OPERATION BIG SISTER ROOM DAY 1

Well, we finally started making some progress on getting London and Kinley in the same room.  My in-laws came to watch the girls for us this afternoon so we could do some running around without having to haul the girls around with us.  It's amazing what you can do when you don't have any kids tagging along.

First off Matt and I took off and stopped into Sherwin Williams to grab some paint swatches.  Did you know there are about 9309482 shades of white?  We grabbed all the white paint swatches we could and headed to our next stop... Garden Ridge.

We picked up a new mattress for Kinley there then headed home to drop it off.  I know I know, some of you are thinking... Garden Ridge for a mattress???  Yes, I just can't justify spending a whole lot of money on a kids mattress and the ones we have for the girls are really comfy and the best part, they are under $200 for a twin set.

After we dropped off the mattresses we headed to Ikea.  We lucked out and found the dresser, matched the paint color to one of our many paint swatches and found its location (because you have to know the aisle and bin number at Ikea) very quick and we were out of there faster than I had planned.... which is always nice.  And again, it would have taken three times as long to get through that maze of a store with 2 kids.

After a quick stop at Sherwin Williams again to pick up the chosen paint color and some brushes we headed to our favorite cupcake place for an after dinner sweet and picked up Fajitas for dinner!!

We had a good dinner and chatted with Matt's mom for a bit, let the girls play outside on the trampoline in hopes they would work off the sugar high from their mini cupcakes, then said our good bye's.

We quickly brought all the pieces of the dresser upstairs and started assembly.  That is the downside of Ikea ...the assembly.  BUT, its worth the great bargain and again, I've always had good luck with stuff from Ikea.  And, Matt and I are a pretty good team at putting stuff together.  No arguments have ever come out of putting something together.

We had to call it quits at about 10 .... we had 2 tired girls that were getting very cranky.  Luckily, along with getting most of the dresser assembled,  we were able to at least get their mattresses set up and they are sleeping on real sheets and pillows tonight.

After church and lunch tomorrow we will finish assembling the dresser and maybe move the wall shelves around to get ready for the beds.  Oh, and putting all the clothes back into the dresser!!  That will be great to get the off the closet floor and out of random baskets.  See all the junk on top of the dresser.... It will soon have a new home!!

We decided not to even try to start to paint the beds until the girls are gone to Nana's later in the week since we found that they wanted to help put every screw and peg in the dresser....and help screw them in...and hammer.... and pour out the 3000 other screws that we were trying to keep together.  I don't want to have to try and keep them away from painting.  YIKES.

I'll keep ya'll posted on the progress.  I'm hoping it all comes together quickly :)  I'm exhausted now and hoping I can sleep all night.  I've had terrible insomnia the past few nights.  Crazy pregnancy hormones!

Operation big sister room will continue tomorrow :)