Christmas Entertainment

Being residents of Utah for Christmas was a treat this year because we got to join in all the gobs of concerts, plays, shows and great things going on that are right here in our backyard. 

I just couldn't say no to anything.

*It started out with some of us going to our favorite Hale Center Theater for

A Christmas Carol.

*Then the BYU Folk Dancers Christmas Around the World which was nostalgic for those who were in it long ago and those who were forced to go see those who were in it long ago.

*Michael McLean's, Forgotten Carols

*Festival of Trees

*Miracle of Jonathan Tomey play at the Scera with the Johnson family.

*The Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert with Nathan Gunn, the handsome singer

and

Jane Seymour.

There in the middle, with the roses. 

She was glamorous, elegant and queenly.

It was a fabulous event.

*On the verge of being self-indulgent I bought birthday tickets for Merrill to see Kurt Bestor Christmas concert. 

I invited Marianne to come with us. 

All I have to say about that event is WOW!  I hope to make that one a tradition.

*On the verge of being self-indulgent again, I bought birthday tickets for my mom, dad and me to have a date to the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Concert. 

All I have to say about that event is WOW!!!!!  I hope to make that one a tradition too.

(it was so scrumptious to have my parents all to myself for an evening.  They are pretty fun people.)

*There was no question about going to see the Farley Family Reunion Christmas.  The whole family went.  (it's a one man show who portrays different people at a family reunion program.)

We laughed.

Some laughed more than others.

But some laughed pretty darn hard.

I tell you what, by the time Christmas rolled around we were all so much in the Christmas spirit that we could hardly stand to be with ourselves. 

We had been filled with culture

and the meaning of Christmas and

the joy that music can bring into your life

especially at Christmas time.