No really, I may be biased, but he really did an excellent job. It's the exact style I was looking for, mission, simple, twin/full size; sturdy wood frame (and let me tell you - this thing is Hefty!!! Built for Boys!!); and we spent a fraction of what the equivalent would cost from a store! Not to mention it has that cool "made by my Dad" stamp on it that the boys will always remember!! It was an intense project, made both simpler and more complicated by the instructions I found online (Cam can explain that better). But he finished them in under two weeks, working nearly non-stop on weeknights and as much as possible on our busy weekends (including the weekend I was gone to Frisco). Here's some pictures from the process.
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| Twin bed (top bunk) painted and ready for assembly |
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| Full bed ready for paint |
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| First Night in their new beds!! |
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| Jayce looks so tiny in the big bed! |
As you can see, the boys LOVE them, especially Riley. He thinks the top bunk is the coolest thing ever!! We are still working on the ladder (as you can see it's missing in the pics). Cam wanted to be sure of the angles, so didn't build it until the rest was complete. He finished it up yesterday and now it's just on me to paint it so we can attach it. Jayce is still adjusting to it. Naps have been spent on the floor more than in the bed, and he wakes up frequently in the middle of the night crying out confused and has to be escorted back to bed. But we knew this would be an adjustment for him, and that's why we are doing it now rather than at the same time baby gets here.
Also, I know I've been slacking about getting pictures of our other projects up, so here's a couple of the basement.
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| Toy side |
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| Mommy's Craft side |
As you can see it's still a mess, but at least right now it's cluttered, organized mess. One side is toy side for the boys to play, the other is my craft side, with my painting table, craft desk and yarn storage. There's also some other storage you can probably pick out in the pictures, but those are the main functions of the basement right now. And we have been using it! It's great for when the boys are too crazy to play upstairs (which happens quite frequently, go figure!) and I can sent them downstairs where they can run and roughhouse and be loud and it's muted for me just one level up. An absolute necessity for my sanity these days!
I can't believe it's over halfway through November and this is my first post of the month. Can you say Slacker!! Ahh!! Really, we've just been busy. Me with the boys and my business, and Cam with the bunkbeds. I took a girl's weekend to Frisco at the beginning of the month, so much fun! Our good friend Jan and her family just bought a condo up there and she had me and some other girls up for the weekend to "show it off". Her family (entire family) teaches skiing at Copper Mountain every season, and pretty much live up there half the week during Christmas-March. So it was a much needed investment. I had a great time just chatting the night away, shopping and watching movies with my girlfriends. Then the next weekend we had a snowy birthday party at The Farm. There's a public farm in Fort Collins, and a friend of ours had her birthday party there. Kinsey, who just turned 2 is the miracle baby of my friend Trista at MOPS. Kinsey has Trisomy 18 (Down Syndrome is Trisomy 21) and less than 5% of babies born with this defect live to see their 1st Birthday. So we were MORE than happy to go and celebrate Kinsey's 2nd Birthday!! It was a cold snowy day, but the Men braved the weather to go on a hayride down to the Poudre River. Mommy stayed inside, she is lacking in warm attire given her current size, and bouncing around on a haywagon didn't sound too appealing since contractions have become part of the daily routine. Here's a picture of them on the hayride:
I have my last show this weekend for my business this year. Small business Saturday is the Saturday after Thanksgiving and I've signed up to do a Winter version of a Farmer's Market in Loveland. I'm hoping it will be good exposure if anything. I've got quite an inventory lined up, since I'm not taking any orders I'm hoping to sell as much off the table as possible. We'll see how it goes! I'm doing another one of these in February, but NOTHING in between. I consider it my "maternity leave."
Next Post: BABY NAME!!! We've finally decided!!!
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