After much searching...

We finally found beds for our girls.  After being on the look-out for SEVERAL months to find beds that would fit in the girls' super small bedroom, we finally bought them new beds.  Let me just say bed shopping is tough. 

Bunk beds were out (due to their age), single twin beds were out (due to the size of their room), so then we started looking at trundle beds.  Several of those peeked my interest--a daybed with trundle, captain's bed w/ trundle, extra drawers underneath the trundle for storage...many, many possibilities.  So that is what we were after.  A nice trundle bed.  Until last weekend, when I happened upon this...


PERFECT!!  Not so high so that I would be completely uncomfortable with them sleeping on the top bunk & yet enough room in between the beds, that we could leave decorative pillows & stuffed animals on the bed even when pushed underneath. 

I must say shopping around PAYS OFF.  I found these online & the price ranged anywhere from $1600-$700.  Since these are Ashley brand, I found an Ashley Homestore within an hour of us that sold these for $600.  AWESOME!  There were still a couple other stores we wanted to check too, so today we headed out to check them out. 

We ended up at Roommaker's which does sell Ashley furniture.  They had this bed for $699, but matched it to the Homestore's price & we could pick it up in our hometown instead of having to drive an hour.  Not only did I save us driving an hour (twice) to order the beds from the Homestore, or driving an hour to pick up said beds at Roommaker's, we got the cheaper price AND local pickup.  Suh-weet!!  Gotta figure the driving alone saved us probably $200. 

Decided to let the girls pick out their own bedding also.  I did limit it slightly, and perhaps encouraged specific bed sets :), but they did have their choices.  That counts right??  Had to have some restrictions or we would've come home with some bright pink/orange combo with sequins attached to it.  Probably not the best idea or the most durable for a 5 year old.  AND even somewhat coordinated.  YEAH!!  & half the price of what I was finding online.  Score!!