Happy Easter

We had a nice Easter weekend, other than both of our NCAA brackets going bust.  Neither one of us managed to pick a single final 4 team, very disappointing.  However, I was a little more relieved when I read that only 9 people out of the 3 million who submitted brackets to the yahoo pick'em picked the final 4 teams correctly.  9 out of 3 million!

We went out on Saturday morning to the “Spring Bloom” art show, but we didn’t buy anything, nothing for us and no gifts for friends/family.  We also ran errands and went out for a nice lunch.  We rented the movie zero dark thirty, the one about the search for Osama Bin Laden.  I thought it was well done, but wonder how accurate it really was.  There were some interrogation scenes which caused her to cover her eyes, but she managed to stay awake through the whole movie.

On Sunday, we went to church and then had some friends over for lunch.  I fired up the grill for the first time this year; I really miss the fact that we could grill year round in Georgia.  Here, the grilling season really only goes from April until October, after that, the gas grill has a hard time fighting the sub-freezing temperatures.

The couch that we ordered a while back was delivered on Thursday; it has definitely brightened up the living room.  Now we are working on trying to agree on fabrics to recover two old chairs that came from my grandmother’s house.  She wants pink, I would prefer anything other than pink.  Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so opinionated, it would be so much easier to just let her do whatever she wants when it comes to this stuff… however, since the furniture came from my grandmother’s house, I want to be involved.  It took us 2 years to find a couch that we both liked, who knows how long decisions on this reupholstering project will take! 

The camera didn't really catch the color well, so here is a photo of the fabric sample that we picked it from.  It definitely shows the color better:

It is definitely bright and has an interesting texture to it.