Pistons Game

Papa got our family tickets to a Pistons game on Friday.  Guess what!  We played against Jimmer's team.  It's the first time any of us saw Jimmer play in person.  You could spot the BYU fans because anytime Jimmer did anything a few people would be up cheering.  Some teenager a few rows in front of us stood the entire time Jimmer played.  We ended up getting a bottomless popcorn bucket and two bottomless sodas.  2 bottomless sodas + 4 kids + 1 mom with a shot bladder = a bazillion trips to the bathroom.  Lots of exercise climbing stairs since we were four rows from the top of the huge palace.  We had a blast.  I enjoyed cheering for both teams so I was guaranteed to be backing a winner.  Pistons trailed the whole game and barely pulled in front at the end of the fourth and Jimmer played quite a bit and made 9 points.  Fun game.  Afterwards the boys wanted to get down on the floor.  We got down as far as officials would let us and met some more Mormons from Ohio looking at the floor, too.  They took our picture with our phone and I've got to figure out how to get them off my phone and onto the computer.  Go Jimmer!

What a Mess

After living in this house for almost six years we've finally decided to do something about the peachy tan paint on all the walls that we hate.  We're adding some exciting bold colors like gold in the music room, forest green in the study, blue for Elyse's new room (she's moving over to the guest room), bayberry accent wall in my room, light green for the boys, and the living room and halls are being painted a respectable real tan without peach in it.  We have no idea how old the carpet it, but it looks pretty bad:  I can't get the mystery stains out anymore.  So after the paint, comes carpet and a stretch of wood floor in the living room where the high traffic area is.  We're in our first week of painting and so far everything in the house is not where it usually is and everything's a mess.  Kids rooms cleared out with their stuff spread out in the living room, Jarom's room, my room, the study.  The music room stuff in my room, piles of stuff to go to good will, and so on.  It took the kids twenty more minutes to get out the door this morning because we couldn't find a hair brush, toothbrushes, etc.  We have all the mess of a major move, but we're not really going anywhere.  It's chaos.  I think I need to leave the house for a couple hours today.  But I love my gold music room--it's almost done.  And matt's study turned out really nice, too.  I hope my room turns out as pretty.