Well I am now officially Kaitlin Clark Lanham!
Yeah, I know what you are thinking, "You have been for almost a month now." True but not legally. Like none of my documents said it other than the marriage license.
So..... Getting my new Social Security card with my new name on it and changing my name and address on my license is kinda a big deal. I am now known as Kaitlin Lanham and how amazing that is. Now I just have to go through BYU... great. I have heard that is annoying.
Getting married and taking the new name of Lanham makes me think back to my Freshman year of college when I was a Relief Society instructor for my ward. One of the lessons I taught was on the sacrament and something I remember talking about was renewing our baptismal covenants. One of those covenants being that we take the name of Jesus Christ upon us.
That has stuck with me through the past three years. I think about more readily on how my words and actions are a reflection on the name I have.
Sure me "saying" to a guy in a green BYU IT truck that doesn't stop, "Nice stop, (and then a name, something harmless like dummy)," may reflect on my name Kaitlin Lanham but how well does that reflect on my other name? ps... that may or may not have actually happened tonight as we were crossing the cross walk from Brick Oven. I was not happy.
What other name? The one I took upon me at the age of 8 on November 27, 1999. The name of Jesus Christ that I want to be worthy of.
I want to be a good example of my new name and the name I reflect back to on Sunday's during the sacrament. I should be reflecting more on it during the week (like when crossing cross walks) than I do but come on....
Nobody's Perfect.
I'm out.
Kaitlin Lanham
I don't think I will ever be tired of that.
May 30, 2013
May 28, 2013
Sharing Your Religion
I wrote this paper a while ago for one of my classes. I'm kinda proud of it and I wanted to share it. I wanted to share where my beliefs fit in with dance.
I saw this video while I was looking for something for FHE last week and it made me really motivated to share my testimony. This is how I want to start.
So here is a link to the paper I wrote. I believe every. single. word.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FOqTR4azhOxRPN8Z0e0LWDTRQdEa25_sStgC1JBumLI/edit?usp=sharing
I am so thankful for my knowledge of this gospel. I know that the words I used from the men called of God are his words.
So here is a link to the paper I wrote. I believe every. single. word.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FOqTR4azhOxRPN8Z0e0LWDTRQdEa25_sStgC1JBumLI/edit?usp=sharing
I am so thankful for my knowledge of this gospel. I know that the words I used from the men called of God are his words.
May 24, 2013
.... In Dinosaur
I was looking on Pintrest the other day and saw this beaut of an image. I took a picture of it on my phone and sent it to Tiffany and Deanna, my freshman roommates. It was quite perfect with our background love of dinos.
I apparently have a new name too! I am no longer Clarkceratops. I am now the Lanhasaurus Rex. Chad and I are Lanhasauri Reges (plural form). Credit for the names goes completely to Deanna. Can't wait to see those two girls again.
Until then,
Rawr
May 20, 2013
Married Life
So the wedding has come and gone, and Chad and I have now been married for two weeks (well tomorrow that is, but close enough)! I get people asking me all the time how married life is so here is a little update on how great it is.
Chad had had to go into work at six every morning since the 13th. He gets off at 4:30pm so he gets pretty tired when he gets home. He usually takes a nap when he gets home for just a while to rejuvenate. Chad works for BYU's moving department on one of the crews. His crew is responsible for moving new furniture to various places on campus and with four new Heritage buildings done, it is his crews responsibility to get them furnished. They have had all the furniture for quite sometime. My work got in the beds over a year ago due to the company going bankrupt. So we have had to hold some overflow for the moving crew that they can't really fit in their own huge warehouse. Needless to say they will be doing that all summer.
Along with doing the new Heritage buildings on campus, Chad and his work crew are also going to be helping with the new MTC. MTC West. They are going to be two different MTC's. They will have not affiliation with one another. It will be the Provo MTC and the Provo MTC west... or something like that. The new MTC is the old Raintree apartments. Last I heard they were also taking over part of Wyview for the Sister missionaries but I am not 100% sure on that information so don't quote me on that.
Chad has been very busy with work but something that he hasn't failed to do is wake me up and let me know he is heading out. We then have been able to have prayer together in the morning before he leaves for work. I really have loved doing that. It is very nice to pray together. When I get up he usually has left a note for me that say something a long the lines of...
I write one back to him because he will see it rather when he gets off for lunch and goes home or when he gets off at the end of the day and is home 30 minutes before I am. This has made my love grow so much more.
I am finding so much free time on my hands. With work from 8-5 every day and it being slow in the afternoon I am looking on pintrest more and more... I haven't been pinning a lot mind you (which is probably a good thing... great thing...) but I sure have been looking a lot more. Pinning will happen tonight probably... Yeah...
