Dinner without Pickelball

We couldn't find an indoor place for pickleball Saturday night, so we settled for dinner instead. We went with the Sardonis to Porter's Place in Lehi. It is a rustic stake house in old town. We enjoyed the atmosphere and the lack of a line on Saturday night!

Hopefully, we'll find a place to play indoor pickleball in the evenings. Maybe Ken will build a court in his backyard!

Who Likes Christmas?

Ed and I had more helping putting up decorations on Friday! Clementine loved the ribbon!

Mabel loved sitting in an empty box!

She also loved watching it snow! Sadly for Mabel, it didn't amount to much!

We were happy to get our second tree up and to enjoy the enthusiasm of the little girls as they watched and "helped!"

An Alpine Prairie Christmas is Now Available!

Whistling Prairie has finished it's latest CD! We have 11 new songs. You have to listen to the bitter end to hear Dominick the Donkey! John does a great hee-haw!

This is our Christmas 2016 album, as we recorded it last December! We're always a year behind!

We started recording our Christmas program in 2000!  Starting with 2005 we have posted all the albums (available for download) at whistlingprairie.com. Over 17 years we've covered 219 Christmas songs! That's a lot of merry!

We would love it if you would download our new album at
http://www.whistlingprairie.com/an-alpine-prairie-christmas/!

Decorating Help

We had a little decorating help yesterday! Mabel and Clementine spent the night at our house, so we put them to work helping us decorate our Christmas tree!

In reality, Clementine wasn't really much help, but she was very enthusiastic about exploring the tree! She can scootch anywhere, so we had to keep a ckise eye on her. Hopefully, she is not strong enough to tip the tree over when we're not looking!

Relief Society Christmas Dinner

Our ward had their Relief Society Christmas dinner on Tuesday night! We had a wonderful array of soups to choose from! I had the German Potato Soup made by our real German, Chrystal (in the vest). I wonder if she'll share her recipe?

We had a nice visit at dinner and also did a humanitarian project, putting together welcome kits for refugee children! It was a nice way to kick off the holiday season!

Music Workshop in Springville

Arlene Bailey invited us to attend a Music Workshop hosted by two Stakes in Springville on Saturday. She's my cousin Michael's wife, and also my sister, Barbara's, sister-in-law! As we all have music callings, Brittany, Barbara and I thought we might benefit from going! We really enjoyed hanging out together and lunch afterwards! Hopefully, we also got a little musical inspiration from it!

It's a Wrap!

The Pinyon Rats came over Friday and finished up recording the last song for our 2016 Whistling Prairie Christmas CD!

It's been a long time in the making! When we recorded last December I couldn't play the guitar because of my broken wrist. I'm almost back to normal now (over a year later)! The good part was I got to play lots of fun things on this CD, like pennywhistle, glockenspiel, and shaker!

We're excited to get the new CDs into production!