If we talk to you at ALL, you know that Keola and I have been looking for furniture. With the new house, came new rooms to fill. We now have a formal living room, formal dining room, and a much larger family room. We wanted to look for furniture that would hopefully last us awhile. So after visiting many furniture stores, warehouse sales, and scouring catalogs and internet websites, we FINALLY purchased a few things to fill our extra rooms.

We always knew that our "old" furniture from our Capitol Hill home would fill our formal living room. However, since we didn't have any furniture for our family room, we've been using that furniture to sit on. So on Monday, we started the set up of some of the rooms.

Here's the before...

Here's the after...well, sort of. We haven't totally set up yet. We still need to put up some art work that will finish off this room.

The living room furniture was now in place and the long awaited family room began it's transformation. The family room is coming together in stages. What we didn't expect was the LONG wait for the furniture.

Here's the before...

Then the first installment...2 chairs that flank our fireplace. We came across this furniture warehouse sale recommended by a friend. We didn't quite know what to expect, but we are sure glad we went. We found these super comfy, butter yellow chairs for a THIRD of it's original price!! What a steal!

So for about two months, our family room looked like this (with the living room couches)

Then the long awaited call came that our sectional was done!! Yipee! Woohoo!! I was excited!! After two months, TODAY was the day. About an hour ago, this is what came...

Then, this!!!!

Our beautiful sectional is here!!! I am so happy!!! The sectional is extra comfy, super big, and beautiful!!! Now after some rearranging of a few things, drapery and art work for the walls, and our bookshelves, the family room will be done!!!

Can you tell Lillie loves the new sectional?? I've always wanted a sectional, maybe it reminds me of my home in Hawaii.

This is the fabric we're considering for the drapery. That will be our next project.

When we went to the warehouse sale, we were in search for a dining table for entertaining. We found this beautiful and sturdy table for a serious bargain. Get this, the original price was over $2100!! We bought the table for $199!!! Can you believe that!??!? We only paid about 10% of the original price. Unbelievable!! Now, full disclosure, there are some scratches and knicks here and there, but after some polish, I really think it looks great.

I also think it matches the koa hutch quite well, too!

Let's see if you can find the scratches and knicks. Ok, so it's not quite fair since the sunshine is glaring and I think I got the table at a great angle. In any case, it's a great table.

The happy family!!!

On the 23rd of APRIL, we got a little surprise...HAIL!! I'm sorry, I thought it was Spring...Wait, it IS spring!! We were all surprised by the quick hail storm. You should have seen Lillie's reaction. She didn't quite know what was going on.

Happy Easter!!
Ok, so we're a couple of weeks late!! In blogging that is. We did celebrate Easter on Easter day!! Ha ha Well, the Easter Bunny was quite generous this year. At least a few weeks before Easter, Lillie kept asking, "Is it Easter yet????" Finally, the night before, we told her that the Easter Bunny might be visiting the house and might leave her a few treats. So, of course, on Sunday morning, Lillie was up and ready to check downstairs.

Lillie was thrilled to find plastic eggs filled with plain M&M's and peanut butter cups (her two favorites!). She also found a chocolate bunny, gummy bears, chocolate covered marshmallow eggs, a jump rope, princess notebook and pen, a bigger Doodle Pro (best church activity - for those of you with young kids), and of course, more candy.

Nana sent her the cutest Manuheali'i dress! Lillie was super excited to wear it to church.

Lillie with her Easter spoils!! We're working on taking pictures without the squint!