Home Sweet Home!

I had the revelation that this will be our first Christmas as fiances. We weren't supposed to have a Christmas as fiances, so this is actually kind of exciting! I will show off my ring and tell people we're engaged for the next week and a half. It will be great!

And I have the best fiance ever! I came home from a terrible day of work (World was supposed to end, transformer blew before classes started because of the excessive wind and rain, smoke everywhere and no power and a bunch of HS students who didn't want to be there anyway thinking the Apocalypse was coming... and then finding out later in the day that Brick HS (poor Melissa!) had its own awful events with a potential gunman getting arrested... which didn't help)... anyway, I came home from work, to find this:

Notice the bow on the door. Yes, he even bought a big bow so I could "open" my gift. He painted it (awesome color, called winter surf), bought all of the furniture (2 desks, 2 awesome chairs, 2 tall bookshelves, and 1 small cubed bookshelf with baskets), put the furniture together, and organized it. And he used my aesthetic that I had talked about when we hashed out what we might do with the space. PERFECT! I couldn't ask for a more thoughtful present. Tomorrow is our 3 year anniversary. Seems so much longer, in a good way. :)