Kelly Howard

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2009-05-09T23:02:00.001-07:00

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Engagement Pictures

2009-04-14T15:59:00.000-07:00

Last month Mike and I went to Idaho Falls and got our engagement pictures taken. Here are a few of them:

Weekend in Fruitland

2009-04-14T15:45:00.000-07:00

A couple weeekends ago Mike and I were able to spend the weekend in Fruitland. Friday we did a little shopping in Boise with my parents and then we met up with Tyler, Kati, and Quincy to go out to dinner. This is us at cafe ole for dinner.

On Saturday we helped my dad move a wheel line back into one of our fields; about a week earlier a wind storm had blown it at least a half a mile over two fenses and up a hill into our nieghbors field. Mike didn't seem to mind helping my dad out; actually, he said he enjoyed working on a farm! Later that day my mom and Kati threw me a bridal shower. It was a lot of fun and they did a great job. We had almost ten people show up and we ate some food, make me advise book, and opened some gifts. Mike, my dad, and Tyler were supposed to be at the priesthood meeting for general conference, but the NCAA championship basketball game was on so they stuck around the house to watch it. Lucky for them, they also got stuck as the babysitters for the kids that came with a couple of the moms to the shower.

It was a great weekend and I really enjoyed being able to spend time with my parents and Tyler and Kati, since we don't seem to get to that very often.

I'm engaged!!

2009-02-05T21:58:00.000-08:00

It's official! I just got engaged tonight!!!!!! :)
We're getting married May 1st in the Twin Falls Temple.

Recent Events

2009-01-13T15:47:00.000-08:00

The biggest news I have right now is that I moved to Jerome, ID the end of December. Mike and I were able to go down to Provo the beginning of January to watch BYU play wakeforest; the game was so much fun to watch!!! But I still wish BYU would have pulled it out at the end. For the past week I've been working at a bookstore doing inventory and I've also applied to be a substitute teacher for the Jerome School District. Today was my first day of subbing. I subbed for a 3rd grade class and it was a lot of fun. At first I was really nervous because I had no idea what to do, but I think it went really well. So hopefully I'll start getting more calls to sub in the near future.

This past weekend Mike had to work in Pocatello on Thursday and Rexburg on Friday so I went with him. It was fun because I got to see my cousin Janelle who I hadn't seen in a long time. Also that weekend Mike played in a basketball tournament at the Sho-Ban rec center (its on an indian reservation near Idaho Falls). His team was a bunch of friends of his that used to play together years ago when they were all at BYU-I. They did really good and we a lot of fun to watch. I even got a couple pictures of Mike playing; they didn't turn out too well though cuz I was still trying to figure out my camera and the gym was way dark.

That's what I've been up to lately. I'm really happy to be here in Jerome, its been great being here with Mike. And its been really good hanging out with his family. They're all so nice and have welcomed me into their home better than I could have ever asked for.

Thanksgiving break!!!

2008-12-01T22:29:00.000-08:00

I had the best thanksgiving break; a whole week of no school(thanks to my slacking attitude of not caring enough to drive back for one day of classes) and tons of amazing food! First big event of thanksgiving break was going go kevin's(mikes little brother) championship football game in pocatello. His team ended up losing, but Kev played great and was tons of fun to watch. The next few days consisted of hanging out with Mike's family, shopping in pocatello while Mike was in a meeting, and trying to conquer super mario. I did manage to go home to Fruitland wednesday and thursday to spend time with the family; which was great! I was able to pick Quincy up in boise on my way home and spoil him with peanut M&M's till Tyler and Kati showed up later that night. Then we just played games with the family and watched Christmas Vacation. Thanksgiving morning the guys and I went and played basketball while the 'moms' stayed home and took care of preparing the appetizers and the turkey. haha... I completely stuffed myself; especially with pumpkin pie!! YUM!!!

Friday morning I drove back to Jerome for my friend Linzi and Brady's wedding and reception. It was so great to be there when she came out of the temple and her reception was really good too. Saturday was Kev's first basketball game of the season; it was in Jerome against BK. It was a good opener game for Kev. There were pictures taken at Kev's football game and Linzi's reception, but I still need to get them from Mike. All I have is a pic of my family on Thanksgiving getting done eating.

I'm so thankful for my family! and also, Mike and his family for letting me spend so much time there at their home.

Family time in Boise!

