Well since we both have new bikes we can now ride to the baseball field to see the Salt Lake City Bees play.....Beer, junk food and baseball, + the added bonus of not having to deal with parking... what more could you ask for.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
BEES Baseball
Well since we both have new bikes we can now ride to the baseball field to see the Salt Lake City Bees play.....Beer, junk food and baseball, + the added bonus of not having to deal with parking... what more could you ask for.
Time to Finish!
Well as many of you know I'm STILL in the process of going to school. I have been attending the University of Utah for what feels like forever; it feels like school is a never ending process and I can't wait to just be done. I have figured it out.....my plan is to add another major....no no no friends I'm NOT changing majors again but I do want to add one more to the fine arts degree so as not to loose the time and energy I have already put in. I know you are all waiting on the edges of your seats, will it be karate, under water basket weaving...da tada da da daaaaa English. What gave me this idea, well my friend Emily and I figured out that we can be done and graduated with the English program in exactly one year, ONE YEAR!! I can do anything for only one year and in the end I'll have two bachelors degrees. That's the plan and tomorrow I'll be meeting with an English advisor and planning out all the course requirements for the next year, yay! My plan of being a perma student sounded good in theory but somehow I think finishing one degree even if I do start another after I have finished is the new plan. Yay back to school because school is cool. With a campus as pretty as this how could I not want to stay and play forever?!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
BIKES!!!!
So my birthday was in March, and I decided that I wanted/needed/pretty much just wanted a bike for my birthday! Not just any bike my friends but a beach cruiser....I know we don't live by the beach but we do live downtown in the good ole SLC and live close enough that we can/will be biking to most events in the downtown area this summer! You know like the Earth day festival at Liberty Park or the Arts, Jazz, Greek or Chinese festivals at Library Square. Liberty Park is two blocks from our house and has been around as long or longer than our home; it's like the central park of Salt Lake City.. sort of. Here are a few pics of the park, the last pic is of the drum circle that meets every Sunday, depending on how many drummers there are you can hear them from our house; can’t you smell the patchouli now?!? .
So yeah it was MY birthday which my husband tells everyone lasts the WHOLE month of March but somehow my husband got a bike too....humm I think this means I can milk the birthday thing out of a new pair of roller blades.....just a thought. It became clear my first day as a proud new bike owner that my husband would not be out done in the bike department... I asked him to ride with me to the grocery store, mainly because I couldn't wait to try out my new set of wheels and my cool new bike basket; but oh no he said he couldn't because that would require a bike for leisure, a bike built for comfort he said.... I was confused for a minute, but you HAVE a bike I said...not like yours was his reply. So let me get this straight..... because your bike is classified as a mountain bike you can not take a casual ride with me?
I came home the next day to find ANOTHER new bike in my living room. I'm not too happy about the whole situation...primarily because it just so happens that MY bike is blue (my favorite color) and his red (just because that was the only other color this particular bike came in) having them sitting side by side I got a twinge of jealousy....GREAT, now my husband has the color of the fighting Utes and I'm stuck with the... dare I say it... BYU BLUE!!!!!!!! To some this might not be a big deal..... but to US, to ME it's HUGE!! I now ride my pretty new bike with the cute little basket in shame...tear
Thanks to My Mom and Dad, Inlaws Mark and Darlene and Grandma & Grandpa Scott for birthday money to buy my new bike, and now new roller blades. I had a very good birthday and feel blessed to have such a great family! PS thanks Meghan and Jason and Carlie for the birthday webcam so I can Skype like all the cool kids!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lilly Lake
Well little Miss Lilly My brother Jake's almost three year old daughter Loves Auntie Tricia and she loves Uncle Tracy too but doesn't like to show it all that much. Every time I call and she answers her first question is "where's Tracy?!" my usual response is he's right here want to talk to him.."no no" is what she always says; she likes to love him from a distance. Two weeks ago we all went out for my birthday and she walked in and Tracy and I were already sitting down and she looked pissed, I mean she was definitely mad about something, she dropped her purse and threw her hands up in the air and yelled "Well where's Tracy!?!?" Apparently she couldn't see him from her vantage point and thought I had come without him, Tracy stood up and said I'm right here Lilly! She smiled and then pretended he didn't exist, too funny! A few months ago I was at my parents and Lilly and I were playing and she was pretending to call Tracy, she didn't want to talk to him per say but thought it would be funny to pretend prank call him, I might be a little prejudice but I thought it was cute! Lilly also loves playing with my iphone taking pictures and also my new camera that has the screen on the front she just loves!
So for your viewing pleasure here's Lilly on the phone with Tracy and our photo shoot. (Jace decided his big sister couldn't have all the fun so he also joined the photo shoot!).
