All moved in!

Here are our "current" pics - was going to call them the finished product but we are by no means finished! (we're not even half started!)


Upstairs view from outside the balcony - looking on to the block where we take the dogs to wee if it's too muddy to have them outside :)Lunchtime on about day 4 ... looking very weary but still loving the house!

Master bedroom still with crap to put away (yes we always put ourselves last!)

Special thanks to Dad for building and starting the vegie garden for me as we were unloading the truck, I finally planted it yesterday. Looking forward to having the crops this time! (that's a running joke - i never ever get to have any of my own crops for reasons beyond my control - we always move out before they fruit - so now that we're in this house, I'm probably testing the waters but I figure what's a house without a vegie garden?? - I'm doing it anyway!)

View of outside from my kitchen window

View of kitchen window

My very sexy cooker! She cooks so beautifully!

View of kitchen from the side.

View of kitchen from middle of lounge (yes those lights are going shortly - i hate them!)

Jessie crapped on the floor yesterday at around 6am so I was NOT HAPPY and they can stay out for as long as it takes for her to get some brownie points. The dogs aren't too thrilled about their current outside arrangement...

Meals area and alfresco

The home theatre (the guitar hero room) - this one is a work in progress, we will be getting another telly apparently and damn it this couch has to go!

Mummy's lounge room (one side)

Other side

Powder room from toilet side

My laundry

Damon's room part 1

Damon's room part 2

Boys bathroom part 1

Boys bathroom part 2

Boys bathroom part 3

Jake's room part 1

Jake's room part 2

Bay's room part 1

Bay's room part 2

Upstairs lounge and study nook

Our 24 hour view of the front door (yes the cat is ALWAYS there wanting to come in)

Ensuite part 1

Ensuite part 2

The mountain of boxes (this was only part of it!)

My lovely kitchen

New fridge and freezer, and the door to my "office" (pantry!) where the secret family meetings are held.

Anyone want some mud??

Hubby says: "We're not in Kansas anymore"

Ha ha ha.

Anyway, on Friday morning we let the dogs out to wee as normal, and they decided to trample in the mud in the most glorious fashion, so they stayed outside all day (which didn't bother them, they huddled around the fence and barked non stop all day long ...)

(apologies to the neighbours)

We let them in after tea time, they had crusts of mud all over their legs and bellies, and they had a bath. Then we decided the tactic for them to go to the toilet would be to walk them across the road to the vacant block - which worked much better!

Mick whipper snippered on the weekend so that the dogs didn't have to leap "meaty-bites" style over the grass, and the yard is so substantial compared to what we are used to, he was COVERED in grass and weed. Some of the weeds resembled trees, the trunks were that thick!

Our crossover was poured today, so YAY but bad news - it's meant to rain for the rest of the week, so no more concrete until the concreter comes back from holidays (unless we get no rain - but i doubt it)

So bummer, no driveway yet, which means no visitors, but is that really a bummer? We can do gardening!

This weekend I've decided we're putting some crushed rock out the back around the washing line so that the dogs no longer have mud to walk in (and then that's the remainder of the landing for the washing line) Wonder if I will actually get it done...

Moving in ... part one...

Our first day of owning this house was tarnished by the shittiest weather we have seen in a long time. It rained all weekend, and the ground had just started to dry when we took our first load there on Monday.
Mick was adamant that the weather report said it wouldn't rain on Monday, despite my vision of us standing in torrential rain spreading crushed rock (had that vision on Saturday morning at 5.30am)
So here he stands spreading some rock so I can get up the driveway to help him.
We managed to keep the house clean and look forward to going there tonight with the rest of our little loads.
The kitchen is almost set up, and ready for action :)

Truck day on Thursday.

Today the blinds went in, and the driveway was cut out. It should be boxed tomorrow and poured on Thursday with any luck (read: if the bloody rain doesn't come back)
Today is the most glorious sunshiney day, I'm so pissed that we didn't have a specific date from the concreter as then we wouldn't have had to commit to moving with the truck on Thursday, so we would have been able to rest up for another week - would have also come in handy as I got Gastro on Thursday (YIKES) and spent until sunday arvo doubled over in pain (and on the toilet)
TMI - probably. I'll just leave it there.

We're getting the keys on Monday!

Howdy,
Well PCI has come and gone, without a hitch at all - Carlisle are easily the most stress and hassle free builder we've ever dealt with (out of three major builders, that's a good rap!)
We had a couple of issues with our PCI and the supervisor (who is a total legend by way of organisation!) had already booked these items in for replacing and fixing - so we really had no issues whatsoever to come of it.
We're booked in to settle on Monday. :) We're going straight there to seal the grout straight afterwards, then will start moving in our crap.
Fences are going up on Monday, Blinds are going in on Tuesday morning, and on Thursday it is truck day. The antennas will be connected, and then the fridge and freezer will be delivered, and we'll sleep there for the first night.
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
And I have a few days off work to help us move.
Damo and Jake will have their first day at Werribee Primary on the following monday, we're not yet nervous about this but I know it will come. I've taken Monday off work also, just in case ... but I think that a friday night bath with red wine and hubby will be wonderful, and can't wait till Monday to see if I can actually cook and not feel alien in my new kitchen :)
(and hopefully if I haven't done so by then, I can get the vegies started!)
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