more of spring break part 1

We also saw some spring training baseball.

spring break part 1

Since Matt and I had different spring breaks, it was almost like I had two spring breaks. During Matt's spring break, I took a few days off and we enjoyed the many sporting options we have here in AZ. Matt bought me basketball tickets for Christmas, and our game was this week. We had great tickets and the game was a blast! We found that we were the only ones cheering for the Jazz in our area, probably because we were sitting in season ticket territory. Too bad, Suns, for losing.

How do you like my sweet Steve Nash shirt?

This is the closest we could get to Jerry Sloan. We tried to get one of him doing an interview, but he got up right as we tried to snap the picture.

recent renovations

Matt's spring break was last week, and he kept himself busy by finishing up the last few projects in our house! He worked really hard and now it looks so good!

that was then, this is now

We've had some requests to post pictures of our house on our blog, so here they are! I've also put some before pictures so you can see how much better our house looks now!

before

after

entryway before
after

front room before

after

Kitchen before

after (much better, right?)

great room before

after
backyard before

after

$5

Our neighbors were having a garage sale. They had a ping-pong table. $5. Come play before it gets too hot outside.

more adventures with paint

Two cans of this
makes my stove look like this:

FHE Meets Family Hockey Night

A friend of mine at work has season tickets to the Phoenix Coyotes. She mentioned to me one day that sometimes they look for people to take their tickets. Yesterday was one of those days. Her husband and son usually go during the week, and they got tickets on the glass, so we got their tickets. Although Matt and I aren't really hockey fans, these games are pretty fun to go to. The other ladies with season tickets (and most of them are middle-aged women) are hilarious. We ended up seeing two fights, and six GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSS! I especially love it when they sound the sirens for each goal.

mail

Our mail is fixed. Since we moved here, we've had the hardest time with our mail. The post office didn't believe that we actually lived at our house. We weren't getting most of our mail for five months, and we finally figured out what was wrong. Somewhere in the vast outreaches of space, someone entered our name in the "system" as Sevafine. So, about half of the mail that was sent to us was read as Sevafine and returned to the sender. Mostly things like bills, checks, statements, and other important things. We called the post office numerous times, and we couldn't convince them that something was wrong. We finally got ahold of one of our lost pieces of mail, noticed that it had a sticker that said "Sevafine" and "no longer at this address." After more calls to the post office, and after the people there didn't believe that there was anything wrong, we marched ourselves down there and showed them the problem. Now, after months of broken mail, we finally get the things you send us. Oh, and our bills.