They have arrived!

There is great excitement here as all our belongings from England have arrived with us today.  There seem to be hundreds of boxes, although I am pretty sure there is only the seventy that we shipped.  So far I have only opened a handful to get some toys out for the children.  No doubt we will work our way through them in the coming weeks.  Most of it will remain boxed up ready for when we move again!

It is raining today but yesterday was gorgeous and the sunset was amazing. 

Video footage

I thought it would be good to add some of the video footage from the Santa Parade at Lyndhurst on Saturday so here it is...

The celebrations have begun

Well the Christmas celebrations have really started now.  We went to Cataraqui mall on Friday night and saw a show with Bob the Builder and then Santa landed on the roof of the mall and came in to see the children.  It was very exciting and there was even fake snow falling from above!

On Saturday we went to Lyndhurst Santa parade.  It was great and Gracie and Mya were on the Sweets Corners school float.  The amount of effort everyone put in was amazing and the community spirit is fantastic!

The weather was absolutely perfect.  We all had our coats on but we could easily have gone without them.  It is hard to believe it is late November BUT snow is on the way.  It looks like we will have our first snowfall on Thursday this week.  Mick is out there as I type putting our new snow tires on the cars!





Our new home in Seeleys Bay

Well we are in our new home and everyone is settling in very well.  The house is about two and a half times the size of our little cottage and the views are breathtaking.

                                  

                                    

                                    

                        

                                    

                                    

                               

                                     

                                     

                                     

The children has started at Sweets Corners Public school and they are really enjoying it.  The bus journey is not even 15 minutes and it fetches them both at the end of the road.   Mya is now only part time so she will go two days some weeks and three other weeks.  She is not so tired now and enjoys being at home a little bit more.  Graice is full time of course but is making loads of friends and seems very happy.

This is our project trike.  It is not road legal but will be great fun for us all on our own land.

Halloween is a really big thing here.  Some of the houses are very well decorated for the occasion and some were so scary the children wouldn't go to them!  Gracie and Mya came home with absolutely loads of candy and they are still working their way through it.  People are very generous and love seeing the children all dressed up.

Now that we are in a proper house we are starting to look forward to our first Christmas here and even planning where the all important tree will go in our new home.

The foot.....well I have had the fibreglass cast off but the break has not healed yet.  I am in a new cast that I can take off at shower time so that is great - no more plastic bags and cling film and feeling like leftovers!  It is still very swollen and I will be xrayed again in four weeks to see if it is any better.  I am still not allowed to weight bare on it so getting around is still tricky.