The Reynoldz

We were out for a bit and the wind shifted instantly and all of a sudden we got a bone chilling gust of southerly wind from the Antarctic. Brrrrr.. We packed up and went inside. It sure was fun while it lasted! =)

Over the weekend the girls and I decorated the house for Halloween! Our container of Halloween decorations was one of the items that PaPa and Grandma Jo helped us ship over earlier this year. We are practically the only house in the neighborhood with Halloween decorations and we have had fun with them. Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Halloween....

Home Renovations*******************************

I heard scurrying in the roof when I woke up the other day and thought with dread,.. "oh nooo we must have rats in the attic." It turns out we have a bird making her own home renovations in the corner of our roof..... Eric is not too happy, but I will take a bird over a rat any day... =)

Now to give you a bathroom update (this would be day 16 if you are counting)

We STILL do not have a functioning bathtub/shower in our house. It is a pain but we have survived. During the week the girls and I have used the showers at the swimming pool and Eric has been showering at work.

I was able to bring our dirty clothes to a drop off laundry so we now have clean clothes. (this was really cool, you drop off your clothes, come back a day later and receive them back clean and folded.. I could get used to that =)

Our good friends Nicola and Ian returned from their 7 week trip back to the UK last Thursday. Even though Nicola was jet lagged to the gills, she offered to have the girls come over to play at her house on Saturday so we could get some work done on the bathroom. Since Eric works at his "other job" during the week he did not get as much renovating done as he had hoped. So he was totally THRILLED with Nicola's offer to have the girls!

It IS amazing what you can get done without kids. =)

In about 5 hours we were able to install insulation, drywall on the ceiling and 3 of the walls!

When I picked up the girls Nicola offered to let me use their shower (which was great because I was the one installing the itching insulation) and to top it all off she had prepared a take away dinner for us to enjoy back at home! What a friend!!
We did get some work done during the week. We had the electrician in to finish off the RCD/GCFI sockets. While we had the wall exposed and he was available. We had him prepare the electrical for our future kitchen renovation. (I hope it was smart thinking on our part =)
The cement board is now up and we are ready for the plumber to run the water for the tub. He will be coming over this week sometime.

So things are SLOWLY moving along, we still need to sort out what we are going to do with our bathroom windows. Eric had a builder come over on Sunday to pick his brain about what can be done. The builder lives in the neighborhood and kindly offered to come over to give Eric some advice.

While he was over we found out that he was the guy who actually updated the bathroom that we just demolished.... oops..

To make small talk Eric asked the builder about who he was "rooting for" during the world cup rugby finals. (The world cup Rugby finals were Sunday morning..) Not a big deal right?? but

ROOT - to have sex. A warning to folk from the USA! - A female visitor from the US has this to say... My first time in NZ I made the unfortunate mistake of listing off my hobbies to a family that had me over for tea.... among my hobbies? "I like to root for the football team!" (one of the boys said, "What, the WHOLE team??")

Hee hee.. Double oops.. =)

Have a great day everyone!