Heaven on Earth

It all began with a road trip to Phoenix, AZ. Blake and I drove for 13+ hours to celebrate Sonya receiving her endowment in the Mesa, AZ temple! The drive wasn't as bad as it sounds we made a stop in St. George, UT to pick up Aunt Monna and also in Flagstaff,AZ to have dinner with Grampa. We stopped at a few other places along the way. The bulk of the entertainment was provided by a book on CD, The Host written by Stephenie Meyer.

This was at the North end of the Grand Canyon

Somewhere in AZ... I think

Note the hair... yeah that's what a 13+ hour trip will do to it...

When we got to Phoenix I barley wanted to go outside with 109 degree temperatures, but some how I made it though the day. The Mesa, AZ temple was beautiful inside and out!! It is def on my top 10 fav temples!

After the wonderful experience in the temple we explored Phoenix for a couple of hours and ended the night at Lucilles's BBQ restaurant. YUMMY!!! So soo good.

It was so good to be all together as a family!

We got back on the road first thing in the morning. This time only stopping in St. George to drop Aunt Monna off and to enjoy a delicious home cooked meal from Wendy!!! I never thought I would say this but its good to be back in Utah where the temperature doesn't pass 100 degrees!

picture perfect

You would think that after being married for 3 years we would have some wedding pictures up somewhere in the house right?? Wrong. I found an inspiring picture in the Ikea magazine of a picture frame wall. I decided its time for an art project. So I took myself down to Ikea picked out the cutest picture frames and got to work. Here's what I did...

The only cute ones they had were white and unfortunately the walls in our apartment are white. Plan B, spray paint!

After the paint was dry, I taped computer paper together making it large enough to fit all the frames. Next I  traces the frames onto the paper. Previously seen on HGTV.

Then I taped the paper to the wall and hammered the nails straight through the paper. I put the frames up to make sure it looked OK. Then I gently ripped the paper from the wall leaving the nails in place to reveal.....

Neatly spaced picture frames without measuring, re-measuring or having to nail a million holes in the wall.