It is called LABOR Day...

So as you know (or at least you know now), Michelle and AJ are coming for a visit later this month, yay! AJ sleeps in a port-a-crib, pack-n-play thing when he visits Chicago, but we noticed that last time he was here, he was getting a little big for it (I think the thing shrank, but that could just be me in denial of him growing up!). We heard that he got to sleep in a big boy bed on the way down to South Carolina for vacation last week. Gramma decided it was time to buy AJ a new place to sleep when he visits. Where do you go when you want to find inexpensive furniture that doesn't have to be delivered and that you can put together yourself with nothing more than a hammer, screwdriver, and the little hex key? Come on, I know you know! IKEA!!!!!

So that's where we went on Sunday, and let me tell you, we were soooo not the only ones with the "Let's go buy furniture and put it together because it's a long weekend and we actually have time!" idea. Let's just say that it was a madhouse, people were cutting each other off, blocking intersections, running out in front of people, and all that was just the parking lot!

Eventually we got inside and here's how the trip went. We looked at the beds, looked at the children's beds, found a new hall table lamp and got lost in the lighting section trying to find a bathroom. Then we found a couple more random things, got a blanket for the new bed, saw a cute table, found me a new headboard/footboard set, sat/laid on some matresses, looked at sheets, tried to remember where previously mentioned cute table was making a complete circle in the process, went back to children's beds to look at more sheets, and then nixed the sheets. We found the elevator down to the first floor where you pick up all of the furniture you find, waited for someone to come and get the flatbed carts unstuck, set out on our mission to find everything, couldn't find everything, found out that one of the things we couldn't find had to be pulled from a seperate area and picked up after we paid. Then we paid, Mom waited for the thing we couldn't get ourselves, I pulled the car around, tried to fit my bed in, and called Dad to bring the van because I couldn't fit my bed in. Then I waited for Mom, went back in to find her and help bring the rest of the stuff out, finished loading my car, waited for Dad with the van, loaded my bed in the van, went home, unloaded everything, and Mom and I put it all together.

It was a lot of lifting, pushing, pulling, directions, and hard labor, but eventually we got both beds done. Here's AJ's new bed at Gramma's house:

This bed is nice because it has three length settings. This is the longest, making it a twin sized bed but you can push the two ends together until the curlicues on the side almost meet, making a good little toddler sized bed.

And this one is my new set:

Isn't it prettiful?! I lurve it!

Monday was less eventful with a trip to Best Buy to find a couple of cords and chargers I needed and then on to Trader Joe's which was slightly less insane than it was the first time we went. We spent the rest of the afternoon doing absolutely nothing, my favorite way to spend time!

Hope everyone else had a relaxing Labor Day weekend!