Girlie Stuff

Dad is away this weekend so we get to do girlie stuff with mum and her friends.  

First we went shopping at DFO and then we had lunch together.  It was so much fun wandering around the shops and laughing together. 

When we got home we made mum and dad's bedroom look really pretty.  

Their new bed arrived yesterday so now they don't have to sleep on the couch any more.  (If they put all of their stuff away in the cupboards now, they will finally be finished after the renovations up top!)

I wonder if mum will notice if I sleep in the new bed?

Love Princess George

More Furniture

Last night some friends came over for dinner, but before we could have dinner, we had to make the table and chairs that had arrived earlier in the day.

Just as the grown-ups finished building, it began to rain so we ate inside.  It didn't really matter, it was fun having people over for dinner and I am sure we will use our new outdoor furniture heaps.

Love Princess George

The Happiest Day of the Year

Apparently, according to dad, Grand Final Day is the happiest day of the year.  That is the whole reason that we have been living in a crazy construction zone for the past few weeks.  He even thinks that it is better than Christmas, especially when he gets presents.

Look at dad's happiest day of the year present - the gigantic TV to go out the back!

Now that we have such a fantastic yard (and house too), we can have great parties at our house, check it out...

There is plenty of room to sit and relax.

As well as stadium seating to watch the game.

We all get to go and play half-time heroes.

And then wander back to watch the end of the game.

Yeah, dad might be right.  Grand final day could be the happiest day of the year!

Love AJ Pickle

Water Play

The sun is shining so what better thing to do than go to the beach.  

Now that I am feeling heaps better it was great being out in the sunshine and splashing in the water.  We even caught some sea monkeys in a bucket.  It was a great day.  

Our first beach trip for the season was heaps of fun, but the fun didn't stop at the beach.  When we got home, our backyard was finished and we could fill the hot tub.

This time tomorrow and we should be in the hot tub relaxing, I can't wait.

Love AJ Pickle

Good Morning

Well the rest of the carpet was laid yesterday but we didn't have time to get any furniture moved to the right rooms before we went to bed.  Apparently there was too much stuff and it was all really heavy.  Instead of sleeping in our new bedrooms, we had to sleep in mum and dad's study room.  If mum and dad slept, it must have been on the couch downstairs.

Look what we woke to this morning,

Milla's fairy garden room.

AJ's game room

Our new bedrooms are fantastic, we can't wait until we move in.

Love AJ and Milla

Progress

Mum and dad were really busy the other night.  They moved ALL the furniture from the top floor to anywhere else they could fit it.  They had to move everything so that carpet could be laid upstairs.  Then last night they had to move everything off the middle floor so that carpet could be laid there too.

Look, the kids study is all ready for new carpet.

But look at how much stuff ended up downstairs!

The fun part will be getting everything back to where it is supposed to go ready for the 'happiest day of the year'.

It is a good thing that we will be sleeping through all of the furniture moving and cleaning up!

Love AJ and Milla

Hot Tub

Look, there is a builder IN our hot tub!

Isn't it great that Simon is so good at building.  I can't wait until everything is finished and I can actually swim in the hot tub!

Love Princess George

Another Mess Update

Well our house and yard are starting to look amazing, the only problem is that they aren't finished yet so there is still mess everywhere...

The deck and the storage seat are there but the rest of the yard has to be built.

The giant cupboard in mum and dad's room is painted but waiting for shelves to be built.

Everything has been moved to the study ready for carpet to be laid upstairs.

How will I ever find all of my treasures?

Love Princess George

Jump for Joy

Can you believe that only yesterday I couldn't even walk in the backyard?  Well look now...

Isn't it amazing!  Now I can run and jump and have heaps of fun in my new backyard.

I wonder when it will be finished?

Love AJ Pickle

Where Did the Yard Go?

Hmmmm, we have nowhere to play inside because there is mess everywhere with walls being built and furniture in crazy places.  

Now we can't even go outside to play!

Do you think that we will ever be able to play outside again?

Love Princess George

Spring Clean

Spring is here and it is time to Spring clean, but we can't yet, there is too much mess.  Now there is a giant mess inside the house AND outside too!

This is in the corner of our bedroom, it used to be where our beds were but eventually it will be mum and dad's study area.

Outside the backyard is a gigantic clay-pit.  There are a few holes in the yard ready for the deck stumps to go in, but now it is just a place for us to play and make more mess.

Renovating is messy!

Love AJ and Milla

Changes

Well by now, everyone knows that we are changing our house around and things are kind of crazy.  We have been sleeping in the blue room (soon to be AJ's room) for a while because our room was filled with insulation fluff, sawdust and plaster.  

Last night we decided to sleep at Sharn's house for a little holiday.  When we got home, I was hoping that some of the house would be back to normal, instead it is even more crazy.  

My bike is inside, and the barbeque and all sorts of other things are in strange places.  I can't even sit at the table because there is so much stuff around it.  Perhaps now I will get to eat dinner on the couch.

We went out to birthday parties all afternoon and when we got back, the backyard had changed too!

Now it looks like we have a crazy beach or sandpit in a timber yard instead of a backyard!

I wonder what else will change when I am not looking.

Love Princess George

In the Cupboard

Well apparently no wild animals are coming to live in our bedroom.  It isn't even going to be our bedroom for much longer.  Soon mum and dad will move back upstairs and they will kick us out.  We will have to go back and live on the middle floor - IN OUR OWN BEDROOMS!  Can you believe that!

The place that we thought was a cage for a wild animal is really mum and dad's new cupboard.  

Look how big it is, I mean how many clothes do they think they own!  The cupboard is so big that I think that I could live there!

As well as having a gigantic cupboard in the room, mum and dad have also got their own study in their bedroom.  Does that mean that we get to keep the study in the middle floor all for the kids.

Love AJ Pickle

Walls

Oh no, now we can't run round and round and round the house.  Look there is a wall blocking the way!

I will have to find a new way to escape when AJ is chasing me!

Love Princess George

The Cage

Look what we found when we got home from school today!

There is a cage in our bedroom.  I wonder who will get to live in the cage?  Will it be me, AJ or a wild creature?  Who knows, I can't wait to find out.

Love Princess George

Making a Mess

Well earlyish in the morning a builder is coming to our house to build some new walls.  Before he can start, we had to move some stuff out of the way in our bedroom.  

Instead of our room looking like this, 

now it looks like this!

I wonder what it will look like next week?

Love AJ Pickle

Spas and Sandpits

Do you remember, a long time ago, when we started to fix our backyard?  Way back in January, the spa was moved so we would have more room to play?  

Well not much has happened since then, but finally we had the spa fixed so at least we could have 'big baths' again!

The best thing about having the spa fixed, other than being able to swim everyday, is that now we have our very own sandpit!  Dad had to take out one of the pavers to level part of the spa and he found a sand pit underneath it - Hooray!

Even if the yard doesn't get fixed for ages, it is heaps of fun to play in now!

Love Princess George

What the Heck!

We went upstairs for only a few minutes, when we came downstairs look what we found...

I hope that mum and dad can find someone to fix the backyard some time soon.

Love AJ Pickle