Interview with a six year old.....

Last week we had a little celebration in the house - Princess Maddy is now 6 going on 16!!!
Yes, she can be a little madam at times but mostly she's a little sweetie pie!
This year she has really blossomed at school and has become a little "superstar" in the classroom. She's so eager and keen to learn - its just so wonderful to see! She must take after her mother!!!


Here's a taste of life in 6 year old land!


What's your favourite food? cake, cake and more cake

What's your favourite toy? art supplies

Who's your best friend/s? Erin and Shay

What are you scared of? darkness

What's your favourite thing to do? art and crafts

What is your favorite movie/TV programme? Ice Age 4

What job would you like to have when you grow up? model and

chocolate maker

Isn't she beautiful?
xoxox

Ice skating fun!

Just when you thought you were in for another boring post about my beloved house!

We recently took the kids to the Winter Wonderland that had been set up in Fremantle. The kids had never been ice skating before so this was a new experience for them. Let's just say it was an interesting experience for the boys who were none too impressed with this "crazy activity". Maddy, on the other hand, just loved it!

She's a brave girl and wasn't afraid to give it her best shot even when it involved a couple of hard bumps on the ice. You'll notice that there aren't too many shots of Ross. He clung to the fencing for one trip around the arena and then decided he would not be pursuing an ice skating career any time in the near future.Gethin didn't fare much better, until we managed to get a cute little seal for him to be pushed around on and even them I had to do some serious negotiating to get him onto the thing.

Doesn't he look happy in the picture above?

Project house: Week 5

More walls up now! In fact the whole house is nearly done!

There's my front door again! Hope James wipes his feet!

Paul's room - the garage!

Theatre room entrance.

Inside the theatre room - this is one of the rooms that looks pretty small to me.

Passageway from the kid's toilet all the way down to the "granny flat" entrance. Wow - didn't realise that the passage was going to be soooooooo long!

Open plan area - lounge, dining room and kitchen.

Our bedroom with Paul and the Batt family admiring our view.

Project house: week 4

WARNING!!!!!! More house photos coming up!Feel free to log off if you've had enough of me posting crazy pictures of walls,bricks and door frames!

The walls are literally flying up at the moment - everytime we take our weekly drive down to our block I am truly astounded at the progress that has been made.

Here's a quick phot recap of the happenings this week.

A view of the main part of my parent's flat.

Mom and dad's bedroom.

The front door is in! Did I mention that I love my front door?

And the last two pics are of the front of the house.

Its crazy because at this stage of the build, Paul and I wander around the house saying, "Yikes these rooms look small!" But everyone who's built before reassures me that it only seems that way for now and that once all the walls are up and the roof is on it will seem bigger. I hope they're right!!!!

Project house: Week 3

Sorry for the photo overload but its the only way I can truly document this build! Plus its really exciting!!!
The picture below shows our front door frame! I just love my front door!!!! I think my family are already fed up of hearing how much I "adore" this door! But its really cool and the "wait for it" - it was free! (Well kinda free)

We now have internal walls with the laundry, kids bathroom & toilet, kids bedrooms and my parents study all done!

Outside view of where the alfresco will be, with a sliding door into the open plan dining room/lounge/kitchen. The middle window is the theatre room and the sliding door on the right is my parents lounge.

Top end of the passage looking at the doorways to the boys rooms.

Gethin's bedroom.

Passage way down to Maddy's room and the kids bathroom & toilet.

Laundry

Project house: week 2

WE HAVE WALLS!!!!!

And window frames!!!!!

Things are moving along at a rather rapid rate for now. I won't get too excited but we're really hoping to be in our new home for Christmas 2012! Fingers crossed that things will continue to move along smoothly!

Geth peeping out of Maddy's bedroom window.

Project house: week 1

I finally have some news on our build progress!
It was December when I last posted about our piece of land where we're going to build our dream home! Since then its been a long 6 months of waiting and red tape but I'm finally happy to announce that the "building" has now begun!
Its so exciting to see some concrete(excuse the pun)evidence of our house instead of little lines on pages and pages of plans. I swear they used a whole tree with the number of plans we've had through our mailbox.

And so, on Thursday, the 28th of June our slab went down. We went down on the weekend and with much excitement we explored the layout of our new house!

Here are the kids standing in their new rooms! Don't you just love the minimalistic decor!

And my mom in her section

Paul and I in the master suite.....

and last but not least a pic taken from the back of our block with Paul standing in the distance at our front entrance!

Exciting stuff!!!!