Braden Finally Has a Swing Set

Better late than never..this post should have gone up right before we took our trip to Florida, but that didn't seem to happen :) Thursday, March 12th, Josh and I spent many hours in the garage sorting through mounds of wood pieces and nuts/bolts/screws/washer blah blah blah...and then on Friday the 13th, the fun began with assembling of the monstrosity the Allee household calls a swing set (other's call it a playset, indicating that it is WAY more than a simple swing set). Grandma Jancey, Papa John, and Uncle Quintin came up Friday to join in on the fun, or the work, whichever way you look at it - ha! Then Saturday we had additional visitors/helpers when Aunt Jenein and Uncle Steve showed up, as did Great Grandma Allee and Aunt Debby. It took SEVERAL man hours to get it all put up and the landscaping and leveling completed, but since its completion, it has provided many hours of entertainment for Braden...and some others :) Here are pics of all of the hard work put in by everyone involved in the process!

Josh working hard on getting the clubhouse done - which is the core of the swingset

Uncle Steve and Uncle Quintin are working hard on the landscaping of Braden's swingset area

Papa John went straight to work on the rock wall when they arrived for the party Friday afternoon

Braden thought he needed to help since it was him the reason everyone was working so hard :)

Uncle Quintin got to use the power tools when cutting the timbers for the outline of the play area

Ummm one word - SUPERVISORS - need I say more. By the way, this is the category I fit under as well :)

Progress, the monkey bars are up, and here the rock wall is being added as well - thanks for putting that together Papa John! It is late Saturday night...and up go the finishing touches, Braden is beside himself waiting to be able to climb on and cut loose on his new swing set!

Whooo hooooo, swing time!

Daytime shot of the swing set early Sunday morning, let the fun begin!!!!