My Painted Office/Craft Room

We finally got around to painting our office. We didn't do it originally because we didn't want to have to move all the books out. The creation of new bookcases made the decision to paint easier. :) We decided that the new bookcases are going to go into our bedroom so that left a bunch of room open for furniture rearrangement. I decided to use the same color in the office that we did in the living room for a cohesive look. I put the idea out there for painting the ceiling in the office too, and I was shot down. I think it looks nice and now there are only 3 rooms left to be painted in our house: the laundry room, the master bedroom and master bathroom. Our house was in disarray for a few days while we painted but thankfully the office only required two coats of paint. Not all of the furniture made it back into the office: the large bookcase, the colorful drawer cart, and the dark wood desk all found new homes. The dark desk now lives in our bedroom and the other two storage items don't get to come back into my house. :) The only thing that has made it back onto the wall is my white shelf, everything else I haven't decided where/how I want it to go and to look. I'm going to have Andrew make a new frame for my white board since it's very broken and then I'm going to take of the flowers and I think paint the frames brown for the cork board and white board. I think on the wall that you can see from the living room I will do a picture collage with family pictures and such. We'll see. Here are more pictures than you ever thought you wanted of my new office: 

The closest thing I have to a before picture

*Update*

I found this in the Photo Booth pictures on the Mac. Not sure why but it's inverted. It's another almost before picture. :)

It was like the office threw up furniture in our living room

At least we could still see the TV

All the books and other stuff took up residence in my bedroom

Craft/office supplies taking up space in my room

Putting things back together

The new location for two of the desks

Final furniture placement 

The work area

The wall with stuff on it

Inside looking out

Pump It Up!!!

There's a place in Tucson called Pump It Up and one of my friends (thanks Megan!) organized a little play date there on Monday. I had heard of it before but never got around to going, mostly because Peter was too young to appreciate it. That is definitely not the case now! I had no idea that he would have so much fun. I put him down and he just took off, he's still a little young for it because I felt the need to follow him around to make sure he didn't get hurt. One of his favorite things to do was to fall on the blue mat in the first picture and also to try to climb up the slide. By the end of our time there Peter was climbing up the stairs to the slide all by himself. There's a smaller slide in one of the other inflatable play areas and he climbed all the way up and back down all by himself. It was a bit tiring for me being pregnant but luckily one of the other moms there was willing to play with/watch Peter inside the bouncy areas for me (thanks Danielle!). This is definitely something that we're going to have to do again.

Peter and I went down the slide.

Having fun on the bouncy floor with a huge ball!

Apparently EVERYTHING requires a taste test.

Peter doing his own thing.