Happy Birthday Brooke!

A quick snapshot of Brooke this morning... she wasn't too thrilled that her first day back from break was on her birthday. haha


Brooke's new room


Another angle


The letters I made for her



The rest of the letters




Today Brooke is 10... wow! She still has such a little kid personality so it's hard to believe she's 10 already! I love that she'll still play for hours and can be just as silly as Drew. :)

Lately Brooke has been having the typical middle child syndrome. When we moved in this house almost 2 years ago her room didn't really change much. The girls shared a room at our old house and we bought them bunk beds and all the matching pieces. Since it was all still fairly new furniture and bedding we kept it and put it in Brooke's room. Hannah got all new furniture and bedding since she was getting her own room. And Drew got new stuff too since he wasn't in the crib anymore. Brooke felt like she got the shaft. =P

So for her 10th birthday we offered to let her redo her room however she chose! She had to keep the furniture since we weren't about to replace that! But she could pick out all new bedding and accessories and we would paint the room as well. We went to Pottery Barn and she found HOT PINK striped quilts that she was dying to have ( thank god for sales!!). She picked out sheets that had pink and brown in them and decided the new colors for her room would be pink and brown. Like pepto bismol pink. lol Matt painted the whole room and put up a chair rail to divide the colors. And I decorated some wooden letters with all my scrap stuff. The room turned out really cute and she just loves that it's what she picked out!

Since the room cost a fortune to redo... that's the bulk of her gift! And she has no idea that we have anything else for her. ;) She's also getting a hot pink Ipod which I know she's going to love!!