Kati And Nate Garrett

Hello Again!

2011-10-13T19:48:00.000-07:00

Well at least it hasn't been a full half year since the last post. Getting close though. A lot has happened in the last few months. We bought a house in June and before we even got to move in we headed off to Texas to go visit Dave, Jana, and Ashtyn, and The Ward family. We had a great time and Kati even thought that she could move there comfortably. We came back after a wonderful week and the people who we bought the house from still hadn't moved out yet. It was an annoying few days but they finally left and we got to move into our first home! In August I started going back to school and life has been really busy. Also in August we got some good news. We are going to have a baby! The approximate due date is April 21st and we couldn't be more excited! So far everything is going well. In September 2 of my really good friends got married. Derek Denney married Whitney, the love of his life. Unfortunately that was right when Kati started having a very debilitating sickness with the pregnancy that is only now starting to go away, so we weren't able to attend. Our best wishes go out to Derek and Whitney in their new life together! Also Landon Coburn from my mission married Seara, a lovely young woman I have had the pleasure of meeting several times. We wish them continued happiness in their new union. That is all of the news I can think of for now. If I think of anything else I will make another post! Have a good one!

-Nate

Spring 2011!!!

2011-05-06T17:24:00.000-07:00

Wow, it has been a while since we last updated this. We have been awfully busy!!! We wish we could actually have a spring this year but I don't see that happening.
A lot has happened this spring so far. We had our first Anniversary. Time flies. I can't believe we have been married for a year already!!! We bought two cute little bunnies! They are so fun to let out and play with. I love to hold them. Nate says they are just so relaxing. We have also put ourselves in the house market. We are trying to buy a house!!! I have to say, it has been an interesting experience so far. I can't believe how some relator's can be. We put in offer in on a house and they declined it. We have an offer currently going with another house that we really really like. We are so very hoping that we get it! We are excited and nervous to be possible home owners!!!
That is really all that is new. Oh, Nate has decided to go back to trying to be a vet. I hope he puts all his might into it!!! That would be such a great thing for him and I. We both loves animals!
~Kati~

Beautiful Views

2011-03-01T06:15:00.000-08:00

Well it's been awhile since anything happened on the ol' blog, so I though I would share a picture I took last night. The sun was setting as Kati got home, and I saw a great picture opportunity. This is a shot from our back yard, and I though it looked really cool!

Long Week...

2011-01-09T16:38:00.000-08:00

It was a long week this week. My uncle's funeral was beautiful, hard, but beautiful. My sister, her kids, and my brother's baby and girlfriend were here since Thursday. It was nice to spend time with them. My dogs loved having the kids here. Especially Desmond. He got to play and be loved on. He loved it. Both dogs now are passed out from all the fun and stress they had this weekend. I can say Meka was happy to see them leave but I think Des was sad to see them leave. He kept looking at me and I could just tell he was asking if he could keep one. My sister and my windshield both got broke over the weekend. Mine just keeps cracking farther and farther in two spots. Thank goodness for insurance!
Tomorrow we go back to work, sigh... I felt like I had no weekend. Nate starts a new shift tomorrow. He is now going to be working 7-3. I am happy for this. By the time he is getting ready to leave I am getting up and I actually get to see him off. That will be nice.
~Kati~

Google Maps

2011-01-06T06:40:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone!
So I just wanted to share a recent discovery of mine with you. I was recently goofing around on Google Maps trying to find some of my apartments from my mission when I discovered that they now have street view enabled in the larger cities in Romania! (See below for an old Apartment of mine.) Now obviously that part is only exciting to me, but after looking around, it is also available in other areas too! Sadly not yet Ukraine, but the France- Switzerland area has VERY detailed images. You can essentially walk down the street and go almost anywhere you want! Ok, I just thought I would share. Enjoy!

-Nate

Bringing in the New Year.

