Day 243 - Beauty And The Geek Party

The neighbours are having a themed party for Kev's 30th tonight, and Nathan was all excited to get dressed up. Admittedly once I realised it was based on The Big Bang Theory and not the reality TV show Beauty And The Geek I wanted to get dressed up too, but, it was way too late to organise something. 

Once Maddie and I came home to get Maddie to bed and so I could work I had to call Telstra for the third time today, and I still didn't get put through to a supervisor despite me asking repeatedly for one. They told me the problem was on our end, but my trusty tech help desk told me that they were wrong and Simon came around to fix it. Unfortunately people parked, not only in no stopping zones right under the signs, which is my pet peeve, but they also parked us in, IN OUR DRIVEWAY! To say I was cranky would be an understatement. Thankfully Nathan knew the guy so we got them move their car over so Simon could actually park legally to fix the net. Turns out he was right and all Telstra had to do, was reset the line, which made for a fourth call and despite requests I still was not put through to a supervisor. Not impressed with Telstra, and super worried about the Morgan's help desk leaving now, what will I do when I need late night techspertese?

Day 242 - Splash

After science time today I thought I would let Maddie cross the stepping stones on her own before we went around the gardens. We crossed it successfully on the way to class and I thought Maddie would be ok to try it on her own on the way back. She got to the next one after this, tried to go too fast and slipped into the water. Only one foot got wet, but it was the end of the world and made Maddie so cranky I had to take her shoes and tights off on the spot and then she demanded that I took her home. So much for my idea of having her turn around at the other end so I could get a photo of her face. 

Day 241 - Costume

Maddie's dance concert costume arrived today, and when Cass handed them out at the end of what was the craziest dance class ever, Maddie had to put it straight on. It is a super cute costume and I think Leah and Grace might have a little bit of costume envy. I am a little nervous about getting Maddie's hair into a high pony tail for the concert as its just so fine and most of it isn't long enough, I guess nothing that a can of hairspray cant fix. 

Day 240 - Water Feature

After all our painting work we have done recently I thought that I would have a look to see if this water feature would actually go with the new colours on the house. I am not convinced that it does go, nor am I sure that I want it on the deck like I had originally planned. There are just too many decisions these days, and apparently I can not make one.

Day 239 - LOCK UP

November 12, 2012 the holes were dug for the piers for the extension, August 27, 2013 our house is excitingly up to lock up stage. I am super excited to be able to walk into the extension and know that it is going to be part of our house soon enough, and we are going to have so much more space. The Merbau doors look awesome, Mark got such a bargain on all the windows and doors, its a shame that he couldn't use them down the coast, but an awesome bonus for us!

Maddie and I made a start on priming the cladding in the area that the deck is going into as I want the bottom rows painted before we have the deck added. Maddie was pretty happy to get to paint the bearer with all her 'animals' but was less impressed when I told her that all of the yellow needed to be covered. I love her little pose in this picture, it is too cute! 

Day 238 - The Last Of The Cladding

It was touch and go this morning, trying to work out if I had ordered enough weatherboard to finish the job seeing as we used a little bit of the outside of the house. Rob and I were sceptical that there was enough, but with his careful use of it, he managed to finish cladding the house with about one meter left over. This wall, went together quickly and he was able to get all of the eaves attached and finished off as well today which is super exciting. I can't believe how awesome the house is coming along, it looks totally different now.

I am glad we didn't attempt the cladding ourselves now, even if it did cost a fortune as there was so many little things that needed to be done in order to get it to all line up with the existing house.

Day 237 - A Lot Achieved

 While I primed and painted a wall of the extension today Maddie and Nathan dug the holes for the landing out the front. We have changed the design of the landing, making it a little bigger and removing the stairs, so it is all one height but goes out just as far as it would have with the stairs. Hopefully council wont make us submit another amendment to the D.A but at this stage one person is saying that they will need one, and another is saying that they will assess it when they come for the next inspection and let us know.








I think now that the cladding is painted, that you can really tell the difference between the old and new lot. I am hoping that by putting something over the join that it will become much less noticeable. It also doesn't help that painting over the old cladding, the paint seems to be glossier than over the newly primed weatherboard.

I am pretty happy with all that we have achieved this weekend, but I suspect Nathan is exhausted and probably needs a day off to rest.