2008-10-13T09:00:00.001-07:00

This past week I was able to make it up to Boise for a couple of days to see my brother Tyler and his family. Also, my parents were able to make it to Boise Thursday night to take us out to dinner! It was a lot of fun staying at Tyler's place and hanging out with him, Kati and Quincy. Tyler rented some Brazilian movie from the library earlier that week, so after dinner Thursday night when we got back to their place we watched it since both Tyler and Mike went to Brazil on their missions and they wanted to hear some portuguese for a couple of hours. It was an interesting movie to say the least; but parts of it were kind of funny. My parents also took us to krispy kreme donuts after dinner, I think mostly because my dad loves to feed Quincy the donuts. Thanks Tyler and Kati for letting me stay with you guys! Also, thanks Kati for going on that little run Thursday, that was fun! Hopefully you guys can make it down to Utah sometime.

weekend in jerome

2008-09-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

this past weekend i stayed in jerome with mike and his family. it was so much fun! friday night we went to his little brother, kevin's, football game in burley. jerome killed burley! saturday lindsi, randy, mike, and i went up to sun valley (i had never been there before) and ice skated; then went out to eat at smokeymountain pizza. Then we went back to jerome and hit up the driving range. later we went back to mike's paretns house and watched lots of football and had a bbq. linzi kulm and her fiance came over that night also and hung out and played some wii and just talked to for a while. it was so good to see you! Then sunday we went to church to brian and megan's ward to listen to them speak and so i could see me cousin mandy and her family. she was so confused when she saw me tho cuz she thought i was heather and couldn't understand what i was doing there with mike! haha... it was a really good weekend and mike's family is amazing!!!

I'm back!

2008-08-05T14:54:00.000-07:00

It's official i'm a BYU student again! Today I went and got my new student ID card from BYU and in less than a month I'll be back in school. After I got my ID card I realized that in the past 3 years I look a little different... ha. I wish i still had my picture from 3 years ago at BYU to compare to my new one. But i just have the new picture they took for my card.

FHE: water kickball

2008-08-05T08:29:00.000-07:00

last night for fhe my ward played water kickball. i had never played it before and it turned out to be really fun. except for during the first 5 minutes of the game when kent pelted me with the ball while standing less than 10 feet away; i'm most definate i'll have a bruise from that! ha. other than that it was a lot of fun.

I graduated from TVCC! (haha... is that really an accomplishment?)

2008-07-26T17:18:00.000-07:00

Well its official I recieved my 2 year degree from Treasure Valley Community College in the mail the other day; but since i'm not at home I have yet to see it, but none the less I still got it! Amazingly enough the 2 years I spent there went by really really fast! I think it's because the entire time I was there I was either playing basketball or running track. Playing college basketball was so much fun! My team didn't end up doing as well as we should've and could've, but it was still a great experience. What made it even better was that my mom and dad went to just about every game. It was good to have them there to watch and support me. During my first year at TVCC I was recruited to run track for the college (they must have thought I looked fast cuz really I'm not a fast runner). I had not run track since I was in the 8th grade, but decided I had nothing better to do with my time so I might as well and I'm so glad that I did! Although I was good, it was a lot of fun and it helped me to get into better shape for basketball season. My first year I ran the 400m relay and the 1600m relay. Our 1600m relay team got 3rd place at championships my first year and this last year we were 4th. My second my coach somehow convinced me to run the 400m hurdles (let me tell you, that race kills!). It took some time figure out what I was doing, but I ended up qualifying for the finals at championships and placed 7th. I was proud of myself for the fact the it was the first time I'd ever ran that event and the fact that I'm not really a runner. All in all, playing sports at TVCC was a wonderful experience and I am so glad I was able to have that opportunity!

I finally have a job!!!

2008-07-12T04:00:00.000-07:00

It took a few weeks but I was finally able to get a job here in Utah. I work at Best Western about 5 miles from my house. Its a pretty good job and I like the people that i work with; so I'm quite happy about it. I work every Monday and Tuesday from 9am-4pm doing housekeeping which isn't the funnest job but its good manual labor which makes me feel really productive. It was really funny when I was being trained to clean because the head housekeeper doesn't know like any english so the entire time I just nodded my head and pretended like I knew what she was talking about even though I had no idea what she was telling me to do! But I eventually caught on and began to just let her show me instead of trying to explain it to me. In addition to working housekeeping I work the front desk friday and saturday nights from midnight to 8am (which is acutally what I'm doing right now; I got all my work done before 3am and read through our black binder with everything I need to learn about the job and have been bored out of my mind for the past 2 hours!). But I have to admit that this is a fun shift and enjoy being able to relax; I'll just remember to bring a book to read tomorrow night. There are a couple of advantages to working here: 24 hr access to a swimming pool and hot tub and sweet deals for staying at the hotel and other hotels affiliated with us. There is a sweet room here I'm going to stay in sometime with an in room hot tub! Well that pretty much explains what my life consists of these days... pretty lame! HA!