Eventful weekends are always a lot of fun. This was one of the nice weekends! It had been quite some time since we’d visited Heather and her family in Orem. I wanted to go to Salt Lake City for the Church’s Sunday School Open House. Stephanie, our oldest granddaughter, had a date to Homecoming at Orem High School. Danielle had a soccer game. All of that meant it was time to go south! We left Pocatello about 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon in the motor home and headed for Salt Lake City. I’ve received a new Church Calling as the Stake Sunday School President. Since I’ve not much of an idea of what all that job entails, I decided to go to the Church’s Sunday School Open House being held on Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. in hopes of learning a bit more about the job. We took Bradica (the dog) with us since we would be in the motor home.
The Open House was interesting. While there wasn’t much information about the specific job of Stake Sunday School President, the material on teaching and gospel scholarship was very interesting. After the meeting was over, we continued on down to Orem. We parked the motor home in Heather’s driveway for the night. That meant we would have our own beds without causing Stephanie to sleep elsewhere. Both Stephanie (who had a date the the Big Dance on Saturday night) and Danielle (who had a big soccer game on Saturday morning) needed to get a good night’s sleep.
Danielle’s soccer game was a lot of fun. She barely missed scoring on this attempt with the ball hitting the post and going right instead of left. But that was OK — a few minutes later she made a great pass from which another teammate scored. Danielle’s Purple Cyclone team went on to win the game 3-1. It was a nice morning — not very hot and quite pleasant — and the girls had a great time playing.
Later that afternoon, Stephanie got ready for her first Big Dance. She looked radiant in her gown. Her date was a delightful young man and I’m sure they had a very good time at dinner and then at the dance. We really enjoyed being there for the day and seeing Stephanie looking so happy and beautiful. After Stephanie left, we had dinner and then we drove back to Pocatello. A very nice day and trip.
Today was as busy as every Sunday seems to be. I played the organ for Priesthood Meeting as well as Sacrament Meeting and taught the lesson in High Priest Group as my normal assignment. Nina was up at the prison for her standard quota of meetings. The weekend is now coming to a close. I did get some pictures which are accessible through the link or by visiting the “pictures!” link on the right side of the screen. I’ve been busy putting up some other pictures from my last Belgium trip, so there should be plenty of pictures to look at.
Speaking of pictures, I’ve decided to build a new picture capability somewhat similar to USA Today’s The Day in Pictures feature. While they use flash technology, the idea is still quite appealing. I take a lot of pictures that don’t get loaded to the “pictures!” pages because they don’t come together in a specific theme. This would allow me to take unrelated pictures and post them as a group. Besides, it’s a great way to learn more about this technology I’m using. In the process of doing this, I’ll upgrade my server to from PHP 4 to PHP 5, implement some Object Oriented capability, and for the first time, try to make use of some clever HTML 4 and Cascading Style Sheet capability. All that means is that it might be some time before I get this capability implemented. But, right now it sounds like fun. It’s been a nice weekend.