This is for Tony....

I finally put that stool together.

One less thing in pieces on the floor.

Check.

Easter 2013

While I should be keeping my blog updated for my sad absentee husband (he's in Hawaii, poor dear), I've been super busy, running around with kid stuff and house stuff. Oops. 

I'll try to do better.

We barely celebrated Easter. It was a quick egg hunt with plastic eggs in the back yard. 

No one appeared disappointed. (Cozy had already dyed eggs in preschool.)

...and since that picture, with it's empty flower bed....everything has grown!

The bleeding hearts are blooming and the golden jenny is creeping everywhere.

{Sigh} Gardening is so fulfilling.

I think the bell-flowers and columbine will be blooming next.

Back to eggs - Cozy only picked up pink or purple ones.

...and Matt loved any color of egg....chased them all the following week.

Tony's Downstairs Office

I managed to get Tony's new office set up while he was away. (Yes! Goal accomplished!)

...and I haven't bragged about it until now, so that I could surprise him. (SO hard.)

Anthony helped me move Tony's desk downstairs. It looks so much better now...not covered with junk.

...and I pulled the bookshelf out of the dining room, moved all of those books to a crappy temporary one, and actually arranged all of the hubby's textbooks. ....it also provides a great place to keep his toys helicopters. (You have to have some kind of fun thing to do with kids when they come interrupt your studying.)

I framed Tony's commissioning document and some cool paintings he brought back from Peru last summer.

...and some old submarine pictures. I repainted a couple of the more hideous frames they came in. (I already had the green spraypaint - score.)

The bench is from Target...for visiting rears. I'm trying to convince the kids that it is never ever to be relocated...ever....so stop moving it.

I even hung up the wipe board. 

What I didn't hang up?....doors.

That's just beyond my skill level right now.

Since Tony is heading to Hawaii soon, it will probably be a few weeks before his office sees much use (...by him, Sofia and I both use it plenty.) Still, it's a pretty big check on my (long, long) list of house things that need doing. :)