Jas and Tyler first day at new school

Jas and Tyler's first day at Elanora State Public School. Tyler got a lovely teacher named Mrs Larkin, Jas got a male teacher named Mr Gardner who seems very cool. Both like their new school and are making friends.

Kirkman's Australia Day Elanora QLD

We had a great Aussie Day, spent lounging around at Tullebudgerra Creek. We did all the Aussie essentials, swam, ate snags cooked on the barbie, swam some more, had a few drinks and sat having a chat in the sun. Beautiful day.

Pics from life in Elanora

Tyler learning to surf at Currumbin

Looks like a pro already!

Goodbye Pics

Jas and Meg

Larnia, Jas, tyler and Kadem

BFF

With Nan and Chloe

My little baby, Chloe

About to leave, at last!!!

Aunty Penny and Charlie

Life so far in Elanora

Well as i speak the sun is shining, the salt water is drying on my skin after a lovely swim at Tullebudgerra Creek. jas is swimming at the neighbours and making friends with one of the only girls in the street, 7 year old Amy, Tyler and his cousins are playing nerf gun wars out in the street with all the boys in the street (about 6 of them) lee is enjoying his first day at work perving on meter maids! So yes, we are settling in to life here nicely. I have applied for a job at an After School care centre and a waitressing job at a riverfront restaurant, so fingers crossed. Well i need to get back to my coffee and maybe have a swim in the pool. Yes, we are missing you all!! xxoo

We are off!!

Well we have finally left Coffs Harbour. We got sick of waiting for the floods to clear and the highway to open. Left this afternoon and drove to Ballina via Casino and Lismore, took a bit longer then usual but at least we are finally officially on our way. Triton went great and the van towed well. Staying at Lee's sisters one night then setting up house in Elanora for a few months. Glad to finally be off, hoping that the highway is clear in the morning to go the rest of the way.

Still counting down

Well, Saturday became Sunday, then Sunday became Monday, and Monday became Tuesday, and now all that has become Friday. Rain has delayed our leaving as it has slowed us down getting things finished around the house, and on top of that we heard there were going to be some road closures and didnt want to run into that. We then discovered that the tow system on the new car is not graded for our van and have had to order a new one, this arrives and will be fitted on Thursday. All going well, fingers crossed we will leave Friday morning!! Kids and their friends are starting to think we are never going! I assure you we are, and now that we are all packed up I for one have itchy feet. Lets get this van rolling already!!!

Nearly There

The van is packed and the house is almost empty except for the last few things like food and toiletries. We are all getting very excited and would just love for the rain to stop before we leave. If we havent managed to catch up with you before leaving, sorry! Keep in touch via this blog or email, jljtk15@gmail.com

Merry Christmas

Have a great Christmas and a Happy 2011 to all!! xxoo

My favourite xmas pics

Farewell!

Two Weeks to Go
Last night we had our official farewell party, thankyou everyone that came to say goodbye, we will miss you all terribly! Had a great night.
Good news is the coffee machine can now come along, due to the purchase of a powerful inverter! Yay!
We are now down to last minute packing, such as the kitchen, which i cant touch until after Christmas. We are planning to leave either just before or just after new year.

Count down!

Only four weeks to go, we are well into packing with all non essentials boxed up. The shed has been cleaned out and the garage sale is set. Not alot of time considering Christmas is in there too. Everyone is very excited about the trip and cant wait to hit the road. Trying to work out what to pack into the van is the hardest part at the moment, with weight being a major consideration. Very distraught by the fact that the inverter wont run my coffee machine, almost had second thoughts about going because of this... not sure how i will cope without it!!

Maiden Voyage

Yesterday was my birthday so Lee booked the best table in town for dinner, which also happened to double up as our maiden voyage in the van. We got takeaway Thai and a birthday cake and headed up to the Sawtell Headland, pulled up opened the doors and windows and had dinner and a bottle of wine watching the waves. It was gorgeous. Amazing how you instantly feel a million miles away, was hard to come back home , the kids wanted to set up for the night and sleep in there. If it hadn't been for work and school (all that boring stuff) we probably would have. Never the less, maiden voyage a success!!