justin and Amy! We love these guys! They helped make my birthday a blast. Also the chef brought me out some really interested ice cream. I can't remember the name but all around the ice cream was a sponge like cake texture. IT WAS YUMMY!

I absolutly LOVE Ninja. It's so fresh, yummy, and PLENTY of food. Plus you get a GREAT show! Thanks to those who made my birthday a blast. Sorry my pictures are really blurry. I think it's time for a new camera! Maybe next year.

Also, I wanted to post a pic of my new boots but I haven't got them back yet with the new size. Soon I hope!

The Big 22

I am sitting at school right now while waiting for my next class so I thought I would post. Unfortunately I don't have my camera cord here so I cant upload any pics. I will do that later this weekend. Well Tuesday was my 22nd birthday. It was a fun day. Monday I was really sick with body aches and a congested head, so Tuesday I was still recovering but I still felt good. I actually am STILL recovering today...Friday. I went from body aches, to congested head on Tuesday, to no voice on Wednesday, to sore throat yesterday, and today I have that terrible hacking cough. UGh...long week. Anyway, back to my birthday. The morning started out with lots of Happy Birthday texts. By 9:30am I had received texts from all my really close friends, and family. Thanks for thinking of me! Also, my good friend Tiff who is in Florida serving a mission sent me a birthday card! She is so sweet. She is so busy out there and still found the time to send me a birthday card that arrived ON my birthday. I just love her. I went to the salon and did hair most the day...I ended up leaving the salon at 8:00 that evening! When I got home I hurried to freshen up to go to dinner. Before we left, our bishopric stopped in to sing me happy birthday, it was awesome. Then I opened some gifts from our good friends Kody and Ashley King. They gave me lots of goodies, and a Movie. Thanks guys! You're awesome. Then I opened Bodie's gift. New cowgirl boots from Jolley's! I was so surprised. I absolutley love them. I can't wait to get a pic on here for you guys to see. He did SO SO good. Thanks Bode, I sure do love ya! Then us and a couple friends went out to dinner at Ninja Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi. We sat at the Habachi (?) grill and it was awesome. The pictures will tell all. It was so much fun. What a great birthday. I have such a great husband, as well as family and friends. Thanks also to ALL my parents for the dinner certificates, cards, and money. Can't wait to go do some shopping! Thanks to everyone for the sweet messages and for making my Birthday so much fun! Love you all! Pictures soon to come...

A Time to Brag

Ok so I need to brag a little. For those of you that know me well, you know that I DO NOT COOK. At all. For those of you that don't know me, I DO NOT COOK...At all. I never cooked while growing up and since I have been on my own in college I have never really had a desire to cook or bake because I didn't know how. Seriously. We are talkin big time...like, when I lived in a little white house while attending CEU, with Sarin, Chaliese, and Tiff, I screwed up MAC & CHEESE. yeah that's right. Well now I have been married almost 2 years and I can probably count on one hand the times I have actually made and prepared a meal or dessert from scratch..by myself. Well earlier this morning I caught a bit from Good Things Utah, and they had some ladies on their that did "recipe blogs". They were making a main course called "Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas". It seemed simple enough and, of course, they made it seem DELICIOUS. So I thought ok, I am going to make Bodie dinner tonight and dessert. I got online and found the recipe and while searching through various recipes came across a basic chocolate chip cookie one. I decided to do that as well. Well let me just say... It turned out AMAZING. Both of them. Bodie got home from work at about 4 and the cookies were made, and enchiladas were on their way. He didnt really say much (I have made a couple things before, not bad, but not that great)..so I am sure he just figured it was some random generic thing. Well of course he ate a cookie first thing, thought they were good. Not much else. But usually when I make chocolate chip cookies they are really flat and kinda gooey..almost too gooey. You can see from the picture below that they turned out great! Fluffy and the perfect softness. As for the enchiladas...how can I put this...well this is what Bodie said after the first bite, "Oh my gosh...did you really make this or did you go buy it? This is SO good, Holy crap!" YAY! I was so happy! He went on to say, "It's the perfect amount of spiceyness, and sweetness. Wow, that's dang good." Then he got a heaping plate full and ate every last piece. It really is SO good. I loved it too! Usually I hate leftovers but I am actually glad to have more of this! Yummy. I am so proud of myself.

Ok so I know the picture doesn't do it justice, kind of a blob of mush, but believe me, IT'S THE BEST!!!

Don't these cookies look great?! They are perfect. Oh and the ghiradelli chocolate chips, bittersweet, way good.

Everyone can get this great recipe, plus more, at this link:

http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/gtu/default.aspx

the ladies blog address is on their as well, but here it is anyway:

http://phemomenon.blogspot.com/

ENJOY LADIES!!! :)

+++PrOm NiGhT+++

Friday night was my sister Courtney's Junior Prom. What a great night! We had fun getting her all ready for her big night. I had a lot of fun doing her hair and makeup! Her boyfriend Andrew came to pick her up in a limo...how cute. She had a hard time putting on his boutenierre (don't know how that's spelled) it was funny. They took off in the limo and then me, my sister Emily, and my Mom and Step-dad Glyn went to watch the promenade. There were so many pretty dresses! She did so good at the dance. She was so happy...and most of all looked BEAUTIFUL!!!

Some of the pictures are kind of dark, but the theme of the dance was "A Night to Treasure" They had this great ship built and they all walked out of that as they were announced. The music was off the Pirates of the Carribbean..just background music. I thought it was such a cute idea! After she did the promenade dance she had a dance with Glyn... then after that we all just took a bunch of pictures..







The night was so much fun and Emily and I had a good time picking out our favorite pictures. It was great to see other family and friends as well.

Up to date...

I guess it's time to post something. It seems like life has been so incredibly busy lately with school and work. I like being busy, don't get me wrong, but it's interesting when you look back at what you have accomplished by being so busy and there really isn't anything specific. Papers, books, projects, etc...not that great. I guess I am accomplishing getting a step further toward graduation! May 2nd will be the best day ever. Everyone keeps asking me what my plan is after I graduate. The answer I always give is..I dont know! Nothing! And I can't be more happy. I have had a "plan" now for a lot of years, grade school, high school, 4 years of college...and finally it's OVER! yay! I like the idea of taking it easy, and doing what I want to do. What I want to do is keep working in the salon because I love to do hair, and also build a huge business with my wonderful husband. Primerica is going great and we absolutly love it. I love doing hair, but I would rather not rely on the income, but do it just because I love it. Bodie has learned alot while being an electrician, but lets face it, neither of these occupations are going to get us the dream life we want for our family, however, Primerica will. That's one thing that we are staying plenty busy with...and loving every part of it.. Not to mention that we get to share this great opportunity with our family and friends. Spring break is just around the corner and that means about a month and a half of school left. Man how time flies. Hope all is well with all of you! Until next time...