So for your viewing pleasure here's Lilly on the phone with Tracy and our photo shoot. (Jace decided his big sister couldn't have all the fun so he also joined the photo shoot!).
PS I love the way she answers her flip phone....too cute! Also Lilly insists on calling my older brother Jeff her uncle, Jeffrey Lake, not Uncle Jeff but Jeffrey Lake, she's such a little character!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Kitchen Renovation
Two years ago in May Tracy and I bought our first home. The house was built in 1911 and will be 100 years old next year; this being said it needs a lot of work. We have been renovating since we moved in and are still in the process of making our house a home. Over the summer Mark, Tracy's dad was kind enough to spend a few weeks with us working on our kitchen. We ripped out the old counter and sink and Mark and Tracy built a whole new counter, cabinets and opening for the new dishwasher.
YAY for the dishwasher! Tracy and I have been moving our old trusty vintage green roll-about dishwasher that was given to us by Ryan for several years now. This mean green machine saved me countless hours of scrubbing dishes by hand albeit you did have to pre-wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher it was definitely a lifesaver! So if you know anyone who is in need of a trusty vintage green dishwasher let me know, it's free to a good home.
Mark also tiled our countertop and put in the backsplash. My dad and I were able to rewire a plug by the sink to operate the dishwasher and I was thankful for the electricity lesson with Dad. Dad and I spent most of the day with the electrical work and decided to also hang up some lovely over the counter hanging lights. Easier said than done, we ended up not having enough time in the day to finish and I was given instructions on how to finish them myself. So day two of Light hanging was nothing short of miraculous...it took Tracy and I all day to figure out that somewhere along the lifespan of our almost 100 year old house the kitchen had been semi renovated and a "false" ceiling had been put up in the kitchen. So Tracy and I spent all day in the attic trying to hang these lights; finally we did it and went to flip the switch and....nothing! We gave up for the day out of pure frustration and Tracy called Ryan in to see if he could figure it out. It took Ryan all of thirty seconds to see that one of the ground wires was not hooked up properly and magically all three hanging lights and the room light lit up...yay! Really hard work but definitely worth it! Thanks to Mark for all of his hard work and time, thanks to my dad for the electrical help, and thanks to Jessie for the tile discount and Aunt Karen for the lights!!!
Ok so this bad boy is in need of a good home, let me know if you're interested!
It needs a little work and a lot of love
YAY for the dishwasher! Tracy and I have been moving our old trusty vintage green roll-about dishwasher that was given to us by Ryan for several years now. This mean green machine saved me countless hours of scrubbing dishes by hand albeit you did have to pre-wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher it was definitely a lifesaver! So if you know anyone who is in need of a trusty vintage green dishwasher let me know, it's free to a good home.
Mark also tiled our countertop and put in the backsplash. My dad and I were able to rewire a plug by the sink to operate the dishwasher and I was thankful for the electricity lesson with Dad. Dad and I spent most of the day with the electrical work and decided to also hang up some lovely over the counter hanging lights. Easier said than done, we ended up not having enough time in the day to finish and I was given instructions on how to finish them myself. So day two of Light hanging was nothing short of miraculous...it took Tracy and I all day to figure out that somewhere along the lifespan of our almost 100 year old house the kitchen had been semi renovated and a "false" ceiling had been put up in the kitchen. So Tracy and I spent all day in the attic trying to hang these lights; finally we did it and went to flip the switch and....nothing! We gave up for the day out of pure frustration and Tracy called Ryan in to see if he could figure it out. It took Ryan all of thirty seconds to see that one of the ground wires was not hooked up properly and magically all three hanging lights and the room light lit up...yay! Really hard work but definitely worth it! Thanks to Mark for all of his hard work and time, thanks to my dad for the electrical help, and thanks to Jessie for the tile discount and Aunt Karen for the lights!!!
Ok so this bad boy is in need of a good home, let me know if you're interested!
It needs a little work and a lot of love
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Chair
A few years back when I moved into an apartment which had been previously occupied by my friend Courtney, aka El Diablo, I was given things that she no longer wanted or needed. One of these things was a wonderful old chair that had definitely seen better days. I like this chair because it's big and roomy and you can cuddle up in it, unfortunately I have had no place for this chair until we bought our new house. So basically it has been in the basement for several years and I probably should have gotten rid of it but I knew it had potential. So recently I have been working on my home office, and thought that that big comfy chair would be a nice addition to the office. So down to the fabric store I went, contrary to my firm belief of recycling old material this project took about eight yards of material and there was no way I was going to piece together eight yards of material to cover this chair. Thanks to Emily for going to play at the fabric store in a snow storm with me, here's how it turned out!
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