History...

This little, probably end up being very large, post is about the history behind our little home.  This blog will be all about the transformation of our home, Jamo's (my husband's nickname) block.

So short background...
Rowan and I met 10 years ago, and almost to the day, started dating.  We were both at Auckland University of Technology. Rowan was doing a diploma in Electrotechnology and I was doing a degree in Software Engineering.

In July 2004 we moved in together in an Air Force married quarter in Whenuapai, in 2005 we got engaged, Rowan went to Woodbourne for a year and I went to America for 6 months. 

2006 went buy so fast, I can't even remember what happened, organising and saving for a wedding I imagine.

Jan 2007 was our wedding, then Rowan was away so much with work for the next 5 months it hardly felt like we were married, hahaha, but then I did marry an Air Force man, so can't really complain.  August 2007 saw Rowan and I jetsetting around the world.  We spent almost 4 months travelling around Europe on our honeymoon.  What a fantastic time we had, although I do remember at one particular point, I think we were in London at Heathrow, seeing an Air New Zealand plane and very much wishing we were on it, but we still had about a month to go.  Needless to say, we made it past that bump and loved the rest of our trip.

2008 & 2009 are a bit of a blur.  I changed jobs from Hansen to Oracle, Rowan moved to Avionics Sqn, he made it through selection to be an Officer.  I also became pregnant with our first son.

2010 Scott Wallace Jamieson was born in Feb, Rowan left for 4 months in Woodbourne in April, we were then posted to Wellington in July 2010.  We brought our first home in Upper Hutt, well Trentham, or Poet's Block depending on how you want to look at it.  Tennyson Street saw us for exactly 52 weeks, when in July 2011 we moved to Woodbourne in the Marlborough district.

2011, I was pregnant with our second son, he was born in Blenheim a coule months after we moved.  We sold our house in Wellington just before he was born, and were going to buy in Blenheim, but decided against it, and thought we would look in Auckland, considering that is where we wanted to live eventually.

Interestingly enough, or maybe not, there are not many photo's of the Wellington house.  I suppose this is because it really was only a temporary house to us, not really a home.  Although it was nice to have 4 bedroom's and a big lounge, separate dining and a big kitchen... we knew we wouldn't be there long.

2012 - This is where Jamo's Block history starts.  We started looking around March/April, and found a couple of houses we liked, we started just looking around, sending Sez, Hadley and Mum through open homes for us, as we were still in Woodbourne.  Funniest thing was I went to the bank and started organising finances, sorting out the mortgage and getting everything in order... Everyone thought I was a bit mad, until, we found a house we loved, and it was going to auction on Wednesday.  It was all of a sudden all go, lucky I had everything in order, within a day I had mortgage approval and I was on my way to Auckland to see the house and go to Auction.  Ended up really wanting the house, went to the auction, the final price was over $100k over it's valuation.  Needless to say we were really guttered!!! 

We decided then that we couldn't be bothered, I flew home on the Thursday night (I think), vowed never to look at another home... But that's not what I did, the very next day I was looking on trade me and there was one particular house that Rowan kept coming back to, it was in our favourites and I had written it off, (the colour scheme was hidious) so I decided bugger it, I rang up the real estate agent, she just happened to be the same agent as the one on the house we'd lost.  So I organised our builder to go through the house and have a look, he was going to go through that afternoon, then organised Sez & Hadley to go and have a look at the open home the next day.  Then on Saturday we put in an offer, and low and behold Jamo's Block became our new home, four days after loosing the other house to auction, we had an accepted conditional offer which would settle in less than two weeks...

1 June 2012, Rowan and Megan owned our first Auckland home.