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...

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...

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...

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...

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.