Pictures from around our house...

Finally our house is becoming that quirky home that I always wanted. I've had some great finds at garage sales but some of the best things that we have are because my friend Summer actually talked me into. The dresser in the picture is made of a long lasting tropical wood called koa and I glanced at it but didn't think it would be in my price range so I didn't even ask about it. Summer however did and it was only $20. I made up a couple excuses why I shouldn't buy the pottery barn sectional that her mom found for me but she had an answer for every excuse. John adores this couch too so he encourages my garage sale n every Saturday morning. He plays with the kids, watches football, and cleans the house while I enjoy time shopping with my friend and her mom. Last Saturday we found this little red table and the people were asking $8 for it. Summer says quietly to me, "offer them $5." So I say "hmm kinda wobbley, how about $5?" Score! Then all the figurines, bucket, garbage can, pigs feet towel, and 1960's kids glasses we found in a ghetto area where an elderly lady was moving from. Those just made my day!

random pictures...

Forget expensive butterfly kits

The kids have been playing with caterpillars that are yellow, black, and white for the past week then they started noticing chrysalis' hanging on trees, fences, and then one on our pineapple plant. These chrysalis' are green with shiny gold spots on them, when they turn black you can start to see the orange and black wings and you know it will just be a matter of hours before the are out. Trent spotted this one that had just hatched and was gnawing on it's empty shell. It was amazing to watch it up close since it wasn't afraid of us yet. We watched it flap it's wings a few times then it had two trial flights before it was off. Guess we will skip learning about butterflies when our homeschool curriculum tells us too. Butterfly metamorphosis, check. (By the way these pictures are in reverse order.)

Some husbands bring home the bacon. Mine brings home da fruit!

The fruit that grows here is amazing. We have to look up fruit online to figure out what you can eat and how to eat it. John has been bringing home huge mangoes, bananas, avocados, guava, passion fruit, starfruit, limes, and now all kinds of citrus and the bumpy green one is called a sugar apple. We were just told that we can go to this lady's "yard" (orchard) and pick whatever we want. So there is much research needed before picking more. John says there is even a cinnamon tree there. The fruit is definitely one reason why I chose Kauai and it's been so much fun trying it all with our kids. Sevan even requests guava, I have to confess that when she says guava it does sounds similar to how she says gecko so you definitely have to take location into deciphering her language.

Garage Sale finds for our new home

This chair was free I just had to recover it, Tay's head board was given to us, I bought the pink flower tablecloth for Tay's blanket, $1 poster already framed, old green dishes for quarters each, and a Le Creuset pan for $10. I look forward to every Saturday morning for garage sale'N.

La cooka rocha, la cooka rocha!

Sorry for not posting for the past few weeks but I always feel like I have to post a picture each time and my camera battery died for a while but I just received my charger so we will be back in business shortly.

Anywho, my mom sent the kids a science book about bugs and we received it yesterday. I started reading it about 5 minutes after John killed a GIANT cockroach and we weren't even sure where this giant landed except we knew that we had a leg. So in this bug book it has a little section that talks about cockroaches. "Hey honey listen to this info about that little critter that we think you got...they can live without water for a week, go a month without food, and survive a week without it's head." Yummy, I hope we got more than his leg and head