Lachie, Jacob & Fletchie do a bit of colouring after a busy day at the zoo

This weekend I was busy....cleaning the house! What a drag. Some people made an appointment to come through Saturday afternoon. So I spent Saturday morning getting it all looking tidy and then took the boys to the playground - the weather started off bad but turned beautiful.

Sunday after church I did some more tidying jobs as we had an Open Home at 3pm. The weather was iffy, so I was pleased to come home and find that five groups of people had been through!! Of course, more importantly is whether any of those people want to buy it...I am catching up with the agent this afternoon to find out.

Lachie is at Starlights this morning - me and Fletcher dropped him off and then went to do some odd jobs in town. Here is a picture of Lachie - I took it on Saturday after we got home from the park. I guess he just couldn't decide which car to take to bed, so he took them all!

How quickly the week goes by! But we have been keeping busy. Poor Lachie was sick after daycare on Wednesday so I was busy cleaning that up in the afternoon.

Yesterday we had a great day, we went up to Lake Rotoma for the day. It was Poppa's 86th birthday so he was there too. The boys enjoyed playing with Grandad and had good naps in the afternoon. I went for a walk around the beautiful lake while they slept. We drove home with Poppa at about 5pm. I never seem to do stuff like that during the week - for some reason I never think I have the time!

Just been for a nice walk up to the store. On the way back I stopped to chat to the neighbour, they have put their house on the market today. Their place is a little bigger so they are not 'competition' I shouldn't think. But hopefully it will bring people through our place!

OK, what I need you to do is start at the bottom of this post - look at all the pictures & their captions, and then come back to this paragraph.

The boys are in bed after a busy morning at Karen's for coffee group. Abby showed up with her beautiful Fijian sun tan! As always it was great to catch up with everyone.

Jamie headed off to Trentham/Wellington on Sunday night. He stayed at a friend's place Rotorua on Sunday night so that he didn't have to get up so early Monday morning. We seem to be keeping busy here at home without him.

You can see from the pictures what we did Sunday afternoon....

Nothing much else is happening on the house front - we seem to be getting people through but that is all!

Anyway enjoy the pictures and I shall try to post again soon!

Lachie didn't want to go on the train but he did want to play at the park. It was shorts & sandals weather! I need to go and get him another pair of sandals because he has grown out of these.

After church we went to the River Edge Park & Miniature Train. I took Fletcher for a ride on the train. He was a weeny bit scared as it was quite loud. After the train ride we went to the park - Fletchie loves a swing!

Lachie had a great day yesterday, at Starlights in the morning and then to play with Ben & Zac briefly in the afternoon.

Fletcher now has all four teeth on top - they just need to grow full size.

Me & the boys playing before bed, a few nights ago. That's a shape sorter on our heads.

Last week Jamie bought a new mountain bike off a guy from work. He's gone for a ride over to Ohope via Burma Road, to try it out. (We sold his old one thru' an ad in the Beacon - it sold in about 2 hours and we had lots of calls about it over last weekend and even thru' the week!)

Lachie went to stay with his Nana and Grandad yesterday so it's pretty quiet around our place. This morning Me Jamie & Fletcher went for a drive over to Ohope.

We had two lots of people through the house yesterday but nothing to get excited about. I don't know what happened with the people who came through twice last weekend.

Its a really beautiful day here today - and warm! So hopefully we will get out for a walk later.

I hope you enjoy that photos, the first in a while. Ben and Zac were here briefly on Monday afternoon which is when I snapped Ben & Fletcher.

Its been a quiet week - no news on the house front. Just been up to the usuals!

You gotta watch this

where was I....?

OK, yes some people did come through the house today so lucky I went and tidied up when I did. While they were here I went down and caught up with Sarah & Zac. At 12pm I picked up Lachie from Starlights and he is still at Zac's playing.

This morning we discovered a cat that had been under our house for a few days. A couple of nights ago I heard a cat meowing and thought, "I bet that cat is under our house", but then by morning I had forgotten about it. Yesterday afternoon when we got home from Lake Rotoma, we heard it under the deck. We have no idea how it got under there. Anyway, Jamie fished him out this morning. Fortunately, he had a collar on with his name, address & phone number. He was Oscar, all the way from 61 James St (we are 224), so he went on quite a hike! He had been missing from his place for about two weeks. Lachie kept calling him "Poscar" which I think was a combination of "Puss Puss", "Oscar" and "Priska" - who is one of his carers at Starlights!

