March Madness! My favorite time of the year

I love college basketball! I'm looking forward to winning my office pool and watching the Hoosiers...I just hope they can do a little better than bowing out of their first game in the Big Ten Tournament. Go Hoosiers!

I love my birthday presents!

Ryan got me a new digital camera, a Kodak Easy Share ...I can't wait to figure out how to use it and take some fabulous new pics! He also gave me beautiful flowers that smell so good.

And, finally--He gave me the Konrad desk from World Market, without the hutch on top.

I've been wanting this desk forever! It won't actually be in for a month or so, but that gives me some time to plan out our new office.

I also got some great gift cards (Bed, Bath & Beyond and Ann Taylor Loft), thanks Mom and Brenda!

30.

Happy Birthday to me! The big day is finally here...after all of the anticipation, I am willingly saying goodbye to my twenties. I hope 30 has great things in store for Ryan and me. We'll work some more on our house, hopefully host lots of great friends and family, soon enjoy the spring and summer, celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary and take our annual vacation in the fall. Here's to my 30th year!

T-minus 3 days.

My wonderful coworkers are so encouraging about turning thirty. By the way, the ones who are encouraging are already in their 30s. They want me to join them! Their words to help convince me that my life is not over: "It's the best years of your life"; "the thirties are great"...all except for my one dear coworker, who says that 23 was the best year of his life! Great. Just great.

5 Ideas for my Birthday Wishlist

Countdown to my 30th Birthday: 4 days. eek!

5 things I'd love for birthday gifts, are you listening Ryan?

1. The brown Zebra rug from westelm.com. I've been lusting over this rug for months and I think it would look lovely in my new brown bathroom! In the 3x5 size, please!



2. This beautiful white trench coat from White House Black Market. Isn't it just gorgeous?



3. The aqua and camel Conservatory I area rug (5x8) from Home Decorators Collection. It would be perfect with my new olive sofas and the new grommet panels I ordered for my living room in chocolate brown. If it weren't for the $400 price tag, I might have just ordered it myself!



4. A king sized bed and mattress. Of course a new bed would lead to new bedding! I really like this pewter bed from JCPenney and I found a memory foam mattress from overstock.com.



5. These prints from allposters.com. I think they're stunning and they would look great in my dining room!

The master bathroom!

Yay for our new bathroom! We still have a few finishing touches to complete, but we're both pretty happy with the the way it's turned out so far.

5 Days and Counting...

Until I'm 30. Only a short time left to live up the remaining minutes I have as a 20 year old...boo hoo. This is gonna be hard!