First visitors in Flag

So the first guests that we had come visit were my parents and my sister. They came down over presidents day weekend. We went to Sedona for the day Saturday and the weather was so nice. We saw some native american jewelry. We went out to eat at a fun chinese place and then went on a nice hike. 

The rest of the weekend was filled with nice food, watching movies, playing games, going to church and doing some shopping. It was so nice to see family. I look forward to when more come down. 

Valentines Day 2013

So Valentines night was really fun with Spencer. He came home from work to dinner that I got ready for us. We had taquitos, asparagus, and fun sauces and dips. Then we had a heart shaped cake that I should not have frosted two colors, ha ha.

 I gave Spencer some running shorts, and he got me a cd. Nice and simple but so fun.

 Oh and I found this waiting for me in the kitchen.

Spencer was in charge of the activities for the night. We went to a clubhouse that our HOA owns and it was really fun. We played pool, checkers, wii and enjoyed the hot tub. So relaxing and fun.

Kitchen Cabinets

Another great project completed!!!

Before

After

Before

After

So before the project began, there was lots of prepping. There was more contact paper, on no we aren't finished with that lovely stuff, so that was a little tricky getting out. I had to use a spray bottle and a blow dryer.

It did leave a little bit of sticky stuff but we got it sanded off.

After the big sanding day, we realized we didn't take many pictures so here are a few.

Thanks to the previous owners, we were able to speed things up by using the electric sander they left for us. 

This is the primer drying on all of the drawers an doors.

We used a gray primer because it said it was good when using dark colors like black.

And again, the finished product! So much better. Also we painted the trim around the window which I think also looks loads better.

We also added some kitchen hardware. We found this cheap place online so it only cost us $45 to do the kitchen with about ten extras.

BUT... the kitchen is not done. I want to bring more color into it. So I think I will be spraying some things so I don't have to go buy more stuff. But I did work for a lady in the ward and for payment she lets me have store credit in her shop called Real Deals. So I found some fun stuff for the house. I found these great colors and they will be my kitchen colors.

The Pantry Project

So the pantry project is complete. It was hard to even get started on it. It was long, shallow and silly. But I talked to some friends to get some ideas and I dove right in. 

So step one was take off the doors. There were 3 sliding doors and it was hard to get to things.

The second step was to paint and get the contact paper on the shelves. Luckily the contact paper peeled off just fine. And it wasn't very organized before cause I just threw everything in there when we moved in.

 The blue paint wasn't my favorite and the rest of the kitchen used to be painted that color but the couple before painting it white for us luckily. 

 So my friend Jac helped me decide to paint the shelves white and the walls an aqua or teal. So I looked around Pinterest and found some fun helpful sites. So the shelves got painted white and the walls a deep teal.

 So the trim needed to be painted white as well, so here is the trim before I painted it. 

 And here is the final product. Sorry it was hard to get a good direct picture. So I looked around and found some cute dark brown baskets and glass jars. I really love how it turned out.

 So here is the kitchen with the new pot rack and our new island that Spencer put together for us.

 I got these fun chalkboard labels from World Market and I think they look really cute.

 The jars were mostly purchased at Marshall's for pretty good deals. 

A birthday and an anniversary in one day!

I think most of you know but Spencer's  birthday is the day before our anniversary. So each year around Christmas time it is pretty exciting and eventful. 

This year we paired the two celebrations together because our anniversary was on Sunday. So it was up to me to plan the day since Spencer planned my birthday. It started out with a surprise to our plans when Spencer's high school friend wanted to get together for a bit. We went out for breakfast with him and his girlfriend and it was really fun. 

This is Spencer's birthday hat he got at I-Hop. There was a guy going our making things for kids and when he found out it was Spencer's birthday he got busy. Pretty funny.

The next part of the plans was a little last minute but very fun. We decided to go play racket ball. 

We then enjoyed a scrumptious dinner made by Spencer's mom and then played games with his family. 

The next plan was a surprise up until that day. I found the idea online when I was hanging out in the apartment down here before Christmas. So the place is called Color Me Mine. There are two locations one in Salt Lake and one in Draper. We went to the one in Salt Lake. You go and pick a ceramic piece that you want to paint. They show you how it all works and then they fire it then in a week you go pick it up and its yours. We decided to choose bowls, cheaper and something we could use. It was so fun, but the funniest part is that we went in our PJ's. It was something they do each month and it just happened to be the night of his birthday. So the deal is if you show up in your PJ's then you get an $8 discount on each persons entry fee. Pretty good deal to me.

So here is the final product. Spencer's is the one with all the cool spec's on it and mine in the blue one. Spencer did this fun design inside of this bowl.

 Then for dinner we went to a yummy Japanese restaurant called Kyoto. So delicious and it made us want to go back to Japan for the great food. 

We were going to do some other things but the day filled up quick. It was great to have such a fun day with my lovely husband. I love him so much and I can't believe its been 3 years. Short yet long but the best 3 years of my life!!!