Local Wildlife

Here are some pictures of the local animals that we have seen so far.  God is amazing in His variety of creatures on this Earth!


Australian Ringneck Parrot on Our Fence

Lizard on the House

Galah Cockatoo on Power Line Over Driveway

Crested Pigeon in our Front Yard

Black-footed Wallaby with Joey Peeking Out

Picture Catch-up

Simpson's Gap with Pools

Rocky Crags on Beautiful Australian Mountains

Kids Running in Dry Riverbed to River Gum Tree

Beaux and Jones Rock Jumping

Kings and Queen of the Rock (Simpson's Gap)

Gecko in the Bedroom

Last night we had our first gecko in the house!  It happened to be in Beaux's bedroom and looked orange when we first saw it, but quickly changed to a muted gray/brown mottle to escape on the carpet...fruitlessly, of course when we have a veteran lizard catcher in our midst!!  Trent caught it in the air when it jumped off the bedside table.  We put it in a container for a few minutes and had a good look before letting it go outside near our porch light to feast!  It had splayed "fingers" with little round grippys and the start of a new tail, so must have recently had another dangerous run-in.  We have heard that if you let them live inside, they can make a bit of a mess down the walls and on the furniture.  Don't mind them outside though! 
Saturday we tried some of the local lawn sales, but have to say we were not impressed.  Each house had only a few items for sale, nothing was priced, and the hours were very strange!  We didn't even get to a couple of the sales in the paper because they were only open from 7:30-9:30 am.  Crazy!
Then it was pool time in the afternoon, so spent a few hours at the Aquatic Centre in town.  This time the kids got to try the waterslides, which was very fun, but they shut them down after only 20 minutes or so due to staffing issues.  Sigh.  We still had fun, but they wished and wished to waterslide.
Sunday was church at Alice Springs Baptist Church, which was very nice again and we got to talk to lots of people.  They have a coffee/tea time after church in the Hall, and they are quite friendly and make us feel at home.  We even found a couple that was from Idaho/Ohio!  The kids went to Sunday School (which is during 'Big Church') for the first time, and I think they had a good time.  The boys went with Beaux, but we found out afterward that they have a class for their age so next time they'll try that one.  One of the ladies was telling me that at Christmas, you can buy artificial lit trees from Kmart or Target, and that people decorate with snowmen and winter-type decor, even though it is the middle of hot, hot summer!  I am glad they sell trees of some kind, because we didn't bring one.  Can hardly imagine blow-up snowglobes on lawns when it is 115 degrees outside, though!
Then in the afternoon there was a Newcomers Welcome at a very nice home, for all the new employees and their families.  They had a patch of grass (real grass!) for all the kids to play on so it was fun to see our kids jump right in and play games and run around with about 20 other kids for a while.  We talked to lots of people who are all in similar situations to ourselves, living on bare bones for a while waiting for the surface shipment of household goods to arrive.  It was interesting to see what other people have been doing with their time so far...mostly day trips or weekend trips to the interesting sites in the area.  I guess there are accomodations in hotels, dorm style housing, caravan (trailers) or tent camping at many of the popular tourist sites, so people are able to stay overnight at some of these places even before household goods arrive if they are willing to pay to stay in the hotel or dorm style.  We did hear about a few waterholes to hike to and swim in, so we may try that soon.
Next Saturday we will be heading to Ruby Gap on an adventure, 4-wheel driving and hiking around a bit with some of Trent's friends from work.  We will have to pack water and food with us as it is quite a drive, so will be an all day trek!  We missed not doing any "Australia" outings this weekend, so looking forward to next!
Have I already mentioned that in traffic, "Give Way" signs mean yield?  Also, the speed limit signs are white with the number of speed limit with a red circle around it.  It looks very much like our highway number signs in the US.  "Conserve" is jam, and Black Current and Plum are very popular in flavor.  "Capsicum" is red pepper.  "The tap" is the faucet or spigot.  We are finding that Australian foods are much lower in salt than our American tongues are used to, so we have to salt everything here! 
Love to all,
Hilary

More like home

Yesterday marked an important day in the settling process - we received our first delivery of household goods!  Most of what we got was kitchen stuff, computer stuff and linens.  This is one of the things we wish we would have done differently in hindsight.  We were under the impression that we had to give our "welcome kit" back as soon as we received our first shipment of household goods; however, we don't really have a deadline for that, except that the in town services folks would like their stuff back soon after we receive our final shipment.  This being the case, we would probably have packed kids toys, bikes and school stuff for the first shipment.  But alas! We can't change it now!  No, but seriously folks, we'll be just fine.  The boxes and packing paper have actually doubled as play things for the kids the last couple of days.  The extra bedroom is now the "Paper Room"...I don't believe we need to expound on that subject...you can visualize!


