hey everyone! My name is krista and I'm from Utah. I've been a member since the day I was concieved! I'm married to a wonderful man named justin and we have 4 little ones, Jaydan 8, Trevor 5, Jaxon 2.5 and our little princess Lainee who was born on March 4, 10 days ago! Jaydan was just baptized this month,and was so excited! I was so afraid I would go into labor just before his big day, but his sister decided to come the next day. (she probably didn't want to share her big day either! LOL) We got ready to go to church and was sitting in sacrament meeting and I started timing contractions, and they were 5 min. apart, so my mom, who is an rn at our local hospital, said to come in and be checked, so we had our neighbors take our kids home after primary, and we went to the hospital and sure enough, she was ready to come, and 4.5 hours later, she was here! The funny thing to this story is in Nov. when my sister was about to have her baby, my brother, who is in Mongolia serving a mission, told us in his e-mail that he had dreamed she was going to have her baby, that was on friday, and sunday she had him. Well, the friday before I had Lainee, he told us in his e-mail that he dreamed I was going to have the baby, and 2 days later, Lainee was here, so there must be something to missionary revelation! LOL!

A little background on how my husband and I met. I was 18, and he was 22. I had graduated from high school, and had just got done with my first semester of college at Weber State University in Ogden utah. I had met a guy at diabetic camp that summer who was 26, and a "bad boy" and he lived in ogden, so I thought it was perfect that I was going to school there that fall. He smoked, and drank ect, and when my parents found out I was sneaking out of the house (I lived with my gma and aunt) to see him, that was it, they pulled me out of school, since they were paying tuition, and I wasn't attending classes to sneak around with him, and told me if I wanted to be an adult, I would get a job and start paying rent. Well, our stake had just split and my family and justin's family got put into the same ward. He actually grew up up the road a block from me, but I didn't know him since we weren't in the same ward. So my mom and sister decided together it was time to start setting me up with some of the single guys in the ward, and Justin was thier first pick. So, along with my now FIL, they set it up and we went to a Utah Jazz game for our first date. When the date was over, I knew I was going to marry him! That was in Feb. of 1997, we were engaged in April, and was married in the Manti Temple on August 23, 1997, just after I turned 19. It was a whirlwind romance, but we are still together and happy after 10 years!

Right now, I don't hold a posision in the ward, Justin is one of the nursery leaders, but being a mom right now is definately a calling! I can't wait to get to know all of you a little bit better, and sorry my intro was so long!

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