ClOcKs a TiCkIn

The wedding is in 2 weeks & we both our very excited.Greg thinks it will drag on & not come fast enough,me on the other hand is thinking its coming TO FAST!!! I just want to take a minute & just say I never thought I would be getting married this soon but like I always say my father in heaven has always made things in my life happen totally opposite from what I have planned who am I to argue with that? HA HA. At my sister Jens wedding last year my good friend Ausha asked me so what colors do you want at your wedding?? what type of dress? etc.... I snapped back & said I have never thought about it & its true I have always wanted to find the one & live happily ever after but after the life experiences I have had & the type of guys I had been with I gave up hope & talked myself in to staying single. Actually I was content with it my Parents would always get mad when they would talk about me getting married & finding "the one" and I would snap back with a sarcastic saying like no I wanna move to LA do hair & be single. It was true to I wasnt saying it to get sympothy or to feel sorry for myself I truly was happy with who I was & where I was going In life. When Greg & I were chatting here and there over text,before my parents even knew about him they had told me they had set aside money for my wedding I freaked out & said "why? I wanna use that money to finish school?" they got mad & said if your not married in the next 6 months than fine we will let you do whatever you would like with that money. Well a week after that me & greg were serious & talking abut our future together. Funny how things happen!!! Either way I would have been just as happy but I will not lie theres nothing like loving someone who truly loves you back. This I have never felt before. Heavenly Father sent me an angel & all those years of wondering did my prince get eaten by the dragon am I stuck dating all the frogs??? Well all the hard times & unhappiness finally paid off.Its true what they say you have to get a taste of the bad ones to appreciate the good. I just wanna say how I do appreciate Greg He has taught & showed me so much about how to love & trust again. I am finally with somebody who Makes me feel joy & who treats me like a princess I can say this because I have been with the worse of the worse of most of you know & I have never felt this way. I find myself feeling things I have not felt sense I was 15 about myself. Over the years I lost a peice of me & I truly believe Greg is the one who is supposed to help me put the peice I lost back together.

Halloween Time

Halloween 2008 was a fun time. My favorite holiday is halloween & the whole month of October is always the funnest time. We took our neices to see High School Musical 3 Senior Year Greg was the only boy but we had so much fun & seeing how excited they were just made our day. We also celebrated my mom,Ella & Kendals birthdays & carved pumpkins. It was actually prety warm this Halloween which is always a good thing. Because we have been so busy planning for the wedding me & greg didnt dress up which made me sad but next year we plan to go as Zak & Vanessa from high school musical.

PROPOSAL 9/19/08

September 19,2008 was one of the happiest days of my life. I never thought that day would come where the man of my dreams asked for my hand in marriage. The day started out with Greg taking me to a  Byu game,we both are huge fans of college football. After that he took me up American Fork canyon to Cascade Springs where his sisters prepared this romantic dinner in the middle of the fall leaves right by the creek. It was beautiful. I could tell he was so nervous and I was nervous as well. The fall leaves were so pretty and it was perfect sunny weather. He read me his patriarchal blessing and it said some very special things in it. He said I was the first person he has ever shared that with and will be the only person he ever shares it with.; I started crying and shaking, I was so nervous. He than got down on one knee & proposed he said "Katie Ann Burke, you are so beautiful ,I love you and  I want to spend eternity with you princess.Please make me the happiest man on earth and marry me". he slipped the ring on my finger and I was laughing/crying/shaking ha ha I was speechless. He than said "so is that a yes?" I had totally forgot to say yes, I just assumed he knew it was a yes. I than said "Yes baby of course" I jumped in to his arms and we just held each other both crying. I am going to love being Mrs.Gregory Burke. I am so blessed to have him and to spend eternity with him. I have waited for this moment since I was a little girl and he is perfect. I can not wait to be the mother of his children and to live each day trying to make him happy. Gregory Brian Burke is the answer to all my prayers. I am one lucky girl. I love you Gregory I can't wait to be sealed perfectly for eternity -you and me!!

LABOR DAY CAMPOUT!!!!2008

Labor Day was so much fun this year.Its the first time my whole family got to meet Greg. My family & I are huge Twilight fans some of us are Edward fans some are Jacob fans so we decided to make it fun & divide up into teams team jacob & team edward & play capture the flag.Team Edward won of course ha ha. It was so much fun that we all were so into it we made shirts and bandanas & the two little girls were team nessie from 4th book Breaking dawn. in all The camping trip was one of the best until Curtis decided to scare us all with a bucket & pretend a bear was after us We were so freaked out ha ha. We are so excited for many of more camping trips

OuR LoVe StOrY

Greg & I  met in April 2008.Greg I am sure will kill me for telling of how we met but I am going to do it anyway!!! I was going to school  & living with my parents  in Syracuse ,Utah.......I was invited to Greg's BBQ by his friend Ryan. Ryan & I were friends on Facebook .Greg had put his event on Facebook (he loves planning stuff )anyways Ryan accepted the invitation and since I was going with Ryan I marked attending to. Well for those of you who know me I dated LOTS. Ryan was from Provo, the BBQ was in Provo and well to be honest I wasn't that in to Ryan to drive all the way to Provo from Syracuse  ha ha that sounds mean he was a nice guy just not my type.... just a friend. The next day I get this friend request from Greg he asked me why I didn't go, I knew they were friends so I said oh something came up he than continued to ask me if I was seeing Ryan & I of course said no he said "oh that's really good news for me". we started talking but never got to meet & go out before Greg had to move to Philli In April 2008 for work.For a week we didn't really talk but there was something that just kept making me think of him and by this time I wanted no relationship what so ever I was finally happy with being single and dating tons of guys, but nobody really interested me besides Greg. Little did I know Greg was feeling the same way. He keeps telling me he showed his friend Tyler my Facebook pic and said "I am going to marry that girl"

So we stayed in touch & very quickly  became close talking over the phone for a month.So close that we both decided to be exclusive. I just felt something with him I never felt before. I felt comfort,safe,giddy,and most of all HAPPY. Everybody on his end and on my end were so confused. people would tell me "Katie your with a total stranger" to them he may have been but to me it's like we had known each other our whole lives just by talking on the phone in one night, we got each other,we wanted the same things, we understood everything & anything about each other, and we couldn't get enough of each other. Nobody understood how we could be in a relationship without having never met,we understood though ,Greg &  I understood. Even though my family was confused & weirded out by the whole thing they all couldn't deny how different I had become since being with Greg.Guys with money & guys who used their money to win over girls I never understood,to me it was the emotional connection that mattered most. Greg & I fell in love with who we are on the inside by texting,emailing,web cam,talking all day on the phone. I was falling for him so fast. We came to a conclusion that I had to fly out there & meet. We were both a little  nervous, ok ok really really nervous and after he talked to my dad on the phone Greg  flew me out there and it was love at first sight. It was like we had known each other all our lives. So we stayed together all summer.I flew back out there August 20 & drove back home with him it was such a fun road trip. I met his parents In Denver on our way home, and when we got home my parents adored him.Greg proposed September 19,2008. THE POST WITH THE PROPOSAL IS TITLED THE PROPOSAL.Gregory Brian Burke Is my greatest blessing in life and there is nobody else on this planet who comes close to how perfect he is & how well he treats me. I love you Gregory

2008-driving back to Utah from Philli

being in a long distance relationship is not hard when you have a boyfriend like mine! I love you Gregory

New jersey 2008-my first trip out to meet Greg

our first date -ha ha on the beach in new jersey

This pic was right after Greg & I met for the first time at the airport in Philidelphia,he brought me roses :)

first date