My 28th Birthday

I have to say, this was probably one of my best birthdays yet. You see, back in July after I spent a weekend being an awesome sister and basically doing manual labor for my brother and sister-in-law, we all decided that they needed to return the favor and come to St. Louis and help us with a project at our house. That project: our bedroom. See, I really really did not like bedroom the way it was before. All the furniture was collected at random times, there was nothing on the wall and they were not painted. Basically, it wasn't pretty. So we picked this weekend for them to come so that we could do our redecorating project, eat really good food, and spend our birthday together (my mom, brother and I have the same birthday). So James and Steph got here on Thursday and we went out for our birthday Thursday night at a great St. Louis restaurant Vin de Set.


Then bright and early Friday morning we went to work. We painted, we hung curtains (I had made them earlier completely under Steph's guidance), we hung pictures, a mirror, removed furniture, added lamps, and changed out light switches and face plates. We were busy. And it paid off. I love our room now. I can't wait to go to bed at night.
The before:


The after:



We rewarded ourselves with great food- on Friday night we went to Brasserie by Niche and on Saturday night we had Chinese food.
Today James and Steph had to leave and I am pretty sure I was in a bad mood for a while. But after looking at this little trick-or-treater, who can remain grumpy for too long?