It's just so tiring!

Matt decided to bring the fire truck for a spin thinking Jack would love it


.... and he did, but so much so it wore him out

A bit of a closer look at our firie


Must have been tough, didn't even know he'd been taken out of the truck. Let's just say we had one disappointed little boy when he woke up to realise the truck was gone. I think we will leave this job for those that know how to stay awake... It's all yours Sami, Jack a bit too young for Red Bull I'm afraid.

Grape Picking

Jack has decided to be rather helpful of late, while we worked hard and picked grapes as a tennis fundraiser, Jack decided he'd do his bit.... I believe taste testing is more his thing.


Hmmm I think you're slacking off guys, there's not many in here!



These aren't too bad

we're back.... for now:)

Ok, after going through some old reno photos, thought I'd refresh you all with what our house used to look like, and maybe if you're lucky some updated photos - is amazing to go through the old ones and see how far you've come and how much has changed. We are so forever grateful for the changes and renovations that have taken place. Consider ourselves truly blessed. Although for some reason I still can't find the maid that's meant to come with the building renovation contract. If you see her please let me know.

This was a greenhouse area I assume, leading to the garage.

As you know Pink is definitely Matt's colour,

sadly the photo doesn't quite show the prickly walls

A man's home is his castle

Good invention fly screens

After the removal and patching of a few bits and pieces, mid 2008

And the rest.... will be uploaded after I find the photos:)

Garden Guru

Well if Mum won't get out here and do the weeding, I'd suppose I'll have to.... Lucky I've got my safety gear on
Here's one for the Gardening Australia fans

Soil Testing Jack style - or should we say 'soil tasting'
the sheep poo is in perfect bite sized pieces

Renovator's Delight in Action

Check it out - After much waiting and thinking and planning (the longer it took, the larger the ideas became:) ), I arrived home today to see a lovely wrapped gift for Christmas (i'm assuming this may be all that happens prior to the big day.... we'll see)

The back room nicely wrapped ready for it's decorating.
Window's are in...

We've gone for mismatched grass as our paving selection, what do you think?

a view from the inside, getting exciting!!

So much for keeping things updated!!

After sitting around the dinner table last night at our 'traditional' sunday night tea at ma and pa's, have decided to reboot our blog - thought i started it years ago - turns out it was only last year - but funnily enough, my comment on 'i probably won't up date for a while' seems to have come true, because well over a year later am I updating things.

So here it is, our blog - in the next few weeks hopefully i'll get some photos up - we'll see how it goes!

Enjoy, or at the very least, have a laugh at our expense!

Welcome to our blog

Welcome!

We decided that because we are absolutely hopeless at emailing and sending things to keep in touch with what's happening we would create a blog - so you can check out what we've been up to. Mainly photos really - to keep our friends and family informed with what's been happening.

I don't really have a lot to add - and our page won't look pretty for a while either because i'm trying to create this at work - so you will just have to wait for photos and the sight to actually look decent.

News for us - I'm still working and loving it - have a multiage class and instead of having one class, i'm now teaching literacy for all of the students right through from year 1 to year 7. We'll see how it goes. Matt's been working hard on the farm, enjoying it - playing football again this year and having fun getting our house together. We're both enjoying the youth work we've been involved in with church and really feeling like it's what we're meant to be doing.

Anways, i will fill you in on updates in time to come. Hope all is well
Kara