Renaissance Festival

Jessica goes to the Renaissance Festival!

On Wednesday February 18th, Jessica and I went to the

Renaissance Festival with the Highland High School

Drama Class. It was a great day, in the high 60's.

We took school Busses to the Festival and spent about

four hours there. It was fun to see all the charaters and

watch the show. The food is good there also. They have

Turkey legs and bread bowl with soup. They sell all

sorts of things. This year I got warm chashews, Yum.

Jessica and I had a nice day and enjoyed the Festival.

Jessica with her friend Libby

By the way they are Juggling Fire!

A Juggling Trio called London Broil

The winner of the jousting Tournament.

The other Knight

I saw our favorite show the Hey Nunnie Nunnie- the silly singing Nuns.

Happy 50th Anniversary!

Today February 13th, 50 years ago these two love birds

got married. Its hard to believe that fifty years has

gone by. They had a small ceremony in a house

in Stites Idaho. I think moms dress was beautiful.

Dad looks so cute in his suit. I know its been a

long road to this point. Kids are not easy as you know.

Life is also not easy. But these two remarkable people

made it through hard times and good.

I am honored to be their daughter.

Happy 50th Anniversary Mom and Dad.

If I could i would make you a heart cake with red hots!

Mr and Mrs Philip Hartman Feb 13, 1959

Mr & Mrs PhilipHartman February 13, 2009

50th Wedding Anniversary

So here is what I have been up to theses last few weeks.

I have been working with my famly to plan

a 50 wedding Anniversary reception for my parents.

Yes, 50 years, Wow.

We are having the reception Friday, March 20.

It is going to be held in Ephrata at the Ivy Chapel.

Planning the reception has been so much fun. I guess

I need the practice, with 2 girls growing up so fast.

There will be receptions to plan with them someday.

It is nice to be able to do something for the people

who have given so much for all of us.

They are such great parents.

Peek a Boo I see you.

Becca called me yesterday and said I should go to the

BYU-I web side and look on the web cams. She was at the

Manwearing center getting a slushie with her friend Cami.

So Jessica and I found the Camara and there she was.

It was so good to see her. I could not believe she was

getting a slushie, Its like getting hot chocolate in Arizona

in the summer. Weird. But she said they were good.

So her is Becca on the web cam. We wanted to share with

everyone.

grill

INAUGARATION DAY

Yes its Inaugaration day, a big day for our country getting

a new president. But this is not the Inaugaration im talking

about. It is the Inaugaration of our new Grill. Yes we have

had it for a few months, but today, Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

is the first day we used it. Steve did such a great job on the

counter he built. It was so fun to finely use it.

Blinds

New Blinds!!

So, Finely after almost 11 years I got new blinds for

my downstairs windows. They are the 2" faux wood

blinds. I love them so much. It really makes a

difference. The old ones looked like something you

would find in the Dr. Office. But no more.

I leave the blind up a bit during the day so Max can

sit in the window and get warm.

Our Idaho Trip

Our Idaho Trip

Our trip up to Idaho went great! We had clear

roads all the way up and back. We had a little rain

going up when we crossed into idaho. But for the most

part it was smooth sailing. The way home was also clear

Steve had a couple of miles across the mountains

south of Beaver Utah. Also on Monday through

Flagstaff there was wet roads. They had gotten

snow on Sunday, so the roads were clear by

Monday. We were very blessed to have such

a smooth trip to get becca up to Idaho. I am

very thankful for all the prayers that were said for

us. Please continue to pray for Rebecca as

she now is on her own.

I feel like a mother bird that has let her little bird

fly from the nest. Fly little bird fly. You have

been prepared for this. you will be a great Bird

and Fly up, up, up. We will miss you, and look

forward to your return.

The road at Flagstaff

The beautiful snow. So nice to look at but not live in.

Jessica is so happy to be an only child.

The Rexburg Temple

The Rexburg Temple

This is the Rexburg Temple. It is a few blocks from

becca's Apartment. It is so beautiful at night because

it sits on the hill.

