Wake up Groundhog

I had good intentions of posting this Monday morning. Of course that was before the Monday morning madness started. So here I am with groundhog wishes a day late!

Wake up, Groundhog,time to see What the weather's Going to be.Time to stretch, Time to think, time to eat,and time to drink.Wake up Groundhog, time to see what the weather's going to be!

Well true to traditon on Gobblers Nob Punxsutawney Phil was pulled from his winter slumber to tell us what we had in store for in the weather.

Poor Phil saw his is shadow and scurried back to bed so we could enjoy 6 more weeks of this:

Here are some answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the holiday:
Yes! Punxsutawney Phil is the only true weather forecasting groundhog. The others are just impostors.
How often is Phil's prediction correct? 100% of the time, of course!
How many "Phils" have there been over the years? There has only been one Punxsutawney Phil. He has been making predictions for over 120 years!
Punxsutawney Phil gets his longevity from drinking the "elixir of life," a secret recipe. Phil takes one sip every summer at the Groundhog Picnic and it magically gives him seven more years of life.
On February 2, Phil comes out of his burrow on Gobbler's Knob - in front of thousands of followers from all over the world - to predict the weather for the rest of winter.
According to legend, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather. If he does not see his shadow, there will be an early spring.
No! Phil's forecasts are not made in advance by the Inner Circle. After Phil emerges from his burrow on February 2, he speaks to the Groundhog Club president in "Groundhogese"(a language only understood by the current president of the Inner Circle). His proclamation is then translated for the world.
The celebration of Groundhog Day began with Pennsylvania's earliest settlers. They brought with them the legend of Candlemas Day, which states, "For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day, so far will the snow swirl in May..."
Punxsutawney held its first Groundhog Day in the 1800s. The first official trek to Gobbler's Knob was made on February 2, 1887.
So the story goes, Punxsutawney Phil was named after King Phillip. Prior to being called Phil, he was called Br'er Groundhog.

Hope your Groundhog day was great and enjoy your 6 more weeks of winter, knowing that spring is just around the corner

Who lives in a pineapple?

Are you ready kids?

aye aye Captian

I can't hear you!

aye aye CAPTAIN!!!

I was very excited when I seen that Provo Craft is releasing a Sponge Bob Square Pants circut cartridge in late spring early summer. I mean who can resist that absorbent and porous sea creature, not to mention Squidward Tentacles Patrick Star and the whole town of Bikini Bottom.

Some of the other upcoming new releases are
Hannah Montanna

Four solutions Cartridges

Ashlyn's Alphabet

And a Child's year

I can't help but want all of these. Unfortuantely my budget won't allow it.

Happy Birthday Princess

On January 7th we gathered at Brian and Kollette's for Princess Kaitlyn's 8th Birthday. I can hardy believe she 8 already, it doesn't seem like that long ago we were sitting around waiting for her to come into this world.

I thought this card was perfect for the little Princess! Complete with rare precious gemstones.

Being the unprepared Aunt that I am (when it comes to gifts) I had to stop at Walgreen's on the way home from work and hope they had something in the toy aisle for her. I did find this cute Princess Bag in with the wrapping paper.

She really liked her card, except when it came time to read it as it was written in cursive so she could quite make out the words.

I lucked out at Walgreen's as they had a great selection of Littlest Pets shops which seems to be a must have item for every Princess.

Eryk made her a gift with his "real" tools that he got for Christmas. I am not sure what she is thinking.

Lady the Sadie got her Magic Rocks. The kids think it great fun that they get presents from the dog. This one was quite comical but I made the comment (from Charlie Brown's Halloween) that she got a rock long before it was unwrapped!

All of her presents

She opted for cupcakes instead of a cake.

Posing, as all Princess' must

Pretty little Princess

Prince Charming

These two still look so much a like

A princess and a Queen!

Uncle Jared and I really love our Princess Kaitlyn and are so glad we get to spend so much time watching her grow up. We hope that she had a very Happy Bithday!

New Years Cards

This year I decided to make some New Yeas cards. Towards the end of last year I got the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge but never got the opportunity to use it. One day I was flipping through the handbook and noticed the 2009 cut and new right away that with the addition of the Disney and Winnie the pooh cuts it would make a perfect card for the New Year. I got all the characters made and the 2009's cut out but I could not find the right paper for it. One night after work I went to Heartland Paper Company on Redwood road and this paper just jumped out at me. So once I got home I was able to put them all together. I really like how the all turned out. Jared especially likes the one with Dale on it. I don't think I have a favorite. If you click on the picture it will make it bigger and you can see them better.

New Years Celebration

These little slide shows are fantastic for posting lots of pictures at once. This year we celebrated New Years at Brian and Kollette's house. It was great for us as they just live a few blocks from us so we didn't have to drive a long way after the celebrating was over. My mom spent the night with them so she didn't have to drive at all. We started off the night with a Taco bar and a veggie tray. Once we had devoured all the food we stated in on playing games. We played Donkey, Uno attack, Uno Stacko and some Jr. Trivia game. We aren't quite smart enough for the adult versions of Trivia games and even struggle with the JR additions. As always when we get together, we had ton's of fun! Thanks to Kollette for hosting such a great evening. I hope all of you were able to have fun however you celebrated the night!

Olive Garden, Temple Square and Gage's Girlfriend

I am still trying to get caught up on my blogging and I guess while I have the January blahs it's a great time to remember all that December fun.

The Monday between Christmas and New Years we got to together with mom and Brian an Kollette and family to go to Olive Garden and then to see the light at Temple Square. This outing also gave us the opportunity to meet Gage's girlfriend as her family had come down from Vernal to see the lights as well. Here are some pictures of the evening's events.

Jared, my mom and I all went her car which we park down some dark street so we could take Trax to the Temple and not worry about trying to find a place to park near the temple

I got a chance to really try out my new camera

The nativity

A family photo

Jared and I

Mom

Gage and Larisa (not sure of that is spelled right)

The girlfriend

I took a whole bunch of other picture as well but I won't bore you all with those,l but if you would like it to take a look you can find them here.

My Christmas Present

I guess I must have been good all year cause Santa brought me a new camera for Christmas. I was so excited when I unwrapped it Christmas morning. It was the very last thing I expected since we had decided the new TV was our gift. Sadly my trusted Canon S1 is dying (well the pixels anyway.) So Santa replaced it with this sport new camera.

We had been discussing eventually replacing the S1 but I had not quite decided if I wanted a D-slr or just a plain Digital camera. A time or two a guess I must have looked at this one. I love it. I have had so much fun with it over the past 2 weeks. It really does take great pictures.

One other gift Santa brought me was this Father/Daughter figurine from Willow tree. Now whenever I see it I can think about all the great things my dad and I did together and how he really was my best friend.

I hope Santa was good to all of you as well.