nothing like SUMMA TIME!!!! (please say out loud in british accent. thank you.)

YAY! so to start off the summer, i've been babysitting the cutest little girl in the world a lot! and that little girl is... MY NIECE!!! her name is Sophie and she is just the cutest little girl EVER! 

the next thing on the way was AFY!!!! this is me and Hayley and she was my absolute FAVORITE!!! we got along really really well!

This is my new best friend "pig"! hahaha it was a girls named Lauren and i kept calling it a pig even though it was a cow.... but his new name is pig!!! so i guess its okay! Lauren changed it for me! ;)

these are the girls that were in my apartment! well with our councilor too! left to right, McKenzie, my councilor Hailey, Hayley, Lauren, Cessily, and ME! it was the best room EVER!

Me and cori had WAY too much fun on the bus ride home... :) lots you can do in five hours!

 Next stop.... NAUVOO!!! with two of my sister, Rachel and Kelsie! it was lots of fun!!!

as you can see, i was a little rebellious with out my mom there to watch me..... ;)

 Yep! as you all would've guessed, me and abby are foot models. NBD.

DEFINITELY don't mess with me or abby. we are KILLER pro wakeboarders!!! haha to top off the summer so far, abby came with me to my family reunion at pineview and we went boating!!! talk about best day EVER!!! :)


With love, Katie Ann Kitchen

Writing

So Basically i'm so sick of not being able to find good clean romance books anymore that i decided i'm going to start writing my own! and believe it or not i have started! i'm not really sure how long its going to last though... but hey at least i'm off to a good start right? i'll tell you alittle bit about it... but just a little... :) its about a girl named Ellie Andrews and a boy named Peyton Jennings.... YEP! haha there you go! you can read it when i'm famous or if your one of my really good friends i'll consider letting you have a little sneak peak.. maybe.... :)


With love, Katie Ann Kitchen :)

Chinese sisters and fun fairs!!! :)

I have two new sisters from China for two and a half weeks!!! and let me tell you... they are AMAZING!!!! they seriously crack me up!!! i love them!! their names are Avia and Iris! they are both fifteen and just as cute as can be! they love trying new and crazy things and are really excited to be here!!

 

We went to salt lake today for the parade and when it was over we were looking at all the shops and everything. i saw this bag and i was like "mom isn't that cute?!?!" and she was like "YA!!! go get your dad and make him buy it for you!!! its only 20$!!!" so i went over and he bought it for me!!! YAY!!! i have a backpack now!! i'm super excited!!! i LOVE it! ( P.S. the colors are more bright and neon but you can't really tell in the picture)

With love, Katie Ann Kitchen

FRIENDS!!

So basically this week i realized how amazing my friends are. I honestly haven't been thinking too highly of myself lately and i'm not really sure why. I've just been putting myself down on everything especially my self image. I was at Nauvoo with my sisters Rachel and Kelsie this past week but i was ready to come home! I was excited to see all of my friends but i wasn't really sure if they really were excited to see me or they were just being nice. So finally after two days of driving we got home and i was just talking to my family and everything and my mom told me to go take all of my stuff down stairs to my room so i got up and took all of my stuff down. When i opened my door my whole room was covered in streamers and candy and little notes! I seriously almost started crying! I really haven't felt that loved in along time and it felt good to be remembered and cared about. Kayla, Kelsey, and Elena did my room and they couldn't have done it any better!! it was AMAZING! Later that night Kayla, Kelsey, Abby, and Kristi came over and we just sat in my room and talked and had fun! it was really an amazing night!

The next day i went to Abby's house with Lena and it was really really fun! I really missed hanging out with Lena! i hadn't seen her in such a long time! We just talked like the whole time and it was so much fun! the thing i love about those two is that they never judge or tell anyone what i tell them! i could basically tell them i murdered someone and they'd still love me! well... maybe... haha! lena had to leave at like ten and so it was just me and abby! seriously i cannot say how much i truely love that girl!!! i told her lots of things i hadn't ever told anyone else and it just felt really good to get it all out! Abby thanks girl!!! your a life saver!!!!

Friends are really important, they get you through the hard times, help make the good times even better, and help you remember that your loved and aren't ever forgotten. I LOVE MY AMAZING FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! :)


With love, Katie Ann Kitchen

AFY

Last week was one of the best weeks of my life so far! I had the opportunity to go to AFY (adventures for youth) up at BYU Idaho! I chose to go by myself again this year because i personally think its more fun that way! Since its so far away, my parents decided that i was going to take a bus up there with other AFY and OYA participants for 42 dollars instead of driving me up there for over 100. So thats what i did; i went on the bus for five hours with a ton of people i didn't know. I thought i was going to have to make a friend and sit by someone i didn't know but it turns out that Morgan Harmans little sister Cori was going by herself too on the same bus so we sat by each other! We seriously had a party! it was sooo much fun!!! We made friends with some of the boys that sat in front of us. Their names were Dalton, Nixon, and Tanner!!! They were soo cool!!!! (Even though they all just turned 14... minor detail!)

Once as i got up there i went and checked in and met my roommates and i knew we were going to have a party from the start! Their names were Cessily, Hayley, Lauren, and Mckenzie! They were all so much fun and so cute! after we met all the other girls and our councilor, we went and met all the boys..... who would've guessed that i knew three of them already?!? Landon Brown, Joseph Vanwagoner, and Nick Foster. Yes, i know them ALL! Three out of eleven! Honestly in Idaho, at AFY, what are the chances?! It was so fun to have them all in my group! They are all such cool kids!

We went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead at the Rexburg Idaho Temple and it was seriously amazing! It was amazing! I don't think i've felt the spirit that strongly in a while. It really brought us all closer together too. It was alot different from the Bountiful temple though but it was still just as amazing.

River. Rafting. That is all i can say. River. Freaking. Rafting. Is. AMAZING!!! We went white water river rafting down the snake river and we went on lunch counter and the big cahoona!!! It was so much fun! I sat by Hayley and we were both so scared that we were holding hands and screaming! Haha! It was so worth it though! They said it was an hour long trip but i think it was more like ten minutes! It went by WAY to fast! I would do it again in a heart beat any day of the week. :)

Well that was my amazing experience from AFY! i'm sooo sad its over and i'm home. i want to go back really REALLY bad! it was amazing! :)


With Love, Katie Ann Kitchen