I think Autumn is my favourite season, the weather in Sydney has just been perfect these last few weeks, nice cold nights, crisp mornings and lovely mild sunny days.
We had a lovely weekend we visited one of my work mates on Saturday, he lives at Wyoming on the Central Coast with his wife and daughter, his daughter has a 17 month old little boy who is just a cutie like my Rexy. She has been very kind giving me loads of hand me downs for Rex. My friend is a true family man, when he new that his daughter was pregnant and that she would be staying at home with the baby, he made plans to build a granny flat over his garage for he and his wife to move into so his daughter would have a bedroom for herself and one for the baby (he also has a grown son who has since moved out of home). Some parents would kick their daughter out if she were to be a single mum. I found a whole new level of respect for my friend after he told me how important these family values were to him. There should be more people like him.
Me, the lovely Cherie and our beautiful boys, Reece & Rex
On Sunday we went to Whale & Newport Beaches. James is a swimming pool technician and he services a pool at Whale Beach. The guy is a retired Specialist Doctor, is selling his $2mil home in Killara at the moment which I love, as well as owning this amazing 3 storey ultra modern mansion that is on the south end of Whale Beach point with 180 degree views north right over Whale Beach. The pool is amazing, it's a narrow a lap pool, heated, it's lined with black pebblecrete, with a feature wall of black slate. The last third of the pool hangs over the cliff face and the entire end is made of glass!!! It looks like a fish tank!!! It's incredible, you can see the beach through the glass at the end of the pool. The house has been featured in many Home type magazines and the newspaper, it has all the most ridiculous mod cons, but you know what...it ain't really my cuppa tea, don't get me wrong it is amazing, but the entire interior is made from beige coloured Italian travertine, (it's probably got some exotic colour name but to me it's just beige lol) there are very steep stairs right through the middle of the house it's an 11 meter drop down the cliff face. Each to their own but it's too sparse and cold for my liking. Mind you if someone were to say "here Jen have a house" I wouldn't flinch before jumping right in!!!
Below is a link to the Killara house for sale (definitely my kind of house) and the architects website of the Whale Beach house. Follow the prompts - projects, residential, single residential, Whale Beach residence, it looks amazing in these pics.
http://www.mcconnellbourn.com.au/1074982
http://www.cullenfeng.com.au/
We stopped at Newport for lunch on the way back and Rex got to see a beach and the ocean (apart from the balcony of the house above) for the first time. It was blowing a gale so we had to try and protect him a bit from the wind. He couldn't take his eyes off the water and the waves, he seemed to really enjoy it. He wasn't too keen on the wind though, his little eyes were watering.
Trying to protect Rex from the wind on Newport Beach
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