Birthday fun and some new furniture...

Well, for my birthday on Friday Brian gave me the wonderful gift of painting the baby room. You have no idea how great this is if: 1) You know that Brian doesn't paint rooms, or 2) You are a pregnant woman who isn't allowed on ladders and you desperately want your baby room painted. :) So, it was a wonderful gift and a HUGE surprise. Grace and my parents were very good to me as all of my scrapbook supplies now has a home...it is being displaced from it's original home in the "Gary Sinise Memorial Craft Room" (as my mom has termed it). Although, Gary Sinise is not dead...so it's just kind of an inside joke. :)

Anywho...I digress. Along with fun birthday happenings we have gotten some new furniture recently, so keep scrolling down.
This is our new bookshelf...for those of you who have been to our house it is between the hallway to the guestroom and the door to the backyard. Our DVD collection was overflowing onto Brian's hideous game chair (which will be finding a new home either at someone else's house or the local trash heap very soon). So, we got this nice bookshelf and I think it looks beautiful. I can also display my ever growing number of scrapbooks on the bottom shelf.
In the baby's room we got a nice "smart" desk from Pottery Barn. Brian wanted to keep his laptop in this room, so I found the perfect solution. The desk has a center compartment in which to hide the laptop. See...


It has a beautiful mirror and will make a great desk for our kid someday. :) How great is that?! Mom, I know I still need to do the picture of the bureau in the master, but it's a little dusty at the moment. :) You'll be happy to know that my energy level has returned and I got a lot of cleaning accomplished this weekend. Woohoo!!!