Flynn's Grave - Early explorer to the Red Centre
(central Australia). Largly responsible for the Lutheran
presence in Alice.

Saturday we went to a company picnic and met some folks we hadn't met.  Some people were camping overnight, but we just went for the evening.  We brought our dinner and they had a bouncy castle for the kids.  There were also a few swings and a sand volleyball pit or two.  When we first pulled up, the kids were a bit shell shocked because the bouncy castle wasn't up yet and there were very few non-adult types running around... they got over it as soon as the castle went up.  One of the air tubes for filling the BC popped open shortly after all of the kids got in, and it collapsed on them.  All of the grown-ups were brought back to reality with a mass amount of children screaming!  I ran over and tied off the tube that blew and the castle came up again.  Most of the kids were just asking what happened and thought it was great!
We visited Alice Springs Baptist Church on Sunday and everyone seemed to like it pretty well.  We met some really nice people and the kids made some friends, so are very excited to go back next week.  They will try the Junior Church next Sunday, will all be in the same class.  The preacher is actually an American from Seattle who just came two weeks ago!!  We were kinda looking forward to hearing an Australian speaker every Sunday...ha, ha!  The main homeschool contact that we corresponded with before moving actually attends the church as well, so we accidentally met her and talked with her and her husband for some time (not much about homeshooling though!).


McDonnell Ranges (similar view from our house)

We went hiking again at the telegraph station on a different trail that led to an old cemetary.  The kids are actually pretty interested in old graves and how old the people were etc.  We saw quite a few more kangaroos, and they were very close up.  One of them actually got up and hopped between us - I was trying to fit a camera lens and Hilary and the kids walked ahead a little and the roo just decided we were too close and got up and hopped across the trail between us.  The kids are loath to leave the house but always have great fun and actually love hiking and especially climbing on rocks.

Simpsons Gap

This evening we walked down our street (Memorial Ave) to the cemetary and looked at quite a few graves there.  Lots of very old graves and young people.  They have it all divided by church, a couple areas were Church of England, one area was Lutheran and the area that had only a couple of graves was, you guessed it, non-denominational.  We did see the grave of "the most" famous Aboriginal artist.  His name is very long and I can't remember it.  We'll try to get a picture.  We did find that there are "goat heads" here very similar but different from Idaho goat heads.  Our shoes were covered in them!
Well, that is about all I have for now.  Sunglasses are called "Sunnies" here.  Chickens are "Chook".  Hilary and the kids have checked out some kids books from the library, and it is funny how many of them use specific spider species like "Red Back" or "Huntsman" in the stories.  In the US, it seems like spiders are generic.  Tic Tac Toe is "Naughts and Crosses".  Hilary bought "fine polenta" to make corn bread last night.  Graham crackers are "digestive biscuits".  "No worries" means you're welcome/goodbye (usually).

Trent

A few more pics

Beaux and Hilary on flight to Sydney



Trent and Jones on flight to Sydney

Jax on flight to Sydney

Our first Kangaroo sighting

Posting Comments

I know some of you were having trouble posting comments.  I changed the settings so that you don't have to have a Google account to post.  Sorry for that!  This blogging stuff is new to us and that setting slipped through!

Trent

Treasure!

Well, not "treasure" in the strictest sense...but in the shining eyes of the six and eight year olds of my close acquaintance...A veritable eureka!  Of course, I am referring to the daily walks I force my kids to take to learn our way around the area and to get some exercise.  We've been taking these neighborhood walks almost every day since we arrived in Alice Springs and now Beaux, Jones and Jax are actually looking forward to them!  They have a much better endurance now and we are spurred on continually by, "Keep going, there might be more treasures up ahead!"  My children are expert treasure finders on walks.  Most people walk with their heads up, looking around at interesting things around them, nodding to neighbors, that kind of thing.  We are heads-down hunters for valuable objects we might be passing on the ground.  Serious business.  Backpacks are donned before we head out the door so we can fill them up with "treasures!"  Some of the great items found so far:  money (we have probably found close to a dollar in coins!), bits of metal, tools, toy cars, screws, bolts, marbles, ribbons, lighters (only one of them works), a picture frame...you get the idea.  It is actually very fun to see what the kids think is a treasure and what they do with it when they get home.  Today they had a sit down trading session after our walk that must have lasted a half hour!  They are mostly inventing things with their finds.  Geniuses!

