New crib

Now that I'm slowly working blogging back into my life and schedule, I thought I'd post some pics of our new crib. The outside anyway. I just love the setting of Alpine Academy. I know that lots of people can't handle the country and small town vibe, but it suits me well. I guess that you can take the girl out of Idaho, but you can't take Idaho out of the girl.

Over the past couple years, I've realized how much that I'm NOT a neighborhood person. I'm just not. I just don't like being so close to other people, cars always parked on your street, hearing dogs barking all day long....all that stuff. I just don't dig it. So living where we live now is A-OK with me.

Here is the front of our house. We're kind of the "odd man out" at Alpine. All the other houses look alike except ours. When Alpine purchased this land, this home was the only thing on the 35 acres. It has served as lots of things over the years. This house was the main office for Alpine for a long time while everything else was being built.
Walking out our front door, this is the view. Being on 35 acres, there is lots of room, lots of pastures, lots of space. I'll tell you what....it's a beautiful thing.

This is the back of our house and deck.

And this is our backyard. Yes, we're VERY glad that there is a landscaping crew that mows the lawns and we don't have to.

This is one of the other homes at Alpine and they are our closest neighbor. Just like I like 'em: one pasture away.

The brown building is the school building. There are a bunch of administrative offices in the school as well. This is where Janet's office is. Payton and I take this trek several times a day. We walk over to visit Janet, go to see the horses or the sheep, go to play in the stream, or just whatever else that is "outside" because that's all that Payton asks about all day, every day.

Wide open spaces.....

Anyway, there ya have it. Our home. We're having a good time and settling in nicely to our new life and jobs. Just to put it out there, friends and family are welcome to visit anytime. Just let us know! :-)