happy, happy birthday to my wonderful & amazing husband who turns 30 today! i have been teasing him a lot about being an old man, but i am really so honored to be his wife & be celebrating such a milestone with him.
aaron – i hope you have the most fantastic & awesome day today celebrating thirty amazing years! here’s to many more decades & milestone birthdays!
{if you missed the birthday party recap last week, see it here!}
happy day husband!
M
as i mentioned here we celebrated aaron’s big 3-0 this weekend with family & friends. his birthday isn’t really until this friday, but since that kicks off memorial day weekend, we figured it would be a better turn-out if we threw the party the weekend before.
i have spent the last few months planning & making party decorations, so it was really awesome to see it all come to life on saturday. originally i was going to do a james bond theme as it seemed like a good use of aaron’s white dinner jacket from andy & hailey’s wedding. but then i decided that as much as it would be fun to have the guys dress up in suits & the gals dress up in formals, it would be better as a theme for a big sit-down dinner (which we don’t have the space for). so i decided a beer theme would be fun for aaron (since i knew there would be beer at his party anyways) & went with that. i was able to find paper goods in the theme of a beer tasting & recruited a good friend who brews home brew regularly as our beer master.
i borrowed a few ideas from pinterest {if you are curious, my pinterest board for this party is here} & will share those & my sources below. for now, enjoy the pictures! {there were a few more pictures taken at the party, but for the sake of our guest’s privacy, i decided not to put all of them up here.}
there were {and still are} thirty gold balloons hanging in our front window & each one {well, almost} has a happy birthday wish or favorite memory of aaron from our close family & friends. it means a lot to aaron & me to have received these beautiful notes & thank you to those of you who i harassed to get them to me in time for the party!
source & inspiration list:
thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with us – we had such an amazing time! &, last but not least, happy {early} birthday to my wonderful husband!
M
{did this weekend seem long to anyone else? friday seemed like it was an eternity away, even on thursday! also discovered the #abeautifulmess app & am loving it!}
{headed down to pike place market saturday morning to pick up fresh flowers for the party.}
{i finally got some peonies!}
{the happy birthday candles that i got for aaron’s doughnut cake weren’t quite right – can you catch the mistake? #thereareonly2psinhappy}
{his & hers rubba slippahs (as they say in hawaii).}
{my own version of this now famous quote that i did for my grandmother’s 91st birthday.}
{aaron & i did a little spring cleaning at my grandmother’s house by sweeping up the leaves & needles around her house. #justcallushergardeners}
{sunday night wrapped up the weekend with taco time & the great gatsby to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday – this is what she requested!}
we had a fun birthday-filled weekend celebrating both aaron’s birthday (early) & my grandmother’s birthday (even though she says she didn’t want to celebrate being any older, so she is starting to count backwards!). there aren’t many weekend pics to share here, but i will make up for it mid-week when i get aaron’s birthday party post together. we had so much fun seeing lots of friends & family this weekend – we are very blessed! how was your weekend?
M
one of the last remaining rooms in our house which hasn’t been painted was our hallway {the very last is the office, unless you count the interiors of closets, but i digress}. it is a pretty small space and has four doorways – to the living room, to the bedroom, to the bathroom, and to the office. the problem with the hallway was that it was yellow. the walls were yellow. the ceilings were yellow. it made you feel like you were inside of a butter dish. i would have painted it sooner, but i hate painting ceilings. a few weeks ago, i finally pulled the trigger and painted it all, ceilings and walls.
{the befores}
i decided that i should stick with a neutral color since this hallway {as mentioned above} connects nearly every room in our house. we have a pretty neutral pallet going in the house, but it was important that the hallway color look good with the living room color, the bathroom color, & the bedroom color. we happened to have some grey left over from our old living room at our townhouse, so i went with that. {it is martha stewart driftwood gray}
{the afters}
{the color is closest to what is shown on the very top picture // the “color scheme” in the house is well represented in the bottom picture}
how do you pick your paint colors? do you have a color scheme, or do you just pick the color for each room or space separately?
M
{on thursday evening i attended the anthro petite launch at the downtown store & got to meet joy from oh joy! she is as lovely in person as she is on her blog. #bloggercrush}
{i needed a few jelly bellys to get me thru my friday at work.}
{it is finally peony season – at least at whole foods. i am waiting it out until tj’s gets them so i don’t have to spend $12 a dozen. #mightbeworthit #peonyseasonbegins}
{saturday was a beautiful sunny day which called for a floral dress & my fun new oxfords..}
{i finally got a new wreath for the front door.}
{i ordered some moo cards & am so excited!}
{sadie was great at supervising yard work on sunday afternoon.}
{happy mother’s day to my mom! #circa1992}
{we finally hit 1000 miles on our new car. pretty exciting!}
we had a fun weekend with some sun & some storms. it was nice to get a few projects out of the way & gear up for aaron’s big birthday bash next weekend {spolier alert: he will be thirty!} we got a chance to catch up with both of our moms today, but since neither of them are in town, we took my grandmother out for a mother’s day dinner. how was your weekend?
