Mr and Mrs Fairbrother 16th October 2010

They did it. They got married and everyone had a fantastic day!
Here's some of the images from the day - sorry they're in backwards order. I forgot that this site puts the images in reverse loading order - SILLY ME!

David and Peta Fairbrother

David and Peta, getting ready to cut the cake.

Dad, David, Peta and Mum

David and Peta

Peta's Family photo - Sorry Ann - every photo I have of you your blurry! You move to fast!

Peta and David during the ceremony

The celebrant, Peta and David

Emma, Peta and Jess

The wedding cake

The table settings. They made all the hats themselves and they were a awesome. Well done guys!

David - Blue Steel!

ME, Glen and Lisa.

Me and Glen

Simon and Lisa

Me, David and Lisa

Congratulations David and Peta. It was a great day and I'm sure everyone had fun.

It's Been A while....

It's been a while since our last post - Sorry. We've been busy. We've had a few visitors come and go and it's been lovely to see everyone... Sadly - i haven't been that great at taking photo's! OOPS!

So we've been in the house just over a month now and we love it! We've settled in really really well. We've been starting to plan how we can get all our stuff back up from Melbourne... It's been hard to get quotes to have stuff shipped when you can't actually remember what you have there... it's going to be like Christmas when we see all our stuff again.... I love presents!!!!

We also realised yesterday it was 5 months yesterday (06/10/10) that we will be getting married! The time has gone so fast. We've been so occupied with the house building and moving and all that stuff that we haven't really done too much - so now it's time to get a wriggle on and get some stuff decided!

Here's a few pictures for you to see what we have been up to in the last few weeks.

Remember when we were at frame stage and Glen laid all those cables for the internet? Well here that are now that the house is build. Glen has put the cables all together and labelled the patche panel ready to go in the cabinet.

Then on the other end of those cables were all the wall plates. We have 18 data points throughout the house with 2 of those being outside.... you just never know when you'll need to google something!

Glen putting the finishing touches on the communications cabinet. Then we neatened up the cables and put the modem in there too! All very neat and so high up that i can't get a picture of it all finished. You can't see it from the photo's but glens kneeling on the fridge to put this all up!

Then after we got all teh cables in and the wall plates in. The modem went in and it was time to test drive the computers and use the fast internet again... but then my machine died. Lucky i live with the computer tech.

So I explained to the technicians exactly what the problem was. They seemed not that interested and like they'd heard it all before.

They opened the machine up to get a better look and saw straight away what the issue was.

They explained the problem to me and told me they were going to need to call in a specialist. One with opposable thumbs for a bit of help!

The specialist was fast and efficient. He did his work under the watchful eye of my tech.

After they'd inspected his handy work it was time for the finishing touches.

I guess they're nearly finished at this point. There was alot of snorting and coughing so it must have been a little stinky in there.

Then i guess there was a part leftover. There usually is when you pull something apart and put it back together again. They assured me it would all be ok. And it's running much better now. Thanks Spike and Chewi - you're the best computer techs ever!

I also took a few pics this morning of all of our small furniture in our nice big house!

From the front door looking through to the kitchen.

All the kitchen and out bargain kitchen stool.

Out tiny dinning table in the family/meals area. Can't wait to get my 8 seater up here!

Laundry.

Master Bedroom

And that's it for the moment. We're heading down to Melbourne in the morning for my brothers wedding on the 16th of October. So I'll have lots more to update you on and more pictures when we get back.

We're in the house!

OK - so it's been a while since my last post but we've been REALLY busy, but it's all been worth it. Settlement went through on September the 1st, after much stress and running around on the day! Thank god Glen kept his cool, because I was starting to get very angry with people, so he took over and made it all come together!
So on September 1st we moved into the house. That night we took the mattresses there and slept the night. No curtains or anything but it was so nice to look out the bedroom window and see the stars.... the downside was that at 5am we were wide awake and getting cooked by the sun. But oh well... it was still pretty.... and OURS and the banks!

We forgot to take pictures of the actual moving day. We hired a budget truck on the 2nd of September and moved all our stuff in 2 truck loads. Nikki and Charlie were there to help us and we are so grateful. They were fantastic! After the move we put up the back fence and then did the front fences and we've now also put chicken wire up on one side attached to the neighbours fence. They've got medium size dogs and our little dogs fit through their fence gaps so we had to fill it in.
So fencing is done for the moment and we've unpacked all the important stuff. We still have a bit in the garage and the internet is getting connected at the house tomorrow. I promise to take some pics of the inside of the house with all our little furniture in there - it's pretty funny to see all our little stuff in such a huge house. I will try and post the pics of that over the weekend for everyone.

