To summarize my last week... The Bunk Bed.

I spent all of last week preparing for Sam's birthday. For starters, I received a bunk bed from our friend to give to my son for his birthday. I'd picked it up a few weeks ago, but the weather would not cooperate, or my budget, or some other issues that would not allow me to work on it until the last minute.

So starting last Sunday, I brought some of the parts of the bed into the house and started taping up the parts that I did not want to paint.

The bed was now ready to sand. On Monday, I went out in the chilly garage & sanded all the pieces. since it was cold out, I got a little lazy and decided not to sand the side rails.

Then, in the thought that it would save me money, I started painting the bed on Tuesday with spray paint. I got the first coat on 1/2 of the bed on Tuesday. on Weds. I flipped all the pieces and did the 1st coat on the 2nd half.

By this point in the week, I was down 4 cans of spray paint & starting to freak out about needing to clean the house for a party that I'd barely started planning. I was already tired of spray paint fumes. and had not even started planning out my son's cake. I felt SO behind!
Thursday, I bought 3 more cans of paint. got the 2nd coat on both sides of the bed & decided it was good enough, and that if I'd missed any spots I'd touch up from there.

On Friday, I took off all the tape! That felt like it took almost as long as applying the 1st coat of paint. AND I'd barely cleaned the house!  Ok- I did make the kids vacuum. 

Allie helped me take the tape off, and we were trying to keep Sam from seeing the finished product.

Saturday, My dad came over & helped me clean up the yard because the weatherman was calling for 80 & an outside party seemed great! That ended not allowing Sam to see the bed because I had to open the garage door to put some stuff away. But he still loved it.

Sunday was Sam's party. I will blog about that on weds. Tomorrow's blog will be my cake. The Golden Snitch Cake from Harry Potter

Today is Sam's birthday & the hubby & I assembled the bed in his room while he was at school. I did have to  finish the lower bunk after he got home, but he was still happy to see it. & I've heard him say about 7 times now that he is going to sleep on the top bunk! :) I'd also bought him a second comforter to match the one he has so it matched:)