We have a HOUSE!!!!

These front stairs will be rotten for the movers!!! EEK!

taken from across the street (different angle)

Back yard - there is a grassy area on the other side of the hedges and a little play house for the kids.

We're so excited we found a house....again!!!! This time it's for real! ;) The owners have already moved out, so we KNOW we won't have to house hunt again!! We're so excited and will be ready for visitors!! We will get some inside pictures up when we can get the keys and get inside. :) We will be able to move in Sept. 1st - I'm REALLY looking forward to it! I can't wait until our stuff gets here and we can start getting settled in.

Dressing up!

When you have a lack of toys around, you get very creative! Grace and Lance were playing "dress up" and it looks like Lance is going to school!! :) Ha! I thought it was funny!!

Sydney's Chinatown

Entering Chinatown! We had one of the best chinese dinners here EVER! Yum!YUM!

A ride on the Ferris Wheel

overlooking the Darling Harbor

overlooking a Chinese Garden

In the ferris wheel!

There's a HUGE Ferris Wheel in Sydney that we decided to try. It's another way to see some sights from way up high. It's completely enclosed. The kids thought it was really fun!

Dugong Tank

The Dugong eating some lettuce!

Last weekend in Sydney, we realized we had missed one of the exhibits at the Aquarium, so we went back to see that one (good thing for the season passes we bought!) It was the Dugong tank (also known as a Manatee!) The mermaid is one of the Lego exhibits in front of the Dugongs.

Last Sunday in Sydney

Some fun by a fountain

We're over by Darling Harbor - there was a boat show last weekend, hence all the boats behind them! It was a beautiful day!! Reminder: it IS winter over here right now - I LOVE it!!

Week #3 update

Not much has happened this past week, so I thought I would recap our week a little. Grace seems to be settling into school a little more. Things seem to be a little more "familiar" this week compared to last, so that's good. We've been praying that she finds another friend like her friends back in Ohio. I know, over time, she will.

We're still waiting on our air frieght - yes, STILL! We have been living out of our luggage that we brought over ourselves these past 3 weeks. We're very anxious to get the things we thought we would be getting within 1 week of arriving in Australia. I definitely would have packed differently had I known it would be 3 weeks! It'll be a big announcement when it arrives!!

We have a car for me in the works, so that's exciting! I'll post as soon as it's final - yeah!! We're also VERY close to our house being final!! I will post pictures, etc. as well as soon as it's final - don't want to jinx anything - ha!

Last weekend we went into Sydney after church again. We walked around Darling Harbor and rode the huge enclosed Ferris Wheel - the kids thought it was great! We walked over to Chinatown and had dinner there. It was another really fun day!
That's it in a nutshell - big news to come!