The cheerleader's houses probably look good on Google.

Remember those embarrassing yearbook photos? Not the “professional” pictures, but the ones taken candidly by the yearbook staff throughout the year. You never know it is coming until the day you get your yearbook and flip through it excitedly only to find that the only picture of you in the whole yearbook is one taken in the hall on that day when you spilled OJ on your white sweater and you didn’t do your hair and your face looks stupid because you didn’t know anyone was taking pictures. The problem, of course, is that you will forever be remembered by your peers as that kid whose clothes were always dirty, who never did her hair and whose face looked weird.

Ten years later—enter Google Street View. Craig and I try to keep our front yard looking presentable. I mean, let’s just face the facts—people judge you buy the condition of your front yard. I got on Google maps this morning and thought I’d check out our house on Google street view. Remember that ONE day like two years ago when we got home from a camping trip and tipped our cooler upside down to drain on our front lawn? Oh, and then there’s the sandbags in our gutter drain placed there by the shoddy construction crew down the street. I mean, these sandbags look unsightly to everyone who drives by, but most of them know why said sandbags are there (yes, they are still there two years later...well, we did a secret ops mission on the first set...the new and slightly less shoddy new construction crew quickly replaced them). Without further ado, I give you—our house on Google Street View for all of the world to see:

So, now for the rest of time (I assume Google will not be updating residential street view anytime soon) when we tell people our address so that they can Google directions to our house, this is what they’ll see. Then I’ll inevitably receive the—oh, something came up, we can't make it—call. Thanks Google. There for a second I thought I was going to be popular next year.

*A little disclaimer here--our house is actually very cute. Really, it is. Use those Google directions and you'll see.