If you don’t know us well, a phrase that might describe our personalities would be – “self-deprecating costume-wearing madly-in-love couple.” Now if I have captured your attention, all I can say is hang around this blog a bit and get to know us. For now, in case you are curious here are a "few" of the details.

Hi, I’m Kate. I am 34yrs old and grew up in Indianapolis. I have been blessed with loving parents and an older sister (when I say older, I mean 14 years older, so I guess you could say I was a bit of a “mistake”).  I grew up playing softball, volleyball, riding horses, snow skiing, swimming in our pool and having the goal of one day being a veterinarian.  After graduating from Warren Central High School in 1999, I went on to Purdue University for my undergraduate work in Animal Sciences and attended veterinary school, graduating in 2006. Luke and I met in high school, started dating in college and got married in 2002. We found an awesome church while attending Purdue (Battleground Bible Chapel) and met some amazing couples that pushed us to understand and grow our faith in Jesus. We finally got away from the statement, “I grew up in a Christian home, so therefore I am a Christian” type mentality. I was re-baptized at Battleground and from that moment, understood what it meant by “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast” Ephesians 2:8-9. After veterinary school, I was able to go on and specialize in small animal surgery, with a stent at North Carolina State University for a year and three years in a Master’s residency program at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. I told Luke to promise to always live with me through all of my schooling, well God had other plans, so we lived apart for 3.5 years.  But through Luke’s amazing self-sacrificing love (and his 48mpg highway Saturn) he drove EVERY weekend to visit me in Columbus, which made all the difference. We moved to the north side of Indianapolis in the summer of 2010. I started working as a specialty surgeon at Circle City Veterinary Specialty Hospital and continue to work there today, part-time Monday – Wednesday. We currently own one dog, Louie, our food-stealing-amazing-with-kids golden.

In Fall of 2010 starts the story of children. I wanted them right away, we had been married for 8 years and I had been waiting to have kids for such a long time. Once again, God had other plans, it was not easy. We had a hard time with infertility, we struggled with why, but again were taught many things, the most impactful for me… RELY ON GOD. We had started the adoption process, because we have a heart for orphans, and since we were adopted into God’s family, let us adopt into ours. In the middle, we found out we were pregnant with Lily. She was born on December 22, 2011. Having a child is allowing your heart to live outside of your own body, which is the only way I can describe it. I finally had a glimpse of HOW MUCH God loves me, by how much I loved her immediately. God was gracious to allow me to get pregnant again, when Luke only had 1% viable sperm and the doctor said in vitro was the only way. Owen was conceived naturally and was born on December 26, 2013. Did you notice how busy Christmas week is for us? Through having kids, I started researching nutrition more because I wanted to feed them the best food, which started out by me becoming a baby food chef. I was introduced to Shakeology back in 2012 and not until Luke’s cholesterol scare in 2013/2014 did we really change the way we ate and lived. From that nutritional transformation and realization that FOOD cures and prevents disease, which is NOT what I was taught in school to be a doctor; I wanted to share that with others. I started working my personal business being a Beachbody coach to spread the word and help others feel as good as we felt AND to do that by sharing the best gift of all with them, Jesus.

Hi my name is Luke, I’m a Leo and like falconry, competitive polka dancing and collecting unicorns, …ok maybe that’s not all true (the polka part at least), but the following is. 

I grew up as the middle child, with two sisters in a Christian household.  My parents ensured we went to church every Sunday and Wednesday (ever heard of AWANA?) as well as family devotions at night.  This laid an amazing theological foundation on which to start as a youngster, and I even went forward at church and ‘prayed a prayer’ to become a Christian.  The only problem was, even though I believed in God, I hadn’t submitted my life to Him.  It wasn’t until high school or college, that I solidified what I believed and my relationship with our creator.  You see the whole time, I was just seeking my own will, instead of Gods and I would go so far as to say I wasn’t being obedient to His commandment to live apart from the world.  John says, “the world and it’s desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever (1 John 2:17)”.  A part of me even thought if I was just a better person, I’d feel more confident about my eternity.  Then I finally understood Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.”  So I stopped living for myself, and others, and started living for God, which is a daily struggle.  And in 2014 I was re-baptized, “as an appeal to God for a clean conscience (I Peter 3:21).”

I spent my adolescent years playing soccer, wrestling, hanging out with friends, and doing what boys do (getting into trouble).  And my senior year of high school, I met the girl I didn’t realize was the girl I was going to marry.  Kate and I went to Warren Central and had a graduating class of 600 something, but fortunately we were introduced through a mutual acquaintance…her best friend I was dating.  After high school, Kate and I hung out more, started dating our Freshman year at Purdue, and were married a few years after.  I soon realized however I wasn’t the intellectual genius previously thought and that my career as a Physics major wasn’t going to work out.  So after masquerading as a genius for a year, I changed to Aviation.  I majored in Aviation Administration, received my Commercial-Instrument pilots license (haven’t flown since college though) and started working for Republic Airlines.  In 2007 my parents and I started a commercial/industrial HVAC company, and we have been working together ever since. A lot of people ask me what it is like working with your father every day, and I tell them that I have developed a deeper relationship with him than I ever thought imaginable and the time I am spending with him now I will never regret, especially when he is gone.  In regards to children, they have changed me in a way I never thought possible. I am not the same man now that I was before we had our children. Lily and Owen taught me patience, self-sacrifice, grace, and what it’s like to love unconditionally.

So how did I begin to endorse Beachbody? I have always been an active and fit individual, always going to gym and lifting weights or playing soccer. But once I turned 32, I found out despite not being overweight, I still had high cholesterol, to the point of being told I needed medications. Kate had been drinking Shakeology for a while, but I was a skeptic. After some convincing and a desire to not go on statins at such a young age, I started drinking Shakeology every morning, as well as revamping my diet, ie: no white sugar, no coke, less fried foods, more veggies. Wouldn’t you know it, my cholesterol dropped almost 100 points, with the good going up and the bad going down. And I have tried to maintain that ever since with a healthy diet. I know that not every person likes doing workouts to DVDs at home, but I have found that Beachbody has way more to offer that just workouts, it is about a healthier way of living. Because from the outside, I looked healthy, but from the inside I was slowly killing myself, so let me tell you this - health is WAY more than being thin.