11034 Sagevalley Drive 1967 - 1969

I don't know how long we wre in the Pasadena apartment,  maybe a month or two, when my parents bought their first house. It was in the Sagemont subdivision on what was the southern edge of Houston. It seemed like it was built primarily to house the NASA people being hired to put man on the moon. Our house was about a mile back into the subdivision and there were only a few streets completed south of Sagevalley. It goes on for miles and miles now but back then it felt like we were on the edge of Texas wilderness. 

The house was a 4 bedroom ranch style home. Herbert and I had our own rooms for the first time. I desperately wanted a pink room but I think mom was worried I would have outgrown that desire so she did my room in yellow. I remember the address still because I was on the porch with mama and the real estate lady and heard the agent say the zip code was 77034 and the way the numbers were written on the house the ones looked like sevens so I thought the street address and zip codes were the same.

Funny that I can't tell you what I had for dinner last night....

The house wasn't as big as the one we almost bought in Santa Maria but it was the biggest, nicest, we had ever lived in. To the left when you walked in there was a small formal living room open to the formal dining room which came off the kitchen. There was an informal dining area at the other end of the kitchen that opened into a large Family Room. The living room was Only for company. It had the nicest furniture and no television. The family room had the TV, couch, chairs and coffee table. A hall led to the bathroom, the laundry room, (which had a door to the attached garage) and then the bedrooms. Mike first on the right, then Herbert on the same side, Mom and Dad's room on the left and mine at the end of the hall.