Changing it Up

We've been very busy lately changing things around in our house and freshening up here. Usually, with our tax return, we had been doing big home projects, like painting the outside of our house, getting a new banister, or new carpeting. This year, we bought ourselves a new mattress (ours was 15 years old!) and a new bed to go with it. We bought a new bunk bed in January for the boys (still haven't made their matching bedspreads, so I haven't taken pictures yet) and a bunk bed for Victoria's new room in what used to be the guest room (Walmart has very well-priced bunk beds and they are good quality). I've been doing painting here and there as well, which is always nice around spring cleaning time.

Our room:

It's hard to see the little backboard from this angle with the pillows.

I love the dark wood with the blue!

This is why we wanted this IKEA special, for the drawers!

Victoria decided she really wanted her own room, so she moved all her stuff in the guest room one of the snow days in January. It's taken us this long to finally decide what we wanted to do with the room. We painted it and got this bed so we have more sleeping space if we ever have more guests come at one time.

 Victoria's room:

We used the full-size mattress from the guest room for the bottom and one of the mattresses from the girls' old bunk beds for the top. Karissa has our old queen bed, which will be the guest room when guests come. 

Even though I'm liking having some new furniture, I still can't pass up free-bees. The dark bookshelf was free!

I'm finishing Victoria's jean quilt and Karissa's "princess" bed, so more on this later.

One final note, now that spring is here, we got hit with another small snow storm, passing the record set here in 1880-81 for the most snow in this area. We got 94.8 inches this winter!!