Our little apartment is now a home. We are settled in and I will have to take pictures and upload them on to my computer and post them here so you can all see but I think I will wait until I get pictures from Amanda Castleberry (my wedding photographer) and do the wedding/reception post and bombardment of photos first.
Keep an eye out for that in the next while! I should be getting photos soon!
Chad had had to go into work at six every morning since the 13th. He gets off at 4:30pm so he gets pretty tired when he gets home. He usually takes a nap when he gets home for just a while to rejuvenate. Chad works for BYU's moving department on one of the crews. His crew is responsible for moving new furniture to various places on campus and with four new Heritage buildings done, it is his crews responsibility to get them furnished. They have had all the furniture for quite sometime. My work got in the beds over a year ago due to the company going bankrupt. So we have had to hold some overflow for the moving crew that they can't really fit in their own huge warehouse. Needless to say they will be doing that all summer.
Along with doing the new Heritage buildings on campus, Chad and his work crew are also going to be helping with the new MTC. MTC West. They are going to be two different MTC's. They will have not affiliation with one another. It will be the Provo MTC and the Provo MTC west... or something like that. The new MTC is the old Raintree apartments. Last I heard they were also taking over part of Wyview for the Sister missionaries but I am not 100% sure on that information so don't quote me on that.
Chad has been very busy with work but something that he hasn't failed to do is wake me up and let me know he is heading out. We then have been able to have prayer together in the morning before he leaves for work. I really have loved doing that. It is very nice to pray together. When I get up he usually has left a note for me that say something a long the lines of...
I write one back to him because he will see it rather when he gets off for lunch and goes home or when he gets off at the end of the day and is home 30 minutes before I am. This has made my love grow so much more.
I am finding so much free time on my hands. With work from 8-5 every day and it being slow in the afternoon I am looking on pintrest more and more... I haven't been pinning a lot mind you (which is probably a good thing... great thing...) but I sure have been looking a lot more. Pinning will happen tonight probably... Yeah...
Our little apartment is now a home. We are settled in and I will have to take pictures and upload them on to my computer and post them here so you can all see but I think I will wait until I get pictures from Amanda Castleberry (my wedding photographer) and do the wedding/reception post and bombardment of photos first.
Keep an eye out for that in the next while! I should be getting photos soon!
Feb 25, 2013
Keep Pushing Forward?
This semester is hard. I am actually supposed to be writing a paper for my Seminar in Dance class right now but I just needed to clear my head. So in result, here I am writing a blog post.
Wedding planning is going great. I don't seem nearly as stressed with that as a lot of my other friends are. I am just doing bit by bit. If you haven't heard the colors for the wedding, they are Grey, Yellow, and a splash of Navy Blue. Here are the color swatches from Behr Paint that I have chosen:
Peaceful Night (590F-7)
Neon Light (580B-5)
Wild Sage (700F-6)
School is stressing me out however. I have never had to write so much in my life. I did not think that this semester was going to be as crazy as it is right now. This semester has been filled of paper after paper after paper. I have been loosing things left and right including and not limiting it to... My brand new purse with EVERYTHING inside it; my grey peacoat with my keys, iPod charger, and headphones; my new ID card; oh and my iPod. Yeah. I don't know what the heck is wrong with me. I cannot slow down to make sure that I have this or that and am grabbing everything because if I do, I will be getting even more behind in school work than I already am. I need a blessing I think. I would actually really apreciate your prayers that I will keep going and not give up. If I keep with school I will be completely done in Fall 2014 (Going straight -Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, and Fall 2014). I need to finish. I can't give up but I could sure use some extra motivation.
My body has been having little minor problems here and there but over all I haven't had any injuries. The only real problem that I have had has been very tight arches in Ballet. It has been hard but I deal with it. Today was pretty bad but I have some really great days.
Chad has been a great force of motivation for me. He keeps telling me that I can do it. He has been helping me write a thesis for this paper and that and has been letting me just relax when I cannot handle it anymore and am getting overwhelmed. He is such a rock for me and I really need that. I appreciate it so very much.
Okay. Well I had probably go and write this darn paper. Here is to pushing forward.
