Long time no blog

Wow, look how time has gotten gotten away from me!

Well I have been extremely busy. So whats new with us??? Not only have we just moved into the beautiful house we were building but I'm also 26 weeks pregnant with our second daughter.

The house move has been mostly smooth sailing and we were blessed with husbanditos superintendent at work deciding that he should take a whole swing off work for the move, this has meant that we get to have him here for a whole month block! At first when he rang to tell me that he had a whole month off I must admit I was a little put out...I mean a whole month 24/7 with your husband when your both not working is a long long time. But it has been fantastic in reality, we have managed to get a heap done with moving in, and now he has been here long enough for me to feel really comfortable in the house, so Im not worried about not having him here when he heads back to work. It also meant that I can have  a 'house holiday' as I call it, this is me pretty much telling him to make all the phone calls about house, seeing that in the weeks leading up to settlement I single handily had to do the lot with the house...from every phone call to the builders, gas and electrical companies, hanging around a freezing cold house while the blinds get put in, and so on and so on....

Something else exciting that has happened to our family is the arrival of an unexpected new family member...Bessie the maltese shit-zu terror pup. At the moment we are house training her, which is still a little hit and miss. just when i think she has got it, we seem to take 2 steps backwards! But i guess persistence is the key. Lucky she's so cute!


Now the pregnancy.......I think this topic is worthy of it's known blog piece. :)

home sweet home

not long now until the block of land we are buying settles and it is officially all ours! two weeks to be exact.  but even more exciting is that this means that our first home will be being built in the very very near future.  not even two months ago we were just starting toy with the idea of actually taking the plunge and buying a established house, now we are literately about a month off starting to watch our home be built. it all seemed to happen in a whirlwind when husbandito came home for a month brake, we thought we would start by having chat with an aussie home loans broker, which lead to us applying for a pre approval , that meant we could start having a look around, which turned into making a few phones calls. then all of a sudden on a thursday afternoon we were meeting with a lady from  a big building company, and by saturday morning we were signing on with them and signing our paper work for our very own 950sq meters of australia. it all happened so very fast, but it also so easily, and smooth that it all just felt so right!. 


last week we spent the day at 'gallery' picking out all the colours for tiles, carpet, benches, bricks, and more. it was the first step in actually feeling like we are making a home for our family. as much fun as it was it was also so draining, we were being asked hundreds of questions about what we wanted, and a lot of the time we had no idea that we had to even think about what shape we wanted this, and what colour we wanted that. I had only really thought about my new kitchen in detail, and hadn't really given things like the mortar or whether i cared if you could see the pipe from the toilet a thought.  I guess we are a very lucky couple though and have almost identical tastes in colours, because the colour selection was a breeze, everything i liked so did husbandito, and vice verser. I really didn't have an opinion about the bricks and colour bond roof colours, and i knew husbandito had thought more about it so i just let him pick our outside colours, what a good wife i am. our electrical consult was also easy, but probably the most expensive part of the day, it amazing how they know that you will need power points in a certain part of the house so they don't put them in as standard so you have to put extras in which cost you an arm and a leg, but on well, what are you going to do??
i was actually very surprised that the hardest decision we had to make on the day was whether  we wanted to have a round basin and bath in the bathroom or a square one...yep the tough life decisions!    

some of the colours we chose for our new home

So now i've loaded myself up with house magazines and started planning the decorating side of things.  I'm an absolute lover of having vision boards so i'm dying to get the scissors out and start cutting and pasting all these beautiful pictures i am finding! fun and i'm sure frustrating times are ahead!!!