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Meet the Garners: Clint, Katie, Bailee, Rigby, Bryce, Madalyn, Vera, Eliza, and Ember Clint and Katie met at BYU-Idaho under typical circumstances with an atypical twist. Clint had a girlfriend and Katie had a missionary, but both were members of the same Family Home Evening (FHE) group in their student ward. Relying on the unspoken code of roommate secrecy, Katie confided in her roommates that she had a bit of a crush on Clint. This “fortress of solitude” meeting, however, would turn into a more public charade at the next FHE get-together. They were playing a harmless game of Truth or Dare, when to her chagrin, one of the roommates challenged Katie, who naively chose “truth.” In a sneaky turn of events, the roommate all but threatened to expose her secret to the rest of the group with the simple question “Do you have a crush on anyone in the ward?”” While “anything goes” in a game of Truth 12
Clint and Katie met at BYU-Idaho under typical circumstances with an atypical twist.
or Dare, the heart-palpitating problem was that Clint was present in the circle. The nerve! Knowing herself to be a terrible liar with no poker face, and lacking the cleverness to weasel her way out, Katie blushfully admitted that she did, hoping to avoid any suspicions from her crush who sat within arm’s reach. As luck would have it though, Clint jumped on the curiosity wagon for his turn and pinned Katie even deeper in her own territory with the allbut-mandatory follow-up “Who is the person you have a crush on?” Luckily for her, Clint’s relationship was on the rocks, so her admission gave him the encouragement needed to ask her out, and things took off from there! No harm, no foul. Huge thanks to the roommate! They were married shortly after the semester ended in May 2003 and moved to Spanish Fork
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several years later in 2007 when they found a great home near Spanish Oaks Elementary School just above the river bottoms. Clint received a bachelor's degree from UVU in Business Management with an emphasis in entrepreneurship while Katie studied art education at BYU for a semester until becoming pregnant with their first child, Bailie. Clint is a partner of his own property management and real estate investment company right here in town — AmeriTrue. Katie is currently having great success as a portrait artist who has specialized in spiritual and religious perspectives, including doing commissioned portraits of children who have passed away. Along the way, however, were opportunities to grow through failure. Clint succeeded with real estate early on after graduating, only to have that
