I was talking with a friend at church the other day and he likened the Christmas season to a car accident. Despite how much preparation goes into getting ready for everything, it still manages to sneak up and leave everyone wondering what it was that just hit. Given how the past month has gone, I felt that this was a very appropriate analogy. Now that things have started to settle down, I decided that I finally better sit down and try and recap our activities over the past few weeks.
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December 31, 2008 12:16 pm | 
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Regular visitors to our blog know that my grandfather passed away last week. It is still very fresh in my mind, and I’m still very emotional, so I can’t say much, but I will try and touch on a few of the events of the past few days.
We went to Idaho Thursday afternoon so that I could attend the viewing that evening. Holly stayed at the hotel with the kids so that they could swim. As I was leaving for the viewing, I ran into my dad and Emmy so I helped them get settled in their room. As I was attempting to leave again, I ran into Santa Claus. (The Marriott employees were having their Christmas party and he was in attendance.) I asked him if he could say hi to the kids in the pool which he was more than happy to do. (Remember, he’s Santa so he loves kids.) By this time, I had been trying to bring myself to leave for about 30 minutes. It started to become obvious that I was looking for any reason to delay my going to the viewing.
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Family | Jeremiah | December 22, 2008 7:45 am | Comments (2)
I love the old Christmas specials that the TV networks air through the month of December. My favorite has to be Charlie Brown though. In this era of political correctness, it offends a lot of people, and I’m sure that it will eventually be banned, but it conveys why we celebrate Christmas better than almost anything that I can think of that’s not considered “religious”.
Daniel R. Zohner, loving husband, father and grandfather, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Paul on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, of heart failure.
He was born July 10, 1923, in Cedron, to Jacob and Polly Christina Miller Zohner, the third son of 11 children. He graduated from Teton High School and then attended Utah State Agricultural College. Dan served in the United States Army during World War II as a paratrooper in 11th Airborne in the Pacific Theater. Upon his return, he completed his bachelor’s degree at Utah State.
He married Fern Zollinger on Aug. 4, 1948, in the Logan LDS Temple and they were blessed with four children, Lynn Zohner (Emmy), Annette Warburton (Paul), Sheri Walters (Randy) and Kris Katoa (Amaile).
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Family | Jeremiah | December 18, 2008 7:36 am | Comments (2)
I love Christmas music. One of my favorite songs isn’t one that many people know about so I thought that it would be fun to post a live version of it here. For the record, Holly HATES this song.
A lot has happened in the past few days that I’d like to tell everybody about but I don’t feel much like writing. I’ll get to it eventually though. In the meantime, enjoy some Billy Joel. This song seems appropriate today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraZEoRnkPc
(YouTube won’t let me embed the video like usual and Veoh isn’t loading properly so you’ll have to click the link. Just one more reason to dislike Sony.)
After months of being told that I need to post pictures of Emma’s baptism, I finally have. You can check them out in the Gallery. Remember, it’s password protected so if you don’t know the magic words, you’ll need to contact me.
For the past few years, Alex and Emma were sharing a room. We thought that putting Alex in with Emma was the best option since, at the time, both he and Hannah had a hard time going to sleep at bedtime. There was way too much playing and jumping on beds and it just wasn’t worth the nightly battles.
The problem with the sharing of the room though is that both kids were very messy. It was rare that the carpet could be seen thanks to all of the toys, laundry, etc. on the floor. Despite our repeated attempts to get the kids to keep their room clean, it was always a mess. Even when the floor was clean, it was still a mess thanks to a lot of clutter on the shelves. Holly and I both hated it but figured that once Emma moved downstairs things would probably get better since things wouldn’t be so crowded.