Another treasure we acquired yesterday were our library cards!  The kids and I found the library (it is downtown, so we drove), got some cards and some books.  The librarian helped me request some books on local plants/animals so we will know what we are looking at around here, so I am excited for those to come in.  Things here in Alice are much more high tech than I thought they would be!  The library has the self check out system, but you can put a pile of 5 books on the counter and it can see all of them and checks them out to your account!  They have downloadable e-books to request online and lots of other online features.  The audio books are called "Spoken Word." 

Funny how we just want to play, but we have to do regular life too.  Grocery shopping was a two day affair.  Not only are the products and prices all different than we are used to, the shopping carts have 4-wheel drive (this does not make driving one easier...and they are "trolleys" not shopping carts, don't forget), the people walk on the left side of the aisle (you know, similar to the driving!!), there are truancy officers that take the children's names down since they are not in school (we are not in trouble, since I explained our situation, but yikes), various people have to go potty, the only open line is with the new checkout girl who takes FOREVER to bag (with our remembered recycled bags) the groceries and insists on putting chips and bread and fruit where it is most likely to get squashed.  Not a nightmare exactly, but not pleasant.  Now, the freezer is full and the cupboards are not bare, so we should be good for a bit.

We got a message that our air shipment is in the country and going through Customs now, so we should get it by Sept. 17th-ish.  This will be a fairly small shipment, but has our bedding and kitchen items at least, so it's a help!

There are at least two lizards living on our house and I managed to get a picture of them today for Trent...They usually are out during the day when he is at work, but are fairly skittish, so run back under the roof trim when we come around.  They are little and greyish and I hope they are getting fat by eating all our bugs and spiders!!



Beaux, Jones and Jax climbing at Simpson Gap

Say 'Hello' to Jax and Jones

We hiked a bit last weekend in the Standley Chasm/Simpson Gap area.  Hiking the actual Chasm costs $25, so we didn't do that this time, but went up a dry rocky riverbed back up the road a bit.  It was very fun, but a bit hot and the hike was 17 km, so we didn't do the whole thing to see what was at the end of it.  Jones got pinched by a big black ant that got on his arm from a bush, but that was the only injury.  There was a Red River Gum tree growing that was leaking red sap on the ground that looked like blood drops...kinda creepy.  Then we drove back to Simpson Gap and the kids ran and climbed and slid on rocks.  It is a beautiful walk up to these steep cliffs and there is a gap between them where water runs through when it is the rainy season, but now there is just a pool.  There was an eagle calling and flying up at the top of the cliffs and there were two wallabies scampering a bit on some rocks.  Those things are almost impossible to see, their camoflage is that good!




Trent was told that there are about three weeks left of "good camping weather."  It is getting very cold at night here still, so I can only suppose that after it gets warm, it is too buggy or too hot to do much rugged camping.  I guess people here get "swags" which are sleeping bags with built-in mattresses that have a flap to cover your head, so you can just drive out to the bush, slap your swag down in a dry riverbed and sleep under the stars.  Trent asked a co-worker if spiders and snakes try to get in the sleeping bag, and the co-worker said, "Oh, you just don't go where they are."   WHAT??!  That is not the sort of camping we will be doing.  Our tent is coming at least, and we will have to find campgrounds with water...

The Alice Springs Aquatic Centre is a very nice pool (indoor and outdoor), and the kids are very excited about getting our membership there as soon as possible!  We have to drive there, but it will be a fun active thing we can do year round.  I believe we will go Saturday for the first time.  We will try to get the kids enrolled in swim lessons there at some point as well.  Fun stuff!

Well, time to wrap up.  There is no "left-turn on red" here like we have "right-turn on red" in the States.  We saw kangaroo tails in the freezer section of the neighborhood grocery store.  Aussies call electrical outlets "power points" and "fair dinkum" means genuine, or the real thing.  They do have Sultana Bran here however (Raisin Bran), so no worries!  We are learning tons over here, but miss our family and friends very much! 

