Prayer

Lately a lot of my prayers have been answered. I want to share just one example with you although I've had a lot happen this past week. I am going to tell you a story about my friend Jose. I met him when I was a freshman in High School in 2004. He was one of my closest friends and he of course had a crush on me. Who didn't? (ha ha just kidding). He was really cool. One thing that bugged me, he didn't understand the church and would make fun of me. Since I met him I've been praying for this boy to find the true Gospel. Well its been 5 years and he just was baptised.

I know sometimes we pray and our prayers aren't answered right away. For me that was hard. I didn't understand why my prayers weren't getting answered. But I will tell you, Heavenly Father will answer that prayer..but when you are ready for that prayer to be answered. I believe in prayer, Thank you to my Heavenly Father who has answered them for me. Even if it took 5 years. I know that Jose wouldn't of been ready 5 years ago like he is ready now. Now I pray his family will follow.

Moving Back Home

I've thought for awhile to update my fellow readers about how it is to be home. How is it to be home? For me, Katheryn Elizabeth Baird, I am loving it. My sister and I hang out more. I get to be close to my family. Yes it was hard for me to leave my apartment with all my friends. But I think it was the best decision at this time in my life. A lot is going on and I love being home to participate in all of it. I get to help my sister make a video for her wedding, still need to finish cleaning my room and putting my stuff away and many more things.
The whole bedroom thing...its a complete mess. I moved in my room as my other sister was moving out. The room and bathroom have been destroyed. Yesterday I spent..pretty much the whole day cleaning. The only thing I really finished was the bathroom. More to do; my laundry, bedroom, and a video.
School, I officially started back into school. Not really at a school but doing BYU Independence Study. I have a goal to finish 2 classes 4-7 weeks. They are each 3 credits. I am hoping that will help me catch up on all the school I've missed. I am enrolled in 2 Institute classes. I am excited to get them started. I love doing something productive with my life.
Here is what is going on in my life since being home. I love it.

Saying 'Good-Bye'

Saying good-byes are a little hard for me. I hate thinking I might never see them again, they will have a life without me in it. I know these are probably not a good thing to think, but I do it. I am not going to lie, I cried over my good-byes. One friend has left to Japan. I believe he is going to teach English for a year and a half. I am a bit worried I will never see him and the fact he left my roommate who is in love with him. Just makes the story a little more tender to my heart.

I've moved home. Back to my old room, sharing with my sister for a bit. Free food, delicious. Spending time with just my mother. I've had fun just the first 2 days I've been home.

Although the good-bye saying is so hard for me, so much is coming my way. New ward, new friends, more adventures, old friends, family, sisters wedding, bridal showers for my sister, and so much more that I don't know is coming....how exciting. I can't live on the good-bye word. I got to live on the Hello word. :)

What Tuesdays Mean to Me..

Tuesdays for me are;

Working , I work for Griffin Hill. I get to work with my brother all day. Usually until 5:00

Family, I get to spend some time with my family and with my roommates. We sit and we catch up on life. How fun is that? Just get to talk with the ones I love. Lucky me.

Dinner, usually tuesdays for my roommates is eat out night. We like to eat something delicious, we know we will work it off in a few minutes. :)

ULTIMATE FRISBEE-GLOW IN THE DARK STYLE! That is right. For 2 hours we play 2 games and its fun. Glow in the dark style is the way to go. I never really enjoyed frisbee. But since I've been introduced to glow in the dark. My roommates and I love to go.

St. George Baby!

Thursday my sisters and nieces headed off to St. George. Before we left we ate lunch with my mother at Wendys. Yummy. We got to St. George and my sister Lindsays husband's relatives have a condo and were so nice to let us use it for a few days. What a nice condo it was. We got there unpacked and headed of to Pizza Factory. We all know that Pizza Factory is d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s! After we got in our swim suits and were off to the pool. They had a kiddie pool, lets just say my niece was loving that pool. The next day we went to swimming, after we ate and went to target for my mother. She had us get her some vases for my sisters wedding reception. We lied to her, we told her there were not any left. They had four and this is a big number for my mother. She has been looking forever and we wanted to surprise her. After target we went to Michaels Arts & Craft store. We dressed up while shopping. After shopping, what comes next????? SPOON ME!! Yum. I had such a fun time with my sisters and nieces. We talked for a long time one night and that was so fun. Just hearing everything that was happening with each other was so fun. Thank you Lindsay for such a fun trip. :)

