Updating on everything

Here's a brief update since the last post before Christmas:

* Well we had the Hutchison's down for Christmas and we got to meet the new addition to the family little Maddie who is incredibly cute.
* Regan celebrated her 25th birthday party as much as she could as Little Monty is developing into quite a pain in the butt even before he is out (update will follow).
* Steven has had an offer on Joe's business, were in a determining the numbers phase.
* The house.....oh the house well we were told before Christmas that the land would be ready before the end of the year (yeah right), I rang the real estate the other day for some info as 3/4 of the stage 1 has been developed but not our block yet. I was told that they had a 5 1/2- 6 week delay with Barwon Water at the start as they (Barwon) wanted to upgrade the pumping station from 100houses to 750house therefore more planning needed to be done - were they only working 1 day a week to delay for 6weeks. Then the developers had their 3 week break over Christmas so a 9 week delay in total. I was also told that we "SHOULD" get the titles in April quick calculation our house should be done by October...hopefully.
* Now Little Monty- at 20week scan showed abnormality with his kidneys and his bladder, we were sent up to the Womens in Melb for further scans and test. Had an amnio done not long after that, more scans, more scans, more scans results showing that we have a posterior urethral valve blockage causing swelling, scarring and blockages that get periodically relieved every now and then. More scans, more scans resulting in his bladder being drained twice with giant needles. I cant do anything for about 48hrs after each needle for risk or preterm labour or miscarriage. Next appt is scheduled for the 16th of Feb and talking to a Urologist from the Childrens to discuss procedures and what they might be doing after he is out, they wont let me go full term so they are looking at inducing me around the 32-34weeks gestation which really isnt that far as I'm 30weeks + 2days now (09/02/2010). I was told as 2nd last appt that they will keep him up there until he is full term definately but it may also depend on how he is going developmental and possible recovery from surgery wise.
So all of this has happened in the last 2 1/2 months and who says pregnancy is easy....
We will try to keep everyone update if not here possibly on facebook.
Cheers
Steven and Regan

A brief update

Its been some time since our last update.

Steven's now 29.
Regan is now 23 weeks along with Little Monty.
Some pipes have been dug in around our block, but we still have three trees that need to go.
Regan's best friends got married in September.
A lot of Christmas shopping has been done, with more still to be done.
We got a new car, fondly named Lawrence.
And we selected our colour boards for our house.
An old warship was sunk by the navy off Barwon Heads.

The order of events is a little out of whack and I am sure there are some that slipped my mind for the moment. But i though we should at least mention a few things that have happened recently.

Here are some pictures to keep everyone happy.

Oh, and some pizza got eaten.

Great News!!!!

We would like to announce that Steven an I are expecting a little bundle of joy our twosome will become a threesome. My EDD is around the 18th of April 2010, therefore I'm approx 12weeks yesterday. We got to see some scans today and they will be posted below. Obviously if your reading our house postings, you are prolly doing a quick calculation and yes we know, our house wont be ready by the time bub is due unfortunetly.

Our second scan done today was the combined first trimester combined screening test for downs syds and we found out that our child is incredibly stubborn and refused to co-operate with the technician. It did do a little dance, waved a little and hiccupped a couple of times but thats about it, he/she refused to get into position for the appropriate test therefore my belly got a bit of a work out being jiggled and poked to push the bub into position and make bub arch is back to the measurements. Finally they got one good enough 1/2 hr later. But all seems well, I need to contact my GP this week after Wednesday for the test results.

We will keep y'all posted

Yay!!!! We signed the house contracts

On the 26th september we journeyed to Altona to sign the contracts with Burbank. Didn't take long to sign everything, just had to sign multiple copies of everything, 1 for the builders and 1 for Burbank and 1 for us or something along those lines....maybe 1 was for the bank.....we just signed a lot of copies. So the house will take 260 days to build, though they have informed us that it more than likely wont take that long, they have just given themselves ample time incase of any delays they experience.
Now with the land....we were told that the releasing of the land (including sub-division) was to take place in September (hasn't happened), then the real estate informed Steven that they wanted to increase the water pumping station from 100 houses to 700 or something along those lines. So it was going to take a couple of weeks for that.
We got a phone call from Burbank last week saying that they had spoken to the real estate agent and now the release date is around December, and knowing builders/contractors will take off a month over Christmas therefore it wont be ready for a while yet.
Sigh.......... We will keep everyone updated of course

Update on the progress of our house

Well, were just waiting on the house contract to sign, which arrived today via mail, which is exciting. We will be signing them on Saturday at the Burbank HO in Altona in the arvo. We have already signed the contracts for the land and the pre-approval stuff for the loan so once we sign this house contract on sat, everything will be going ahead.
Super excited !!!!!

Murder.. Who dunnit????

On Sat the 18th July Steven and I hosted a muder party. Loads of fun and intrigued occured, had a full night of fun with an entree of mini quiches and main of roast pork with roast spuds and pumpkin, honey carrots and mixed vegies. Dessert was a minty choc mouse with creme de minthe liquor, though they really didnt set too well as there was a tad to much alcohol involved in the creating process.
Murder took place and it seems that the dead guy had a private physical the day of his death though I don't think it was very private as it seems that everyone at least saw the physical take place or were actually in room when it was being done (not very private at all!!!). Leigh turned out to be the killer (I wont say why incase others will do the same scenario) though it turned out the 98% of the players were going to kill the guy anyway they either had the motive but not the chance or had the perfect plan but it was too iffy and may going wrong. Still was lots of fun to play and were looking forward to the next one. Some pics from the night are below.


The Greedy Banker (Craig) and his wife the Socialite (Shannon) (far left).

Ponderings before the game each reading the rules and how to play the game.
The Embezzler (Matt) and the Porn Star (Theresa)
The Secretary (Beth) and the Killer!!!!!(Leigh)

Our House....errr Our Land

Here's an update on our block of land. We have signed the holding price for the land and the house and now have the bizzilion "Sign here" post-it tabs to sign next to now for the land contracts. Burbank are waiting on the contracts from the real estate and the pre-approval of the land from the bank. But other than that all is going along quite nicely.