Finished Projects

I love when I finish a project! Zach and I have been on a roll this week. We completed three projects. Him and his big coat rack project and me and my mini art projects.

 The coat rack. Idea taken from Ryan Plett, the 'you have broken the internet' guy.

Isn't it amazing? I love it and all the room it cleared our of our tiny closet! I feel like we have a brand new apartment between the new decor and the plants.

Remember these little guys? 

Well I finally turned them into picture/ letter holders! 

 I used an old wire hanger, pliers, hammer and nail to make holes to put the wire in and voila! Add laminated dye-cut letters and it is ready for any occasion.

So while thrifting I found these adorable mini clothespins for .25. Sadly the stain was to dark to just sand off so I painted them. like $1 later and I have the pretties little clothes pins ever! 

 When my clothes pins aren't holding up my Christmas or birthday decorations they will hold onto wedding and grad announcements and pictures!

 Hooray for finishing things!

The Rest of the Weekend

We Partied hard all weekend long. Saturday we enjoyed the warm weather and headed to Seven Peaks for some water park fun.

We enjoyed finding and bugging Paige at work. She was the one that hooked us up with the day passes. Yeah, she is kind of a big deal there.

After a good day in the sun we got Pho Vietnamese food. It was pretty delicious!

While Paige decorated Brock's birthday cake Zach and I took care of decking out Kimberly's room, while she was out of town, for her birthday.

After wonderful tacos for dinner we danced it up with some Kinect.

Then we ate cake and celebrated Brock's start of his 19th year of life. The cake Paige made was simply amazing. Cream cheese frosting filling with chocolate cake and covered in chocolate frosting.

It was a simply marvelous weekend.

The Concert

We started counting down. Iron & Wine was pretty much all I listened to the past few weeks. 

I first heard Iron & Wine when it played on my Pandora. I heard more about them from Brock and now I just can't get enough. 

 When we got to Salt Lake we walked around and did some window shopping and enjoyed all the street corner performers.

The concert was at the Venue. We tried to get there early but only had to wait in line for 30 min or so.

We got in early enough that we were right next to the stage front and center. By the time it started enough people had squeezed in front that we were about 3-4 people away from the front.

 The Head & the Heart opened. They were amazing.

 The long waited for Iron & Wine. 

The concert started at 7 and we didn't get out of there until after 10. 3 hours of musical perfection.

 In there newest album they have a band that plays with them so they incorporated the band into all of there songs. They had the most amazing tenor player. They all played multiple instruments and had amazing solos. If I had known a beri could be such a cool indi instrument I might have tried a little harder to start my own band.

 Our party. Me, Zach, Paige, Matt, and Brock.

After the concert we headed to Zach's Aunt and uncle's house. They have a shuffle board that was surprisingly addicting.

We all enjoyed the concert and putting our tired feet up after it.  We could not stop talking about how amazing the whole experience was.

Excited

 Three words for you, "Iron and Wine".

Friday night, Salt Lake City, 7 pm.

We're excited.

 For Memorial Day Brock, Zach and I decided to have dinner at Big Jud's. Unfortunately the entire small town of Archer was shut down for the holiday. Zach remembered a rummer about a little diner in Rexburg. Lucky for us it was real and it was wonderful!  

Joe's Filling station located across the street from Aces Hardware on 2nd. 

I loved the atmosphere. 

 They had these vintage gas station photo books. They had some pretty sweet pictures.

 Tuesday our T joints were supposed to come in and being a not so hot seller we assumed we would be able to take home the whole new shipment Wednesday. Wrong. Some lady took all but three. So we need three more before our coat rack can be completed. In the mean time we bought our wood and Zach stained it and got them hooked together.

Iron and Wine images taken from their official site.