My apologies...

I am sorry for sounding morbid by putting up my funeral arrangements but I have decided that I want to put things out there that I feel that are important... And since I am convinced that I am going to be there for my funeral, well, I just thought it would be fun to put down what would be nice for me if I am there.... I really plan on living a lot of years and quite frankly I hope I can live to be an age of a tree and just get ressurected by the twinkling of an eye... I got a life time to live with Venna and a whole lot of golfing to do... I also, yea I really need to, well, do my geneology too.... Well my first day of vacation is tomorrow as they are taking me out of the classroom to go to some stupid training sessions... I will be away from my class all week next week... I am also taking Brent golfing Friday so I will need a substitute for that too.... Everything is going great and I am a happy person.... Night....

My Funeral Agenda will include....

Oh, Holy Night- Mark Gallop
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
Oh My Father
Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
How Great Thou Art
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go Dear Lord

A talk on the Plan of Salvation- President Martz if he out lives me

And all of my Grandkids singing "I Am a Child of God"

Night...

Keep the commandments journal entry!

It is really interesting to me how a sickness or other distractions will get you off the path of being consistent with good thing. I got kicked around last week with a lot of physical ailments and I came up weak in the department of enduring and sustaining my writing in this journal. Quite frankly, I am writing this time because I just know I have to or I will spiral out of control and not write for a long time... I enjoyed our Sacrament meeting today because we had our singing testimony meeting going... Taylor and I had many tears shed between us and I even perceived to see Bo shed a few also... "The Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" tore me apart.... I had an interview with Brian Thomas and it was a high light in my career of interviewing people under the influence of being a Priesthood leader... I believe he and Rachael will be going to the temple soon.... Obviously I cannot reveal what we talked about but I will reveal that the Spirit was there in great abundance... I also gave Jared a Father's blessing and that was a wonderful experience... I love my membership in the Lord's church... Venna was sick today, she is really going through it... And yet she made us a wonderful stew for dinner... Yea, I married a valiant woman that is one of a kind and I know, that I am lucky... Oh, I also started my geneology Sunday School class.... Night...

Venna is sick....

Yep, it was Venna's turn to be sick... She did not go to school today... I am so tired of this stuff... I went to school and was regretting it for the first two hours but then my second wind kicked in and I was alright... Now, I am eating regularly and feeling pretty good... One good news about the sickness was that I weighed myself this morning and for the first time in a long time I weighed in the 160ies... I weighed 168.2 and that has me feeling pretty good... We had a good presidency meeting and I really appreciate Jason Jay, Jared Briggs, and Brian Thomas's counsel as we tried to get a handle on things in the quorom....I sure hope Venna is completely well tomorrow... Bo gave me the slightest and I mean slightest attitude and then we were busting up laughing when I told him that I was pretty lucky to only have 5 months of attitude and that he was late because he should have started 5 years ago... I told him that he will find out how teenagers are when he has his and he told me that he will send them to their room if they give him any attitude and then we laughed some more.... I really am lucky to have Bo and Taylor be my last two children... Not that my first 6 were to bad, well except for the one time that I took down Becca's bedroom door for some, uh, yea, attitude.... But all of my kids were fun to raise as teenagers... I am really going to enjoy watching them raise their teenagers... Night....

Wow, I was really sick!

Sunday at 2:00 I began an adventure that I hope that I will never have to experience again... In the next six hours I threw up fourteen times and it was violent... I was really worried that I had one of those scary flu's but I feel better now and though my stomach is bruised from the upheval yet I feel like I am back... What was really tough is that during my ordeal the Angels were playing a miracle game against the Red Sox... I was keeping up but I didn't put extra time on the taping and I came up short... My recording stopped when the Angels were hitting in the 9th inning, and during that time the Angels scored three runs to beat the Red Sox 7-6.... We finally turned the clock and did a miracle game against them... Revenge for 1986... Jared and Joshua came over and blessed me and that was a special experience.... I had the opportunity to ordain Loyal Dillon as an Elder and Mark Hammel as a High Priest...

Corinne I really enjoy your blog!

Your comment section won't allow me to comment so I thought I would beat it by commenting on my blog.... It is so much fun to see the growth of Darin and Lizzy... Keep up the good work.... Julie thank you for sharing with me yours and Jared's trials and victories... Hey, Joshua and Rachelle I want to hear from you... Mom had a horrible experience at school and if she wants to share it she will but I found it hard to remain stable today and not want to throttle my administrator though she did wake up and smelled the coffee and did what is right on behalf of Venna.... I am so thankful that it is Friday and I don't have to officiate volleyball... I am enjoying volleyball but I never thought they would keep me this busy after being gone so long.... I am making all of my golf money, and in someways it has been fun... I enjoy watching the girls play volleyball... Bo is helping in managing his high school team also... I found out that the feelings for the Anaheim Angels are still really strong... I was on pins and needles during the game last night when they beat the Red Sox 5-0... I am getting ready to take Venna on a date... I really love her and I am so lucky to be able to spend time with her...

Wow, I am inspired!

I am so thankful to hear what my wife said about Becca.... I am so proud of Becca for showing us all that this is not the life to shrink and to fight the battle no matter what.... I am impressed with Julie's comments and the battle that her and Jared has... I am surrounded by great people who help me to know that I want to keep the Lord first in my life...