A Birthday and a House

Well two birthdays down, two to go plus Christmas! This is definitely the season of business (as in very busy), and also the season of presents and spending lots of money! : ) My birthday is done, and Moo's birthday is over, but my brother, Brad's, is just coming up on the 21st. That would be this Friday, and we're having a big barbeque for him and we're inviting lots of people. The BBQ isn't just for his birthday, but also to celebrate my dad finally moving into his new office (FINALLY!!!) and to thank Shelly and Carey for being so wonderful and helping us so much. AND it's also to celebrate us being basically completely unpacked (FINALLY again!). We finished the decor in the living room, and it looks great. The theme is brick red and creamy white. So the curtains are red plaid and there are some pictures on the wall with red highlights in them, and we got some brick red silk flowers for the mantle, and we put up our red sconces on either side of the fireplace-thanks Nancy! Anyway, it really looks complete, and now it's one of my favorite rooms of the house. Besides my own room and the rec room of course. I think that once we get everything set up in the rec room, it's gonna be awesome. It's sort of a Red Robin theme. You know, everything. One whole wall, though, is going to be just movie posters. So far we've got Elf and Star Wars, and since mom insisted, Casa Blanca. Hopefully we'll add LOTR, POTC, CATCF, maybe Gladiator, and Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. The piano is against one wall with our old, pine entertainment center that isn't being used for anything at the moment. The two piano and guitar chord posters are going to be hung above the piano. on the last wall there's a teeny mini bar, the stairs, and the new entertainment center. There's not much room on that wall, but above the sink there're some posters and liscense plates. If all goes as planned, we'll be adding to our giant collage on the walls indefinitely, but for now there's still a lot of wall showing through. So anyway, posters of all kinds and sizes, music, sports, random stuff, movies, the Beatles (of course-Peter lives here!)...it's gonna be awesome when it's finished (Or at least have some more posters up.) We've also got one corner dedicated to culture. All you adults out there should be happy that we kids aren't completely lost to pop culture. There Pete's mini painted surfboard from the DR, an Indian mat woven from reeds or something of the like, the Mexican sombrero is hung up and I think there're a couple other things too. Cool. Anyhow, I gotta get going!
hugs from me, your favorite blogger,

Katy