Long time coming

Many of you have asked "Where are some pics of your house?" Well here are some finally. As well as pics of our new dog.

We have been in the house for about a month now and we feel so blessed. The house is perfect for us and the neighborhood is nearly ideal in feel and location. We have easy access to a road that leads out of town for both of our jobs. I wouldn't call it a commute really, driving through farmland and nice residential neighborhoods with very little traffic if any. We have easy access to the city center, the hills for hiking and biking, and our church is 2 minutes way. We can actually see the church steeple from our dining room windows. It's great. We have a little lot, but not too little. The lawn takes me about 15 minutes to mow with a manual push mower. Charisa has loads of flowers, trees, and shrubs to take care of though. I get the better end of the deal for sure. But the yard is gorgeous. We have not idea what 80% of the plants are though, just that they all seem to bloom and are beautiful.

The first two pics are of our backyard. Sitting enjoying the sun is Lydie. We lived with her and her boyfriend, Vincent, back in our original Kiwi abode, the infamous sleepout on Manhire Street. Her and Vincent went and spent three months in Australia. She is back in NZ for 6 weeks and Vincent returned to France. Lydie is staying with us for 3 weeks until her family arrives and then they will tour the country together. After that Lydie will return to France as well.




These next two are of the front of the house. It's hard to see the whole house from the street because of all the trees and plants in our yard. And our supply of heat, wood, sits there in our driveway.



Below is the looking across our street and down our street toward the Port Hills. The Avon River is also at the bottom of our street. It's little, so hard to see.


On Saturday we adopted a dog from the pound. We think he is a crazy mix of a Staffordshire terrier (similar to a pit bull) and a greyhound. He is so friendly. He just wants to be around us and that's it. It can be hard to walk around the house at times because he'll be tagging along so close. We think he has been trained already, because he woke us up last night to let him outside to relieve himself and sits on command really well. We dig him. And we named him Henry. We had to put a name down on paperwork when adopted and Charisa threw out Henry and it just stuck and fit him. So now we have a dog and eight outdoor goldfish.

And this is Henry playing dead. He so wants to be close to you it is hard to get him to stay still for a picture.

And some closeups.