Playing House

Although Eric & I are both a little older than the "normal newly-weds", neither of us had a lot furniture to bring to the marriage. Our landlord gave us a Lazy-boy Recliner couch (not the most comfortable, but it works!) and we are so grateful! Then, a coworker of mine sold us a Lazy-boy Rocker/Recliner for $40. It's a chocolate brown and it's in excellent condition. I'm confident he could have sold it for a lot more than that, so I feel very blessed he was so generous. Both the couch and the recliner are the same material, just different colors - they go together well!

Tonight we purchased our dining room table and chairs, and it's a fun story. We registered at JC Penney for our wedding, and we ended up with a lot of gift cards (thanks to everyone who helped with that). We've spent a little of the money, but weren't quite sure how to spend the balance. On another note, we've been looking for a kitchen table set since we're currently using a card table and folding chairs. Our kitchen is too small now to have an actual table, but since we're moving soon we thought we should get a real table. We've looked at IKEA, through the classifieds, Target, and RC Willey. We haven't fallen in love with anything until tonight! We looked on the JCPenney website and found this:

We noticed it was on sale, and there was also a free shipping offer. We decided to order it. We had to go to the store to buy it since we were using 6 gift cards. We didn't know exactly how much we had, and we figured we'd have to pay a small balance. The cashier started processing the gift cards and guess what? We had the EXACT amount - minus a PENNY. ONE PENNY!! We knew it was meant to be! We are excited to set it up in a new place soon.

Although it's taking us time to get our home set up, we're having fun "playing house" and building our home together!