Won't you be...my neighbor?

Yep, we actually have neighbors now...well, sorta. The people who were building a house at the end of the street moved in today. It's pretty cool to be able to actually see an occupied house from our driveway. The people across the cul-de-sac from us should be moving in sometime in the next week or two--they put their mailbox up today.

Also, to continue Centex's uberness, Chris stopped by yesterday to check on us and make sure we were problem free (we are!) and he also gave us a handy dandy (super nice) toolkit. It's really super.

We haven't done too much new with the house in the past week, except we did put an overhead light up in our guest bathroom and we put a touchlight up in the storage room under the stairs. We also got our $80 billion Pottery Barn key and mail rack (you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find one of those!!). We got the one in the middle with the three hooks:

http://www.potterybarn.com/pbimgs/ab/images/p2/products/200824/0005/img70l.jpg

It's pretty cool, but it was ridiculous because the "mounting bar" is sold separately and they're really vague about that important point when you order it; so we ended up having to make two separate orders and pay shipping twice (Pottery Barn shipping, btw, is outrageous). If we had any other decent choices for the mail thing, there's no way I would have bought it, but we looked everywhere and there's just no good mail/key combo that keeps your keys far enough away from the wall that they won't scratch the wall up. Regardless, it's done and it looks pretty!

Other than that, it's been pretty quiet on the house front because I was gone all weekend with Shan and Wes for Deanna's wedding in Nashville. We had the BEST time. It was great to spend time with the two of them and Deanna looked gorgeous! We just couldn't believe that it had been 10 years since we'd seen her (even though we've e-mailed probably once a week for ten years). It was a super weekend.

Also, my other super best friend Mandy had her baby (little Ally Lane) last Thursday. I haven't seen any pictures yet (Mandy's been kinda busy!), but, from what I hear, she's absolutely gorgeous. I'll try to get a picture up when Mandy sends me one! :-)

This weekend, we're staying home and I plan to do some more unpacking (it never ends!!!)