We’re driving through Brigham City on our way to Orem, Utah and Heather’s house. It’s about 4 p.m. on Christmas Day afternoon. We’ll spend the night there and come back home sometime tomorrow. It’s a mostly cloudy day with the temperatures in the mid 40’s. Most of the snow has melted, so we’re right ready for another batch. Nina is driving and talking on the phone, calling all of the kids and grandkids. I’m surfing the net and now writing in my blog, courtesy of the SprintPCS wireless modem I have from my laptop computer. These are very handy devices making it possible to be connected at a little better than dial-up speeds as we’re travelling around.
We’ve had a very nice day and weekend. Heather, Ty, and family came up Friday afternoon and spent the night. They left on late morning Saturday morning. While they were at the house, I set up a weblog for Heather. She’s put her first post up and hopefully there will be many more to follow. After they laft, Nina and I went uptown and finished off the last little bit of Christmas shopping. Mom and Dad came over about four in the afternoon and spent the evening and night with us. We enjoy having them with around. Nina and I had ordered in a couple of Strumsticks for Christmas. We opened them and I promptly broke a string on mine. Nina’s works great, however, and tomorrow I’ll go downtown and get some replacement strings. They look like a lot of fun and a reasonable challenge to learn how to play. After dinner we read the Christmas story out of the Bible and eventually we all went to bed. This morning we opened Christmas presents and the went up to the Women’s Prison for their Christmas program. The inmate choir put on the program and they did a very good job. Eighty-one inmates attended the program and thirty-one visitors were there to hear the choir perform. Mom and Dad went up with us and they also really enjoyed seeing the facility and meeting some of the girls. I really enjoyed the program and I’m sure that the girls appreciated having an audience for their performance.
Our Ward’s Christmas Program was at 12:30 p.m. this afternoon. The Ward Choir was performing along with some other musical numbers. I substituted on the organ and, for once, my feet and hands cooperated and the organ sounded reasonably well. After Church we made a quick change and are on our way south. It’s been a busy weekend, but very pleasant. The church-related activites have been very nice. It has been a delightful celebration of the birth of our Savior. Merry Christmas to all!