Wedding planning is going great. I don't seem nearly as stressed with that as a lot of my other friends are. I am just doing bit by bit. If you haven't heard the colors for the wedding, they are Grey, Yellow, and a splash of Navy Blue. Here are the color swatches from Behr Paint that I have chosen:
Peaceful Night (590F-7)
Neon Light (580B-5)
Wild Sage (700F-6)
School is stressing me out however. I have never had to write so much in my life. I did not think that this semester was going to be as crazy as it is right now. This semester has been filled of paper after paper after paper. I have been loosing things left and right including and not limiting it to... My brand new purse with EVERYTHING inside it; my grey peacoat with my keys, iPod charger, and headphones; my new ID card; oh and my iPod. Yeah. I don't know what the heck is wrong with me. I cannot slow down to make sure that I have this or that and am grabbing everything because if I do, I will be getting even more behind in school work than I already am. I need a blessing I think. I would actually really apreciate your prayers that I will keep going and not give up. If I keep with school I will be completely done in Fall 2014 (Going straight -Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, and Fall 2014). I need to finish. I can't give up but I could sure use some extra motivation.
My body has been having little minor problems here and there but over all I haven't had any injuries. The only real problem that I have had has been very tight arches in Ballet. It has been hard but I deal with it. Today was pretty bad but I have some really great days.
Chad has been a great force of motivation for me. He keeps telling me that I can do it. He has been helping me write a thesis for this paper and that and has been letting me just relax when I cannot handle it anymore and am getting overwhelmed. He is such a rock for me and I really need that. I appreciate it so very much.
Okay. Well I had probably go and write this darn paper. Here is to pushing forward.
Feb 7, 2013
The big purchases...
So we have some exciting news....
This girl has a dress! AND!! We just got our photographer officially! YAY! Wedding planning is going swell!
Hope everyone is loving life right now!
This girl has a dress! AND!! We just got our photographer officially! YAY! Wedding planning is going swell!
Hope everyone is loving life right now!
Jan 23, 2013
2012: Pain, Misery, and Absolute JOY
A pretty little check came in the mail today. Thank heavens. I don't have to be scraping by pay check to pay check again. Pel Grants save me so much. I have to say though, I love not having any debt. I haven't had any debt in a very long time and it feels SO GOOD.
Last year was NOT an easy one. I had so many issues. Between the massive debt (not too bad but enough that I was not in a good place with myself... I never want to be there again), family fights, boy troubles, and really hard classes it was not a year that I would like to really remember all the details.
However. The best and most important things happened to me in 2012. I grew so much as a person. I learned so much about myself. My relationship with my Father in Heaven has never been so good. And to top it all off, Chad.
I learned he was to come home a year early from his mission because he had a back injury. Of course I wasn't happy that he was hurt or that he had to come back early but I knew that he was supposed to be here. I was excited to be able to talk with him again. To see him. To fully love him. And guess what? I got all of that and MUCH more. I was able to go out to New York to visit him and meet his wonderful and amazing family over the Thanksgiving break. My birthday was spent out there too. He then came back to Provo in December to come back to school and be with me.
The best part about the year 2012 was that I got to be with the love of my life. He will never leave me. He isn't going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. If I were to go anywhere... I would make him come with me. If he were to go anywhere... I would follow him like a sheep follows the shepherd (bad analogy? Very diligently would I follow). He came to Provo and the next place we will live in our lives outside of here will be where the Lord wants us to go. Chad is the best thing to ever happen in my life. I love him and he loves me. I am happy that I can now officially say that he isn't just that boyfriend in Hamburg, NY. I can now say that he is my fiance but I can't wait to call him my husband.
Only a few more months and we will be sealed. 5.7.13 It has a special ring to it now doesn't it?
Last year was NOT an easy one. I had so many issues. Between the massive debt (not too bad but enough that I was not in a good place with myself... I never want to be there again), family fights, boy troubles, and really hard classes it was not a year that I would like to really remember all the details.
However. The best and most important things happened to me in 2012. I grew so much as a person. I learned so much about myself. My relationship with my Father in Heaven has never been so good. And to top it all off, Chad.
I learned he was to come home a year early from his mission because he had a back injury. Of course I wasn't happy that he was hurt or that he had to come back early but I knew that he was supposed to be here. I was excited to be able to talk with him again. To see him. To fully love him. And guess what? I got all of that and MUCH more. I was able to go out to New York to visit him and meet his wonderful and amazing family over the Thanksgiving break. My birthday was spent out there too. He then came back to Provo in December to come back to school and be with me.
The best part about the year 2012 was that I got to be with the love of my life. He will never leave me. He isn't going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. If I were to go anywhere... I would make him come with me. If he were to go anywhere... I would follow him like a sheep follows the shepherd (bad analogy? Very diligently would I follow). He came to Provo and the next place we will live in our lives outside of here will be where the Lord wants us to go. Chad is the best thing to ever happen in my life. I love him and he loves me. I am happy that I can now officially say that he isn't just that boyfriend in Hamburg, NY. I can now say that he is my fiance but I can't wait to call him my husband.
Only a few more months and we will be sealed. 5.7.13 It has a special ring to it now doesn't it?
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