2010-12-31T14:10:00.000-08:00

Well Christmas is now over. Thank goodness for that! Nate got a Nook that he is very happy with. (Thanks Mommy Shelley). I got clothes and a gift card for my favorite clothing store. (Thanks Mommies) That is the big gist of what we got this year.
At the beginning of this week, my Uncle Joe got rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure a couple of weeks ago. He also had some pneumonia. When they got him to the hospital they hooked him up to a ventilator to get his CO2 down to where it needed to be. Then they had to give him medication to help his heart beat right. They also found that 3/4 of his lungs were full of pneumonia, and knew that he had a blood clot somewhere . They got him stabilized and moved him to IHC in Murray, Utah. They were waking him up more and more over the last few days. They were trying to take him off the heart medication but every time they did his heart would stop. They needed to get him off of it because it was a harmful medication.Yesterday, Thursday 12/30/10, they had him up in a chair and he had a heart attack. They tried to revive him for about 45 minutes, but they couldn't get him to come back. Uncle Joe is now in a better place then we are. He is the old Joe that I grew to know and love very deeply. He is watching over us. I told Nate last night that he is up there watching over our future children. This is the biggest thing that gives me comfort. Uncle Joe I love you and will miss you dearly! Save me a spot on the bench I know you are sitting on to wait for us!
We have decided to have the viewing Friday night and the funeral Saturday. We want to give time for my dad to get home and Joe's brother to also get home.They are both truck drivers.
Enough sadness... Nate and I are going to a party at one of our friends house tonight! It should be fun we are having dinner and playing board games and just hanging out. Then tomorrow I am going to get my nails done and go shopping with friends. Nate will be hanging out with a friend playing games. We want to wish you all a Happy New Year!!! May it bring great joy to all of you!!!

‎~In Memory of a darn nice guy...Joe Hickle~ My mom found this and I wanted to share it!
God looked around the garden, and found an empty space. He looked down upon the earth, and saw your tired face. He put his arms around you, and lifted you to rest.God's garden must be beautiful for He only takes the best. He knew that you were weary, and He knew you were in pain, he knew that you would never be well on the earth again. He saw the roads were getting rough, and the hills were hard to climb, so He closed your weary eyes, and whispered, "peace be thine."

Christmas Plans for 2010!

2010-12-23T19:04:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it is that time of year again. Ba Hum Bug!!!! I told Nate that I hope I get excited again once we have kids. I don't know what it is with this time of year but it is just no fun when you grow up. I want to be little again and have Santa bring me all the fun toys. I also want to be trying to sneak past my parents room with my brother so we can see what Santa brought us.
This year we are spending Christmas Eve at Nate's parents house, along with Christmas morning. Tony said that he would be to Shelly and John's by 5 am. I hope I am up by that point. It actually might be fun to have the girls come wake us up!!! On Christmas day we will be driving back up to Idaho to have the Jorgensen's Famous Breakfast. My mom has to work till about 10-11, so my dad is in charge. We will see if he does a good job.
Nate and I already got our Christmas present. On Black Friday we bought a lap top. We decided on that instead of a TV for our room. (This way Nate can do school where ever we are!) This year had been hard to shop for everyone, I don't know why this year has been so bad. It shouldn't be so hard.
We got Meka and Desmond some new toys and treats. They have already been trying to get us to let them play with the toys. I told them that they better not find them or they would get no Christmas. (I am about to tell Des he don't get a Christmas because he keeps trying to kill us with his deadly farts! Man they stink.)
Merry Christmas!!! ~Kati~

Does anyone still read this?

2010-11-21T11:03:00.000-08:00

Hi there everyone! so a lot has happened since march 25th... sorry about the delay on updates. Anyways, here's an update! We moved apartments from our original, and since then we have moved to idaho! craziness I know but it's been really good so far and we both have jobs we're enjoying quite a bit. Back in may we had an addition to our little family, our 2 month old golden retriever that we named Desmond. He's been growing faster than we can keep up but he's been a very kind and loving little guy. Meka loves playing with him but he gets on her nerves sometimes.
At the begining of this month we ran a 5k with some of the Garrett side of the family. Tony, Megan, John Francis, and Mrs. Knickerbocker herself who signed us all up. We all had a wonderful time and no one died. All in all I'd say it was a successful day! We'll be sure to try and keep up on our blog now that we're out of the state. That's all for now!

