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Big Band
Tonight trombonist Joel made his debut with the Springville Junior High band. This big band is the largest in Mr. Booth's 18 years at SJHS. The16 flutes, 28 clarinets, 21 trumpets, 5 trombones, 6...
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Ornaments and Angels
Last Saturday we bought our traditional fresh cut sub-alpine fir for our Christmas tree, then Sunday after church we all helped decorate it. Ours is a very eclectic tree with quite a variety of...
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Salt Lake Lights
Tonight we headed north to Salt Lake City to enjoy the Christmas lights. Our first stop was the Museum of Church History for a special exhibit of Norman Rockwell paintings about scouting. This exhibit...
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Christmas 2013
Christmas Eve day was a busy day of delivering gifts and last minute shopping (with Will and on my own) while Marie focused on food preparation. (Joel and Sarah did find time to go watch the Hobbit...
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Twin Pines Christmas
In 1962 John and Norda Emmett bought this home on 6th North and 4th East in Logan Utah. Two tall, old Norwegian Spruces (more often called pines) shaded the east end of the home. Every Christmas since...
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Blueberry Muffins and Scrabble
We are on the late (1:00-4:00 pm) schedule for church this year so that means lazy Sunday mornings. This morning I treated the kids to home baked blueberry muffins.They are fairly simple to make, but...
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St. George and vicinity
Friday after school we all headed south to St. George for the Icebreaker Soccer tournament combined with a mini-vacation. It seemed as if half of Utah was heading south too. For Presidents Weekend St....
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Patriotic Program
Last night at Brookside Elementary the third graders put on a delightful patriotic program. Will and his friend Trevin (lower left in red) recited loudly and without a flaw their part about "C" things...
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Skiing at Brighton
It wasn't our earliest start, but we stayed up latter than usual last night watching the first half of the Dirty Dozen. Plus Sarah has early morning seminary every other day at school so she enjoys...
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Plant the Peas
Sarah (age 15) wrote this poem today in her Spanish class while watching a movie about the Canary Islands. The photos were taken today by her dad Chad who, upon his return home from work, was inspired...
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Worth Reading
Flat PolandToday in my Honor's World Geography class we were discussing Poland, its flatness and its frequent invasions. Krakow PolandThe Krakow Church where still today a trumpeter bugles out a...
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Capitol Reef
Thursday after school the Young Men of the Spring Creek 18th ward headed south for a three day adventure in Capitol Reef National Park. Joel had an agonizing decision of which of the two goods he...
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A geographer in Florida
This year the annual Association of American Geographers' conference was held in Tampa Florida. I flew out on Tuesday (the first day of the conference) so that I could teach my Monday classes. BYU...
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Slash and Burn
After attending the geography department graduation luncheon on Thursday (four of my geography colleagues and Shannyn Palmer--one of my students and TAs and a new member of the Tabernacle Choir). I...
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G-O-A-L-(S)
This evening was Will's Utah Storm team's second game in the post season tournament (they lost the first tournament game last Saturday to an undefeated American Fork team 6-0). One of the line referees...
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Road Trip: Springville to Liberty
We had hoped for a 7:00 am departure on our grand 3 1/2 week road trip back east to US and LDS historical sites, but a 7:00 am last minute temple recommend interview for Joel delayed us a little then...
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Road Trip: Liberty to north of Evansville
Looked out our hotel window this morning and what did we see? The Kansas City LDS Temple. We made that the first stop of the day. It is two years old. Years ago when President Hinckley announced the...
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Road Trip: Evansville to D.C.
It was a long day's drive through Southern Indians, across Kentucky, through heavy downpours and rolling hills in West Virginia and more rain across northern Virginia. Luckily Marie's cousin Ronde had...
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Road Trip: DC to NYC
Friday morning we headed out from DC towards Gettysburg. In northern Maryland I noticed a brown road sign (of interest to tourists) for the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes adjacent to the campus...
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Road Trip: NYC to Boston
Monday in NYC started out with bagels and muffins for breakfast followed by a red line subway ride to the southern tip of Manhattan. From there we rode the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty. Warning...
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