Hilary

Kangaroos and Wallabies

I’ll never get used to the fact that we are going to bed on the day you guys are starting!  It’s like living in the future/time travel… 

Well, we have lived for a whole week in Australia and are really still enjoying every day!  Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we aren’t just on vacation, but we’ve moved to another country.  Most people you meet and talk to are Australian, but there are lots of Americans too, as well as Indian and Asian.  The Aboriginal people are everywhere in town, as well as sitting in groups out in the bush.  I haven’t seen any “anti-social” behavior as such yet.  There was a young aboriginal boy playing at the park this morning and was indicating that he liked a dog that was running around, but he didn’t seem to speak English.   

Let’s see…Trent has been picked up by the bus now for work and that is working out just fine.  There is a “govy” that shares his bus stop (a government worker) so they can meet up and chat until the bus comes.  It is pretty cold in the mornings and evenings (sweatshirts and pants), but in the afternoon the sun is just so direct and warms you up very quickly.  We did buy a car this week (and returned the rental car)!  It is a 2001 Landrover Discovery II, silver, with lots of amenities.  It was owned by a local couple who are moving to Perth and selling most of their possessions before they go.  It is a diesel, has a snorkel (which is a black tube thing that hooks to the side of the windshield and down into the engine, and puts the air intake by the roof so you can drive through deeper water and so you don’t suck as much dust in…when it rains here, it usually floods and when it hasn’t rained, it’s always dusty!), a “bull” bar (I guess for bouncing bull kangaroos off the front of your car??), cb radio, 7 seats, and good off-roading character.  I did finally drive for the first time on Friday and went to the APO (the US post office), the IGA (neighborhood store), back to the APO, home, the park and then downtown Alice so we could return the rental car.  It is really scary to drive on the left and remember what to do on roundabouts and major intersections!!  But, we made it and now I feel like I can do it! 

The kids and I have been taking walks around the neighborhood every day, so we have found several playgrounds.  One is a really nice park with fun equipment and big fabric shades and benches; the kids just love it there.  It is all sand so they get to be barefoot to play.   Finding parks and going to the neighborhood market have been our main ways of occupying our exploration time during the week!  Last night (Friday night) we tried a pizza place called Rocky’s and it was really good!  They serve garlic bread with their pizza, so the boys especially were enthralled with Rocky’s!  Today we slept in a bit and the kids watched a video for breakfast while eating some cinnamon roll biscuits (we haven’t see cinnamon rolls here!!  I had to make them with a biscuit dough this morning from scratch, which turned out pretty good, but was a bit of work for a Sat. morning breakfast.  I have this fan oven with different bake/grill settings on one side and then the Celsius degrees adjusted with another knob.   There isn’t a manual here, so I am trying to figure it out as we go, but it is definitely different.  Anyway, after we all got ready for the day we went to an auto parts store and got seat covers for the front seats of the Landrover, as there were a couple rips.  This afternoon we set out on an adventure to go see the historic telegraph station that was the reason Alice Springs began to flourish out here in the Red Centre.  It is a fun reserve and has walking trails through the bush and rocks to some lovely Australian scenery, as well as the telegraph station (which we didn’t get to go into because they wanted to charge admission).  We walked in the dry Todd River bed and climbed rocks where the “Alice Springs” were named for.  I guess they were named for Mr. Todd’s (the telegraph stationmaster) wife and aren’t actually springs, but the waterhole that stays the longest before the river dries up.  The town used to be called Stuart, but the name was changed to Alice Springs at some point.  We did see some kangaroos feeding in a bushy area from on top of a rocky hill, so got some good pictures of that!  There is a lot more vegetation here than I thought there would be.  Lots of small brushy bushes and not so much open desert land.  But the rocks are very red!  All of us had a great time hiking around out at the telegraph station, and then towards sunset we headed over to  the Heavitree Gap Motel (just south of town), because behind it every evening you can hand feed the rock wallabies!

Beaux feeding the Rock Wallabies

Trent bought little bags of “dietary pellets” for the kids and they had a blast letting those wallabies eat from their hands.  They were petting and talking to them and being very careful not to scare them…It was very cute!  A couple of the wallabies had a joey in their pouch.  The joeys were about the size of a squirrel.  The wallabies are about 18” tall with some variation.  We will post pictures of all that when our internet cooperates (next week??)!  

