Welcome to the Neighborhood!

Joe and I had a little time to ourselves today (yay!) so we drove out to the lot to see if they had done anything yet.  We knew it was a long shot, but we wanted to check.  They had mowed the lot, so there is something :)

Our next door neighbor-to-be was outside working on his yard so we introduced ourselves and found out that he has two children close to the ages of our children.  That can be good or awkward depending on how the kids get along, but he seemed really nice and it was good to introduce ourselves.  We have lived in rental neighborhoods for the last several years, so it is nice to actually get to know neighbors who built their house and are planning to stay there.

We did take a couple of pictures of our lot and the tree next door so I thought I would share them.

One of the reasons that we chose our lot is that we are on a small cul-de-sac at the end.  Because of the way the lots were drawn there won't be a house directly behind ours or next to ours except for on one side.  There is a house to the right when you are facing our house and to the left is this:

Isn't it wonderful!  We are excited to feel like we have some space inside and out even if it isn't the country house that the girls' wanted.  At least we are not surrounded by neighbors and we have a beautiful tree.