The Berdy's Nest

In only a few hours, we will be closing the door for the last time on our first home.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has given their time and effort to help us turn it from a house into 'The Berdies Nest'.

Thanks to Dad & Lynette who are always there to help us move, take rooves off aviarys, clear huge expanses of backyard rainforest and do endless trips to the dump, as well as looking after Chelsea so much.
Mum & David for always helping us move and helping so much with the backyard in the beginning.
Little Nanny & Poppy for their support and helping look after Chelsea so much.
Renee, for being such a wonderful friend and looking after Chelsea 'the little princess'
Mitchell, for always being there to lend a hand, in particular, assemble cubby houses and then 6 months later, disassemble cubby houses and formulate plans to slide them along on top of old unused windsurfers!! (Check the photos!!)

To anyone else I may have forgotten, thankyou for all of your help over the short 18 months.
In this short time, we have had so many good times in this house! usually involving good friends and family, food, drinks and lots of laughter and music!!!

We had our first party for NYE 05-06 only 5 days after moving in, Chelsea's 3rd birthday Fairy Party, Samantha's 21st (yes the bitterly cold one!!), Troy & Kylie's Farewell, my huge 25th!! Woohoo!, plus so many other family and friends gatherings.

Chelsea was toilet trained and began to talk in sentences like a big girl in this house, learnt to ride her big girls bike with training wheels and practiced her ballet and tap dancing on the verandah.

William and I are looking forward to moving on into the next stage of our lives now, which will hopefully involve building a home that we will stay in forever. Currently we are staying with William's family who have kindly given the downstairs portion of their house to us for as long as we require it. We are looking forward to having a few months to relax away from the pressures of owning a home and saving as much as we can. In addition, and most importantly, we are looking forward to having more time to spend with each other as a family and giving Chelsea the attention that she deserves.

I will still be blogging, however not nearly as frequently as before. - To keep everyone posted of course!!

William, Susan & Chelsea Leah xo