Welcome to our world

So last week, thanks to a friend of mine who recently started her own blog, (Erin!) I got the bright idea to start a Baker family blog, so we can at least attempt to keep better in touch with family and friends. Anyone who knows me even a little bit knows I love to take tons and tons of pictures, but I am notoriously bad about sharing said photos. Hopefully the novelty of this new-fangled technology will spur me to keep it updated. I guess if I know people are looking at the blog, it will shame me into posting stuff periodically.
This weekend was spent toiling away on yet another home-improvement project, the re-siding of our house. Our once-white Cape Cod has been looking decidely dingy for a while now, and it was just a matter of having some time and money to work on it. We bought enough cedar siding to do the front, (we thought) and bought 4 brand-new windows. The trim will be a dark red and the cedar we will stain natural. It looks absolutely fabulous and I can wait to do the rest, but that depends on the status of our budget. The neighborhood response has consisted of people driving by really slowly and staring. The few neighbors who chose to actually acknowledge that we were standing right there while they were gawking ( so many people drive by without so much as a wave!) had really nice things to say about the change, with the exception of one neighbor who called it "funky," but I am taking that as a compliment as well.
Below is a slide show of pics from this weekend. It is still a work in progress, but we're excited.