Rebecca to Idaho

Rebecca goes to BYU-I

On January 1st we left Arizona to take Rebecca to

Rexburg Idaho. She will be attending BYU-Idaho

this winter and spring semesters.

We had a great trip. The roads were clear and we had

great weather too. It was very cold in Idaho. I think

the high on Saturday was 14 degrees. But it was

sunny and clear so what more could you ask for.

Saturday morning we arrived at Becca's new apartment

to check in. She was able to pick what room she wanted.

There are 6 girls in her apartment. Her roommates

name is Hannah. She is from Idaho Falls.

The apartment is right across the street from campus.

one of her classes is in the building across the street.

she is very close to the laundry and not far from the

lounge and computer room.

We were able to get her all set up in her apartment.

she had plenty of food and had all her stuff put away.

her room is so cute.

Welcome to Idaho!

Rebecca's Apartment is on the bottom right.

We baught a curtain to cover the closet.

It is much nicer to look at.

The living room.

Grammie made the quilt for her bed. It is so beautiful.

She got her computer set up.

Look becca's new boots! nice weather huh?

Becca is all moved in. This is her side of the room

The kitchen. This is one of becca's Shelves.

check out all of that food.

Our last dinner together until summer.

100th post

Celebrating my 100th post!

OK, so it is my 105th post. I really wanted to catch it before it

went over 100. Wow, what a great year we have had.

I have really enjoyed my blog and being able to keep all my

friends and family up to date on what we have been

doing during the year. From the happy stuff like

Becca graduation to the sad stuff like my

beloved Tiger passing on. I am so glad that I can keep

everyone close to us by sharing our lives. I hope the

next 100 posts will be entertaining and interesting so

you will all keep coming back. With Becca going to school

in Idaho, I hope to have some cool posts. get it cool like

lots of snow and cold temps. so here is to the next 100 posts,

may they be even more exciting the the first 100. For Teresa,

I will try to write more words. As she knows

I prefer pictures to words.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

More christmas eve movies

This one is the best

Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008

Looks like santa came to our house

The Girls must have been good this year.

Max enjoying the wrapping paper

Opening gifts

Jessica got a new phone!

Cat toys $7, cat nip $10, discarded christmas paper priceless

Find the cat in this photo

You may know I collect Negtivity sets. This is one

of my new ones Becca got for me. Thanks to

Beccas job at the American Greeting store in the mall,

I was able to get the whole willow tree nagtivity set.

Christmas Eve Party

Christmas Eve Party 2008

Its party time again. Yes we had a great party this year

we had about 27 people show up this year.

It was fun to have so many friends and family join us.

Once again the food was so good. The Giant shrimp

were the favorite.

The Food!

The Pinata this year was the shape of a Christmas ornament.

last year Jeff destroyed the pinata on his first try.

So I was determined to make one this year

that would last long enough for everyone to get

at least one turn. So I put on 4 layers of newspaper,

masking tape, then the tissue paper layer. let me tell you that

puppy was strong. Everyone got at least 3 turns.

finely Jeff and Joey destroyed it. Even Josh go in the act.

there is a video showing how he really gave it a few

wackes. The only thing I can advise about the

pinata, is to not put candy necklaces in it.

when it finely broke, the necklaces were in a thousand

pieces. Although the tootsie rolls survived in tack.

Jessica taking a turn.

Jeff trying to kill my Pinata,

Joey Legger takes a turn, No luck!

Josh, can he do it.

NO way.

Swing Josh

Uncle Steve being silly with the Pinata

Look at all those gifts, There were some silly ones.

like the Moon Sand, scooby do DVD. We had lots of candy

Hot chocolate, even homemade cookies.

Grants turn to pick a gift.

We had a pretty good crowd this year for our game.

We also had Cherry Cheese pie and read the

Christmas story before everyone went home.

Thanks to everyone who attended.