I know that I have talked about this a lot, and I am sorry for that. I'm really enjoying myself.
The day that I wrote about Audrey's room I went to DI and found the bed rails I had been looking for. It was really funny. I had been there 3 times before with nothing, and that day they had 8 or 9 hook on bed rails.
The best part about the DI find was the price. It was a mere $8 for the two. The cheapest price I could find online was $50 and then $20 for shipping. I really didn't want to spend another $70 for the bed. The whole reason for finding the bed from We Do Re Do's, was to not spend $200.
I also just got confirmation from mom that we can "steal/borrow" my old mattress and box spring. Eventually we will buy her a new mattress the box spring is perfectly fine.
By the way I'm really enjoying this frugal shopping thing. It's fun to hunt for those deals.
Here's the budget break down (just for her bed) so far.
It was an amazing week. For one Audrey went to California with mom, so we were childless for 6 days. It's always fun to have time to reconnect with Patrick but we sort of ran out of things to do and forgot what grown-ups do for fun. We could really only come up with things audrey would enjoy doing. Oh well. And for another thing I got to spend time with Carrie and Nate. The whole week sort of welded together so I can't remember what days we were over there. It was at least 2. Both times patrick and nate spent the majority of the time doing guy stuff and Carrie and I got to talk (a lot) and play Super Mario Brothers for the Wii. It's an awesome game. I almost went out and bought a Wii the next day just so I can play the game. Alas, We need to wait until after I finish decorating Audrey's room.
Off subject (skip the italics if you don't care about audrey's room).....I think I have a plan for audrey's room. I hope it turns out good. I'm really excited about it because I never did any decorating for her room when she was born. It was still being used as her room/storage room. And it still is, to some extent, and I want to have it be her room. I found this room on HGTV's rate my space website.
I really liked how they used the Ikea bookshelfs for storage. Believe me her little room needs it.
So I went ahead an built her room in Google Sketchup. The bed is not the real bed but at least I can get an idea of how the room is going to look with the furniture in it.
The bed I already have. Yeah, I bought I bed for $70. It still needs bed rails, which I can get at DI, and it needs a mattress. The best price that I can find is $150 for a box spring and a mattress. Anyone know where I can get a good mattress and box spring? I went to the RC Willey Outlet and didn't see anything for a good price. The only things we need to get are the two Ikea bookcases for $69.99 each, the 2 wall shelves for $19.99 each, bedding and some storage boxes for the bookcases. Her new bed is a light pink and really awesome. once I get the bed rails and a mattress I'll take a picture for you. But I would really like to paint the wood desk white and add some black hardware. It's too cold to do it now and I don't have a good place to do it. I would really need a garage. anyone have a garage that I can use in the spring? Like I said I hope it turns out. I'm really excited about it. It might take me a lifetime to get it finished but one day I will get it done and will be really excited about it.
Back on subject...where was I?....the Wii. It was an awesome game and have been craving it everyday since. I'm jealous of those who have a Wii and that game. This just means I have to go to Carrie and Nates more often to get my Wii fix.
I don't believe mom will ever go on vacation by herself with a toddler grandchild again. From what I hear it was a very stressful week. A fun week but very stressful. I'll have to have mom write something about it and I'll post it so you know what they did. I know that they went to the Zoo and did a few other things but I'm not entirely sure. I hope she took pictures.
For thanksgiving we decided to go to Mimi's cafe. This was the third time that we ate at Mimis for a major holiday. It was amazing and totally worth it. In hind site I should have called Grandma and Grandpa like dad suggested but it would have felt odd to go to a family function without Audrey. or is it just me? But we had a lot of fun and got to talk. By the way it was completely packed. The word is getting out that Mimi's is an awesome choice for Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know if they do Christmas but they are open Christmas eve, we ate at Mimi's for our first Christmas Eve Dinner. We created our Mimi's tradition early in our marriage. I'm afraid it might be a permanent tradition, just because the food was so good and I don't think I'll ever be a good enough cook to make a thanksgiving meal.
Saturday was the BYU Utah football game. I don't think I have to go into to much detail about what happened. Watch this video if you don't know what happened. But it was awesome. I loved that they wore the colors of the 1984 national championship team. It was also cool that they presented Lavell and President Monson with the coaches trophy. In case you don't know what that is I attached a picture of one. Oh and you should all hear Jason's National Championship Trophy story. Jen you should have Jason write out the story and post it.
Here's is a video of the final play.
Oh, and we rushed the field. I have video I'll post it sometime.
Sorry that this is so long. I just have a lot on my mind, I guess.
So I finally uploaded all of the pictures from the last few months. I had to delete some of the other older albums to do it, but that's okay. I have two new albums up Texas 2009 it has some of my favorite pictures from Samantha's Graduation and then a bunch of pictures from this summer and fall.
They are on the side bar under photo albums. Take a look.
I have realized that I don't take nearly enough photo's. I really should be better at it. I'm excited that I'm learning more about my camera and things that I can do to make better images. Really I am excited.
I just realized that I never blogged about what happened on our way home from D.C. All I posted was We are finally home.
I figure you might enjoy this. And it's something I wouldn't mind remembering. The flight from D.C. to Atlanta was oddly long. Like way too long. Almost to the point the Pilot was going to wrong way. Any way we ended up landing in Atlanta 5 minutes after our flight to Salt Lake took off. The next flight was not leaving til 8 am and we were on stand by for that flight then there was another flight at 1 that had guaranteed seats. We voted for the guaranteed seats. For the night we ended up getting Hotel vouchers from Delta....but sadly we could not get our luggage. GRRRR! getting stuck sucks
This was the Hotel we stayed in
It seemed nice (okay I'm lying it was a DUMP)....until I read the sign glued to the wall next to the window. It said something about keeping to doors and windows locked at all times for your safety and to never answer the door unless you called for room service or you know someone was coming to your door. All in all it was a pretty scary hotel.
After coming from this hotel the night before in D.C. I was feeling pretty bad. Here's picture of what our rooms looked liked in D.C. I should have gotten a picture of the Altanta room.
But the next morning we ate at Waffle House and I felt better.
