What We've Been Up To--Kateka (Jeppson) Goodman!

It feels like it has been a while since we have had a classmate update, so here we go...Our victim today is Kateka (Jeppson) Goodman!


Hmmm…. As I stare blankly at my cursor trying to figure out what to write since I’ve graduated high school I feel like anything I could say might come off as braggy, or lackluster.

Let’s see, I am a CEO, have one billion dollars, spend my weekends in Hawaii, have never looked hotter in my life, and have no imperfections. HA! Obviously, I am kidding. Now anything I say won’t seem like I am bragging right? I can’t vouch for any of the things I just listed, so yeah, my life is certainly not brag-worthy. Don’t get me wrong, life has not been bad and for that I feel thankful and blessed, but I have not graduated college yet, I have no pets or babies, and I work 40 hours a week on my tush at a desk job. So let’s get to the good stuff before I put you to sleep!

When I was 18, I was attending college at Utah State in Logan and one day received a random letter from an unknown boy, Stuart, who was serving a mission in Texas with fellow RHS alumni Jeron Hyatt. I thought he was freaking hot so we became pen-pals and wrote for pretty much the entire length of his mission. He came home to SLC in 2004, things clicked, I moved from Logan back to SLC to be closer to him, and we married in August of 2006.

This was our engagement picture. Sigh, back in a time where we were both cuter, younger, and skinnier.

It’s blowing my mind that I’ve known him for 9 years… time is going by too quickly. We moved around from apartment to apartment until finally buying our first townhome in 2010 in South Jordan. At first I thought we had so much space, and now I feel like I need a bigger place. Ha! I am never satisfied.

Stuart is finishing up his business degree at the U which, holy smokes (!), is burning a major hole in our wallet so once he is done with his degree, I’ll go back to school and finish up my degree in exercise science. Unfortunately, we don’t have the finances to pay for both of our educations at once, so unless someone wants to pay for my degree (takers? Anyone?), I will start up again in about a year and then probably have another two years until I graduate.

What else, what else. I feel like this is boring… Ummm… I won the Miss Herriman pageant in 2003 and competed in Miss Utah in 2004, which I did not win, but very much enjoyed the experience (even though I really don’t consider myself to be a “pageant” girl). I ran a marathon when I was 19 and never ran another race after that! Ha! Take that 26.2 miles! I’ll probably never run another marathon again, but I am highly interested in running the Disneyland half marathon over labor day, and competing in a triathlon sometime in my life.

Stu and I love a good weekend in Vegas and seeing the shows there (get your mind out of the gutter, not “those” shows), my favorite being La Reve, so we frequent there as often as we can.

Recently, you can find me hobbling around on crutches because I broke my foot falling down my stairs! I am in a cast now and can’t walk on it for 5 weeks and 6 days, you better believe I am counting down.

Anyway, I think that will do it! That’s what I’ve been up to for the last ten years. Oh! And just dreaming for the day that we get to have our ten year reunion so that I can see all your beautiful faces again (facebook just doesn’t do it for me!). I really hope you’ll all come. I am very excited about it and think it will be a blast. Seriously! Every single one of you. Sign up. You won’t regret it. I’ll leave with you a more recent picture of me and the best thing in my life.