While they were out...

If you read the previous post you know that Lukas, Haylee and Hannah were away all last week.  This gave us a rare opportunity to finish their play structure in the backyard and surprise them this morning!  Our awesome neighbors down the street, offered us their play structure 2 summers ago.  I told them we wanted it but we hadn't had a chance to come and disassemble it to bring home or the money to build it.  We decided it was a good use of our tax $ (all the extra supplies) and finally got it a few months ago, made a plan to completely remodel it to fit in our backyard, and began construction.  We got a beam from Jer and Christy, some scrap pieces of wood from the office, and we even had some decking supplies saved from a project Brian did 6 years ago!  Katy, Staci, Ben and Jenna helped Brian begin the project in February.

In order to get the play structure safe to play on in 1-3 days (Brian only had 3 days off work), we needed MORE HELP!!!  We called in the troops...  Great Grandpa Creamer, Papa Lee and Uncle Jer came to get 'er done!  Great Grandma brought lots of yummy food, including some trout they had just caught a week before to feed all the hard workers.  Today we surprised the kids with a club house, two swings and a tire swing!  Complete with 5 shape windows (triangle, square, rectangle and 2 circles)!  We still need a hand rail on the stairs and deck to keep the second story safe, but they literally spent 5 hours outside just today.  Lukas barely stopped swinging the whole time and Haylee's partial to the tire swing.  Hannah can't decide which is her favorite and she was constantly reminding her brother and sister not to break anything ie. the tire swing.  We have some finish work to do and we plan to make a little sandbox area below the play house someday...

Something for everyone!

Cool windows!