Moving on up!

Two weeks ago, we moved into a new house - a few photos below.  We are so happy to be here.  It's a much nicer home so the hassle and exhaustion of moving again is well worth it.  It's located just a few blocks from the other rental so the move was relatively easy.  And we moved even closer to the boys' daycare and Charley's school.  The house has 3 levels, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, an office, a nice little craft/storage room, large master and master bath -- and my favourite feature is the little balconies off of all the bedrooms.  It was built in 1995 and after the builder and his family moved out in 2005, it was rented to the US Embassy for use by Embassy staff.  Which means it has a remote-controlled security gate at the entrance to the drive-way, security system and underground safe!  We're not using any of those features, but that underground safe can double as a wine cellar : )

The woman in one of the photos is my "mum".  She's here with my 11 year old nephew Alex for about 10 days.  Will post more pics of our adventures this week.