Tuesday, February 21, 2006


Well folks this is our new house!!!!!!!!! We really can't believe we got it and although it's a lot of money for us, we got it at an amazing cost, I'll write more in the next blog once we've got our heads around it all but basically we are moving house on 16th March so we'll be packing for the next few weeks and then never going out ever again....

The boys are great and now know when we drive past (which we do everyday on purpose) that the place we cruise past is their "new house".

I haven't got much in the way of piccies this week but I want you all to focus on our lovely new house anyway!

Have a great week and we'll do a proper blog next week.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Ok I know I'm late but I wanted to have some positive news and some photos but this will be a 2 part blog this week for reason's about to unfold....

Firstly - we sold our house!!!....... yeah....yeha.....yippee and all that. Got a great cash price but have been embroiled in legal nonsense for 2 days as the title of our property was missing one important piece of paper which is still missing and will be until the council can go to the depths of their archives and retrieve it by hand (this takes a few days apparently) but we have managed to agree that we don't care in the meantime (it only took 2 days and millions of lawyer dollars to sort that out) but we are now happily rich and homeless. We have 5 weeks to find somewhere to go but I'm sure we will....I don't want to think of the alternatives.

Secondly - Adrian has been in Nelson over the weekend working on the Nelson Opera in the Park. It is a wonderful gig for him and I hear it was fantastically lit with some very innovative lighting designed by my husband. I will update this with pickies now he's back and once we download the photos.

Well I will write more tomorrow and add pictures but I didn't want to leave the regulars without the latest news and for those of you who just look for pictures of the boys you will just have to wait....

Ok here's one of the boys eating watermelon - very messy but great fun


Happy valentines everyone X

Monday, February 06, 2006


Not giving too much away today on the house front as we might have some good news so you'll have to hold your breath on that one.....

Another long weekend this weekend (I love summer!) as it is Waitangi day today so it was a nice relaxing weekend. Adrian and I had a big night out separately on Saturday with our Neighbour's Hen and Stag nights which was great. I was reasonably well behaved and was home at midnight but Adrian arrived home at 3:30am so only managed 2 hours sleep before the boys woke him up and we had a busy day getting the house ready for the open home on Sunday afternoon - I won't say much but that he's definitely had better and more productive days!

The boys are great as usual, I recently taught them to say "Chill" with their hand up in front of their faces and when Adrian arrived home recently Thomas sat cooly saying "Chill Daddy, Chill" it was blooming hilarious. It's great now they know they are doing something funny and will really play up when we laugh at things they do (which is a lot!). We had lots of visitors this weekend so they boys have been practicing names, Jack managed a perfect "Jeremy" today which is a bit of a tricky one so I was impressed. Thomas has also learnt to jump and does it really well with both legs off the ground at the same time which is very clever, Jack still does the two step when he jumps but gives it plenty of wellie. Colours are also the big thing at the moment and we spend hours saying "orange car, blue shoe, brown teddy...and so on".