A Brief update on what we’re up to.

• We’re still trying to sort out the finance for the new house.
• We had to move out of the house we were renting because it was sold.
• Our very nice friends and ex-next-door-neighbors have let us stay in there holiday home for a few weeks. It’s in Burliegh Heads about an hour south from the house we are buying.
• We are hoping, yet again, to hear back from the mortgage lenders early this week.
• As soon as the finance is approved we can get the keys and move in, so we’ll hopefully be in by the end of this week.

Failing that we will be probably giving up and renting again for a while, before having another stab at getting on this crazy property ladder.

I may be bald and/or grey by then.

This video is a few weeks old now, but I thought I’d put it up anyway.

Since I took this Grace has started to crawl and is now cruising around the house, army style. I’ve got a clip of her crawling, but I might not get a chance to put it up with all the house moving going on.

We’re still waiting to hear if we got the finance approved. Think we’re going to have to put our stuff into storage for a week or two.

The house buying is not going as smoothly as we’d hoped, but I suppose there is a reason why people say it’s one of the most stressful things you can ever do.

We’ll keep you posted on any news, good or bad as we find out ourselves.

Everything else is going well. Ella and Grace are getting bigger and smarter everyday. Ella’s just had her second birthday and thanks everyone that sent her presents. We bought her (amongst other things) a tricycle.

There’s some new photos up on flickr, and after many months of trying I’ve finally gotten my video camera talking to my computer. We took lots of film this weekend, so expect some new videos on the site soon.

I’ve also been messing around with a program called Moviestorm that you can basically make your own animated movies with. I’m just learning how to use it at the moment, you can see my first attempt above. It’s a video for one of my songs ‘Only You’.

Enjoy.

We didn’t end up going for the house in Meadowbrook, it just wasn’t right for us.

I took the day off work yesterday and we looked at a few more houses and we ended up putting an offer in on this one.

We do have one other option with this one, but we basically have 2 days now to have an offer accepted.

Wish us luck.

Well, the house hunting is underway. We looked at 4 houses on Saturday and one caught our eye.

You can see it in the picture here and there’s a link to all its details here.

We’re going to have another look at it tonight with the real estate agent.

What do you guys think?