Tim Boyce Video‏ Sent by Gordon Smith

http://kutv.com/video/?cid=5

 

I watched the video report about Tim Boyce from the kutv channel 2 television station web site.  It said I could email it to others.  I tried.  I even sent it to myself.  It did not work.  The web site address shown above takes you to the kutv videos for Dec. 19, 2005. 

 

I don't  know if you want to pull it up and watch it, or not.  However if you do, there is the web site address.  Just click on it.

 

I have done it, and it works.  However, sometimes it does not show all of the videos, and you have to click on "more" under those listed.  Once I had to click on U.S. & World in the list on the left side of the screen.  When that finally loaded, I then had to click on "more" listed under the stories listed.  When you finally get in there you will see a picture of a soldier and his son.  The caption says:  "Utah Soldier Dies After Complaining Of Headaches."  If you click on that, the video will be buffered in.  It takes time to buffer, but it is a touching video, and worth being seen. 

 

I have slow dial up.  If you have DSL etc. it will come in faster than it does for me.

 

Sorry the video wouldn't email like it is supposed to from kutv.  I tried emailing it to myself three times.  It just did not work.  

 

Planning Christmas with S. Trauntveins

Kimberly wrote: It looks like we are coming Christmas Day. We have church at 11am, so we will be down around 2:30 or about. Snow permitting. :-)

Myrna wrote: That means you will not be down for Christmas Eve? Love, Mom

Kimberly wrote: Correct, sorry. :(

Myrna wrote: Kirsten will be here Christmas Eve and will leave sometime Christmas morning

so they can get back to Colorado for Jared's work on Tuesday. Love, M

Kimberly wrote: What time Christmas Eve? We need to be at my parents around 4 pm. So we
could come early Christmas Eve leave around 2 pm. 

Jul

People in Denmark often have different views on Christmas, or "Jul" as we call it (the Christian word Christmas/Kristmesse never quite caught on in Scandinavia). The main festivities take place on the 24th of December (a normal tradition in Denmark is to have a big celebration the evening before the actual holiday). People go to mass either before noon or at midnight (the only time of the year the churches are full). In the evening people have a traditional dinner with their family (including grandparents, oncles, aunts and such). Afterwards they join hands around the Christmas tree and sing Christmas songs while walking around the tree. Afterwards, the presents are opened and sweets are served. People enjoy the company of their relatives until midnight mass or until they go to bed.

The christmas meal:
The most common meat eaten on this day is roasted pork with a crisp skin (the pork dates back to heathen times, where the largest pig would be sacrificed to Frey, the god of fertility). Other animals eaten on this evening could be duck or goose (newer tradition), some people (especially in southern Jutland) also eat sausage. To go with the meat, we eat two kinds of potatoes (boiled, and some roasted with sugar in a frying pan), red cabbage, and lots of thick brown gravy. The dessert is normally ris a' la mande (a Danish invention with a french sounding name), which consists of rice porridge, whipped cream and chopped almonds. In the ris a' la mande we put a whole almond, and the one who finds it, wins a prize (the dessert and the almond-prize is a rather new invention, not more than hundred years old).

All through the Christmas season people gather at christmas lunches, where they eat too much and drink "snaps" and of course strong Christmas beer. People also drink a lot of "gløg", which is warm red wine with chopped almonds and raisins. (Of course, members of the LDS Church do not drink.)

The Santa Claus figure is very popular in Denmark, due to the heavy American influence. The tradition of giving out presents has been popular in the broad population only for about a hundred years or so (this of course is also connected with the poverty among the masses before WWI). The still living traditions, which are very old, are the eating of the pork and red cabbage. Danish folklore contains a lot of superstitions and ancient rituals connected with Christmas, that I don't want to waste your time by naming.

Sharon Boyce's Parents‏

Hi Myrna and family,

 

Sharon Boyce is mom and dads great granddaughter.  She is the granddaughter of Roberta and I.  She is the daughter of our daughter Peggy and her husband Ernie Strong.

 

We have heard some wonderful things about Kirsten and her husband.  When Sharon and Tim were living in Colorado, Kristen tended Sharon and Tim's son (Ammon) for her, she brought food to Sharon, and Kirsten's husband fixed Sharon's teeth.  I'm sorry that I don't remember Kirsten's husband's name.

 

We have been so appreciative of how Kirsten and her husband treated Sharon and her family.  They performed many acts of kindness.  We feel a great deal of love for them, 

 

Sharon's cancer is in remission right now.  However, the damage done to her by the Chemo.

has been devastating to her health.  She is on oxygen, she has a great deal of scar tissue around her heart, she retains a great deal of water in her tissues, and has damage to her mouth and teeth.  Sharon is a fighter, and has a positive attitude

 

Sharon and Tim have a new baby girl who is about two months old.  Tim did get to come home and see that new daughter soon after she was born.  They didn't think they would be able to have more children after the Chemo.

 

Apparently, Tim had a congenital aneurysm that ruptured.  It is so sad.  He was a great husband, father, and grandson in law.  We will miss him.

 

We had our family Christmas party on December 18, and Sharon, Ammon and Grace (the new baby) were t;here.  Grace was Roberta's mother's name.

 

The viewing will be this Thursday, and the funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. on Friday at a ward in Farmington.  That is where Tim's parents live.

 

Well,  our thanks again for your concern, and for Kirsten and her husband's help and love.

 

Love,

 

Gordon and Roberta

 

 

Gordon Smith