Kitchen Redo

Sometimes I get crazy ideas. And sometimes I act on my crazy ideas...rather impulsively. But I got it in my head that I was completely sick of the green on the wall in my kitchen. So I just started repainting it. I figured if I primed it all, it would force me to pick a color because my kitchen was unusable and it can only be like that for so long. 

I'm quite indecisive, probably because I never really liked the green and didn't want to sit and look at another color I didn't like for another 7 years before I muster the courage to paint it again (I kind of HATE painting). After many many paint samples and texting many friends and family for their opinion, I finally found a color that I like. It was called "Grey Screen" from Sherwin Williams and in certain light almost looks like a light light blue, but I absolutely LOVE it and am so happy with how it turned out. And since my Dad is here now, he helped me with a little project while I painted and we ripped down the old lighting and put in new track lighting in the ceiling. It looks so much fresher and updated. Now I just want to change everything else in the house...but that probably won't be happening any time soon. One project at a time.

TA DAAAA....the finished look! Eek...so fun!

It was worth all the pain (mental and physical pain since I had to repaint the ceiling too and my back is not liking me for that.)

New mirror and picture frame finished off the kitchen eating area.

I actually bought this picture for the kitchen, but it looked too cluttered on the wall in there, so I put it in the Dining Room and absolutely love it. 

We also got new curtains for both sliders and it's so nice to feel like we got a mini makeover in the house.

My favorite guy

Fifteen years with this guy and I still think I'm a pretty lucky girl!

We started out the celebration at a restaurant right across from the ocean in Santa Monica by the Pier. It was a gift from Dreamworks for Paul's 10 years of having worked there. The restaurant was good, but it was DEFINITELY the ambience you paid for. I'm just glad we didn't pay for it. Two meals were about what I spend in one week on groceries. It was a good thing we don't drink alcohol. OUCH! But it made for a nice Anniversary dinner.

The next weekend we snuck away for the night (courtesy of my dad watching the kids) to Solvang. But we first stopped at Cafe Rio for lunch. Much more our style of food choice and honestly the food was just as good as the fancy shmacy place from the weekend before, at a fraction of the cost. 

It was so nice to get away for the night and get to explore the cute quaint Danish town of Solvang. What a treat! I loved every minute of it and was totally happy to just walk around and enjoy the little shops and find fun places to eat.

Love you my wonderful husband. Thank you for working so hard for us. For being a great Dad. For helping with any computer project/art project and occassional house project I need you to do, and for always listening to me ramble on about the most ridiculous things no matter what time of the day. And thanks especially for loving me even after 11 pm, which is when I turn into not so nice wifey. I need my sleep. What can I say. 

Disneyland with the Young Women

The girls all worked hard, met their goals, and got to go to Disneyland for the day. Talk about lucky Young Women. We were just missing one girl who was still out of town for Christmas Break, but she'll get to go another day. 

It was a beautiful chilly day, but we got on lots of rides, and had a great time hanging out with these cute sweet and wonderful girls! Sure love my calling.

Fishing with Pop

Kids have been waiting to go fishing with Pop since he moved here last November. There isn't exactly a lot of water around here, but we finally made it out to Castaic Lake to try out their new fishing rods (that Pop got them). Unfortunately, we didn't catch anything and me and my Dad mostly spent the entire time unraveling their tangled fishing lines, but the kids had a great time and we stopped to get lunch on the way home, so it was still a pretty fun day.

While I was gone

While I was gone in Texas, Paul had some fun things planned to do with the kids. One of them being The Queen Mary and the Ice Castle they do during Christmas time. The kids had fun walking through and looking at all the giant sized Ice Sculptures and then got to go down the big ice slide.

The tickets included a tour of the Queen Mary which was pretty cool too!

And some random ball pit they got to play in that I don't know how relates to the rest of anything, but whatever. The kids loved it.

My little reader got the 2nd and 3rd "Land of Stories" books for Christmas and finished them so fast that she was at the book store the very next week, using her own money, to buy the fourth one. We currently have the 5th one preordered to be delivered to our house the day it comes out. 

Uncle Ty's pool is FINALLY done. So despite the fact that it was New Year's Eve, and quite chilly outside, they went ahead and got in anyway. Well, into the heated hot tub that is.

And then warmed up by the fire pit afterward. 

Cute cousins snuggled up by each other after a little swim.