Who I Am:

  My full name is Garrett Joseph-James Barker Boweter. I have two middle names because i've been told my two grandfathers wanted me to have their middle names, my parents didn't want to fight about it so they gave me both. I also have two last names, my biological parents weren't making good choices when I was a kid so my sister, brother, and I lived at my grandparents.
  When i was 8 years old my grandparents decided they wanted to adopt us out to another family. I remember they wouldn't let any family split the 3 of us up. A family came down from Ogden one day and they wanted all 3 of us to live with them, one month later we were finally adopted.
  The Barkers had a nice house and they were nice people. They were a Mormon family and we didn't even know about god. They introduced us to the church that same week we lived with them. The 3 of us were excited because we met a lot of people our age and we made a lot of friends to hang out with. A couple months later, we were adopted into the LDS church. Everything went good with the Barkers and me. They had problems with my other siblings, they kicked my brother and sister out when they turned 16 because they stopped believing in the church.
  From the time I was 14 to 16 i lived with them alone. When I was 15 I started rebelling against them. I took my moms car, stole money out of her purse, and used her riding lawn mower as a four-wheeler and made their back yard into a mud pit. I got pulled over when I stole her car a couple times, I was sent to Detention, got a couple Joy Riding tickets on my record, couple a Grand Theft Auto tickets as well. The final incident that got me kicked out of that house was when my moms purse got stolen. She had around $1000 in it along with a couple of passports they needed because they were going to Hawaii. Of all the times i stole money out of her purse, I PROMISE that was not me.
  I got kicked out of the house, by that time my biological mother was out of prison and she was back on her feet. I went to Kearns High my junior and senior year. Senior year I took the TV News class and fell in love. My teacher, Steve Treseder, and I became really close friends through this class. One day, I was editing a story on the blood drive, I turned around and Treseder was talking to an old buddy from KSL. T brought this guy to me and he said he wanted to look at my work. I showed him my story and he liked it a lot. He told me to make a demo tape and to give him a call once I made one. I made the demo tape and called him, he talked to Bob Brown about me and Bob Brown like what he heard so I was scheduled for an interview. I went in for the interview and got the job!
  I've been working at KSL for 1 year and 5 months now and I love it. I moved out of my parents house as soon as I could after I got the job too. So, now I live in an apartment complex, work 4 days out of the week at KSL, go to school 2 days out of the week, play xbox 360 and hang out with my girlfriend for the rest of the time. My life was pretty rough between the ages 7-16, I'm glad they were rough though because its made me strong.