Swingset

We told the kids that they would not be spending their entire waking hours in front of the tv this summer. They of course were horrified. :) Isn't that what kids are supposed to do with their summer vacation? We let them know that we expected them to be outside playing. But when we started thinking about what they had to DO outside we came to the conclusion that we needed a swingset. We took our old one to Independence and it was falling about when we left there, so we didn't bring it back. Ashley and Addie have made a couple comments about wanting/needing a swingset. So Menards was having a sale on wooden sets and we scored a great deal on a smaller swingset. It has a little tower with wooden roof, slide, slanted rope climbing wall, vertical climbing wall, 2 swings, rings, and a sandbox underneath. We bought it yesterday evening and started this morning about 7:30 a.m. cutting all the wood to the sizes we needed. Around 8 we started screwing things together. We stopped around 11:20 with most of the tower put together. I had to take Amber to get two baby teeth pulled for braces at 11:45. When I came back around 3:30 we started again and finished by 5:30 p.m. So it took us a little while, but I think we did a great job. The kids love it and have been playing on it already. It was just what we needed for them to enjoy playing outside this summer!