Garth Braithwaite

About Me

I am Garth Braithwaite.

Washington

I was born in Bellevue, Washington in 1981. My family lived there until I was 13.

It was the inspiration for this site. The image of the city at the foot of the site is the view from our house growing up. My sister was kind enough to go take a photo for me.

Montana

From Bellevue we moved to Polson, Montana when I was in 8th grade. I stayed there for 5 years until I graduated from Polson High School in 1999.

Utah

Weeks after graduating I enrolled at Brigham Young University summer semester to study Graphic Design. The following summer I moved with my brother to sell pest control in California. I worked to save money to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Mexico

That fall I received a call to serve in the Mexico, Guadalajara Mission. I reported to the Missionary Training Center in December 2000.

I served two years serving in five areas: Tonala, Manzanillo, Zacapu, Cuidad Guzman, and Puerto Vallarta.

Utah

Following my mission I returned to Brigham Young University for the winter semester in 2003.

After teaching for 2 years in Mexico I decided that it was what I wanted to do. I changed my major to Physics. I also found a job working production at Student Auxilliary Services Creative Marketing at BYU. Shortly after I was promoted to graphic designer.

I met wife, Jamie Lea, shortly after starting the semester. We started dating in February; we were engadged by May and were married in the LDS Temple in Las Vegas in August 2003. That summer I also quit my job at Creative Marketing and began working at OIT Training also on campus with my wife. I began teaching courses on the Adobe Creative Suite and Macromedia products I learned web skills like HTML, CSS, PHP, and Actionscript.

Jamie graduated with a Bachelors in Technology Teaching Education in the spring of 2005 and our first daughter, Grace Marion, was born a few months later.

Las Vegas

After graduating in 2006 we moved to Las Vegas to start a job as the IT Coordinator for Sure, a small real estate office dealing mostly in properties in Southern Utah.

In the spring of 2007 our second daughter, Ainsley Ann, was born and we bought a small home in the fall.

Sure began laying off all of its employees at the end of 2007 and finding myself without a job, I started a small web and print design shop, Media Blacksmith, with a friend of mine.

Currently I work as an Interactive Engineer at a local airline and my wife and I just had with our third daughter.