Mr.and Mrs. Nate Garrett

2010-03-25T14:41:00.000-07:00

Its been awhile since either one of us has posted anything. So here it goes... We are finally married. It was a long wait but we're glad that its now over. We are so happy!!! We want to thank all of you that helped and supported us. I want to thank all of you that were there for my endowment session. It was a great experience. Nate and I went none stop all day on our wedding day. But it was worth it. I want to thank those who destroyed our car, and apologize for hiding our car the second night. (Just so you know we didn't want a repeat from the night before.) We had a blast in Lava and now we are just spending time at our apartment together before we go back to work. Again thanks for all the support and love! We love you all!
~Kati~

Moving Part 1

2010-02-15T09:03:00.000-08:00

Wow, this was one heck of a busy weekend! We got the apartment lease signed, and we started moving all of Kati's stuff and some of my stuff into the apartment. Alex was cool enough to help us out the first day, and Thanks to my dad we had the use of a truck to move the furniture that we had here. Kati's Mom and friend Lexi were able to come down and bring a bunch of her stuff down from Idaho, including our lovely dog Meka! Kati's brother and his family came down yesterday to bring her couch and desk, and then we all went to Draper to pick up a dresser and dining room table that had been given to us. Also Kati got her bridal pictures taken on Saturday, but I don't know much about that, so I'll let her talk about that if she wants to, because I just know that they were taken, and that's it. Lol! Needless to say it has been a very long weekend and we've all been exhausted by it, but it's great to have most of the moving done now. All that's really left is to move in the rest of my stuff once we get married! So that will be another adventure in itself. Life is good, and there are only about 29 days to go! Invitations will be going out son, so check your mailboxes! That's it for now.

One month to go!

2010-02-05T17:13:00.000-08:00

So we have a month and a few days to go!!! We are both getting very excited. We found an apartment and I am moving in on the 12th of February! It is a really cool place. We fell in love with it the minute we walked in and it all just worked out so we knew it was the place!!!

I have been stressing over invites for a while and couldn't figure out the best and cheapest way to do them. Then my mom found the place to do the collage for the pictures, that you see above. Thanks mom!!! We are still working on the rest of the invitation, but I have the paper for that so it will be done soon!

We are still looking for flowers. Not sure of the best place to get them that have all the colors that I want. So I am stressing about flowers. Its the last thing that we need!

We decided to hire someone to decorate the church in Weston. It will be so much easier and that way we aren't adding more on to the long three day party that we have going on! This way the family and Nate and I can just show up and leave. They will be doing the set up and take down! Its going to be gorgeous. Can't wait to see it!

Nate is doing a great job at his new position at work! He keeps getting little promotions here and there. Its great for us!!! I am so proud of him!!! He is doing the best he can to support me and I love it. I am one of those girls that wants to stay home as soon as the kids start to come and he knows this. So he is trying his hardest to have a great job so I can do that!!! I love you honey!!!

My job is the same old same old. I would like a new one but just can't find the guts to do a full search for one. I don't want to leave my boss high and dry. She needs me. But I will do what I have to after the wedding!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentines Day!!! Love you all!

~Kati~

Yet another update

2010-01-25T17:04:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone this is Nate. Things have been going really well lately, and we have been very blessed. Like Kati said I was recently promoted to a full time ream lead position at work, and they expect me to be ready to be a supervisor within 6 months. So that's pretty exciting stuff! Kati got to take a trip up to Idaho this weekend, and I couldn't go because of work obligations but I'm glad she got to go spend some time with her Mom and family up there. Things are coming together for the wedding, we're compiling the final lists and getting a final concept on the invitations. Many thanks to everyone who has been helping us out so far, we really appreciate everything that you do! Thanks again! We'll see you soon!

The New Year!

