Cammie's World

Monday, April 27, 2009

Happy Easter!!!!

I know, I know.... I am a little late with this post, But hey whats new. Easter to me came a little earlier this year that I was hoping for. I know last year it was in March but I kept thinking it would be toward the end of the month. It sort of caught me off guard. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I know we did even though the weather was a little uncooperative. Anytime we get together as a family though we always have a great time. So here is a brief run down of the activities.

We always do our celebration on Saturday as that is when Spanish Fork has their city egg hunt, so it is a great time to get together as a family.
This was Ruby's 1st year for the hunt and because I arrived somewhat late and her field was the closets I got to watch her and her Daddy "hunt for eggs" As I was standing watching him I remembered when I took him to his 1st Easter Hunt over 20 years ago. Wow, time has a way flying and we have been going to this same egg hunt every year since. Of course we have added many more kids and then some have out grown out, but we still have a few years before Eryk will be too old and by then maybe more little ones will be added.

So enough that sappy stuff on with the pictures.

Cute little Ruby in her Bunny Best pauses on the wet grass to ponder the wonders in her basket

Kaitlyn shoing off her prize winning "Golden Ticket" that was inside one of her eggs.

Ruby got a "Golden Ticket" as well and stood in line with Kaitlyn. Here is displays her new chocolate bunny which is too young to eat... right? I am sure mom and dad will enjoy it for her.

After the egg hunt and the chaos of collecting kids and prizes is back to Grandma's for some Egg dyeing fun, various egg dyeing kits and mugs with different colors are set out on the table for the kids (and adults) to enjoy.

Ruby really liked sucking on the eggs and splashing in the dye

Brian shows of his master piece

and even Amy has created a work of art

This is where my mom aka "grandma" has discovered at least one dozen of those egs being colored is not boiled. Or so she tries to tell us. Funny story though she did do that one year. I guess keeping track of 10 dozen boiled eggs can be hard.

Another master peice is created.

Next the "Grandma Bunny" has hidden a plastic egg for each kid, somewhere in the backyard so it is now their job to find one. Of course they must pose for a picture 1st.

After they find hte egg they go to the "Grandma Bunny" and exchange it for a sack of cool Easter things.
Here is Ruby stylin' in some glasses playing with a Slinky

Then it is time for food, food and more food.

Of course the little one must text her "peeps" and tell them what a super fun time she is having SRSLY!

This year we have added a new tradition as sadly my dad is no longer able to join us (in the physical sense) so we all went to the cemetary to visit his grave.

Some of the kids decorated Grandpa and egg and we took him salt too.

and that concludes oue Easter celebration 2009. Thanks for taking a look

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Happy Saint Patrick's Day (a little late)

Sorry this post comes in a wee bit late, I am just a tad bit behind in my blogging. Anyway, I hope you all had a Happy Saint Patrick's day. As for us we didn't do anything to celebrate it, but I thought I would share with you the legend behind the celebration.
St. Patrick's Day honors St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. We celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17. Americans march in parades, dance the Irish jig and gather to sing Irish songs. People wear green in memory of Ireland, the Emerald Isle and wear shamrocks, clover with three leaves.March 17 was not the day St. Patrick was born but the day he died. Even though we don't know the date of his birth, most scholars believe the year was 385 AD and the year of his death was 461 AD.
St. Patrick was born in Wales, studied religion to become a priest and then went to Ireland to teach the people about God. There are many wonderful stories about St. Patrick, some true and some not true. The most famous legend is that he drove the snakes out of Ireland. This did not happen but the Irish will tell you that you cannot find a snake throughout the whole country of Ireland.

I did manage to make a few cards to send out in honor of the occasion and was even able to get them out in time to arrive right on St. Patrick's day!

One of my all time favorite things to do is dress the Disney Characters up for the different holidays. In this case I turned Mickey and Minnie into Irish folks

Instead of cutting Eeyore out in his traditional Blues, I made him in green, and in the words of a famous Frog "It ain't easy being green!"

Some other non Disney cards, on most of these I could not find the perfect paper at the store but had some digital papers that I used for Digital scrap booking that were perfect. So I printed them out and used them.

I found this idea on the Cricut.com message board and just had to try to try it out.

For the inside verse on most of the cards I googled Irish Blessings and found these two that I thought went perfect with the cards:

"May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.”

"May your blessing's out number the Shamrocks that grow and trouble avoid you wherever you go."

Both of these worked out great for my cards and they are also my wish to you!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Kaitlyn's Baptism

~We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the gospel are first, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Second, repentance. Third, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins. Fourth, laying on of hands, for the gift of the Holy Ghost~

On Saturday March 7th Kaitlyn was Baptized and confirmed by her Dad. It was a special day and we were so glad we were able to witness this special occasion in Kaitlyn's life. She was really excited to be baptized