So Much.

So much going on.

Our weekend was packed to the brim. It was a surprise 3-day weekend for us (yay!) and the weather was finally nice enough to throw open the windows and get to work.

It's mid-April, you guys. And we just now are getting outside for the first time since Claire was born 3 months ago. It was a wee bit tricky with two kids to get anything accomplished, but we successfully completed the following projects this weekend:

• Dug up darn wild onions (hopefully for good!)
• Took an axe to the tree stump in the front
• Rearranged a bunch of old wood logs and separated some to dispose of
• Moved Andrew's bulbs
• Removed old Hydrangea bushes that have not flowered since we've lived here 4 years
• Filled in some areas in our yard with soil and added grass seed
• 2 trips to the Hardware store
• Prepped a bunch of old clothes for a local resale
• Began prepping maternity clothes for another local resale
• Stained our entryway bench with 2 coats of Gel stain & 1 coat of Polycrylic
• Repaired some areas on guest room bed and put on a coat of Polyurethane
• Sold one of my many strollers on Craigslist 
• Picked up new Crate & Barrel bed
• Put up new Crate & Barrel bed
• Posted our new bed on Ebay (turns out we LOVE it, but doesn't quite work for our home. A bit too modern. We'll see. Still sleeping on it, literally).
• Posted the co-sleeper on Craigslist... inquiry already to sell this week
• Finished putting the crib together (with crib sheet!) for Claire's upcoming transition to the nursery. Sniff, sniff.
• Put out garden boxes for garden I plan to start in the next couple weeks
• Finished the 11th of 12 months in the 2013 photobook I'm creating with a goal to order by 4/30

We also did these things:

• 2 park trips
• 2 bike rides
• 3 times the toddler was allowed in our cars to explore (he loves this!)
• 1 jog each (with egg hunts hopefully counting as some decent exercise...hah!)
• 4 egg hunts
• 20+ eggs found
• 3 eggs given away to kids who didn't get any eggs
• 3 Skype sessions with MD & CA grandparents and Aunt Samantha
• 1 attempt to visit the Easter bunny at Bass Pro- Bunny wasn't there at the time.
• 2 Easter bunnies examined by a 2-year old who loves characters
• 2 dinners with friends
• 1 Easter service at church (Claire's first service ever!)
• 2 children taken out of service for being too loud (3 if you count our friends next to us taking out their 2-year old!)
• 2 Easter baskets filled and enjoyed
• 2 pancakes made with bunny and duck sprinkles 
• 2 out of 3 nights Claire slept through the night
• Lots of chocolate consumed
• Lots of hugs and kisses 
• Lots of smiles and coos from a sweet little 3-month old
• Many tissues used from wiping snot (gah! Claire's first cold! And Benjamin's 400th!)
• 6 eggs not dyed on the weekend (some mom forgot to hardboil them!) but dyed this morning.
• 2 eggs cracked in the process
• 4 out of 4 cups of dye spilled everywhere
• 1 shirt stained
• 4 hands dyed blue
• 1 ruined dishtowel
• 1 amazing weekend with 1 amazing husband and 2 amazing kids
• 1 of our children always missed...

This boy loves characters. We might just do Disney in October. Claire was generally underwhelmed.

1st of 4 egg hunts. It was over in no more than 3 minutes.

These kids get hooked up. Two sets of awesome grandparents plus parent goods make for awesome baskets.

Bed we're not sure works for us...but love it, bunny boy & opening a book that was given to Dad by his grandparents when he was two! I am a Bunny... Benjamin loved it. We read it 3x to him in a row.

Andrew's bulbs moved and I LOVE the space near our front door. Bunny taking a ride and the mess of dying eggs.

The before/after of the entryway bench I finished this weekend (bought before Claire was born and weather hasn't been nice or time ample until now to finish it with stain) & a pretty little lady who was worth all that stalling on the bench project.