On a worse note, we did see our first redback spider this morning right between our screen door and the laundry room door to go outside.  Trent happened to see it and got it killed, but showed the kids so they know what to watch out for.  I guess we are supposed to be real careful once we get our patio furniture because they like to live under seats and tables.   Yuk!!  Our sponsor (one of Trent’s co-workers) said that coming in the winter gives you a false sense of security, because all of the scary creatures come out when it starts to get warm.  There is one spider in particular we don’t want to meet – it is the size of a small dinner plate and is a ground hunter.  I guess they are notorious for coming right in the door if you leave it open and they are extremely fast!  Luckily they aren’t real poisonous or aggressive – just disturbing. 

Heading to church tomorrow at the Christian Community Church where Trent’s boss, Ray, goes.  We drove by it today so we’d know where to go.  We might drive out on another adventure in the afternoon, just for fun!   We have ordered school curriculum for the year, so will need to be starting that when it gets here, but for now we are learning all about our new town. 

Odd Australia things:  doorknobs are about 50” off the floor (that is taller than the kids, so really high compared to the US), they don’t have bacon, car dealers close at noon on Saturdays, water is heated via solar energy unless you push the “boost” button in the kitchen, “dip your headlights” means turn off your brights, “docket” means receipt, and pavement is called “bitumen”. 

I guess that is enough for tonight! 

Hilary

Settling in...

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing well!

We are sorry we are slow to get details out to everyone about our move and how it’s going…Trent bought a 3G wireless internet stick so we can get online but we have a data limit (and it is VERY slow), so he thought we shouldn’t upload pictures until we get our real internet which may still be several weeks away. But I can still write information…

Let’s see, going back to the plane ride from LA to Sydney…Our seats were in these little “pods” so if you lifted the footrest and slid your seat back down you were almost laying completely flat. It was much better than sitting up all that time, but they weren’t as comfortable as all you can imagine. The kids ended up slipping down to the bottom half of their seats while they were asleep because there still was a bit of a slope. They gave us all gray knit jammies (long sleeve top and bottoms) so the kids all changed into theirs (huge, because only adult sizes) and looked very fun in their too big jams! The food was a bit of a downside for the kids, but they were so tired we couldn’t even keep them awake for dinner (which they would have not liked, so it was OK). During the night the kids were waking up around 3 am Aus. Time, so got to watch a couple movies on the seat ahead of them while they waited for breakfast. Luckily I had brought granola bars, oyster crackers, fruit snacks, etc. so they were not starved since they missed dinner. They gave us headphones and we had several loud laughing moments when of course everyone else on the plane was asleep!! They watched Lorax and Cars 2.

For breakfast Beaux had eggs, toast, hot chocolate, fruit, yogurt. The boys got a French toast thing that was like a cube of the bread with whipped cream and strawberries (well, Trent got that too) and juice. I had toast and muesli with milk and coffee and it was very good. So, by the time breakfast was getting cleaned up we were within an hour of landing and everything was going fine. In Sydney, we did have to pick up our luggage (3 trolleys full) and take it through customs. They pretty much just waved us through after seeing how much luggage we had and asking us a few questions (Trent says that they didn’t want to check through all of it). Then we had to check it all back through to Alice Springs and switch to the domestic flight terminal on the shuttle. Oh, we also exchanged our US money for Australian currency while we were waiting to collect our baggage.

We all ate another breakfast at the terminal while we waited for our last flight, and then check-in and got on the plane to Alice! The kids were doing pretty well, but again the lunch menu was fairly “high class” so the kids only got a piece of bread for lunch. Trent tried the rare beef salad and I tried the snapper fish pastry (which was actually semi-tasty)… The flight attendants in Australia were mainly men, at least in our area and the one that was serving us said that next time we can order special meals or kids meals ahead of time when we book the flight, so will have to remember that for sure!

We landed in Alice Springs right on time and got to walk down the stairs from the plane to the tarmac and walk across to the airport to collect our luggage. Adam (our sponsor) and his wife Dale met us there and helped us get all loaded up into a huge van and brought us home!

