We have a bed...

I can do this... I can do this!

After disassembling our Murphy bed and sleeping on a mattress on the floor for several months, (or weeks? all I know is we felt like it was far too long on the floor)... in order to paint our bedroom walls a while ago... and to rip out the baseboards in our bedroom in an effort to kill the ant infestation.

I'm happy to say we actually slept on a REAL bed the other night and it was absolutely AHHH mazing!!!

Over the weekend we hit the wonderful world of Ikea with little dude in tow and purchased a new dinning room table for our kitchen (solid wood), a bed for our room, and the final wardrobe components for our master bedroom closet (full mirrored wardrobe and a half mirrored wardrobe) that we would need to assemble our expanded built in closet system.

We bought all three on a single day and opted for the glorious same day $59 delivery because, hey, if your paying $59 to have it delivered, might as well make it worth the drive and pick up other items we planned to purchase to avoid paying another $59 in the near future!

It's also the best deal in town not to have to figure out how to get things to fit in a Camry that are WAY too long to fit ... (Trust me, they wouldn't fit) and not having to carry them inside from the far parking lot is another bonus.

While i'll blog about the closet separately after we build it, (And we love our new kitchen table more than we thought was imaginable) our main priority was to sleep in a real bed...

We still have our Murphy bed from our 1 bedroom condo (and loved everything about it) and intend to keep it in our storage closet if needed at a future date... but after looking around and realizing we were seldom if ever lifting our bed up in the new condo, we decided to get a real bed frame.

Cardboard battles with Dad!

It didn't take long to assemble (we finished in in the morning after breakfast before heading to church after making lunch), and Little dude got to dress up as a paper ranger with the ikea packaging materials.

Hubs made a couple of swords by crushing a box insert to make a handle, and I created a crown and armor. It was a hit and kept him occupied for a majority of our building process.

But behold, we have a new bed and it is happy and amazing! 

Paper Ranger!