This picture was taken May 17th 2012. Yes that is snow.
This is our Before picture :)
We started our GREAT BIG FUN project on
Saturday May 19th.
A little mind boggling with all the pieces.. took us about 30 minutes working together to get it organized so we could find stuff!
By the 21st we realized a tree or 4 would need to come out!
Papa grabbed up his chain saw and started cutting.
Before too long the trees were down
and a bunch of junk wood, trees down etc
on the hill was all chopped up
and the kids were piling it on the large burn pile on the other side of the driveway!
On the 24th J got his knee stuck in between two of the boards and I had to rescue him with a power drill.
Of course I was a great mom and took a picture first. :)
By the way I guess I'm getting better with a power drill... Papa complemented me on it!!
And I used the same drill bits the whole project through!
And the next day the swings were finished and in use..
They spent HOURS outside on the swings those first few days..
OH WAIT... they still do!!
By the 29th it looked done!! But wasn't quite.. the slide was not tightened and the star bursts above the windows were not finished! I think it looks lonely in the picture, normally there are kids crawling all over it :)
On the 30th Papa got all those pesty bolts tightened on the slide and found some wood to support the bottom and R was the very first one down the slide!! YAY!!! It's FINISHED!!! I'd put up the star bursts that afternoon :)
Neat picture of E and R!! I love the fluid look of E and R's face!!
Then it was a never ending flow of kids coming down the slide!
They went so fast I almost got dizzy.
Macho Man here decided to put the 6x6's around the 'playground' while the kids went around and around and around enjoying their new slide! When the road bans are lifted we are getting a couple loads of sand to fill in the playground area and the 6x6's will hold it all together.
Fun for the whole family!!