2010-01-08T16:07:00.000-08:00

We have started a New Year!!! This year of 2010, Nate and I will be married, for all eternity. This year we begin our life together!
Our Christmas was good. Spending time with family and friends is always fun and enjoying! Our New Year was brought in by watching a movie and me being a little sick. Not the best way to bring in the New Year, but we were together and thats all that matters.
This past Tuesday, I went to Idaho and paid off my dress and picked it up! I just sat there and looked at it. My maid of honor and one of my brides maids came over and looked at it! I was so excited to show it off. I also picked up Nate's ring. I tried it on his finger and he was not allowed to look! Yes I made him close his eyes while I made sure it fit. It fits perfectly!
Now that the New Year is here, I have finally realized that I need to get stuff done. Poor Nate has to put up with me being all stressed out. I think I am doing pretty good so far. I know I am going to get worse closer to the day. I am trying to get everything done early so that we don't have to worry about it those last few weeks. All of the centerpiece pieces are now here so I can play with how I want them to look on the table and what else I need to add to them. I am so excited to see them on the actual tables!
Nate got promoted at work!!! We are both so very happy that he did. He is now in a leadership position. He is working towards a supervisor!!! He is now in charge of making sure that three or four departments are doing their jobs and making their quota and staying on budget! He deserved this promation! I am so proud of you and I love you honey!
This year is going to be full of great adventures! The biggest of them all is I get to start my life and eternity with the man of my fairytales! I am here to say that Fairytales do come true! You just have to believe that they will! Happy New Year!
~Kati~

December 2009

2009-12-21T20:52:00.000-08:00

So here it is December 21st, and we have not made a post for a while. Well since round Halloween time. So I thought I would make a post. We have had a busy few months. I have been working like crazy. I have also been trying to figure out bridesmaids dresses, what shoes I am going to wear, when I need to order the centerpieces, how I am going to make decrotive pillars, who is going to do my cake, who is going to do my bridals, and when I will have my dress in my own hands. We have decided to do a princess spring ball theme for the wedding. With that I am letting my bridesmaids wear there prom dresses! My mom came up with the idea and I thought it was perfect for the theme that we chose. If everyone wants to dress up like they are going to a ball please do so. You don not have to though! I still have not picked out shoes yet. My bridals I still have not decided how I want to do those. I mean it is the middle of winter! Brrrr... I have a friend in Idaho that is a great photographer, and she said that she would do them, and my cousin also asked to do them as well. I just don't know. I am paying of my dress the first of January!!! I am so excited for that. My aunt is doing our cake!!! So enough bout the wedding stuff!
I had a Jarvis Christmas party, thats my mom's family. Nate had to work, and that was sad. But I had a great time just playing Bingo, eating food, laughing, talking, and even watching The Christmas Story. Best Christmas movie ever. We went to Nates family party on the Campbell side, thats Shelly's side of the family. I got to meet everyone! It was a blast!!! I had a great time. We missed you Dave and Jana, Angie and Greg. We wish you could of been there. Nate and I have all our Christmas shopping done. I have all of mine wrapped and ready to go. I want Christmas to be over. I know I know. Its a great holiday. I just want to get to January so I can be full speed getting wedding stuff done. We are spending a little part of Christmas Eve with my family in Idaho, then we are getting together with some friends, in Idaho, of ours that are all married now. We are going to play games and eat food!!! Then half of Christmas day we are spending it with my family in Idaho. Then we are going to be with Nates family the rest of Christmas day. Then its back to work. Not sure of out New Year's plans.
Well we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!! We love you all!
~Kati~

Wedding Date Set and Reservations Made!!!

2009-10-31T09:34:00.000-07:00

We have decided to go with March 18, 2010!!! This date is set and is not going to change! So mark your calendars!!! Sometime this week Shelley went and got the Atrium reserved for the reception! And I have reserved the Weston Church house in Idaho for the open house on the 19th! Today I got the rest of the information to Salt Lake Temple for the sealing. Also today I got my endowment session scheduled for the 17th! This got us both so exicted that we just want it to March now!!! I am so happy that the date, the temples, the reception hall, and the church are all scheduled!!! I also got my dress!!! So now we get to move on to more important things and get the planning moving right along!!! We are still trying to find the flowers we want and trying to figure out what to do about the cake! We have a photographer for the temple, reception, and open house! We got a great deal, due to my maid of honor!!! She has the connections! I am still trtying to find someone for the bridals! We are also trying to find a good honeymoon! We want to do a a cruise. We are just trying to find the best deals for the cruise and the flights! Its a lot harder than I thought it would be. But its coming along. The next step we are going to take is getting registered at a few stores, getting the bridesmaids/maid of honor dresses picked out, and getting the mothers dresses picked out. We have started looking for places to live, and the best prices, and what we like with layouts. We are just hoping that when we go to get one we can get one that is what we want! We are now just wishing the time would start to speed up! Its going fast but we wish it would go faster!
~Kati~

