Good morning everyone! Since my last post a lot has happened. David and I broke our lease, house hunted, killed 100 bugs, fell in love with an amazing community within Ko’Olina, applied for a new house within said community, signed a new lease, ate 20 poke bowls, got a sun burn, ran out of coffee and peanut butter, realized once again how lucky we are to have one another, started shopping for a golf cart and beach cruisers, and lost a few pounds. I’d call it a successful week.

You know the sayings “everything happens for a reason,” or “the silver lining…” or “what’s meant to be will be”….well yeah, I agree with all of that (and thank you Mommy for being my mommy and being the best one in the whole wide world…I miss you). We can’t play God but we have to have faith that everything will work out because we all know that it always does. This is not to say David and I are completely out of the woods on the issues we’ve been facing with our original home…we are now going through every single preventative measure to make sure we don’t take any lovely little buggies to our new house, but we are feeling SO MUCH RELIEF. Not just to be out of a neighborhood we couldn’t fall in love with, or away from the bug issues, but because we truly feel that this was all part of a greater plan to help us find the perfect home and community.

WE ARE SO EXCITED YOU GUYS!

A bit about where we’ve moved: Ko’Olina…in Hawaiian this means place of joy. How fitting! Our new home is a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath, 1264sf, plus a nice 2 car garage, a yard with a patio, space for puppies, and amazing palm trees which David cannot get over. The landscaping leading to our front door is absolutely gorgeous (photos to come). The community is clean, safe and inviting. Ko’Olina is a golf and resort community. Hence the obvious need for a golf cart and beach cruisers to ride around to the 5 LAGOONS just down the street from us. There’s some nice restaurants, a marina to take excursions from, the Paradise Cove luau is right down the street. The Disney Aulani is about a mile down. I can’t contain my excitement…just want to be there already! We will either finish moving today or tomorrow and then it’s about furniture placement, organizing, and just settling in to finally just be.

I can’t wait to host our guests! We definitely upgraded in part for you guys!

We will post some photos shortly once we get a bit settled. Videos also to come! 🙂

We finally moved into our place last Wednesday…and back out yesterday. >_< We were the lucky recipients of a zoo of bugs in our home. The good news is that it’s being taken care of, and I feel lucky to have such amazing people working for the community we’ve chosen to call home. We moved back into the corporate suite here and will most likely be here for 3 weeks. The silver lining to this is that we don’t have to pay for any utilities for the next 3 weeks, so that’s nice. Free AC, woohoo!

The property management company has to go through a process to clear our home of the many residents it has over the next 3 weeks and  do weekly cleaning so when we move back in we’re totally comfortable. We will still have access to go in and out whenever we want, stay there, etc., but we prefer to stay at the suite and just head to the house to get things we may need, build furniture, etc., until the dust settles. #paradiseproblems

Here’s a sneak peak of the house featuring Kunu, our Hawaiian sea turtle…

Can’t wait to get fully moved in and show you all the place!!
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We have been truly enjoying ourselves in Hawaii. Saturday night we treated ourselves to a yummy dinner at Monkeypod in Ko’Olina. We got a great table upstairs on the big outdoor covered patio and had a great spot for listening to the live music coming from down below. Sunday we woke up and hung out for a while before heading over to Wet n Wild water park. We rode 5 tandem slides, took a loop around the lazy river, and got tossed around a bit in the wave pool. Our good friends Lori & Marie gave us season passes, so we will be spending a decent amount of them there as it’s just a few miles from our house! We love it!