24 Years Young..

Hello, bloggyworld!

I hope your week has been as great as mine {but I hope your weather is slightly better than ours..}

It's currently Thursday morning, freezing cold outsdie and the sleet/ice/snow is supposed to be making it's way in for a two day vacation in a few hours. The public school system where I live is closed for the day.

Wow.

I'm all for protecting the children and making sure everyone gets home safe, but it hasn't even started anything yet. Kids these days have all the luck. Back in my day {ha, ha, I've always wanted to say that...} it had to be a certified blizzard before they would cancel school. Not even kidding, and by the time they would finally allow us to leave school, it was already so bad on the roads it would take us two hours to drive 15 minutes.

None of that matters now, of course, because in the big girl business world, my inclement weather policy is this:

Get your butt to work. {Yes, I am serious. Our customers across the globe aren't experiencing inclement weather, so they won't understand why we aren't there to serve them}

Let me tell you a little about my 24th birthday! I was a little concerned I might have a boring birthday, as 24 isn't really one of the exciting birthdays...It wasn't my 21st birthday, so I could already drink, and it isn't my 25th birthday yet, so no insurance breaks for me!

                               

Monday night {birthday eve}, my mom, sister, husband, and I went to one of my favorite local places to eat! Mmm it was fabulous, filled with mango margaritas and rum cake!

            So everyone knows by now that Friday {tomorrow} we were supposed to close on our new house. Well my sneaky husband decided to surprise me on my birthday with closing on the house early {and thank goodness he did, because this snow/ice/sleet storm moving in is no joke, y'all..} So behold, we are HOMEOWNERS! Best husband EVER <3

Stopped by the new house, Elf was waiting on the door for me. Is Charles not the most adorable thing ever?

Charles and I really wanted to do a paint class at a local furniture store {3's Company, CHECK THEM OUT! You will NOT be sorry. They have the most amazing furniture, and you all know how much I love shopping local..suppost your local stores!}They offer paint classes where they teach you to chalk paint and distress your old furniture on the first Tuesday of every month, and it just so happened to fall on my birthday. Here we are after painting for two hours ;)

 

Here's the finished product, before and after photos! I think we did a great job, and this matches our bedroom set perfectly.

 

 

I'll be taking lots of photos of the new house {unfinished as well as finished} so that I can share our journey with you. I hope to be taking advantage of this snowed in weekend to decorate and set up the new house {as much as possible, anyway, we still need quite a few things that we just ran out of time for...}

Have a blessed week!

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11