It begins

My boss is taking us all to Olive Garden then letting us leave for the day! Woo hoo! I have big plans to buy paint and start painting the laundry room today! I’m excited and I’m going to do it in Smokey Blue by Behr. Hopefully it looks good with my rug and I want to finish the whole laundry room in the next 2 weeks!

It’s a lot bluer than the above swatch-it looks gray on my computer.

This was my inspiration picture. I have the same rug and my laundry room has a similar shape as hers. I’m going to do one set of white cabinets above the washer and then a hanging bar above the dryer. I decided not to color match the blue in the rug, but to go a little darker to blend better with the rest of the colors in my house (the burnt orange bathroom is right across from here).

I’m really excited to get started! I’ll post more pics as things progress. Wish me luck!

Cali Part Dos

Lots of pictures ahead; It was hard to decide!

After we left twin peaks, we headed over to the Golden Gate bridge. We drove through a beautiful neighborhood with amazing homes overlooking the bay.                                                  The huge cables that are on the bridge!                        This guy was painting part of the bridge. He was not hooked up to any safety cable either! Crazy.                                                                                                We drove down the famous Lombard Street                                            After the bridge, we went to Fisherman’s Wharf and had a delicious lunch! Steph is a picky-face and had a corn dog. Are you kidding me? Dan and I enjoyed a crab sandwich, calamari, and clam chowder. We had to battle the sea gulls and we almost lost that fight.                                            Steph took this cute picture. It was about this time that she started to feel a little sick…                         These guys were break dancing on the streets and it was pretty awesome to watch.

After this, we strolled the wharf and checked out the sea lions. My sister got sick and lost her lunch in the bathroom there. We were almost done for the day, so we hit up some shops and had delicious ice cream at Ghiradelli Square.

At this point, Steph was really feeling sick so we headed to the car and battled a 3 hour drive back to Lodi (should have been closer to 1 hour). We made a pit stop and Steph lost her guts again. She was deathly ill the entire way home and threw up numerous times (thank goodness for ziploc bags). Dan was a gem and didn’t say a word while she did her thing and I tried to comfort her. It was a long ride and luckily my aunt and uncle had a nice comfortable room for her to stay in.

She threw up a total of 12 times in the next few hours and asked me many times if she was going to die. :) She talked about wishing she had jumped off the bridge in San Fran and other nonsense that sick people say when they’re sick. She must have gotten what my mom had the day before.

But I took care of her and everyone else in the family stayed far away. Luckily I didn’t get sick and she had recovered by the next morning!                       Yummy family dinner.

                                           Steph and cutie pie Riley.                      Loving spending time with the grandparents.                                                 Riley and big brother Jacob.                              Gramps and Steph                          This was so stinkin’ precious. My grandpa needs help walking and little Riley (great-grandson) held his hand and “helped” him get to the family room from the kitchen. Love it.                                                 Whew. That was picture overload, but oh well! We had a great time and I’m so grateful that we had the opportunity to go out there and get a break and visit family we don’t get to see a lot. It was a wonderful break.

Cali part 1

We went to California two weeks ago and we had a GREAT time! My mom is from Northern California so we were able to fly out there and visit my grandparents and aunts, uncles, cousins, and cousins kids (2nd cousins??).

Dan and I flew out Wednesday night, and my mom and sister were supposed to come Thursday but my mom got deathly ill with the flu so just my sister came (my mom is going this week).

                            We went to San Francisco for the day and it was GORGEOUS! I have never been there in the spring and it was about 80 degrees and sunny! If at all possible, I recommend San Fran in the Spring!                                    The streets of San Francisco.  

We drove to this place overlooking the city called Twin Peaks and it was amazing. The day was so clear and we could see the whole city and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Steph and I were really excited to be there. Dan may or may not have already been annoyed with us at this point (first stop of the day).

Dan just enjoying the view…

Steph is getting a great shot here I’m sure :)

After Twin Peaks, we drove to the beach and oh my goodness we were in heaven! It was gorgeous and we would have stayed all day but we weren’t prepared for such grand weather.

Steph liked this Graffiti wall :)

I’ll post the rest of the trip in a separate post later today or tomorrow!