Lastly, yesterday I went to an open day at Port Ohope, a bunch of new sections have come on the market. Where would you buy - Coastlands or Port Ohope?? Leave me a comment or drop me a line!

Well it's been a week, where do I begin??

The latest drama was that the contract on our house fell over on Friday (the 7th). The girl who wanted it unfortunately couldn't get the finance. However, that disappointment was blunted by the fact that we had two people lined up to come through for a look, at the same time as we found out it was not going unconditional.

So we had another lady through on Saturday morning and she came back with her man yesterday afternoon.

Anyway, I've just had a call that some one else wants to come through this morning, so I better go tidy up in case that does happen. More later!

Monday Monday

I'm sure I have entitled many a post with that, but however.

Lovely sunny day.
Boys in bed.
Breakfast dishes done.
Grocery shopping done.
Laundry done.
Just got to get ready for dinner!

Just taking a moment to check things on the compooter. We had a good weekend. Saturday morning I went to the Ohope Craft Market with Abby, which was fun. Then I had my sister-in-law's baby shower at 12pm so that took up most of the afternoon.

We had an open home yesterday afternoon but I suspect nothing will come of that - the girl who has the contract on it came through with her pals, a single lady, and another couple. Apparently the couple thought it a little small and the single lady didn't say much at all (apart from that it was a nice place, of course).

This morning I went and did the groceries at 8am - before Lachie went to Starlights. I thought I did pretty well considering I left my shopping list at home!!

Have a good day!

We got a conditional offer on our house yesterday. So that's pretty cool. But I think I am experiencing a bit of "seller's remorse"..! All going to plan it will be unconditional on 7 September.

And that's all I have to say about that!

Its been a busy weekend!

Saturday morning we went up to Joseph's for his first birthday party. So it was fun to catch up with friends there. During the party, I got a call from our real estate agent and we set up a time for people to view our house at 4.30pm. So we came home around 12pm, put the boys down for their naps and tidied the place up! I took the boys and Zac to the park during the viewing. Anyway the people stayed for ages and the agent said it went very well. We will hear exactly how well tomorrow - whether they make an offer or not! Meantime, we got another call this afternoon and have someone else coming for a look at 10am Monday!!

Me and Jamie are now all "Bourne-d Out". We want to go and see The Bourne Ultimatum, so we decided we had better rent the first two out so we know what is going on. We had to get The Bourne Identity on VHS! The lady at the store asked Jamie "do you still have a video player?". Hmmm...anyway we might get to the flicks this week.

This afternoon me and Lachie went to the Wintersons as it is Zac's 4th birthday today. Lachie had a great time playing with all the trains and I had a great time gas bagging to Sarah & Gaynoll. Jamie wasn't feeling very well so he stayed home with Fletcher - sounds like the two of them slept the afternoon away!

Hopefully I will have more news on the house front tomorrow night! Have a great week.

On the Market

We listed our house for sale this week.

Click here if you want to see the real estate agent's page on the Web.

We would like to buy a section and build a new house. So we will see how that pans out. Of course I will keep you posted. The house was listed Wednesday morning and we in fact had someone through that afternoon. But I don't think anything will come of that - the agent said they were just seeing what their money could buy here in town. It sure was a nice way to kick things off! We are not having an open home this weekend, but next. I do not know how I am going to keep the place tidy enough - and I think we need to do a bit more tidying up over the weekend!

Jamie's gone fishing today....me and the boys went for lunch at the Rose Gardens, a play at the playground and a few jobs in town. The unfortunate thing about this particular stage we are in is that Fletcher has a morning and afternoon nap, while Lachie only has an afternoon nap. So by the time we got out the door at 11.15am, after Fletcher's nap, Lachie has started to head downhill and we have only 2 hours before we have to be home for his nap. I imagine in another 6 - 8 months they will both be napping around the same time.