Monday, March 8, 2010

The Swing Set

Our newest landscape addition is a swing set. Two week-ends of hard work and the result is one very happy little girl.


Of course, I had to document the progress with pictures. Ryan and his dad worked in the freezing cold. It took both of them to level everything, no small feat on our sloped lot. Here's the frame for the fort.

We stressed about the slide ending in the flower bed but decided to stick with the original assembly plans. Ryan did a whole lot of digging since this plan has the slide going uphill.

Just when he saw the light at the end of the tunnel, I asked him to move the slide.


What looked simple to me was actually not at all simple. But, Ryan did a great job with the modifications. Tessa was supervising.

The finished product, as seen from our deck. Tessa noticed that she has a great view of it from her room too.

Today the weather was beautiful and our playgroup was able to enjoy the new swing set!

Tessa and Jackson sliding and jumping.

Ethan climbing the rock wall all by himself!

I had toys on the patio for the kids to play with too, including the wagon. Did I mention our lot is very sloped? OK took a wild ride down the hill and put a few gray hairs on her momma's head. She was fine but, after that, we kept the wagon at the bottom of the hill. The girls were so cute, all wanting to be in the wagon together.

6 comments:

Double Dees in SC said...

Why am I not even surprised about little Miss OK flying down the hill? HAHA!

Outnumbered! said...

Awesome! Good job to Ryan & his dad.

W and Js mommy said...

LOVE IT!!! can we come play??

Jessica said...

Absolutely! Bring the boys over, Tessa would love it!

Claire said...

It looks great....I knew where you had told me you put it, but my visual self really loved the pics. You will get so much enjoyment out of the playset---we have loved ours tremendously!

TCW said...

Thanks for letting us play on your new swingset and thanks for makind sure that my heart still works when OK took her ride.