Since we've been in we've had lots of visitors which has been lovely to see everyone. Nikki and Charlie helped us with the move and the fence work. Charlie actually helped with the fence and Nikki and i set up the kitchen and rested... it was hard work watching those boys in the sun! Then Glens parents came up and arrived after a day of nothing but rain. So Ron dug a trench for us and directed away most of the water and Joan gave us sooooo many moving in gifts. We were very spoiled and I have now started sorting out all the containers the pantry is looking neat again! THANK YOU! Ron also helped Glen with the fences at the front and of course there was LOTS of drinking to be had! That's always fun.

Glen also had his birthday while his parents were visiting. We had a yummy meal and ice cream cake and of course more drinks! I should have been a better photographer and taken more pics. Silly me!

Glens parents left on Friday 10th September in the morning and we've had a few days in the house alone. We've noticed that there's so many hiding places in the house it takes ages to find each other to have a simple conversation! We've also set up the computer room ready for the internet to be connected tomorrow. We're both REALLY excited to finally have good internet again! YAY!

Today my sister and Dad are on their way up to spend a few days with us. They're driving up and are planning on arriving tomorrow evening. I'm excited to see them and show off all of our stuff... plus the belt on the mower has stretched and I need Dad to fix it! hahaha

We're also finally starting to look and plan ways that we can get our stuff up here from Melbourne. We might be hiring a container to bring everything up and we'll pack it when we're down for my little brothers wedding in October (not long to go now Dave)!

Relaxing in the Alfresco area watching the cows and the hills. It's so peaceful and incredibly relaxing watching the cows graze all day!

Spike found a new lap!

Then we decided it was time to mow. But the mower kept making funny sounds - turns out the belt has been stretched and we need to get a new one!

Then the boys decided to put up the front fences.

Glens supervising his dad and Brian! Good job boys!

And then it rained some more. But even in the rain - it's relaxing!

Nearly Finished!

So we went to check on the house on Saturday and the house is nearly fished.

There's a few bits and pieces that need to be completed. The tiler has to come back and finish the grouting. The brickie needed to put a few bricks back in place that the plumber had to remove for the pump for the spa and fix a gap that we found. I guess the painter needs to come back and touch up a few bits and pieces and then site clean and we're in! YAY!

We have some weird switch that controls the pump and turns it off and on or something. I think that might be Glens department!

The kitchen completed. We managed to get an extra power point in the dining area because one of the cables wasn't long enough so he put another double in next to it! Oh and can you see our stupid lights... they look like the bottom half of a ballerina poking out the roof! Don't worry. We'll be changing those over!

The carpeted master bedroom. Glen in the mirror in the en suite! You can also see the shelving in the robe. I asked for it lowered so i could actually reach stuff on the shelf so.

The lounge area.

Bushwalking 12/08/10

On Thursday 12th of August at 4.00AM a very good Family friend of mine passed away. Fay will always be remembered to me as the Grandma I never had. I'll miss her, but I hope that she's at peace and back in the arms of Bruce and happy again!

I was upset and had the day off work as I'd been up since 4AM when i got the call that she'd passed away and Glen just happened to have the day off as it was his Day off in Lieu of the Ekka public holiday.

I decided that i needed some peace so decided to head to the D'Aguilar State Forest and go for a walk. Here's some of the pictures we took along the way. I should also mention this forest is about 15 mins from our new house!

The view just before you enter the park.

WE went for a 1 K walk to Bulls Falls. We walked down, down, down and finally got to the falls and they were tiny.... not what we were expecting at all. While I frigged around with the camera and played with the settings, glen settled in with and apple and some rice crackers and waited patiently!

The Waterfall.

More Waterfall

and some more. Like i said it was much less spectacular than we were both imagining so I had to play with settings to make it seem more grand!

Then we went back to the Gantry car park for a toilet break and saw a few Kookaburra's. More pics below...

This is the remnants of the sawmill that was in use prior to the area being closed off and made a national park. You can see just how big teh mill was as you can see Glen at the far end standing in the middle. the roof was at least 5 or 6 Glens tall!

We then went on another 1 k walk called the Piccabeen trail. It's pretty flat and very picturesque.

piccabeen palms

An amazing fallen tree that was hollowed out.

There was so much Moss everywhere. It was so pretty and so different on different trees.