Storage Room Wall

If anyone recalls, the last house I owned was covered in color.  Since moving, I've yet to add any color on any wall, you know paint like.  So, for $25.00 I decided to try something new.

Now, the Storage Room has one wall this color:

And, I made a long, narrow rectangle of chalk paint with this color:

Now, we can write down what we take off the shelf so grocery shopping is a little easier.

Maybe one day I'll add a picture of the finished product but my dummy flip-phone just doesn't do the color justice.  And we all know, I believe in justice.

Mother's Day Weekend

Mother's Day Weekend was lots of fun! The kids and I went to City Creek and to eat at Little America before it closes down for six months.  The aunties met us there and we had a big dinner and dessert.  I love the Coffee Shop.

Noah chooses his own clothes these days.

Abbi and Noah at Little America with their dessert.

On Saturday, we took the kids for a surprise to meet Uncle Ross and Cousin Tom at Boondocks for dinner and games.  The kids loved it there.  It was like being in Las Vegas for kids ... no clocks, just swipe your card and play, etc.  We got a lot of tickets {mostly from Uncle Ross's skills at Ski-Ball} and the kids thought it was great to choose a prize.

Dance Dance Revolution with Tom Ballard

Punching Bag with Tom

Wish I had more pictures of Abbi but she was hard to keep up with.

Mother's Day was a beautiful day outside.  After church {and a nap}, Jake took us for a drive and we visited Grandma Hansen.  The kids gave me beautiful cards and a gift they had made at school or at primary.  This was my first year to get something from them so it was pretty great.  They were so excited to give me something.  I am so proud of their work and think there really aren't presents as good as those.

These are beautiful Joey curtains that Wendy made for me out of a shower curtain.  I love them so much!

 And, it's another beautiful day outside today.  It's Jake's and my second anniversary today.  Uncle Jeremy and Lilia took Noah and I for lunch to Uncle Jimmy's.  We were so glad to see Amber feeling good today.  I got to see Jake for a few minutes before he was off to work.  To celebrate our anniversary, I'm getting myself a big Oreo shake when the kids go to bed.  That'll be nice.

L O V E city creek in salt lake city

On Friday afternoon, I got to explore and check out lots of cool things happening at the grand opening of the City Creek Center!  I've been anticipating this for a long time because my sister, W., had a special involvement with the project.  It's been an exciting part of her career.  In fact, she's got a super panoramic picture of all of the buildings rising up with the huge cranes all around them hanging in her office.

After parking my van between two other too big vehicles, and climbing out like I was a magician escaping from the trapped car, I ate a yummy lunch at The Lion House.  It's one of our favorite places to eat.  Then we walked across to City Creek for a special tour of the condos!

I posted a few pictures of my favorite things in the condos.  For example: beds, pillows, wall paper (I'm in love), elephants, people, etc.

Love the wall paper!

Love the wall paper.  Also pictured: W :)

One of the many great views we saw from the condos.

My favorite elephant.

Maybe my favorite condo, here. I loved the style and the views.

This fireplace is stacked stone.  It was really cool.

Love, love this.

Loved this idea, too.

An orange bed! Lovey!

The sisters.  Super fun sister weekend, with the parents

My parents, buying us dinner, at Little America.

After touring the condos, we shopped in the Flagship Deseret Book!  Awesome!  And, then browsed through a few other favorite places before we went into Macy's.  My parents bought us each a little something.  Anne picked a scarf.  I picked a pashmina.  And Wendy got earrings, I think.  While we looked at the purses my dad followed us around commenting on how we were all carrying a purse so why did we need to look at purses.  Obviously, he doesn't get it.

After checking in at Little America, and eating at our favorite coffee shop, we took Trax to the Gateway to see Hunger Games.  I was impressed with the movie.  I always get nervous about movies based on books because I love books.  But, I really liked the movie this time!  I don't think I can wait two years for the next one.

I'm so glad I could have this little weekend adventure.  This week was awfully long with work, besides having to go into work on Saturday afternoon to round out six days this week.  I had a lot of cool things happen this week but I was t i r e d.  It's fun to spend time with my sisters and parents.  We've got to take the opportunities we still have to spend time with dad in public because that season of his life will have to come to an end soon due to the condition he suffers from that we like to compare to turrets.

When I got home, I got to see Jake for the first time since Sunday!  That was pretty great and got even better because he brought me Texas Roadhouse for dinner at work!  I love, love him.

Happy Weekend!