Because I’ve been dominating the conversation over here lately, I’ve neglected to document our lives in pictures.  Here’s to making up for lost time.  Enjoy!

Dying Easter eggs the day before Easter (also, enjoying some cashews):

Inspecting his work:

Looking pleased:

The Easter Bunny did not bring chocolate.  But she *did* bring SpongeBob pajamas:

Looking for eggs on Easter:

He has quite the collection:

Fast forward a weekend, and our grass is a whole lot greener—AND we are building raised beds for our first garden at our house!  The wood for our raised beds was “re-claimed” from hideous bookshelves that were mounted on our family room walls by the previous owners.  We took the shelves down along with their associated hardware, and screwed the planks together.  The result is a perfect raised bed for veggies:

If only the sod were easier to remove:

Note the blue plastic shovel in both pictures above.  Holden *really* wanted to help.  Tomorrow is a whole additional day of weekend, free from the onerous chore of preparing for Class on Monday.  Which means folks, I will be building the rest of our raised beds, turning in some rich compost, and letting those little worms do their thing for the next few weeks until it’s warm enough to finally plant.  Ahhh–life is good!