Who Needs Dow Park?

For Jase's 4th birthday and a gift for Allyson too, Nanny and PawPaw bought the kids their very own playset for the backyard! Jase was so excited and Shawn and I were actually looking forward to putting it together as well. Side note: Bless Shawn's heart, but he has a pretty bad track record of putting things together...something ALWAYS goes wrong. lol! A crack in the wood, drilling too far, popping pegs out of the wood...you name it.  It's always a running joke when we go to put something together and he laughs about it too.  Here we go!

Beginning of the adventure!

 

All the wood is laid out and water seal is applied!



All hardware for the 32 phases are organized and ready to go!

So far, so good on organizing everything and getting prepped. We get through the first few phases and it is coming along.  We get to the left side where the sides supports are and run into a bit of trouble.  The metal brackets they sent did not line up correctly and to make a long story short one of the long boards got split...pretty bad.  A little wood glue and some screws fixed that right up.  Sheesh...it was time for me to go inside! 



Picture taken at the end of the 2nd full day...almost there!

 


Finished Product!! (and Hank too!)

  


Allyson and Jase enjoying the picnic area!!

  


Our first friends on our playset!!

  


Allyson and Jase helping Daddy out!!

  


Jase absolutely loves his new playset! And Ally too...she enjoys it!!

 Shawn has always been a "let's go to the park" type of guy, but I enjoy being at home. Now, it's a win-win because we have the park right in our backyard!! The kids play on it nearly everyday and Jase just LOVES to swing.  We are in the process of teaching him to swing himself because it is a fight (not kidding) when we have to go inside and the swinging has to stop.

Thanks again Nanny and PawPaw!!