Need a place to relax and rejuvenate at the end of a long day? A personal retreat where privacy and a good book await? Then you will want to see 2414 Temple Crag Drive by Meritage Homes. This striking three-bedroom home boasts a lot of options and upgrades, but none are as sweet as the master suite that has been enhanced with beautiful bay windows. The master bath is awe-inspiring with a soaking tub, semi-frameless glass shower, dual vanities and not one, but two walk-in closets! It’s available now, but won’t be for long. 

More highlights:

  • Unique brick-and-stone elevation
  • Single-story home
  • Coffered ceilings in the foyer
  • Hardwood floors in common areas
  • Private study works as a home office or playroom
  • Spacious family room backlit by a wall of windows
  • Island kitchen boasts granite countertops, white cabinets, subway tile backsplash and a walk-in pantry
  • vanities and a dual walk-in closets
  • Media room
  • Convenient utility room
  • Large covered patio 
  • Two-car garage

This amazing 2,354-square-foot home is priced from the $270s. 

Live an Exceptional Lifestyle

There’s living and then there is exceptional living in Sierra Vista. Relax in your beautiful home or set out on our trails. Swim in the resort-style pool, play sand volleyball with the kids and get to know the neighbors at resident-only events planned by our lifestyle director. And Houston? It’s just 20 minutes away.

Kick off the holiday season with a sleigh-ful of parades, tree lightings and Santa sightings throughout the month.

Hometown Christmas Festival
Independence Park
3449 Pearland Parkway 
Pearland TX 77581
7-10 p.m. Fri., Dec. 6
Free
Santa will help Pearland Mayor Tom Reid light the city’s official Christmas tree then stick around for photos. The holiday fun continues with performances on the Westside Veterinary Hospital Stage and play areas with snowy tubing hills in the H-E-B Winter Wonderland. 

Hometown Christmas Parade
Broadway Street
Pearland, TX 77581
6 p.m. Sat., Dec. 7
Free
The 38th annual Christmas Parade will travel east along FM 518 (Broadway Street) beginning at Old Alvin Road and ending at Pearland Parkway featuring festive lights, floats and marching bands.

B.I.G. Love Santa Dash
Pearland Town Center Pavilion
11200 Broadway Street 
Pearland, TX 77581
7 a.m. Sat., Dec. 7
Join a phalanx of Santas, elves, reindeer and ugly sweater wearers as they run to help B.I.G. Love provide basic necessities and personalized care to cancer kids and their families. Not a runner? There will be breakfast, cookies, pictures with Santa, a carnival silent auction, Christmas choir and real snow. 

Home for the Holidays
National Oak Park
118 S Magnolia Street
Alvin, TX 77511
10 a.m.– 6 p.m. Fri. and Sat., Dec. 6 and 7
Free
Alvin will host two days worth of holiday cheer with movies, crafts, snow, food, pet pictures, a light parade and so much more.

Last Chance Christmas Market
Pearland Town Center Pavilion
11200 Broadway Street
Pearland, TX 77584
5-10 p.m. Dec. 19, 20, 21 and 22
Free
A multi-day holiday market filled with dozens of vendors, food trucks and Christmas cheer. 

City of Manvel Parade of Lights
Manvel High School
19601 Hwy. 6 
Manvel, TX 77578
7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 7
Celebrate the holidays with a light-filled parade, tree lighting and festive fun.

Holiday Acres Tree Farm
8919 Mustang Bayou Road
Manvel, TX  77578
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs., Fri., Sat. through Dec. 13
Prices vary
Pick out your Christmas tree and enjoy hayrides, complimentary hot chocolate or cider, a campfire and a playground for the kids. Must purchase a tree to participate in the activities. 

For the gift that keeps on giving, head to Sierra Vista where the perfect home is waiting for you to fill it with holiday cheer.

There are approximately 30 move-in ready homes available in our beautiful community, which means you could be carving a turkey in your new kitchen or hanging a holiday wreath on your new front door before you know it. 

Choose designs by builders Anglia Homes, Castlerock Communities, D.R. Horton, HistoryMaker Homes, Meritage Homes and Westin Homes. Many of the one- and two-story homes feature structural options and upgrades such as hardwood floors, media rooms and extended master suites. Homes are priced from the $200,000s. Visit their gorgeous model homes to find out more. 