We have an outside gate to open and then another gate to pull through to the carport in the backyard. So the house is fully fenced. The front area is desert landscaping mostly with a bit of grass and a walking path around several trees. Not sure what any of the trees are. We do have two huge juniper looking trees in front which have come in handy for seeing where our house is from far away! We have neighbors with lemon trees and orange trees that hang over our back fence, so that is so fun! Inside is very clean and nice with new looking furniture and ceiling fans in most of the rooms. We do have a guest room with a twin and trundle bed for any visitors! J It is hardwood floors in the study, front room/dining area, hallway. Tile floors in the bathrooms, kitchen, and laundry room. The bedrooms are carpeted and also our walk-in closet. The ceilings are vaulted so it feels pretty spacious as of now…we shall see how it feels when our household goods get here!!

We haven’t found a car yet, so that is on the priority list. Today is Trent’s first day of work and he was supposed to catch the bus this morning, but they just passed him by! So, he is trying his hand at driving over there (with no directions)…I hope he made it..

This weekend was spent resting up, getting groceries/cleaning supplies, etc, putting all our things away, learning to drive on the left side (which I might say, I haven’t tried yet, but Trent is getting pretty good at but it really is the scariest part of all this!!!). Yesterday we went to The Potter’s Hand Christian Church, which was small and very friendly, but they spoke in tongues quite a bit and had the “sinner’s prayer” going on, so we’ll keep checking on other churches in the area. Found out it was Father’s Day here in Australia, so Trent was given some chocolates! Then in the afternoon we drove west a bit to visit the Alice Springs Desert Park, only to get there and there is quite a large admission price, so we kept driving and saw Flynn’s Grave and Simpson’s Gap (got lots of pictures so those will be coming ASAWeGetInternet) and the kids had fun climbing rocks and running about in the red dirt and sand! We got our first taste of the Aussie flies that you hear about, they were all over us when we were hiking to Simpson’s Gap. They don’t bite, but they just keep getting on you, in your face, etc.

Groceries here are very interesting and pretty expensive. It is so funny what they call different things: margarine is “spreadable dairy blend”, butter comes in huge squares instead of sticks, whole wheat is “whole meal”, a shopping cart is a “trolley”, ground beef is “mince beef”, they don’t have orange cheddar cheese, it is white. The apple juice is awesome, it tastes like cider. You have to pay 15 cents for each grocery sack, so you save them and bring them with you for bagging groceries.

We’ve had spaghetti/garlic bread/carrots (Sat) and salsa chicken nachos/corn (Sun) and tonight may be salmon and rice. We found some yummy bread and we’ve been having peanut butter/honey/jam or leftovers for lunches. Still need to stock up on snacks, but it’s hard to know what we’ll like!

We did see a wallaby (or a really young kangaroo) through the bushes when we were out on the Sunday drive! It was just like looking for deer in the States…The birds around here are slightly tropical and have all different calls and sounds than what we’re used to. There are some black and white ones with long legs, gray dove looking ones with pink underbellies and underwings, and green parrot looking ones with blue heads! There are also little greenish yellow ones about the size of sparrows that fly in little groups everywhere. We are going to have to get a local bird book and see what they all are!

Well, I really need to get the kids some lunch, so I will continue this later…The little funny details abound!

OK, keep us updated on all your doings too!

Love,

Hizzy and family

Arriving in Alice

Hey everybody,

We made it to Alice just fine and on time and everything. We are very limited on connectivity until we get our internet up and running. We bought a prepaid wireless modem so we could do some simple things, including contacting everyone to let you know how it is going. Our house is great and is nice and clean. It has wood floors in all of the common areas, tile in the bathrooms and kitchen and carpet in the bedrooms. It has a nice tall fence with two gates that have to be opened just to get the car in! Much of the stuff in the house is very new including and new Dyson vacuum! I have already been into work and got my badge and met by boss for the first time.

We went out to get some groceries and dinner last night, and all of the kids fell asleep on the way and Beaux was the only one that ate anything. We couldn’t get the boys to wake up and so I grocery shopped while Hilary and the kids waited in the car. The kids went to bed around 7pm (right when we got back) and Hilary and I went to bed at 7:30. I think we were asleep before our heads hit the pillows!

Today is more shopping and maybe car shopping. We haven’t decided where to go to church yet…

Love you all and sorry for the delay! We’ll update the blog with pictures and stuff as soon as we can! The kids are already making a playhouse out of the empty shed – they have been getting along great with the Redbacks.

Trent