From Playhouse to Treehouse!

We had a playhouse in the yard, but for the past year it hasn't been very useable - the darn wind knocked it over, so we picked it back up.  Then the wind came back and knocked it BACK over, obliterating the swing side of it at the same time!

We've had grand ambitions to get it fixed up again, but our ambitions haven't been realized.  Until now!  Enter Tony, the awesome handyman.

Our playhouse has been moved from the side of the house (where the wind, quite obviously, believes it should not be) to the nether regions of the yard.  A yard which my kids haven't explored much, but I am hoping that since they're getting a bit older I can convince them to venture a bit farther and explore the great outdoors.  I hear that's what kids are *supposed* to do.  :)

Anyway.  The playhouse was moved, reinforced, and leveled.  The kids wanted a treehouse and I had to explain to them that scraggly Alaskan pines don't make the best treehouses.  But a playhouse NEXT to the trees?  That we can do!

Apparently we're not the only ones that like it.  Here are the midnight visitors checking out the new addition:

Cute, right?!  I just wish moose ran on batteries instead of ornamental greenery.  :)