My office has been buzzing lately – now that this Ferrari project is finally completed, we are moving on to the next project.  I missed work on Monday, and came in Tuesday morning to a whole “kick off party” devoted to our newest client.

Brian, our party host, even dressed up like Rickie Fowler.  He went all out – orange drinks, orange candy, even orange golf accessories.

Now, as of this week, we have a whole new mass of design work needed – and it was just enough to keep me distracted before our weekend activities!

I have been waiting for this particular week/weekend for MONTHS!  My sweet friend (and the birthday girl) Whitney got a bunch of us girls (and Zach) tickets to the Hunger Games premier on Friday night.  Before we set off on our journey to the District, Zach and I went to one of my favorite Italian restaurants, Caffe Molisse for some pre-movie grub.

The only terrible thing about our dinner situation was that the restaurant is literally RIGHT across the street from the new City Creek Center entrance.  I have been doing everything in my power to avoid this mall until after April, and it’s been miserable seeing everyone posting pictures on Facebook and blogging all about it.  I am staying strong though, but it was beautiful – even from 50 yards away!

After dinner we met up with my friends for the movie.

Even Zach, who didn’t read a single line of text from the book, enjoyed the movie!  There were some parts left out, and certain characters that didn’t match up for me – but overall I LOVED IT!

Saturday Zach and I did our weekend ritual – a lunch date and running all of our errands.

Zach is an absolute pest in a grocery store, and honestly the only reason I let him come is to help me load and unload the groceries.  It’s the same thing every time:

K:  “Zach, is there anything particular you want to eat this week?”

Z:  “Soup.”

K:  “Soup is all you want?  Anything else?”

Z:  “No.”

Then the rest of the experience is him punching boxes of food in the aisles and laughing.  At least he got his soup.  I love food, and eat for pleasure – Zach eats to survive.  He doesn’t crave anything, doesn’t like desserts, and literally would have rice or soup for every meal and be content for the remainder of his days.  I don’t get it.

We had a relaxing night in – tried to get into the first season of Madmen (which didn’t stick), had food delivered, watched basketball, and hung out in our “comfy cozies”.  I didn’t have to go into work and didn’t clean my house for the first Saturday in a long time – so it was pretty perfect!

Sunday, after church, we went to my parents’ house for some more basketball and Sunday dinner.  My Grandma Fotheringham and my Grandpa Ross joined us too – which Zach was ecstatic about because my Grandma LOVES basketball as much as he does.

The Jazz put up a good fight too, with enough OT to give my Grandpa a serious anxiety attack AND to take out his hearing aid (which meant he was screaming louder than any other person in the room.)  We also had my Dad play us an interesting assortment of music on his iPhone…and then watched him dance to that same music…for a long time in the kitchen.  Of course it was the most entertaining part of the night, and I didn’t get a photo.  Next time, Pops.  I’ll be ready.

So to kick off this exciting week from the theme of our meeting, “It’s Go Time, Friends!”