the new crib

Well, here it is. Our new house.
We absolutely LOVE it!!!!
The neighborhood is wonderful, the school rocks, and our new house fits our family just perfectly.
After being outbidded on 3 other houses, we decided to take a step back and review what our family really needed. When our house hunt first began we had a list of our likes and dislikes. However, somehow in the process of bidding wars it became clear to us that we needed to up the ante and increase our house budget. The buyers market is a dog eat dog world and apparently the Youngblood's were wearing milk-bone underwear. (Comment if you know where that saying came from). Any-Who, we feel like we scored a gem of a house. It's well within our budget (So,I get to keep being fiscally irresponsible :-) lol) and our neighbors couldn't be any more awesome. I feel like we live in a time warp neighborhood from the 80's. The kids take off on their bikes and we don't see them for hours on end. They call to check in from their friends house, who has an I-phone (are you kidding me??), and we feel completely safe with them roaming the neighborhood. Needless to say, we feel like we really made a great decision. We definitely could have gone for a bigger, better, big-baller house, but after seeing this one, we fell in love and it just felt right. So far, our intuitions have proved correct. We couldn't be happier and we get so tickled just getting out of bed in the mornings, thinking about our next home improvement project.

A full grown tree was on our MUST HAVE list.  We got it, plus one in the backyard.  I get tickled every time I mow the yard, walk outside in the morning, and drive up in the drive way.  It probably is a silly request, but our old neighborhood lacked trees.  In fact, our last house had zero trees. This is my beauty.