Old House, New House, Yellow House, Blue House

My kids...and consequently Jeffy and I...refer to our new residence as our Blue House. Technically that's an accurate statement. Jeff and I made the decision to have this house built so we picked all the home interior/exterior colors. It was actually pretty fun! We picked a house design, made a few minor changes and then picked a color scheme. "Building" a house sounds like a crazy hard ordeal, but there really wasn't much to it. In fact, all the decisions were made in two days. We went pretty safe on most choices, but we did make a couple of "fun" choices that make it our house. One being the fact that it's blue! We got to chose the siding and brick colors...earth tones seem to be the overwhelming favorites on our street. We drove the streets and saw beige, grey, white, cream and more beige and grey. Boring!! It took a little convincing on my part, but Jeff and I went with a blue siding and a greyish brick. We also had our front door painted burgundy, the siding over the garage is white...so we now live in a red, white and blue house!! You can take the girl out of America, but you can't take the American out of the girl!!! Needless to say we are the onlyblue house on the street, we all refer to our house as "the blue house."

We are settling in our blue house. It's been at least a week since I've heard, "Mommy, I like our blue house, but I want to move back to our Lellow house." (lellow=yellow in Sarah talk) Tomorrow Maddy starts school. I'm so nervous I can't stand it. She's not, she's just plain excited. She wants to meet other kids!! That is one draw back to building a new house...the no neighbors issue. The builder we chose has a wonderful reputationand rightfully so, he is awesome. But that is primarily because he builds only a few homes a year, 10-12. Right now we are one of only 5 houses on the street...and it will remain that way until next spring when he starts building again. The privacy is nice, but it is strangely isolating. There are 4 other familys on our street...all of which have 2 boys each. What are the odds huh?? Tomorrow is a new beginning and hold lots of promise...exciting and scary all at the same time!!

Old house,new house, yellow house, blue house.