Finishing the playground.
When it came time to build the playground we "invited" a couple friends over for pizza and beer. The moms played with the kids and the men, Larry Halloran, Grandpa Berthold and Mark, played outside figuring how to build this massive thing.
After a few hours the men got the last major piece in place before calling it a night. But with all the heavy boards/posts in place Mark could finish the rest on his own. (well I guess I did help one night to get the freakishly heavy twirly slide in place...not fun)
Megan testing the swing for the first time and she giggled the whole time!
Ta-da! Here is it the massive playground we promised Megan when we moved. Ok we didn't promise her a massive playground but once we bought this house and talked with our neighbors, we knew it was going to be hard to grow grass in this section of the backyard, so why not just get a bigger playground to cover the mud :)
If you look close, Megan is sitting on the swing to kind of give you a scale as to how big this is. According to the instructions this can hold up to 14 kids at a time. So far we have had 9 on it at one time and they all had fun!
Testing the twirly slide. It took Megan a few days to convince her to go down this slide, but now she loves it. We still have a couple more things to add to the playground, but nothing this summer. We have stuff to add a rock climbing wall and at some point we want to turn the area underneath into a little playhouse/store/fort/hideout/etc. The brand we bought has lots of accessories that are easy to change to keep things exciting. But for Megan it will take her a long time to get bored with this. She has played on this everyday! Even if it for 5 minutes between rain storms, she can't get enough of it. So I'm sure there will be lots of pictures of this over the summer so I apologize now. Oh and if you are in the area, stop by anytime it's fun for kids of all ages (but both slide are super fast!)
When it came time to build the playground we "invited" a couple friends over for pizza and beer. The moms played with the kids and the men, Larry Halloran, Grandpa Berthold and Mark, played outside figuring how to build this massive thing.
After a few hours the men got the last major piece in place before calling it a night. But with all the heavy boards/posts in place Mark could finish the rest on his own. (well I guess I did help one night to get the freakishly heavy twirly slide in place...not fun)
Megan testing the swing for the first time and she giggled the whole time!
If you look close, Megan is sitting on the swing to kind of give you a scale as to how big this is. According to the instructions this can hold up to 14 kids at a time. So far we have had 9 on it at one time and they all had fun!
Testing the twirly slide. It took Megan a few days to convince her to go down this slide, but now she loves it. We still have a couple more things to add to the playground, but nothing this summer. We have stuff to add a rock climbing wall and at some point we want to turn the area underneath into a little playhouse/store/fort/hideout/etc. The brand we bought has lots of accessories that are easy to change to keep things exciting. But for Megan it will take her a long time to get bored with this. She has played on this everyday! Even if it for 5 minutes between rain storms, she can't get enough of it. So I'm sure there will be lots of pictures of this over the summer so I apologize now. Oh and if you are in the area, stop by anytime it's fun for kids of all ages (but both slide are super fast!)
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