Ruby

As promised yesterday here are some photo's of my gorgeous granddaughter Ruby and her mum and dad. I have never held or cuddled Ruby as she was born after we left Australia, we do talk to her all the time on skype but she probably thinks we are these strange people in the computer.

We all had a good laugh the other day because Natalie (Ruby's Mum) told us that Ruby probably thinks the computer is eating family members as Great Granddad (my dad) was now in the computer being that he was here with us. Ruby's Dad has also been eaten by the computer as he is working away on the mines so he can only talk to her via skype.

Anyway enough of my ramblings here are some cute baby pics.

My son Patrick and Ruby

Ruby after her 1st birthday

Patrick and Natalie (Ruby's Mum and Dad)

Can't you tell I'm the proud Nannie......:)

Good News and a Sad Day

To start with the good news. As you are aware from my last post the house we have rented is terrible and we have been looking around for a new place to rent. The agent who rented us the house came out on Thursday to do the first inspection and was disgusted with what we showed her. They have managed to find us a new rental property that is absolutely gorgeous and we can move in next weekend.....yeah!!!!!!! No more spiders!!!!!

As you can tell I am really excited, I will post pics of the new house as soon as we have moved in. The sad part of our day was saying goodbye to my Dad today as he was flying home, I don't think my youngest has stopped crying yet....:( I tried my hardest not to cry but there we where all four of us just a blubbering at the airport. It has been great having Dad with us for the last month and I really would love for him to come live with us here but my sister and her kids are still in Australia as well as my son and his fiance and my granddaughter Ruby who I will post about later as she is just the cutest...

I thought I would share with you some of the pics from Dads holiday, hope you enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Me

 

Dad and I

Dad and the Girls

Dad

Mr A Second Look and Dad

Sorry I know this post is picture heavy but I just wanted Dad to know how much we love him and will miss him.

Have a great weekend.

Help!!!!!!!

Well we have been in our new rental for two weeks and I'm already looking for a new home. We rented the house from photo's provided to us by a real estate agent. I knew going in the colours where terrible but nothing a few coats of paint couldn't fix right! Oh how very wrong I was.

We arrived at our new home at 3am in the morning after a harrowing 2 day journey through the Rockies with a U Haul trailer that had no brakes. The agent had been kind enough to leave a key under the mat for us. I was the first one through the door and it was a good job because the smell hit you in the face as soon as you walked in, I knew from that point that it was not going to be good. The carpets throughout the house are stained and dirty the kitchen cupboards well I won't even put my dishes in them as they stink too, we have been over run with spiders and on further investigation trying to find the smell we have found that the crawl space under the house which also serves as the cold air return is being used as litter tray and is full of cat crap.

As you can imagine finding this at 3am after two days on the road the girls and I just cried...

We have contacted the agent to be told that the house was cleaned a week prior to our arrival and the capets where cleaned but the carpet cleaner could not get all the stains out. We have yet to tell her about the cat poo but we are desperately trying to find somewhere else to live, but because we have a dog it is proving to be impossible.

Here are the pics of the house

As you can see from the pics the house did not look too bad.

So if anyone out there can help on how you get the smell out of just about every cupboard in the house I would really appreciate the advice.

Thanks