Whew...!

That was a lot of work! I'm glad it's done!



Let's see what the boys are up to!

Mama kept the least crinkly sheets of packing paper and put them to good use.


Thomas helped, too!


Jimmy likes lining up the chairs to play. Sometimes it's a train, sometimes a bus.


Today it was a roller coaster.


I have made progress on Joey's mural. I have gotten to the OMGomgOMG I-can't-make-a-mistake-now-because-you-can't-cover-up-black part of adding in the black lines. I am also to the point where I need a ladder to trace out and paint the high up parts of the design.


Let's go have lunch at one of our favorite places!


Yum! Real ramen!


Jimmy experimented with using chopsticks.


Success!


We also found the pinapple plantation and I tried to convince them to pose with pineapples. There are just some things you need Daddy for... *sigh*


Neither of them liked the Dole Whip, either.


But they but enjoyed riding the train in Ewa Beach.

Jimmy wouldn't take his eyes off the engine (a green center cab switcher- green- his favorite color)!


Yeah! Happy boys!


Now we are counting the days until Daddy gets home.

Aloha!

Unpacking

So our stuff arrived....

Since I was still figuring out where I wanted things to go, I had the majority of it stacked in the garage...
At first I couldn't even get the car into the two car garage... but the cat found a nice perch to survey her queendom.


Jimmy found her anyway.


We unpacked late into the night... Jimmy was very excited at all the surprises in all the boxes.


We made a pretty big dent and was able to get the car put away.



The biggest problem is the boxes full of packing paper (most of the ones back by the garage door)... I have to haul them soon.


Jimmy wants to show you how to get from one side of the paper pile to the other...
this pile was all from that box, by the way...


Dive in head first! Then dig like a mole!


Try to lure brother into the pile when you come out the other side.


I also use Jimmy as a paper compacter.


Between unpacking boxes and cleaning up what ever mess the boys made while I was unpacking, I am working on the murals for the boys' rooms.

This is the start of one of the two murals in Joey's room.


This is one of two portholes in the bathroom.


Here's the other. I started with the smallest ones. These are both approx. 13" across.


Jeff asked for some pictures and here is just a taste for him. I haven't gotten my chotchkies out and art all put up, but the master bedroom is looking pretty good. and, man is that bed comfy after sleeping on an air mattress for a few weeks!!!


One of the few pieces of art I have hung...


The color scheme is what I used for most of the house. The buckskin color on most walls with the brown accent walls.
Jimmy's room is green and yellow, Joey's room as you saw up above is two toned blue.

So that's all for now, there's more boxes to unpack...

Aloha! We are back online!

We have arrived safely right around here...



I have some pictures from the seemed like forever time in the hotel but can't access them right now and will post them later. We moved into our house and are eagerly anticipating the arrival of our household goods. (and Daddy!)
Until then, let's hit the beach!


Joey enjoyed his first trip to the beach. I am not brave enough to take them swimming at the same time until Daddy gets here, so just playing in the sand will have to do for now. The boys don't seem to mind, though!

Jimmy found me the tiniest shell.





We had a very distracted lunch at Zippy's...

Joey was distracted by a mob of zebra doves.


Jimmy was distracted by the rainbow bendy buses and


This very brave crested cardinal.


The boys were looking shaggy so I found a great place to take them for a trim.


All cleaned up and happy about the toy that Mama had absolutely no influence in picking. I just wish they fit a little better *ahem*.


So we bought a house...
Here is the kitchen. It's a large one butt kitchen, which is good because I have one large butt...


Here is the living room looking from the kitchen. And yes I bought and set up the tv the day we moved in, even before I got something to sit on... how's that for priorities.... (we must have Thomas for Mama's sanity...)

Looking from the living room into the dining room.

The boys have their own bathroom (yea!) and I found this very Lady M spout cover. Even better is that you put special tablets into his mouth and the water comes out different colors. The blue, green and orange baths were fun, the yellow one was just wrong and I still haven't been able to bring myself to do a red one. That's just a little too wrong...


Here's the master bedroom. Fancy, huh!

Joey's room...


Jimmy's room. Normally I would apologize for the stuff all over the floor, but we don't have our furniture yet, so no beds, no dressers..... aaaugh!


I did buy furniture for down stairs. I plan on re-covering the couch as soon as I get my sewing machine back, and also still need to get a rug.


Dining set with the leaf in, I took it out and it looks better round. The wood for the top was cut on the diagonal and assembled so that the grain lines look like a flower, with the leaf in the pattern was interrupted and not as clear.


I am happy to have a place to sit and eat.
I think the boys are, too.


So we are happy and well, and getting the house painted.
I hope the rest of our stuff will be here this coming week and I can have it all unpacked before Daddy gets here at the end of March...


I may not post for a while, the camera and laptop don't talk to each other and I have to burn everything onto a cd to post it (which is a PITA!) so I might not be doing that soon!
Aloha!