Spring is in the air

Not posted in a while as there's just been no time. Busy, busy, busy.
Seems odd for the Northern hemisphereists among you but Spring is arriving in Aus.... Melbourne managed to get to 25 degrees one day last week and we even went to the beach yesterday (although its not quite warm enough for that yet). We've both been busy with work, Maxine taking on new projects and Martin spending a fair bit of time in New Zealand going live with a new SAP system.
In the mean time the kids have had colds, hopefully the last one's of the season. Aidan's getting bigger by the day and is now standing by himself (although not quite willing to walk yet). Here's a couple of pics of them in the garden yesterday.

In other news our house sale in Warwick has fallen through so we're looking at keeping it rented now and buying another house in Melbourne. We're keen to have our own house here, so we're just going to take the plunge.... so hopefully we will have our own place before Christmas. We're in the process of applying for permanent residency and have had all our medicals done and all the documentation filled in (and there's lots of it!). Getting that obviously allows us to remain here indefinately and not have to apply for residency extensions on our current working visas. Pretty soon it'll feel like we're Aussies for real. My cork hat is in the post.