M
i wanted to wish every mom & mom-to-be out there a happy, happy mother’s day, especially to my mom, mother-in-law, & late mother-in-law! thank you for everything you do & have done to make us into the people aaron & i are today – we couldn’t have done it without you.
i saw this fun mad lib online this week & thought i would share. my answers are below. visit rue la la to create your own!
to my mom:
to my mother-in-law:
what are your plans for mother’s day? we are taking my almost 91-year-old grandmother out to dinner to celebrate {even though her motto is every day is mother’s day}.
M
*this is not a sponsored post.
{what a wonderful forecast!}
{i made tea for my grandmother on friday afternoon. she insisted we use real tea cups & saucers.}
{saturday was opening day for boat season. lots & lots of boats out on lake washington.}
{we took a family walk to the ravenna ravine on sunday morning. sadie decided that she wanted a drink of water. & to take a swim.}
{i attended a bridal blessing on sunday afternoon. what a view!}
{the bride-to-be!}
{we spent the afternoon of cinco de mayo at our friend andy & hailey’s house. they have the most perfect lake house.}
{the view of lake washington & mount rainier from their dock.}
{the weather is finally warm enough for me to break out my summer-side of the closet. very exciting!}
{love to start the week with a fresh bouquet of flowers. #thebestpartofspring}
it is hard to believe but we have been in our house for a year – can you believe it? while it doesn’t seem like yesterday that we were moving & packing & unpacking, it definitely doesn’t feel like its been an entire year. {where does the time go?}
i thought since so much of this blog is devoted to the work we have put into the house, it would be fun to do a review of all of our house projects over the last year. {also, this is making up for the fact that i have been horrible about keeping the house tour tab up-to-date.}
here we go! {are you ready for lots of pictures?}
{entryway} – chalkboard paint
{living room & dining room} – paint color, curtains, west elm light
{bathroom} – paint color, Ikea light, vanity
{kitchen} – paint color (walls), painted cabinets, painted countertops, painted tile, kitchen island, roman curtain
{office}
{bedroom} – paint color, roman curtains, closet doors
phew! it is hard to believe we did all of that in just one year. we still have lots of things on the to do list, including some bigger projects that we are saving up for! reviewing all of these projects makes me thankful that we have such a fun house to work on & enjoy. it was scary to make the decision to buy a house last year {it felt so grown-up!} but we have loved every minute of it & learned so much.
what sorts of projects have you completed in your living space? do you ever go back & review all of your hard work?
M
{sidenote: my weekend update is backwards this week due to my not-so-quick-to-learn the quirks of my new computer.}
{our rhodie is finally starting to bloom – very exciting! it is strange though that it is coming in bright pink because last year it was white… anyone know why?}
{sunday brunch with old & new friends at americana in capital hill.}
{caught up on some glossies this weekend. yep, that is vogue from march. i am a bit behind.}
{yep, painting again. finally finishing up the hallway that i started last weekend.}
{one of two trips this weekend to the lowe’s paint counter. has anyone else tried to match ceiling paint without a really good ceiling sample? fellow homeowners please do us all a favor & leave a sample paint can of the ceiling paint for the next owner.}
{paint samples to figure out what color to paint the hallway. we went with driftwood grey by martha stewart. grey, i know, surprising.}
{on friday night we celebrated my good friend sascha’s thirtieth birthday at bastille in ballard. happy birthday sascha!}
{you can’t come empty handed to a birthday party, right? cupcakes it is!}
this weekend flew by – did it for you too? i don’t understand how monday thru friday often drag on & on, & then saturday & sunday are gone in a blink! we were busy wrapping up a few on-going projects on the house & trying to tackle our ever-growing {out of control} yard. how was your weekend?
M
one year ago today – april 27th – we closed on our house & {finally} got the keys! can you believe it? the day we became homeowners.
{first family photo with the house}
{the keys}
{the u-haul. oh my goodness am i glad we don’t have to pack this up & move this weekend!}
i am planning to do a big review post of all of our house projects from the last year on the blog next week so be sure to come back & check it out!
do you celebrate the anniversary of when you moved into your house/apartment/condo, or is that just us?
M
