House Beautiful. Continued...

After my exciting weekend with the House Beautiful Chicago Chair Giveaway, I have MORE exciting news to post!

My sister-in-law, Meredith, grabbed ANOTHER chair for me at the Willis Tower.  At 3:30ish this afternoon, I forwarded her the tweet with the location of the chair drop, and asked her to go down and see if the chair was there.  Funny thing was that she was randomly across the street visiting Charles Schwab.... impeccable timing!

So for my birthday, Meredith gave me this fun and rustic Pottery Barn chair.  And guess what, it's NOT pink!

So thankful for a wonderful birthday celebration, and the generosity of my sister-in-law to give me this chair.  Not a bad birthday, eh?

Thanks SO much Mere and for all of my family and friends who really showed their love for me on my 26th birthday.

Now off to eat dinner that my wonderful husband made for me :)

Love,
Courtney

House Beautiful.

Here are some pictures Eric and I took this weekend at House Beautiful's Pink Chair Giveaway!  It was such a great experience and will definitely be a birthday to remember...

There are also some pictures of the wine and dessert birthday party Eric planned for me.  We have amazing friends!

Here is the schedule of our Saturday morning:

9:00am- after breakfast @ Toast, we signed up for Twitter to get the clues for the competition



9:30am- hanging out an Navy Pier...our best guess for where they would drop the 1st chair



9:45am- waiting....

10:00am- walking around Navy Pier to kill time

11:02am- We get the first text while parked at Navy Pier that chair #1 is being dropped at Millenium Park!!!!! Off we go.

11:10 am- Arrive at the 1st location 

11:15am- I see the first chair being dropped off, but someone went up and grabbed it first.  It's okay, she was so happy to win!

After this chair was given away, I was able to meet and talk to the editor & team from House Beautiful.  They mentioned there was a party at Crate and Barrel and the next chair would be given away in the afternoon.  Knowing that we had time to kill before the next chair drop, Eric and I spent our time relaxing and window shopping in the city.

1:02pm- recieved a text to look for chair #3 at Michigan Avenue

1:08pm- Followed the text that the Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams chair will be across from the Wrigley Building.

1:28pm- I kept looking to the left (south) of me for the House Beautiful truck to pull up into the circle drive in front of the Wrigley Building.  LUCKILY, Eric was parked further north on Michigan Ave and text me that a pink chair was being walked down Michigan Ave coming from the north.

I turned to the right and saw a pink chair a block away and took off running! Unfortunately they got it on tape.

Here is their update on Twitter!

Me with the House Beautiful clan...they were so nice!

Eric pulls up to load the chair....what a wonderful husband :)

I brought the chair to my bday party so everyone could see it :)  Thanks again to everyone who came out to celebrate with me. I felt so loved!

Susan in the pink chair!

love her

Gretchen & Veronica!

me and my new bday top :) thanks hun!



singing happy bday :)





twon in the pink chair!



Kelly Jo & Jaci :)

Me with the pink chair!

Yum! Thanks Dave & Keren

There are still a few chairs left in the giveaway today in the loop, in case you want to participate too!

Love,
Courtney