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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Christmas and talks

I'm excited to have almost everyone here for Christmas dinner. Quinn will be down and Emilee and Gary, Devonn, Carla and the boys and Lance and family and Micah, Catie and Dylan and Amanda called today and said she would probably stop by with Kaydance. We'll have a full house. I love Christmas time and the colder weather.
I'm not however excited that I have to give a talk in Sacrament this Sunday. I jinxed myself, three weeks ago Jazmine was asked to give a youth talk and I told her she should always say yes and that it wouldn't be so bad blah, blah blah. Well she asked when was the last time I had given a talk? I mumbled under my breath oh about 10 years, shh!! Well I guess Father above was listening because Bro. Berry approached me last week and said, I was trying to think of who to ask to speak next Sunday and your name kept popping in my head, if you don't want to it's ok. My mind recalled my words to Jazmine and I said sure. He said are you sure, it's ok if you don't want to, he said this probably due to the shocked look on my face. I thought about backing out but not after my speech to Jaz. lol. I just get so nervous and my knees shake and my voice shakes and I feel like I'm going to faint. Oh well wish me luck.

2 comments:

Carla said...

We gave the Christmas talks last year... not fun! I try to imagine that no one is paying attention to me anyway. There's a bright side, after you get this over with then they can't ask you again for at least another year!

Em said...

LOL- it always happens that way. When you think about how it's been a long time, and you're safe, they always approach you. Good luck!