the joys of moving

Well i got some good news this morning, our application for the house was accepted and we sign the lease on Monday and get the keys Friday....

So next weekend we are shifting Darian's house and then some time before the 24 we will be shifting my house...2 houses to pack and move and then clean.....yukk...

I am so sick of moving, however the house is much bigger. It has a covered patio out the back so the kids can get out and play, double lock up garage with automatic door....huge kitchen (no dishwasher :( )...4 bed 2 bath and 2 living areas with aircon....and hopefully I can get broadband....

I am having to send my cats to Jenni as it is no pets...very sad but I know they will be in good hands...we will be getting fish instead.

It is a bit closer to the girls school so I just have to psych my self up for some pretty busy weeks...

A busy time ahead

Well our flights are booked and paid for, we are leaving early August and spending the month in South Africa. Not sure when the wedding will be as the church is yet to be booked.

As if thats not exciting enough we will be spending a night at the Shamwari game reserve, this includes 2 guided game drives (one in the morning and one in the evening) and I get to wake up to the lions roaring (I hope).....

It costs a fortune but it is going to be once in a life time experience...

We are staying in the tented lodge....shown here

At the moment we are also looking to move, my lease is up at the end of may and I am sick of looking at houses already. We applied for a nice one yesterday and are just waiting for a reply....

wish us luck.....

A nice surprise

yesterday morning while we were having brekkie there was a knock on the door and in walked Aunty Jenni and Uncle Dave....there was a high pitched scream from the girls.

They were on a quick trip over for a wedding and came for a flying visit.

They stayed for lunch and after a teary goodbye from the girls they were off, but not before some photos....

An Easter Getaway

I know its a bit late, being a week since easter weekend started but you know how it gets...
I dropped the girls off at their dads Thursday night, they were very excited as it was going to be the first time they saw their new baby brother...he was sooooo tiny...6lb.... I said good bye and went home and packed the car so we could be ready to leave as soon as Darian got to my house from work...

We left about 6ish and I knew Donnelly River is about 3 1/2 hours from Perth so 4 from us if you don't count peak hour. We got down there about 10 ish which wasn't bad...we set the cot up and put Matthew to bed as he didn't sleep much on the way down..

The next morning Matthew was up bright and early feeding the kangaroos with Kendall, Kim and Elisha. We then went out and fed all the 28 parrots that came to be fed sunflower seeds. We all went for a walk and lounged around. The weather was perfect.

We booked the flying fox and all had a turn on that, which was great fun. Matthew went down with Darian.

Saturday we drove to Pemberton for a look as Eric, Dianne and the kids hadn't been before and I was going to show them the Gloucester Tree....$10 per car to look at a big tree, no one was game to climb it. Eric and Dianne decided to look around Pemberton I thought since we were so close we would drop in on Mum.

It was only 30km away and we found her house with no trouble, she was surprised to see us but as we had the key to the house we couldn't stay long.

Sunday Morning we woke up and the easter bunny had been, no only that it was freezing cold and raining..brrr...Luke and Matthew had a egg hunt inside and we all spent a lazy day lounging around. That night we had a BBQ and the kids had some fun with sparklers.

Monday morning came too fast as we had to pack up and hit the road before the traffic got too bad. I think we went through about 10 speed traps on the way home, but we got home safe and sound.

I then went and picked up the girls who I missed like crazy....