Its Us again!

Hi everyone,

Well it's getting a long time between blogs but maybe that isn't such a bad thing...too much information can sometimes be filed in the overkill folder! But yes, definitely time for an update as so much has changed.

We are still living in Bunbury, W.A. and are now home-owners here! We bought a cute and already renovated workers cottage back in December 2009 and moved in January 2010. In typical Scott/Alisha style we only decided we would like to stay a bit longer in 'Bunners' in November, thought we should buy, and had the house picked and bought a month later...And its great, we are really happy with the place, it is a 2 bed, one bathroom (our bathroom sink is above a wine barrel which basically sold the house for me!), big kitchen and living room and a study, 2 fireplaces which have had a good workout in the past couple of months, big yard with lots of trees, front and rear decks and a guest house out the back! We are currently putting in a second bathroom into the guest house as we will need the 2nd bedroom soon for a nursery! Yes, thats the other big news, we are preggers and due mid November! Cant believe it? Neither can we!! But very excited is understating it at this point. So i know not everyone that starts travelling Australia ends up buying a house and having a kid en route, but we do see ourselves back on the east coast one day so for us the journey continues...we really like it here though so happy for now!

What else, we have had a few visitors since i last blogged....Shazza, Selly and Ben came to spend Christmas with us and we had bought the house but had yet to move in but they got a walk through which was nice, and mum was still over here when we moved and was such a great help to us. It was a great chrissie, us all together like that (even if Benny nearly went insane from the flies) and I couldn't help comparing it to the year before when it was just Scotty and I eating xmas lunch in a chinese restaurant in Esperance! Fun as well, promise! Then we had my Dad and my stepmum Lek stay which was so nice too (although they did catch me in my 'i'm throwing everything i eat up stage', sorry guys!), and our beloved marty the smarty pants came for a while too (2nd visit to us in WA, big points there bear). We saw lots of family and friends in February when we made it back to the east coast for a whirlwind tour of, wait for it.....Melbourne, Ballarat, Sydney, Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, Tweed Heads and Alstonville. If you think we were exhausted after that trip, you would be right. We managed to squeeze in an AC/DC concert in Melbourne as well as my sisters 30th in Brisvegas (sadly missing Scottys bro Michael's 40th) so we were pretty pleased with it all. Sorry if you are reading this and going "hey! where was my visit?" We did our absolute best with the time and cities we had to cover (and frankly, we just weren't interested ok? hehehe).

We have also been back to Bali again (in June this year) and this time did a 3 week jaunt. It was our 'babymoon' ie. last trip where a third party wouldn't be tagging along....We had our first week up in diving and snorkelling paradise in Amed, a couple of nights in a safari park and then the last fortnight in Sanur. Very relaxing and just the right time to escape Bunburys winter and get some sun. Yes, the whole thing was pretty tough to take. Only crap parts of the trip was a bit of bali belly for both of us (just watched a hell of a lot of cable tv for a few days) and the fact that i definitely have the baby brain syndrome and left my i-pod on the plane, still devestated with that one.

I started working in a new healthfood store in Bunbury that i helped open on return from our east coast trip and will be there until roughly mid - Octoberish when i may start to need to prepare for things like, oh, a baby coming!! Still sound surprised dont i? I kinda am. And Scotty is still in his job, still loving his RDO's and is turning into a bit of a Don Burke character. He has the vegie patch going and herbs and trims trees like there is no tomorrow. I've actually been pleasantly surprised about how handy he is with handyman stuff, he is making lots of lovely refurb touches around the place and is constantly at what he calls 'man-land' (bunnings). I guess until you buy a house with someone, how are you to know how handy they are? Poor Morrie (our campervan) is up for sale as it has no where to put a baby seat (or sleep a baby for that matter) and we bought a grown up car for the impending occassion. Scott appeased me with Morrie on sale by saying we would upgrade to a larger van to fit a baby later on to finish the trip and i do so hope that happens!

So that's us over here in the west. We miss you all and hope all is well with everyone, lots of love Leashy, Scotty and the bump xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I would like to dedicate this blog entry to my friend Karri who is my westside sis, a very funny and inspiring girl who is teaching me courage xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx