Home Decorating= DISASTER

So we've gotten pretty settled into our apartment by now and things have a place. Our apartment is the basic neutral colors....kind of my style. However, Collin likes the brighter colors and gets bored with one look. I agreed it was pretty bland so we decided to paint one of the walls in our room. What seemed would be the hard part was picking out a color we could both agree on. (Like I said, he likes bright colors, I like the mellow colors). We ended up picking out a red color that seemed bright enough but dark enough. Then things started to get worse and here's why:

This is the wall that got painted

1. The color's name is Va Va Voom.

2. First coat- extremely bright, but blotchy with white spots from the back wall.

3. Second coat- still bright, still blotchy.

4. Paint got on the carpet and didn't come out.

5. I wanted to stop and just hang pictures everywhere, but Collin is a million times more patient than I am.

6. Third coat- Utah Utes red, but no more blotchy spots.

7. Time to take off the tape, but the paint has dried onto the tape with 3 coats already. It required a razor to separate the paint from the tape.

8. We take off the tape, but due to the texture of the wall, paint had seeped underneath onto the plain, white walls.

At this point, Collin's patience left with mine and so far we haven't dealt with it. However, we have hung lots of framed pictures (and of course the mirror has already fell down) so I'm going with "the paint is suppose to look like this" cover up and GO UTAH UTES!

Monsoon Season

Saturday Collin and I went out for a hike (aka walk in the hills) over at South Mountain. We kind of went our own way around and about and ended up really far away from our car. I made a comment to Collin how cool it would be to hike in the rain. About 5 minutes later I was eating my words. From a distance you could see a waterfall of rain coming right at us! It was a really cool picture. Then it was like a cloud and all of the rains in the sky surrounded us and we couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of us- oh and it was thundering. At this point we decided to head back to the car. Where that was exactly, we weren't sure. Walking up and down the trails was like walking along waterfalls. I wore my chacos, but every step Collin took was sloshy in his tennis shoes. In a matter of minutes we were drenched head to toe. It was pretty awesome until it started to get colder (comfortable weather in any other state, but cold in Arizona) and we still didn't know where our car was. Then we found a road and decided to stay on that. I wish we had a sled or something because there was definitely enough water flowing down to give us a little ride! A few park rangers drove by and you would think they would stop to check if we were OK, but no. No they did not stop. We had to flag one down to make sure we were walking in the right direction and hoping that he would maybe offer a ride. No, he did not do that either. He said "Oh ya, it's about a mile away" and drove off. I was looking for comment cards at the end of the "canyon" to let them know about their customer service :).

After we got back down, Collin's parents* brought over Papa Murphy's pizza and then we went out to see the movie SALT (it was awesome). *Melissa and Greg came down for Collin's white coat ceremony. We had such a good time with them and were sad to have them go so soon.

Overall, it was a really fun day and I REALLY enjoyed being outside!