The Past Week.

This past week has been crazy. Both Casey and I have been busy with working. I am starting to get trained in the copy and print center at staples and Casey is getting more hours at Inkley's. We both are very grateful for the job that we have and the opportunity that we have the chance to be working. We are so lucky to have jobs.

This past week my sister came into Salt Lake to have her baby. It has been great having the chance to be with her and spend time with her family. Wednesday she came over to visit. We spent a couple hours just talking and watching Tavis play the wii. Friday after I got off work we were able to go to the park and take some pictures of her kids. She has been wanting to have this done for a while and we took the opportunity to build up Casey's portfolio. Jessica had her baby Monday early morning. Tavis and Krya stayed with us while she was in the hospital. That was an adventure. I love those kiddos. Her newborn son is just to die for. His name is Terrek Dean Ward, Love it! He is just a tiny cute little thing. It was great being able to see Tavis and Krya meet Terrek for the first time. It was precious. My mom was able to come up monday night. We spent tuesday morning together with Jessica and her family. Before I had to go to work I was able to spend some time with my mom, which was defiantly needed.

As well as working and taking pictures of Jessica's kids on friday, we were able to spend some time with my brother Alex. It is great having him and Casey be able to get to know each other more and become friends. We had Lemon Chicken, which turned out great (I will post about that later) and some home made ice cream that casey made while I was at work. That also turned out so amazing that Casey and I made some more on sunday because we loved it.! That night we made a spontaneous trip to the movie theater to see Thor. It was actually a good movie. I was surprised that I actually like it and wouldn't mind seeing it again but that will be when Casey and I buy it when it comes out or rent it from netflix.

Sunday: Mother's Day. It was great! Casey got me the movie 'Letters to Juliet' which I have been wanting to get but haven't been able to find it on blue-ray at Target or Walmart. We were able to talk to our mother's and tell them how much we appreciate them for everything they have done for us. We had crepes from breakfast which was amazing. I have been wanting to have crepes from a while and we just haven't had the chance to make them. That night Casey and I went over to where Jessica and her family were staying. We spent some time with them before they went to the hospital to see if she was ready to have baby Terrek. Little did we know that we were going to be taking her kids home that night. We brought Tavis and Krya to our house and they spent the next couple nights at our apartment. It was a great Mother's day!

It has been great being able to spend some time with my family. It was much needed. I miss them so much. I wish that Casey and I were able to live close to all of our families. The time will come when we are able to live close to everyone or most of everyone. This past week has been filled with adventure, excitement, family, and stress but I would not trade it in for anything else. Hopefully that the next couples weeks are great as well.

Living Room Redo

As I said before I decided to rearrange our living room. At first I thought that it was going to be hard to make the room look bigger and look proportional. After moving the couch all around the room to find the perfect place to put it as well dealing with the angle wall that we have, we finally reached the final solution. It turned out good. Here are some pictures of how the room looks like now. I didn't get a chance to take pictures of the before. So I will try and describe how it looked like before.

***Before: The couch was closer to the angle wall, the table was where the couch is now, the coffee table and entertainment center switched spots, movies were on the wall next to the pictures, interior design drawers were infront of the windows with school stuff and picture frames on top of them.***

View from the kitchen.

Couch

**For side tables, I used my interior design drawers.**

Dining Table

** The picture wall is not done so ignore the lack of proportion of pictures. **

Coffee Table and Printer

**The printer use to be on the Entertainment center. It make it

Entertainment Center

DVD Solution

**If you have been in our apartment before you would have noticed our love for movies. We both have a great love for movies. Before we had the movies in racks that were on the wall. This made the room look cluttered and messy. To fix this problem we got these boxes from IKEA to put our movies in. I love them and IKEA! The make the room look so much cleaner as well not as cluttered and organized. **

 I am really like the turn out of the room. I feel that the room looks bigger and also the sunlight that we get to have comes into the our home much more since there isn't anything blocking it. I am glad that I have a husband that is willing to help me move our furniture all around the room. He is the best. Thanks Case!

Park City Adventure

This past weekend Casey and I went to Park City for the day. Nikon was having this thing where you can rent out lenses and bodies to take pictures with and test them out. On Saturday we got to do that. It was great and tons of fun. It was most defiantly something that Casey and I needed, sometime away from Salt Lake and work. Usually when Casey wants to go take pictures with him camera I go but is super bored because I don't have something to take cool pictures with. But this time we got to take his camera and rent another one for him and me. So we had 3 cameras. Yes that is a lot of money to just caring around main street in Park City, but it was tons of fun! Nikon also has some wireless flash stations set up that we can experiment with. It was great being able to see Casey doing something that he has so much passion for and really enjoys. Here is some pictures of our adventure.

My husband has such great talent and I love him for it! I am so grateful that we going to be together forever! I am such a lucky girl to have him! Love you Case! <3

The Angle Wall..

In our apartment we have an angle wall in the living/dining room as well in the bedroom. If you haven't dealt with an angle walls before sometimes they can be amazing and make the room look so cool and other times they are a pain in the butt. This time for me its a pain in the butt! I have tried everything to make our apartment look bigger then it actually is. I have been trying to figure out the best way to place our furniture to complete this goal of mine. I have tried to space plan it out on paper and sometimes it looks like it is going to work but once Casey and I move everything around it just looks odd. I have done this mostly in our bedroom because it doesn't have as much furniture pieces as our living/dining room. We have place the furniture into an alright place but it is just going to have to do until we move out of this small ghetto apartment (Don't get me wrong, I like our apartment and am very grateful that we have a place to live but I am also looking forward to find a bigger and better place. Even it is it just a little bit bigger and just somethings are better.)

So tonight I decided to move all the furniture in our living room and try and make the room look better. And right now it looks like it is going to end up in the same place where it started because nothing else is working out. Back to the angle wall problem. I feel like they are like columns in homes sometimes. It is just in the wrong stop or it is just not right. For the angle walls in our apartment, they are not the right angle. I wouldn't mind it if one, that apartment was bigger and two, if the angle wall wasn't that angle that it is at. ARG! It is just so annoying. So Casey and I have spent tonight moving our couch around, and TV in different places just to figure out the best solution for our living/dining room.

We decided to take a break for tonight and leave everything where it is right not.. meaning the couch at a weird angle and the entertainment stand (TV) in the middle of the room. We will get back to it tomorrow with clear minds and fresh ideas. Oh I can't wait! I will let you know how it turns out.. if it does.

If your reading thanks for letting me express my feelings about our apartment and its angle wall. I would also like to say that Casey has been such a trooper during all of my home improvement adventures. Even though they usually are alright set up in the best solutions he still helps me move everything around and back. I just love him!

Ugh!

This weather is ridiculous! I am so sick of it raining or snowing all the time. I want the sun to come out. It is just making me depressed and lazy how it is cold all the time. All I want to do is sunggle up with Casey in bed or on the couch and watch movies all day long. Forget work, school, cleaning, and my list of things that I want to get done. I have not motivation to do anything. UGH! This weather is just ridiculous! Casey and I can't wait to get out of Utah and go back to California to live there for the rest of our lives! The sandy beaches, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach, the creeping from the birds in the morning, waking up to the sun hitting your face, being able to feel the heat from the sun, having the chance to layout in the sun and get tan, being able to go outside without a jacket and not being cold, wearing spring colors and summer clothes. Oh I just miss California and I am sick of this Utah weather business! Rain and Snow please go away!