Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Spotlight: Reini Butterfield




Reini lives on Filly Court with her husband, Jared, and their two adorable children, Emmett (3) and Brooklyn (15months). Before moving into the neighborhood two years ago, they lived in the Farmington townhomes near Smiths.

Reini grew up in Holladay and attended Westminster. She met her husband through a mutual friend. They lived a mile apart and never knew it until the night they met!

Reini is a nurse at the University of Utah Hospital. She currently works in Pediatric Dialysis, with kids that are waiting to receive a kidney transplant. Her unit was just relocated to Primary Children's, which means that she won't be working there anymore starting in February. If anyone know of a nursing position, let her know! :)

She loves spending time with her family, traveling, documenting her children's lives, crafting and baking! Before they had children, Reini and Jared took a sailing class in Greece and earned their Skipper's license. They have taken their family and friends sailing, and have created some great memories that way! In June, the Butterfields will be taking their little family (kids included!) to the British Virgin Islands (right off of Puerto Rico) and chartering their own sailboat for the week!

We are so glad to have Reini and her family in our ward and neighborhood!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Spotlight: Kacy Broderick


Kacy grew up in Fruit Heights, behind Cherry Hill.  She was the 3rd of 4 kids - and the only girl in her family.  She attended Davis High School and then Sherman Kendall Hair Academy for about 1.5 years.  Immediately after school, she got a job at Wild Style Salon (on Shephard Lane in Farmington).  14 years later she continues to work for Wild Style (now just a few days a week though).  Her favorite thing to do there is color treatments.

Kacy met her husband Brent when they were both out with friends in Salt Lake.  Afterward Kacy called Brent for her friend's sake because her friend was interested in Brent's friend.  So they double dated a few times.  Eventually their friends stopped dating each other but Kacy and Brent didn't stop! They were engaged 1 1/2 years later and were married in 2005.

After marrying they moved to Foxboro in NSL where they lived until moving into our neighborhood 2 years ago.  They now live right by the Equestrian center at the north-west end of Mare circle.  Brent works as a maintenance supervisor at a company called AMC (apartment management consultants).  They are both very handy and creative and have been busy putting in their yard themselves and doing  other DIY projects around the house.

They have 2 beautiful little girls.  Hadley turns 8 this February and is in 2nd grade. Wesley is 5 and in Kindergarten.  Their family loves to go camping, fishing, and hiking, and generally loves just spending time together.  Kacy also enjoys decorating and crafts (her darling home is evidence of that!).  She loves finding junk (treasures) at flea markets and elsewhere.  Kacy also loves to read.

This family is a great addition to our neighborhood and 
we want to wish Kacy a HAPPY BIRTHDAY this week!!!







Monday, January 12, 2015

Spotlight Katrina Cammack



Katrina grew up in Seattle, WA and is the 2nd of 5 children. Highlights of her life before college include lots of hiking and camping, living next to a zoo, being home-schooled, and traveling to Italy with her choir.

At BYU, Katrina majored in Political Science and met her husband, Devin. He had just moved into her ward and they had hung out in groups when a mutual friend asked them to go along on his blind date to lessen the potential awkwardness. Katrina didn't realize it was a date (their first date) until Devin tried to hold her hand several times during the movie. Things snowballed though and they were married 5 months later.

After college, they moved to Las Vegas, NV for a year before moving to Salt Lake for Devin's job. They built and moved into this neighborhood almost 2 years ago. They live on Thoroughbred, just a couple houses south of the church.

Before starting a family, Katrina worked for several years on political campaigns: local, state, and presidential. While she loved the excitement and fast pace of campaign life, Katrina is happy to be a stay at home mom to her 14 month old daughter, Cassidy.

In her free time, Katrina likes to cook, read, knit, and plan projects for her handy husband.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Spotlight Lori Thomas


Lori Thomas

Lori is the oldest child of 4 siblings. They lived in Kearns Utah when she was born. Later they moved to Sandy and then to Centerville. While in Centerville her parents divorced and from then on, her mother and siblings moved all over Southern Davis County, finally ending up in Kaysville where she lived while attending Davis High School. When she was 21, her mother remarried a pretty fabulous guy and his 2 daughters joined their family.

After graduating from Davis High School she attended what was then Ricks College. After graduating, she came home and started working to save money for her mission. During that time she was set up on a blind date with her husband. She secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to be set up with the guy her friend had been set up with. But Clint called her again and the other guy didn't, for which she is eternally grateful for. It only took 1 more date for her to see how awesome he is. They dated for three months before Lori served her mission in Nagoya Japan. He was still around when she came home so 3 ½ months later, they were married.

After marriage she finished her degree in Elementary Education and went on to teach school for 6 years while they tried to get pregnant and have children. She taught 5th and 6th grade. It was a very good experience and a great training ground for having children on their own. Clint finished his plumbing licence and school and was a licensed plumber running his own business until he retired from plumbing in 2012. Now they do property management.

After much struggle, fasting, prayer, and after 8 years of marriage they were blessed to adopt a sweet baby boy who them brought home on Thanksgiving Day. Lori was able to quit teaching and then 2 other children followed, all of them adopted. Now, after many years, Lori feels so grateful to have never born children of her own. She has 3 open adoption (meaning they have contact witht he birth parents). She has found she has many quality and talents that were best used working with these sweet birthmothers. 2 of her birthmothers have met with the missionaries and all of them have been blessed with happier and less dramatic lives because of their choices to place their babies. She loves her birthmoms almost as much as her babies and is eternally indebted to them.

Lori and her family moved here in July in 2013 from a different home by Barnes Park in Kaysville. She loves this ward and feels like it has been such a blessing to their family. The people here have been so accepting and willing to appreciate the difference in families here. She loves that their is more diversity in this ward. It helps to make a more loving and less judgmental neighborhood. The Thomas family lives on the corner of Thoroughbred Dr. And Mare Dr. In the summer they have a pretty waterfall that runs down their front yard (just in cast you need to find their house),

We are so glad to have them in our ward.