Thank you, IRS!

Greg and I have been discussing what we would do with our tax return for months.  We debated about just putting it away in savings, buying bicycles, buying living room furniture, fund our honeymoon do-over, etc.  Well....  we had been furniture shopping a few time and found a sectional at Rooms to Go that we were in love with.  It was so comfortable!  We found it in February, and I have been thinking about it ever since then.  So, last week when I checked their website to stare at it for a while and it wasn't there...  I was DISTRAUGHT!  I told Greg that we had to go to the store immediately and order it because if we missed our chance because we couldn't make a decision I would be so sad.

Well......... we rushed over to Rooms to Go and the saleswoman that we had met with the previous times that we had visited walked up as we lounged on the couch.  She laughed and asked if we were ready to actually order it this time.  We were!

Now, Rooms to Go does the whole buy the room thing. The more pieces that you buy from the room the bigger the discount you get on each individual piece.  I really hated the chair that came with the couch, so we asked if we could substitute a different chair.  She asked her manager and she said that we could if it was a Cindy Crawford chair, so we began walking around the store sitting in all the chairs.  We found one!  I'm actually shocked that Greg agreed to it (it's kind of girly).

We are going to be the proud new owners of brand new living room furniture!  I'm so excited because everything that we've owned has been hand-me-downs from our wonderful family.  We are so thankful to have furniture that we got for free, but we are super excited about owning furniture that we love and picked out ourselves.  We will be donating our old couch and chair to a charity that is giving it to tornado victims here in the Raleigh- Durham area.  Hopefully someone will love it as much as we have for the past 4 years.

....... drum roll.........  Here it is!

I am not crazy about the throw pillows that come with it, but we are going to order pillows that match the chair in a few months.  We are getting the sectional and the ottoman.

Here is the chair!  I told you it was girly, but it's super comfortable!