My Yellow Room

It is no secret that yellow is my favorite color. Since Jon doesn't really care what color I paint the walls (as long as I don't paint them red, especially if it is only one red wall - inside joke) I decided I would paint one of our spare bedrooms yellow - and I mean yellow.

First of all the room was covered in this hideous 80's floral wallpaper. Since removing wallpaper is a task that I can tackle I took it upon myself to take off all the wallpaper. Shortly before I started to remove the wallpaper an invoice from work caught my eye. One of our superintendents had rented a steamer to remove wallpaper at the owner's house. I thought, hey, we have a steamer I could use that to help remove the wallpaper. So glad I paid attention to the invoice and thought to use our steamer. I got the wallpaper down in one night.




After the wallpaper was down the real work began - for Jon. He patched holes, textured the walls and put up molding around the doors and along the floor. Then his dad came and textured the ceiling for us. He is so good at it and was done in like an hour. After all the texturing was complete Jon primed the walls and ceiling and began painting. He hates to paint and I helped him when I could. We still need to change out a couple of things but for the most part it is complete and I love my yellow room.




Paint to me is like a haircut. If I get a bad haircut - oh well, it'll grow back. If I don't like the color of the paint - oh well, Jon can paint it again - haha. I tell people I have a yellow room and then when they actually see it one of the first things out of their mouth is "that's a yellow room." Isn't that what I told you? Were you expecting purple or blue? Jon likes all the different hues it displays depending on the time of day and the light in the room. Yes I know it is bright but I love it and it makes me smile whenever I walk past it.

What Happened to March?

My goodness what happened to March? It came and left just like that. Oh wait I know - Jon and I were sick practically the whole month and were walking around in a daze. Somehow I ended up with a nasty cold/cough thing and I think Jon thought it looked so much fun that he decided he wanted it too (either that or my mother taught me well and I just had to share with him). I have to say that I came out better than Jon - he ended up with pink eye in both eyes. We are feeling much better and should do us for another year. Now, bring on the warm weather I say!!!

The February Blah's

I know why February is the shortest month of the year - it has to be the most depressing month of all the other months. Think about it

January - We're still reveling in all the festivities and new gadgets from Christmas and New Year.
March - Well besides the fact that it is my birthday month the temperature is getting warmer, we switch over to daylight savings time (HOORAY - ONLY 37 DAYS TILL THE SWITCH), glimmer of hope that spring is on its way and I can start planning my garden.
April - Yet even warmer temperatures, flowers are popping up and I can start early plantings
May - Summer is just around the corner and the garden should be planted
June, July, August - SUMMER IS HERE - need I say more
September, October - FALL - I love fall, the colors, smells and sounds. It's still warm with a slight crispness in the air
November - Thanksgiving
December - Christmas

Really what is there in February - besides being the hardest month to spell, dirty snow and cold temperatures?

And please don't say Valentine's Day. That is just some made up "holiday" for us to buy cards, candy, flowers, jewelry etc. I don't need a "holiday" for my man to tell me how much he loves me and how much I mean to him. We express this to each other every single day. He is lucky to find someone like me because we both feel this way about this supposed "holiday".

So if not Valentine's Day then maybe I could look forward to President's Day right? Wrong - if I actually had the day off from work then that would be something to look forward to but for now it is just another day.

So right now the best thing about February is that it is the shortest month of the year but somehow I have a feeling that it is going to feel like the longest. So looking on the bright side of things as I try to do - ONLY 24 MORE DAYS TO GO!!!

Wii Adults Just Want to Have Fun Too!!

Last weekend we had some friends over for a Wii night. We had a great time directing marbles through different courses, canoeing, archery, lumberjacking and dancing the night away with Just Dance 2. Once we starting dancing we had to open the windows – you can’t help but get into it. What a fun night!

Jon & John are really getting into it

I love how everyone is doing something different

Gotta love it!

A New Year's Celebration

To kick off the New Year we went shooting and snow wheeling. I really like to go shooting even if I can’t hit the target even 25% of the time, but the times that I do actually hit it I get so excited (if I could I would jump up and down, but probably not the best thing to do with a gun in your hand). It was a nice day, but with the snow on the ground eventually my feet started to get cold.

Setting up the target

Jon getting ready to put a dent in that target

Jon's dad shooting his hand gun

After we had our fill of the guns we got in the cars to play in the snow. It was fun because we just kind of went wherever. Jon would get going so fast and then we would start to slide and it had me laughing so hard I was in tears. What a great way to spend a day off.

We made it up the icy hill

Jon's dad

Jon and Zach climbing up the icy hill

Zach playing in the mud

Festive Yard Art

I know, I know Christmas is over but I just had to show off what Jon made for me. Before Thanksgiving I came home with a magazine clipping of some Christmas yard art that I just loved (except for the price). I thought we (meaning Jon) could make these and Jon agreed. So I served as the creative director and Jon did all the work (however I did make the templates). I got to do all the fun stuff like decide on paint and buying the trinkets for the embellishments. Jon made the three items shown for me, a stocking and Christmas tree for his parents, and a stocking, Christmas tree and two presents for a friend. With the help of his dad he got these all done the first week of December. This was much less expensive than buying them online and I love how they turned out.

Jon spray painted the metal from my templates

Jon welding away - this is why I didn't do the work

Jon finishing up the painting
This one was a beast to paint because of the stripes I wanted
He is even multitasking - notice the phone to his ear

Aren't these just perfect?

Christmas Lights at Temple Square

Christmas came so quickly this year and December was just flying by that I didn't think Jon and I would be able to see the lights at Temple Square but we did. The Saturday before Christmas we actually had a free night so we headed up to Salt Lake to enjoy the lights. On the ride up Jon and I were debating whether or not to ride Trax. We hate finding parking in Salt Lake, but the Trax trains are always packed this time of year. Going up on the trains isn't too bad, it's the ride back that I dread. We decided to drive into Salt Lake and the parking situation wasn't that terrible (probably because everyone rode Trax - bet they hated their ride back).

Being out in the crisp air was a nice break from all the hours spent indoors. The rain even stopped by the time we made it up to Temple Square. The lights at Temple Square are always exquisite. After having wrapped my miniature cherry tree in lights I have a new respect for those who put up Christmas lights. I loved the luminaries they had (sadly I didn't get a picture) but some of those bags were so ornate. I also loved all the different nativity scenes.

I love that they put this over the pool, it always draws a crowd.

I love how the cascading water is all lit up
and the Christmas lights just enhance it

After strolling around Temple Square for awhile we decided to go over to the Gallivan Plaza; 30+ years in Utah and I don't think I have ever been to the ice rink. Wow there was a lot of people skating on that little rink. It was fun to watch everyone, especially the little kids basically walking with their skates on and holding to the side for dear life. We did get to see a dad slip on the ice and drag his tween-aged daughter down with him - that was kind of funny, mostly because the dad was just a little drunk.



Since we were already at the Gallivan Plaza and it was almost 10pm we headed over the KUTV studio to check out the news. The studio was smaller than I had expected, come to think of it so was the news anchor that night. I didn't expect him to be so short. All in all it was a great night.