Graduation Party, The Zoo, and Painting

Graduation Party

For Jared's Graduation party, I had a "theme" gift party.  Since he has gotten a job teaching night classes for Weber State, he has become "Professor Plumb".  So for gifts I got him:

The Movie Clue

The board game Clue

A Lead Pipe, Rope, Candlestick, and Wrench

And of course a nice plum colored Sport Coat.

But Jared wasn't the only one graduating.  Wally, Westin, Crystal and Jenny also were graduating.  We all enjoyed celebrating everyone accomplishments.  Thank you everyone who came to celebrate.

Avery got her birthday present from Grandma while we were there.  It was a dress-up kit.

Dress #1

Dress #2

Dress #3

Xander LOVES his cousin Cole

And here is Jared's first night of teaching.  (Side note: only his boss got the joke).

Baking Birthday Brownie Cupcakes

For Jared's Birthday, we made him Brownie Cupcakes (Jared wanted Brownies, and Xander insisted you had to have cupcakes for your birthday).

Xander was the photographer, and had to get a photo of Dad acting like Xander (as you will see in a little bit, Xander won't take a picture without his tongue out)

 Zoo with Joyce and Jim

For a graduation present for Jared, my awesome Aunt and Uncle took us to the zoo yesterday.

Here is Xander (with his Batman mask on) posing with a lego monkey picture)

Here is Joyce and Xander

Xander and the Lions

Xander and the Lego Penguins

Xander and the giraffes

Painting my living room

So as you can see in this photo, my walls are all a very, very boring beige.  Those who know me, know that I do not like boring beige (or white) walls.  But since we weren't going to be in our townhome very long, I didn't want to paint it too much.  Now that I know we will be here for a few more years while Jared finishes his PhD, I figured it was time to get colorful.

I bought a new area rug (this is the one we choose).  It is sooo soft that it convinced me we need new carpet too, but that is another post.

So we painted our walls RED (we started yesterday about 4:00 pm, and finished around 2:00 am).

Here are my cats enjoying the ladder.

And here are the beautiful red walls.  (Seriously compared to the above "before" picture, the house instantly looks so much more refined).

That sums up my life for the past few weeks.  Hopefully I can be better about posting pictures in the future, but probably not.