Isaac update

Photos from the saddle

A beautiful clear Winters day on Mt Stromlo, its been far too long between visits!

Isaac's grand arrival

Welcome to the world Isaac Thornton Rice! We are absolutely amazed by you our newest beautiful little member of team Rice!

You weighed 10 pound 6 ounces! (Well done Jem!!!) and were 53cms long, born at 10.35 on Wednesday 13th of August. You were born with a lot of hair and just loved to be snuggled up for cuddles. You are only 28 hours old and we already love you to bits little man!

Photos from the saddle

The start of my local MTB ride (literally over the back fence and about 200m down an equestrian trail!). Not a big loop so far, but it sure is pretty!

Home MTB skills park progress....

Multiple berms, 2 bridges, 2 jumps a few roll overs and about 750 metres of single track all in our own block! Im hoping to increase that to 1km soon. 

Happy birthday Sam

Happy 6th Birthday Sammy Tyler!

Pines

Pine forest plantation 

New home!

Its been our dream for many a year and its finally come true! We are officially residents of Murrumbateman NSW and proud owners of a lovely country home and almost 5 acres of beautiful land.

Photos from the saddle

Went on possibly my last Black Mt ride as an ACT resident today. 

Photos from the saddle

Start of the One Tree Hill climb. Stunning day, glorious views, great ride.

Block/house progress

 Garage slab formwork 

Floors all cleaned ready for the carpet and laminate boards to go down

 Dining/kitchen

 Lounge, what a view!

 The spine of the house where the 2 halves were joined, now you can barely tell 

 Dining

Our 132,000 litre water tank taking ownership of the land!

Free throw

Will showing some good shooting technique here with a couple of free throws last weekend 

Woohoo!

Lucas here with a visual representation of how excited we are all feeling with the prospect of moving to our dream home in the very near future!

Although he does keep saying he doesnt want to move anymore! (could be something to do with me dragging him out there every day to meet up with tradies in the mud and cold!)

Updated home and block pics....

 Some of the lovely view from our lounge room

 The mains trench from front gate to switchboard

 Lucas teaching Kevin how to dig properly

 Freshly oiled deck

Fixed front gate

Water tank pad ready for delivery next week

 New gas bottles for cooking and heating water

 Painted skirting looking good!

One more day to go before the house itself is completed from the builders point of view, then its just a matter of getting power/lights/fans, water and sewage connected, floors layed, wood burner installed and shed built. Then after getting all that inspected and approved from council as an official occupancy, we are good to go. Getting close!!

Rice boys school photo quartet

Handsome/cute alert! 'For the first time in forever' (thanks Frozen) the Rice boys had their school photos taken all together today. I managed to sneak this one past the official photographer!