New House

Well we've finally moved into our very own house. woo hoo,. And even better, its finally starting to look like home. We've pretty much got the top level of the house unpacked, just got to sort out how to fit all our clothes into the tiny little wardrobe in our bedroom - and the top level will be done. The bottom level however still looks like a bomb went off, boxes and junk everywhere, so that's what I get to do this week. As you saw in the last post, Andy managed to wrangle a trip to Atlanta the week after we moved in and managed to miss the majority of the packing - I'm sure he secretly organises it that way, that's the third time now that hes left just when we're in the middle of moving, though really I can't complain too much, at least this way I know where everything is put, if Andy tried to help Id' never be able to find anything. Tee hee! Lexie however we definitely a big help......not.....heres a quick video of her helping me unpack the kitchen. And now here are a quick tour of the place... We'll start down the road at the pond. As you can see Autumn has really set in over here and its absolutely beautiful. And this is our road. Taken standing in our front yard And the front of the house. Don't worry we have an Aussie flag which we're going to put up as well. Looking in the front door. Its a split level so you go up five stairs to the main part of the house or down stairs to the guest room and family room. Standing at the top of the stairs looking into the main living room. The view out the living room window Looking from the living room into the dining room Through the dining room The sun room off the dining room...As you can see this is being used as Lexie's play room. From the play room out onto the deck And looking out over the back yard From the dining room into the kitchen The Kitchen leads back out into the hall down the hallway. The first door on the right is the bathroom and that's all the piccies I have at the moment (do I hear a few sighs of relief - sorry to bore you all but I just thought I'd share), the rest of a house was a mess so I refused to take photos of it, I'll post photos of those rooms later when I've got the rooms cleaned up, but to give you the layout of the place, the first door on the left is the study, and the second door in the right is Lexie's room and our room is the doorway at the end of the hall. Downstairs is a guest bedroom and the family room along with a second toilet and the laundry/utility room and finally the garage. And now what other news. Well its getting closer to Halloween over here and the decorations are all up around town. We stopped into our local farm yesterday and bought ourselves a couple of pumpkins. We've carved one of them and I reckon he looks pretty cool. Not a lot else happening. We've been on lots of spending sprees trying to get everything we need for the house, went out a bought a rake and a broom to try and clear the leaves off the driveway and lawn. but well, this is what it looked like 1 day after we raked... yes there is a driveway under there. Lexie had fun playing in all the leaves - right up the point where she got savaged by mozzies, she now has mozzie bites all over her head, poor girl. On other Lexie news she now has five teeth, another one has come through on the bottom, and shes also learnt how to clap, I've got a great video of here clapping along to "If your happy and you know it" but it needs some editing before I can add it. But anyway I think that's enough for one post, I'll add more later. Mel I know you asked for a video of Lexie crawling I'll try and get one tomorrow.