Today we signed a contract to purchase a section at Omega Place, Coastlands.

Here is a shot of the 'beach access' sign at the end of the street. And the walkway is completed concreted. How marvellous.

This is a view of the street from the beach end. Our section is up the back on the right, if you look very carefully you can see a "Ray White" real estate sign on it. Will let you know how things progress.

After church on Sunday and after the boys had had 'naps' we drove over to the beach for an icy treat.

Lachlan pretends to be grumpy

Fletcher on his First Birthday!

Isn't he lovely? I must say I am taking lots of pictures of him lately because of his cuteness. I'm pleased about that 'cos they say the second child doesn't have nearly as many photos as the first.
As for the day, we had coffee group as usual with all his wee friends - although he did sleep through much of the party! Then at 12.3opm we picked up Grandma from the airport to spend a few days in Whakatane!

Yipee, my computer is back in AKSHON!

The computer guy took it Tuesday and it was back today (Friday) afternoon. Not bad. He replaced the video card and installed some ethernet thingee. Which is great because surfing the net is so much better - I used to connect using the USB thingee, which wasn't very reliable.

This morning I dropped my boys and their great-grandfather at Ann's place, and went to the Home and Garden show in Rotorua. It was OK - nothing to write home about though. And then I went and bought a new skirt from the House of G. A denim one - perfect for summer!

The other news is that our house went unconditional yesterday (Thursday)! Yay. We got a nice hamper from Harcourts for our trouble. I have already eaten the chocolate! And so the purchase of a section begins in earnest....

Have a good weekend everyone. I shall try and take some pictures and post them soon.

PS. I have now been blogging for one year!

A Post from work

Hi all

I am just posting at work - my first check on the computer in a while. I called the computer guy to our house yesterday and he took it away to be repaired. We were having major computer issues so I thought I'd better get it sorted. So that is why I have not emailed or blogged!

We made an offer on a house at Ohope last week but we couldn't pay the price they wanted. Fortunately we've changed our minds back to building, so we're not too upset about it! We are meeting with a builder tomorrow to discuss.....our house should go unconditional (or not!) tomorrow.

We are investigating where to go next - if a police house isn't available, we may ask if the new owner will rent our house to us!

Back to work..

Havelock North

Hello from Mum & Dad's. Jamie arrived home Friday night. We had a busy Saturday - Jamie trimmed the hedge and mowed the lawn. We went to an Open Home and then to visit our new niece, Chelsea Mary-ann Kerr born last Wednesday. She is lovely! So tiny.

We had a great time Saturday night with all the Kerrs at our place for a slap-up dinner.

The car was packed up yesterday afternoon and we left Whakatane at about 6pm on our way to Mum & Dad's. We did have a few stops but made good time.

Have a good week!

Its been a busy Saturday morning for me mowing the lawn. I must say that I am very proud of my efforts - I think I did a better job than the guy from Jim's Mowing who did it last week and the week before.

Lachie is having a sleep - we enjoyed Abby & Grant's hospitality last night, and though I put him to bed there, he didn't go to sleep. 9.30pm is pretty late for a two year old!

In other news, we signed another contract on our house on Wednesday. It will be a few more weeks until we know whether it is unconditional. Meantime I am daydreaming about our new one!

A Weekend Away

Me and the boys got back from four days in Auckland on Tuesday night.

We stayed with Stephanie and Jacob and had an awesome time.

Saturday morning we caught up with Auntie Nicole and went out to breakfast and then to the playground. After that we hit the mall and did some shopping - I made a few purchases with store credits I had!

Late Sunday morning we headed to the zoo. I was excited to take Lachie as he is a bit older than the last trip and could appreciate it more. And indeed he did! He was very pleased to see the giraffes but then got a bit upset when we saw the rhino and the elephant. But he soon warmed up to the elephants and it was no problems after that. The highlight though, was probably the monkeys zipping around the trees.

The other highlight of the trip was having St Pierre's sushi not once, but three times. Can't beat it!

So a big thank you to Stephanie and Jacob for looking after us so well! Looking forward to doing it again. Enjoy the pix.

Lachie warms up to the elephants

Fletcher relaxes in the stroller during our lunch break

Me & Fletchie look at the kangaroo!

Lachie enjoys a popsicle at the end of the visit to the zoo. Fletcher ate mine!

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!