FHE Olympics

For FHE on Monday my ward decided to put the FHE groups together to do Olympics. We got in our groups and we knew our group was going to be amazing. With our pink nylon around our heads...who wouldn't think we were winners? There was a group that didn't have enough to join in the competition with their small group. They had to split. The more athletic ones in the small group saw the other team..thinking..they look like they will win. Then we got the other 2 not so athletic. We still had our thoughts of us winning!! We had some fast people in our group. Well we were off to the competition behind Provo High School. We were the last group to arrive. We needed to save our energy for the competition. We needed to win. The first race came, the race was having toothpicks in your mouth passing lifesavers to the end of the line...we lost. Our team had great team spirit. We knew that team needed to at least get 1 point. We couldn't waste them to bad. We were on the second race, sponges going through the line trying to get the most water in the buckets. We won, on the most water. Another team won on speed. Let me tell you though, slower you go the more water the sponge holds. :). Next race, throwing water balloons back at forth. Our team one with the most distance. Next race, the final race. The relay. Where the whole team participates. Started with the 3 legged race (which was my roommate Olivia and I and we were so far ahead.) next was the wheel barrow, after wheel barrow it was the balancing the egg on a spoon(thank goodness I didn't get that one..I am not a very good balanced person) after balancing was the crab walk, we had our fastest crab walker there. After Crab walk was leap frog. (good thing we put 2 boys on that, boys are just better at that) after was human bowling. and that's right we won. We were ahead the whole time. I don't think anyone thought our group would be the winners, little did they know our group had the team competitors. :) When we all worked together we did amazing. WE WON THE WHOLE THING!! YAY!!

Tandum Biking

For enrichment we got Tandum bikes. At first I didn't want to go. I didn't want to ride bikes, thought it was dumb. Well we got there (roommates and I) and we rode them...it was love at first pedal. I had so much fun. My roommate & bff Valerie and I were riding them forever. Well after enrichment we got bored. There were six of us. We figured...lets go tandum biking. I was on a bike with a guy, Olivia and a guy, then Val and Amber together. Well my partner was going fast and we hit a ditch where the bike bucked me off. Don't worry I didn't crash to my death...i lived. I actually landed on my feet running down the street. ha ha. It was hilarious. If you know me you know that I am very clumsy. You are probably really shocked that I landed on my feet. After we got a little smore cooker out and roasted some marshmellows and starburst. What a fun night!

Harry Potter Adventure...

My roommates, friends and I went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and don't worry, we dressed up. What could be more exciting then sitting in a line for about 5 hours hoping to get good seats. We brought candy, games, homework, books, magazines and a ball. I will tell you Wynnsong Theater is not as good as the new Theater at the mall. That one they give you little samples of food in the line. This one it was just a little more crazy. The movie was great, wasn't my favorite Harry Potter movie but I did enjoy it. Part of that probably had to do with it being the midnight showing. :) I love attending midnight showings. My next one will be New Moon in November.

Babysitting!

I love babysitting, maybe its because I watch the best kids in the whole wide world. They are all so easy to watch and they love to play with you. Some of my favorite memories are; playing dress ups with my nieces, catching my nephew putting butter on his toast and then just eating the butter, Playing Hide and Go Seek with Wyatt and Weslee, Dancing to Shania Twain with the Mitchell Girls, the best though is getting to hear whats going on in their life. My nephew McKay is now 9 almost 10. He is so fun to talk to, and loves to tell you the fun things going on. Which girl is crushing on him, hearing stories about what him and his friend Max did. Then there is Sweet little Abby who will tell you she has been kissed, then later you find it was just on the forehead and we shouldn't make it a big deal and then you hear about her bully that you just want to go beat up yourself, then you remember she is only Abby's age. Then there is silly goose named Josie who just loves to make you laugh and who also loves to laugh. I will never forget when my friends came to babysit with me and she put on a show for them. They all loved it. Where would these three be without the monkey named Kimball, He loves trucks. And he will blow you a kiss if you do something nice for him. You get Molly who loves to laugh and play outdoors, and where would she be with out Barney...? She wouldn't be Marney. Then there is Stella. She just turned 1 and is going to be amazing. She loves to smile and loves it when you look at her and talk to her. Don't I have the best kids that i get to watch when their mothers need me too? I know I do.

I WON!!

I WON 500 DOLLARS! That is not a joke! I actually have luck in my blood. :) I use myfinancialbook.com and they had a drawing and I won. I am so excited! Thank you Thank you!!