The House

Here is our little house, or at least some outside pictures of it.  It is smaller than our last house because there is no basement and no upstairs, but the living areas are bigger and we have an attached garage (woohoo!).  

 Here is the backyard looking from the side of the house.  There is not a fence but behind it is some really big bushes and a field so the kids can't get too far.

 They have loved the yard and have really been playing together a lot more.

Course one of their favorite places to play is on the side of the house where there are a bunch of little rocks, or "nuts" as they like to call them, you know, since they are chipmunks.

 Josh has been working hard on the yard, this is what it looked like when we moved in.  Shane for one was thrilled with all the flowers (dandelions) in the yard.  There were a couple days in Saginaw when it was supposed to be spring and it snowed and he burst into tears and said, "I wanted flowers!  It's just not beautiful!!"  In fact one of my friends was over one day and was talking to him and was saying it was a beautiful day and he informed her, "No, it's not beautiful. There are no flowers or leaves on the trees."  So he was very happy to see "flowers" here and told me "I always wanted flowers!" and picked several for me:)

This is from the front yard looking down the street, it is a cul-de-sac and there are a ton of kids.

 In pretty much every neighborhood here there are at least a couple lakes.  I can get a pretty good run in going around all of them.

We love that  our neighborhood is kind of on the edge of the city and right next to that big field so it has a country feel to it but it is five minutes away from a huge shopping center with a Target, Kohls, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, etc.  It can sometimes be hard to find places to rent instead of buy, but we feel like we lucked out big time with this one because our landlord only posted it on some obscure sight that only people as "thorough" as my husband would find.  She really liked Josh from talking to him on the phone and when we came down to look at the house she offered to let us stay the night in it and had an air mattress and table all made up nice for us and she even stocked the fridge with snacks for us.  And when we moved in she had her daughter who has a little business on etsy make us a welcome package filled with goodies.  Basically, we are really really happy here.