Blaine and Carrin

Blaine and I were married on Aug. 10, 1982 in the Los Angeles Temple. We have 7 children. I gave birth to 4 and then we adopted a sibling group of 3. We love all of our children so much!! We now have 6 grandchildren. I love the ocean and Catalina is one of my favorites places. Blaine loves the mountains and fishing and hunting, he also loves Catalina. I have traveled across the US on the southern route. We went to college in Rexburg, Idaho when we first got married.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

So I guess I type here

This is all new to me, I don't even know what being tagged means? Anyway I think I am supposed to tell you 7 random things about myself?

1. When Blaine was on his mission I started dating and told myself it was just for fun so I wouldn't miss him sooo much and I actually had someone ask me to marry him, I was so chicken that I wrote him a letter, left it in the mailbox and ran, telling him why I couldn't marry him. I was not going to settle on anything less than a Temple marriage. Needless to say Blaine came home in June and we got married in August.

2. I started watching General Hospital when I was 18 and down for 3 months with Mono and Hepatitis. I still record it and then watch it in about 15 minutes fast forwarding through the storylines I have no interest in.

3. When I was growing up I used to go to Catalina every summer and when I was about 15 I started a tradition of hiking up to the bell tower and looking out over the ocean and thinking about what my life would be like the following year. Some memories of thoughts: next year Blaine will be gone, next year I'll be graduated from High School, next year I'll have gone to college in Idaho for a year. Next year I'll be married in the Temple. Next year I'll be here on my honeymoon. Next year I'd like to be a mom. Next year I will be a mom. Blaine and I then started going every other year so we could take other cross country trips.

4. I don't like face hair on men!!! Bad experience as a teen. So sorry Blaine, everytime you try to grow a beard I can't look you in the face, or kiss you, you finally get mad at my quirk and shave it off.

5. I hate spending money on food, I will buy groceries, but eating out or buying food of any kind seems like flushing money down the toilet. lol, no pun intended.

6. I love to lay on the beach and listen to the waves crash.

7. I used to run away up to the cabin (only got to do it maybe three times) when we had a house full of kids and stress was high. I would go up there and spend the night, I would sit in the hot tub and eat a half a tub of chocolate frosting. Then get up early and come home. (I miss that hot tub)

2 comments:

Em said...

Woot, Mom! Welcome to blogging! I miss Catalina...

Carla said...

You guys need a new spa up there... the last one was getting kinda grody and had floaty things in it anyway. And yes, welcome to the world of blogging!