ok here is the screens from my blueprints:
start pause menu part 1 (couldn’t get the whole thing into one screenshot), this is ran in the player controller:
http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah256/chris_donovan1/pausegame1_zps8ouhgps1.png
part 2:
http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah256/chris_donovan1/pausegame2_zpsnyuyrfze.png
Resume Game (this is from the blueprint of the hud):
http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah256/chris_donovan1/resume%20game_zps5kmi4ov1.png