Our new home

As you probably know, we moved from North Carolina to the DC area in the beginning of July.  Jim took a promotion with his job at the Federal Highway Administration.

We'll start with some pictures of the outside of our house (while we wait to finish up decorating the inside!)  Here is the view from across the street from our neighbor's house:

Here is the view from the street looking up the walkway towards the house:

Here is the terraced backyard where Kylie love to jump up the rock walls chasing balls.  (The little white fence is to keep Kylie from running through the huge cherry-tomato plant.) Avery is busy on the slide!

Backyard again, Colleen goofing off!

This is looking from the side yard towards the front yard: 

This is looking from the front towards the side yard: 

We are renting the house from a couple who just left for a six-year work assignment in South America. The top floor has 2 bedrooms and a full-bath. The ground floor has a kitchen, living room, and office. The basement is half-finished with a bonus room (Avery's playroom), a full bathroom.  The unfinished half of the basement has the storage area, and leads to our garage.


We live in Silver Spring, MD, a suburb of Washington. We live in a little neighborhood called Forest Glen just inside the Beltway and near the border of the town of Chevy Chase. We are about 5 houses from Rock Creek and the 20+ mile trail that goes from the Potomac River in Georgetown out to the edge of suburban Maryland.  Perfect for our running! 
There are so many deer near our house, we see families of them literally every day when we drive the streets or go jogging.  Our neighborhood is also very hilly and very lush, it amazes us how dense the forest is in the neighborhood (and how quickly the vines and greenery can take over anything, including people's houses!). There are also some 5-way intersections near us that make for some interesting signs

We are only about 1 mile from the Forest Glen Metro stop

which Jim uses to get to work.  He now usually bikes to the Metro to save money (since it costs $5 per day to park at the Metro station)

We'll post pictures of the inside of our house shortly, once we finish decorating!