Lasik days...

So after my surgery, I wasn't supposed to go to the beach, swim, wear make up for a week.... going out and about didn't really seem like that great of an idea(I look like I'm 12)...so I thought it was time to work on my latest idea...a HEADBOARD for our bed!!! Since we moved in 2.5 years ago, our 2 mattresses have been on the floor, so it was time. =) I don't even have a before just cause there was nothin to see. HA! i will show you step by step...(found my inspiration from hours of DIY headboard watching, google images, and reading articles and tips on different methods. here we go.

FIRST, cut my 1/4 plywood into the right size squares, then framed them with 2x2s all the way around. Don't worry I was wearing saftey goggles to use my new saw from dad to protect my new expensive eyes. =)

With the "help" of someone special, next I cut out the 2" foam. I ordered this online for pretty cheap instead of gettin it at Joanns for a lot.


next we cut out the batting...

Next important step, attach the wall mount pieces- totally sweet. I screwed those little square like blocks into a stud in the wall so the headboard just hangs on it like a picture.

cover with the brown material...aaannnd notice the brown walls in the background...bla

Now time to assemble! Screw top and bottom squares together using my handy dandy clamps, then attach it to the ones next to it...





Thank you Garrett and Ethan for your photography....and sydney handing me screws one at a time. HA! Stand er up and see what it looks like!

and then since the walls were brown, it was time to lighten up the room to match it all...so Susie helped me paint and Joe watched the kids and we knocked out the painting in 2 days! (we painted syd's room purple just for fun too- it was painted the hallway color when we moved in cause we weren't even pregnant with a girl so how would we know!?!)




Don't really know what's happening with her furniture in there...pay no attention. haha. ANYHOO, check out the finished product!!

Now if we had matching nightstands.....maybe we'll find some nice ones in 2.5 years. haha!

LASIK!

Here we are, two weeks later, reporting on the events of my lasik surgery. Conveniently, Heather and I were scheduled on the same day!...which makes for more fun on the car rides there (Elkhart, IN- hour drive) and all our follow up appointments. SERIOUSLY what a fabulous experience. MINUTES of a procedure, and I'm talking from the second you lay on the chair to when you sit up and they tell you to read the clock across the room. MINUTES. Sooooo great! And after that, they sent us home with lovely eye shields to wear overnight the first 5 days, and eye drops a few times a day for the following weeks. At my one week check I could already see 20/15. AND, she told me that she couldn't even SEE the spots on my eye that he worked on! totally healed!! Amazing I tell ya. And I would do it all over again because it was so easy- (but i don't have to cause I see perfectly now-hehe) I have two $500 off coupons for the next person who wants to go see Dr. Boling!! Here's what I have to document the experience.





Hands down the best part of course is being able to see my alarm clock in the middle of the night....I pretty much wore my contacts from the second I woke up to the second I went to bed. So it was the loooongest 3 glasses-wearing weeks ever before the surgery, but totally worth it! Ok gotta go, kids wakin up!!