When you purchase your home in Sierra Vista, you give your family more than a beautiful home, you give them a fabulous lifestyle filled with resident activities planned by a full-time lifestyle director, a sand volleyball court, an exercise facility, a junior Olympic pool and the SplashPad Texas Water Park Recreation Center. And those are just the facilities we share with our sister community Sterling Lakes! There are even more great activities coming soon. It’s like getting two gifts for the price of one. 

Start your search for your new home now and you could be hanging your stockings by the fire with care before the New Year. 

From Alvin to Houston, October is a great month for family fun. Sierra Vista’s prime location along the Highway 288 corridor can easily speed you and your family on your way to fall festivals, corn mazes, pumpkin patches and even the largest Renaissance Festival in the nation. Don’t forget that when you make the move to Sierra Vista, you’ll also be able to participate in the fabulous resident-only activities!

Froburg’s Farm Fall Festival
3601 West Hwy 6.
Alvin, Texas 77511
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. through Nov. 4
Prices vary
A fall tradition for many of our residents, Froburg’s offers a corn maze, plastic duck races, bean bag toss, face painting, glitter tattoos, emoji cannon, Bee Coaster and more.

Pearland Art & Crafts on the Pavilion 
Pearland Town Center
11200 Broadway Street 
Pearland, Texas 77584
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 5-6 
Free
Shoppers can pick up gifts, jewelry, home décor and more at this annual juried art show presented by the Pearland Convention & Visitors Bureau.

King’s Octoberfest
King’s Biergarten & Restaurant
1329 E. Broadway
Pearland, TX 77581
Fri.-Sun. Oct. 4-6, times vary
$12 per day or $20 for the weekend.
Lace up your lederhosen for three days of German food and drink, live music and special events, including a Bavarian Strongman Competition, arm wrestling, beer pong competition, and adult carnival games. 

Pumpkin Chunkin Festival
Shepherd of the Heart United Methodist Church
12005 County Rd 59    
Pearland, TX 77584
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19
Free
Bring the family for a pumpkin patch, music, food, inflatable games, pony rides, face painting, carnival games, train rides and a pumpkin trebuchet.

Pup-O-Ween
Pearland Town Center
11200 Broadway Street Pearland, Texas 77584
5-8 p.m. Oct. 26
Free
Bring your family and furry friends out for trick-or-treating at the pavilion, local pet exhibitors, a pet costume contest  and a “Hauntcert” performed by the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra. All dogs must be on leash while at the event. 

ACC 44thAnnual Fall Festival
Alvin Community College
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, TX, 77511
5-9 p.m. Oct. 26
Free
Bring your costumed kids out to Alvin’s oldest Halloween tradition. The event features games, arts and crafts, food and a costume contest

Texas Renaissance Festival
21778 Farm to Market 1774
Todd Mission, TX 77363
9 a.m.-8 p.m. weekends through Dec. 1
$32 adults, $17 kids 5-12
The largest Renaissance Festival in the nation is back with live music, shows, shoppes, mead, ale, and feasts fit for a king. 

It’s not just going to be a new school year for our youngest Sierra Vista scholars — it’s going to be a new school as they will be the first to attend Alvin Independent School District’s newest elementary — ‘Bel Nafegar Sanchez Elementary.

And what’s even more exciting is parents will no longer have to cross Highway 288 to take their kiddos to school because ‘Bel Nafegar Sanchez Elementary is located only about a mile away in our sister community Sterling Lakes.

The new school sits on 15 acres at 1721 Sterling Lakes West Drive. The $17.5 million campus has a total of 101,858 square feet that will offer instructional spaces, common areas, a spacious library, cafetorium and more for up to 800 students.

The Navigators are being led by Principal Rosemary Reed, who has been an Alvin ISD administrator since 2006. 

The school is named for a true pioneer, ‘Bel Sanchez, who just last year was named a 2018 Hispanic Hero by Comcast Houston for her contributions to the community. Now a regent of Alvin Community College, Ms. Sanchez was an educator at Alvin ISD for 30 years, serving as the district’s first director of bilingual and ESL programs. She also was honored as the City of Alvin’s 2013 Citizen of the Year.

We know our young students are excited about their new school. If you’d like your young student to attend Alvin ISD’s newest elementary school, visit with our builders and start planning your move to Sierra Vista today!