Joys of Idaho

2009-10-15T09:00:00.000-07:00

Nate and I got to go to Idaho finally. It was a great weekend. I showed Nate most of the places I went when I was a kid. We also looked for the new car again. We found a Ford Escape. I couldn't get it cause I need a co-signer. So we are still looking. Alex (my cousin, and Nates friend) came up Saturday to Idaho. We went to my Grandmas to fondue(sp). It was great!!! It was Nates first time to do it with oil and meat. Nate decided that we need a fondue pot now so we can do fondue all the time! I agree. Its wonderful!!! I did find my dress when I was in Idaho!!! I am so excited and wish all you could see it, but the Groom to be can't see it till the awaiting wedding day! While in Idaho Nate got to meet a lot of my friends. They all love him of course!!! My dog Meka and my nephew Hayden are both traitors. They followed Nate all over the place. Hayden would go through the house saying "my Nate" and saying "boom". Boom is the game Nate taught him. Nate even passed the brother Layne test. Layne tried to get him to go coon hunting, but I of course said no. Nate can go next time when he has clothes that will keep him warm. We had a great time!!!
~Kati~

Plans 'n Stuff

2009-10-07T20:14:00.001-07:00

Ok, I figure I should make a post on here so Kati doesn't have to do all of the work... that's just not fair. So things have been going really well since the engagement. All sorts of plans have been coming together and paning out very well. We may have a reception center picked out, which is a pretty big step since Shelley had to drag us out of the house to do it! Hahaha! Just kidding mom, we loved it, and thank you for your ideas, it's all been very helpful, and you've been an amazing help. I am, however one of your sons and have to give you a hard time.
Kati's mom also made a trip down this weekend and went dress shopping with Kati on monday, and she also got to see the reception center, and a lot of cakes! Hahaha, that's the best part! As of now our biggest goal is getting Kati a new car! Our best options are small SUV's (CR-V's RAV4's and Mazda tributes are the current favorites) If anyone has any news on a good deal, please be sure to let us know! Well I think that should cover it for now.

-Nate

Me-n-Nate

2009-10-05T20:08:00.000-07:00

This is just an update of what is going on in our lives. It has been an awesome few days. We got to join Tony, Megan, Laney, Hadley, and Mom and Dad, for some conference on Sunday. Along with some great food!!! It was yummy!!! Then today I went dress shopping!!!!! It was a balst. I loved trying on those nice pretty dresses. I believe I found the one. Wish I could post the pics for you all to see but then Nate would see it to. So you all get to be surprised along with him!!!! It is gorgeous to so you all know! My mom (Lori) has written in her date book March 18th as the date, and she said it is set in stone and we can't change it anymore. So hopefully we don't change it. We want all of you there and that date I beileve fits the best for us all!!! We are both very excited! And can't wait!!! It is a big day. I feel like time is against us, now that I have something to look forward to! I think that is all I have to update you all on at this point!
~Kati~

2009-10-02T21:30:00.000-07:00

We guess we will begin with the basic, stuff first. We are pretty sure most of you know how we met. But we are going to tell it. I decided to move to Salt Lake from Weston, ID, Mothers Day weekend. My cousin Alex was going to be at my sisters to help me move in. He warned me that he was going to be bringing a friend that wanted to help. Low and behold, that friend was Nate. Alex didn't warn me that Nate was going to be my future husband!!! And love of my life!!! We didn't start dating till a couple months later. That is where it just shoots off! As our link says Perfect Fit. And that is what we are.

~Kati~

Engagement

2009-10-02T12:19:00.001-07:00

Here are some of the Pictures from the night we got engaged. We're still new to this whole blog thing, so bear with us as we learn. Enjoy!