a sweet surprise

Last Saturday David was working with his dad at a high school basketball tournament. When he got home he found quite a surprise- 3 boxes and a butcher block top. I left him a note on top of the boxes because I was at dinner with my mom and sister. Hee hee!

I had woken up that morning knowing that this would be the day I was buying our office furniture. After a quick check of the 'ole finances online I called my sister to come over and help me with my plan. Cyndie drives an Aveo- not sure what we were thinking exactly- but of course all of our items did not fit! A few people looked at us since we were hanging out in the parking lot, a cart filled with boxes and no loading of items into the car. Luckily my mom was available to help out. 

Putting together our first piece of office furniture was simple and didn't take us very long. I'm excited because it's one more step towards a finished home and now I'll have a space to scrapbook, wrap gifts, etc. Lucky for me David was happy I bought all the furniture! We have one last item to put together- well, put the legs on. Then it's time to reorganize the room and get things settled. I can't wait!

On another note: our rose bush that was pretty dormant this summer has suddenly bloomed with leaves everywhere and a huge pink rose! It smells so amazing! Another bud is working to bloom any day now. I guess I must have been doing something right with these rose bushes! Or, it's the excess rain we've been getting. (I'd like to think it's me though!)

• our latest projects

A lot has happened over just one month. Not really a lot with the birdhouse; just day-to-day things. I'm super excited that a few weekends ago we finally installed a glass shower door now in our master bathroom. (And by "we" I mean 95% credit should be given to David.) Since we moved in we've just had a shower rod with a curtain hanging on it. With the glass doors it is so bright now in the shower!! We've been looking at glass doors for awhile now but it was never the right time to spend the money on it. After looking one Saturday at 3 Home Depot stores and 2 Lowes I told David I was tired of looking and told him we should buy the one we were staring at. (Inside note: we bought the one we've liked since the very beginning.) I couldn't stand shopping around anymore- we always came back to the same one. This weekend our big purchase is a squeegee (spelling?)- gotta keep it clean!

Here's our before and after project pics:

I'm so excited that we've finally come up with a plan for our office! Sometimes it's hard when both of us have a vision for a space, but we've compromised. (Ahh...marriage!) We're going the IKEA route for the furniture because it's cheaper and it's exactly what we want. Basically one piece is an island (intended for a kitchen) with a pretty large workspace on top and open shelves below so I can scrapbook, wrap gifts, etc. and the other is a long table that will hold our computer but allow both of us to work there at the same time.

One BIG project we've worked on is renaming our photobooth company. We loved the name Picture This Photobooths, but found other people liked that name for their company too. So, we've changed now to NightOwl Photobooths. Earlier this week David created a new logo, which I love love love!

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